Fact Check: AI-Generated Clips of Rented Rooms Under Toll Roads
Fact check - The videos were AI-generated. The accounts that first disseminated the content labeled them as such.
A series of videos have been making rounds on social media platforms like Facebook, X, and Instagram, claiming that a section under a toll road in Indonesia has been converted into rented rooms for an annual fee of Rp2.5 million. The videos depict the daily activities of residents in the area, such as watching television, cooking, and drying clothes. However, the captions attached to the videos sometimes mislead by labeling the location as Los Angeles or Nigeria.
Upon further investigation, it was found that the videos are actually AI-generated. The first video, uploaded by the Instagram account George Wu AI on August 24, 2026, was flagged as AI-generated by the account's description and analysis tools. The same was true for the second video, uploaded by dire.ctor_2in1 on August 23, 2026. The third video, uploaded by an account named dire.ctor_2in1 on the same day, was also identified as AI-generated by the analysis tool.
AI detection tools like Hive Detect and Truth Scan provided high probabilities that the videos were indeed AI-generated. For instance, Hive Detect indicated a 99.4% probability for the first video, with a 66% certainty score for the same video by Truth Scan. The second and third videos were identified as AI with 91.3% and 77% probability respectively, and 99% certainty by Truth Scan.
In conclusion, the claim that videos showing single-room rentals under an overpass worth Rp2.5 million per year are false.
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