Viral video of a mother elephant teaching her calf “not to steal” bananas is AI-generated
Viral video of a mother elephant teaching her calf “not to steal” bananas is AI-generated
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A CCTV-style video claims to show a mother elephant taking bananas back from her calf at a roadside shop and returning them, and it is being shared as a real lesson in parenting and discipline. Fact-checkers have marked the claim fake. The clip was made with AI and comes from the TikTok account nature.love.ai, which says all its videos are AI-generated.A CCTV-style video claims to show a mother elephant taking bananas back from her calf at a roadside shop and returning them, and it is being shared as a real lesson in parenting and discipline. Fact-checkers have marked the claim fake. The clip was made with AI and comes from the TikTok account nature.love.ai, which says all its videos are AI-generated.
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On October 28, 2026, several X users, including Raja Gopal (@Raja936261), anuj Jaiswal (@Amuj29Anuj), Aryan Raj (@_AryanRaj1) and the page India Live (@IndiaLiveIN), shared a three-panel video. It shows a baby elephant grabbing bananas from a roadside shop, after which its mother removes the bananas and puts them back. The captions presented it as a real incident, with lines such as “Teach your child to raise this way”, “Value-oriented parenting” and “A mother elephant teaches her baby a lesson in discipline”. One Hindi post said even animals teach their young not to take things without asking. The top post drew about 12 lakh views. Fact-checkers have marked the claim fake. The video was first posted by the UK-based TikTok account nature.love.ai (@nature.love636), whose bio states “All the Videos are AI Generated”, and TikTok labels the clip “Contains AI-generated media”. The scene does not show a real event. Feel-good AI videos of animals often go viral once their labels are removed, even through news-style pages, so the original source should be checked before such clips are shared.
On October 28, 2026, several X users, including Raja Gopal (@Raja936261), anuj Jaiswal (@Amuj29Anuj), Aryan Raj (@_AryanRaj1) and the page India Live (@IndiaLiveIN), shared a three-panel video. It shows a baby elephant grabbing bananas from a roadside shop, after which its mother removes the bananas and puts them back. The captions presented it as a real incident, with lines such as “Teach your child to raise this way”, “Value-oriented parenting” and “A mother elephant teaches her baby a lesson in discipline”. One Hindi post said even animals teach their young not to take things without asking. The top post drew about 12 lakh views. Fact-checkers have marked the claim fake. The video was first posted by the UK-based TikTok account nature.love.ai (@nature.love636), whose bio states “All the Videos are AI Generated”, and TikTok labels the clip “Contains AI-generated media”. The scene does not show a real event. Feel-good AI videos of animals often go viral once their labels are removed, even through news-style pages, so the original source should be checked before such clips are shared.