WHAT WAS CLAIMED
A video shows children being taught Islamic prayer in a classroom.
OUR VERDICT
False. The video displays clear signs of AI generation.
AAP FACTCHECK - A video of children being taught Islamic prayer in a classroom has been created using artificial intelligence (AI).
It has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook in recent days after being uploaded by an account that frequently posts AI-generated content.
The video, styled to look like CCTV footage, shows a teacher wearing a headscarf leading a classroom of children in an Islamic prayer in the UK.
It has been shared around the world, including in Australia.
However, there are several signs the video is AI-generated.
At the nine-second mark, the teacher appears to sit on an invisible chair.
The teacher's face also appears to be distorted, a common feature of AI-generated images and video.
The hair tie worn by the girl in the front row, far left, also appears to change position and tightness throughout the clip.
Also on the front row, second from the right, the girl's pigtails appear to defy gravity as she bows (timestamp 10 seconds).
The child in the back row, second from the right, appears to have hair draped across his left shoulder at the beginning of the clip. This detail seems to vanish as the footage continues.
The torsos of the students - particularly the child second from the left in the back row - appear to lengthen unnaturally as the video progresses.
Other clues that the video is AI-generated include what appear to be moving Arabic characters on the wall behind the teacher.
The sign above the whiteboard, which appears to say "Welcome", looks as if it is missing the letter c.
There are no genuine news reports about the authenticity of the footage.
However, the video has also been debunked by other fact-checking outlets, including Lead Stories, Reuters and Snopes.
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