Viral image of a baby peacock is AI-generated

An image of an immensely cute bird is being widely shared on social media claiming it to be a real

baby peacock.

The same post was found on Facebook and YouTube as well.

The image is being shared on X along with the caption, 'Your cuteness for the day a baby peacock'.

Although, the tiny creature with bright blue eyes and blue feathers looks irresistibly cute but at the

same time it looks quite unrealistic as well.

Let's find the veracity of the viral image.

Fact Check

Southcheck found the claim to be false as the viral image is AI generated.

We started our investigation by closely analysing the viral image and found the feet of the tiny lad

slightly distorted as seen in AI generated images.

Taking a hint from this, we performed a reverse image search and found the same image on a stock

image website called Adobe Stock addressed as AI generated.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=%22baby+peacock%22&asset_id=571212905

Scrolling through the website, we also found images of real Peacock chicks.

Moreover, we found a tweet acknowledging the viral post with the images of real peacock chicks

calling the viral image as AI generated.

The user said, ‘Real baby peacocks are actually adorable so please look at them instead of this AI

creature’.