The Facebook account named "Shkumbin Muriqi" and the page "Kosova News" published (March 7 and 9) an image with the caption "Sanxingdui (Drone Model Found in One of the Archives of a Temple Near the China-Pakistan Border) 2800 Year Old Drone Prototype".
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that this claim is not accurate and that this image is not real, as they were generated through artificial intelligence by an account on the Chinese platform "Ixigua".
Link to the article published by "Shkumbin Muriqi" and "Kosova News":
Hibrid.info, after researching through the automated program "InVID", has managed to find a video published on the Chinese online video sharing platform "Ixigua" that explains that the images circulating on the network are imaginary and created with Artificial Intelligence. (see here)
Screenshot from the video published on the Chinese platform "Ixigua", with the description translated into Albanian.
This video shows the same footage, while the title explains that "Sanxingdui #Bronze #this creation #Sanxingdui #Archaeology # is purely imaginary, please don't take it seriously."
Hibrid.info, using the application for verifying images generated with Artificial Intelligence "Aiornot.com", has confirmed that the image "is likely to be AI". (see photo below)
Analyze:
Using an image generated with Artificial Intelligence, a Facebook account and page have claimed to be images of a 2800-year-old drone found in a temple near the China-Pakistan border.
However, after verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that this claim is untrue and that the image is not real.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.