A video purportedly showing journalist Rajdeep Sardesai talking about Elon Musk's "investment platform he originally developed for billionaires," with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, Wipro chairperson Azim Premji supporting it is being shared on social media.
What happens in the video?: In the video, Sardesai claims that Musk was "furious" after Indian hackers leaked the platform, while Musk talks about how "Quantum AI can more than triple the investment amount within a single day."
Meanwhile, Sitharaman talks about the platform accelerating growth while Murthy talks about it enabling people to earn anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000 per day by investing 21,000.
The Quint also received a query to verify the validity of this clip on our WhatsApp tipline.
Is is true?: No, it is a deepfake.
At the time of writing this report, the sign-up link shared with the post led to a website selling furniture.
How do we know?: We watched the video closely and noticed that in many places, the voice of the people was monotonous and their lip movements did not match the words they were supposedly saying.
Next, we ran keyword searches using each of the Indians' names, supplemented with 'Quantum AI investment' — such as Rajdeep Sardesai Quantum AI' — to look for any statements about the platform in question.
However, none of these searches led us to any credible results about Sardesai, Sitharaman, Murthy, or Premji endorsing the platform.
Is it AI?:...
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