FACT CHECK: Viral Video Shows Human-Faced Fish Discovered in Lake Samsara near River Nile?

A video is being shared on social media  platforms with the claim that it shows a recently discovered fish that resembles a  human face. The post also claims that the fish was discovered in Lake Samsara  in the tropical region of Karanji, which is one of the sources of the river Nile. A  keyword search for details led to the same video on a YouTube channel named ‘Headtap Videos’.  The description of the video states that this human-faced fish was recently discovered  by scientists in an unexplor

ed region of Karanji in Lake Samsara and named Homo Piscis.  A keyword search revealed that there is no lake called Samsara in a region named Karanji. There is  a lake named Karanji in Mysuru, Karnataka, India, but there are no news reports about the discovery  if such a fish there. We could also not find news reports on such a discovery being made anywhere.  We did not find such a fish species listed in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System either.  We then found that Headtap Videos often

uploads such graphics-based videos. Following this, we  ran a few screenshots from the viral clip through the Hive AI detector and it showed that there  is a 99.4% chance of these visuals having been generated using Artificial Intelligence. To sum  up, as there is no evidence that scientists have recently discovered a human-faced fish species  and called it Homo Piscis, this post is fake.