Does a viral video of an inflatable Jesus doll floating in traffic capture a real-life event? No, that's not true: The clip was generated by AI. It was initially posted on social media by an account with a satire label.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published by the @drhingram account on X on April 2, 2026, under the caption:
I did NOT expect his return to go down like this.
The entry included a 10-second video. This is what it looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @drhingram on X.com.)
AI detection tool Hive Moderation found that "the video is 92.1% likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content," as the screenshot of the results below shows:
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Another detection tool, Sightengine, said the video was 91 percent likely to have been produced by AI:
(Image source: Sightengine.)
The video contained artifacts that strongly pointed to AI. For example, the name of a store seen in the background only resembled English from afar:
(Image source: X.com.)
A different frame displayed two white cars merging into each other in a parking lot:
(Image source: X.com.)
The clip went viral just before Easter Sunday -- April 5, 2026. However, it had been online since Feb. 21, 2026 (archived here), when it was published in the Utah Satire group on Facebook. The post carries an additional parody/satire label (archived here).
