Did the Civil Guard and Army enter the chambers of the Congress of Deputies of Spain to arrest lawmakers? No, that's not true: This video is AI-generated. Some versions of the video are published with a watermark labeling them as created by the Sora AI video-maker and disclaimer. Other versions have digital stickers added to obscure the Sora watermark
A copy of the AI-generated video (archived here) was published on X by @Florenpatriotaq on Oct. 19, 2025. It is captioned:
The Civil Guard and Army of the spain have just entered the Congress of Deputies to arrest corrupt lawmakers.
This screenshot of the video shows three digital stickers which appear in the areas where a Sora watermark might otherwise be:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/Florenpatriotaq/status/1979881987533140295.)
This video originated (archived here) on Oct. 15, 2025 on the Spanish language TikTok channel @jaranor.films. It has this disclaimer (translated by Google):
Digital content creator, aerial drone images, audiovisual content creation and production, creative inspiration in AI images.
In the past week the channel has posted a series of AI generated clips centered around the Congreso de los Diputados (the Congress of Deputies). Some scenes show the exterior of the building and modern clashes between police and protesters. Other scenes show crusaders in armor with shields and flaming arrows. One clip shows the likeness of the knight El Cid, riding a white horse inside the Congress chamber. Five clips show variations of the theme pictured above, a mix of armed and uniformed Guardia Civil and Army soldiers storming through the chambers. All of the videos posted by @jaranor.films show the watermark of the app Sora.
Sora is described on the Apple App Store this way:
Sora is a new kind of creative app that turns text prompts and images into hyperreal videos with sound using the latest advancements from OpenAI. A single sentence can unfold into a cinematic scene, an anime short, or remix of a friend's video. If you can write it, you can see it, remix it, and share it. Turn your words into worlds with Sora.
In the Lead Stories composite image below, a still from the @Florenpatriotaq video (below left) shows the three strategically placed digital stickers. The stills to the right from the @jaranor.films video show how the Sora watermark (circled in red) moves position every few seconds. This changing location is intended to make it more difficult to crop the watermarks off a video.
(Image source: Lead Stories marked up screenshots from x.com/Florenpatriotaq/status/1979881987533140295 and tiktok.com/@jaranor.films/video/7561409714760961302.)
