Did BJP Share Pretend Audio Clip Of Supriya Sule? AI Detection Instruments Say…

Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) shared 4 audio clips on their official X (previously Twitter) account to assert that it’s a dialog recorded involving Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders Supriya Sule (NCP-SP), Nana Patole (Congress) and IPS officer Amitabh Gupta.

The conversations revolved round cash and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin), and all of them have been talking with one Gaurav Mehta, who’s allegedly an worker of an audit agency.

BJP shared these audio clips on 19 November, a day earlier than Maharashtra was set to witness meeting elections and claims that these are ‘proof of polling fraud’.

(These posts could be seen here, here, here and here.)

However what is the reality?: These audio clips will not be genuine and have been created utilizing AI instruments.

How did we discover out the reality?: We’ll study every audio clip right here:

AUDIO 1: IPS Amitabh Gupta with Audit agency worker Gaurav Mehta talking to

• To begin off with, Gupta pronounces the title ‘Gaurav’ and ‘Lakshmi’ incorrectly.

• We ran this audio clip on the AI-detection software, TrueMedia, which concluded that there was substantial proof of manipulation.

• AI-Generated Audio Detector returned with 100% confidence which concludes that the audio is pretend.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia

• Workforce WebQoof contacted ConTrails AI, a Bengaluru-based startup, that has developed its personal AI know-how for figuring out pretend audio and video content material.

• Their report indicated that the audio file is AI generated or manipulated with excessive confidence.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by ConTrails.

• AUDIO 2: Congress chief Nana Patole in dialog with IPS Amitabh Gupta

• On this brief audio clip, Patole is allegedly threatening Gupta to transform the bitcoin for money.

• Once we uploaded the video to TrueMedia’s AI-detection software, it concluded that this audio is pretend too. There was little proof of manipulation.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia

Nevertheless, after we uploaded the clip as an audio file, the outcomes discovered little proof of manipulation.

• We additionally in contrast Patole’s voice within the audio recording to his interviews on YouTube channel, The Lallantop, shared on 15 November 2024. The voice within the audio clip didn’t match Patole’s authentic voice.

One other on-line AI-detection software, Hive Moderation, additionally concluded that this audio has been cloned and isn’t actual.

The Misinformation Fight Alliance’s (MCA) Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU) additionally ran the clip by way of third-party AI audio detection instruments.

AUDIO 3: Supriya Sule in dialog with Mehta

• On this audio clip, Sule asks Mehta for money in alternate for bitcoins.

• We in contrast Sule’s voice within the voice observe to her interview on Samdish Bhatia’s video podcast, Unfiltered By Samdish in 2023.

• We observed that her authentic voice doesn’t match the one heard within the audio clips shared by BJP.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by TrueMedia.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by Hive Moderation.

• ConTrails report additionally famous that the audio is manipulated.

  

  Listed here are the outcomes by ConTrails.

• Furthermore, Sule took to X to make clear that this audio clip shared by BJP linking her to a dialog relating to Bitcoins is pretend.

• She has additionally lodged a cyber crime criticism.

Acquainted techniques of spreading false data to govern the righteous voters are being resorted to, an evening earlier than the polling day. We’ve got filed a prison criticism to the Hon’ble ECI & the Cyber crime division in opposition to the pretend allegations product of bitcoin… pic.twitter.com/g8Selv1DFk

— Supriya Sule (@supriya_sule) November 19, 2024

AUDIO 4: Second dialog between Gupta and Mehta

It famous that Audio Spoof detection AI mannequin indicated AI era with excessive confidence.

Conclusion: BJP shared AI-generated audio clips of Supriya Sule, Nana Patole and Amitabh Gupta and falsely linked it with “polling frauds”.

(This story was initially revealed by The Quint, and republished by NDTV as a part of the Shakti Collective)