Are viral high-resolution images real photos or screenshots actually showing the person suspected of punching a man in broad daylight in Warsaw, Poland? No, that's not true: Two AI detectors said the images were generated by AI. The real recording of the incident had a much lower quality, and thus, the images could not be authentic screenshots of that video.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on X where it was published by @NarodowySklep14 on August 6, 2026. It opened:
Szukamy Cię kolego, lepiej żeby Cię policja pierwsza znalazła niż my.
As translated from Polish to English by DeepL, it read:
We're looking for you, buddy. It's better if the police find you first rather than us.
This is what an image of a man in a green hoodie attached to the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @NarodowySklep14 on X.)
Other posts (archived here) shared what was implied to be a portrait of the same person:
(Image source: post by @MarekMa25175489 on X.)
According to the police statement (archived here) and news reports (archived here), the incident occurred in June 2026 near the Złote Tarasy shopping mall in the Polish capital. As of August 7, 2026, law enforcement said that they secured the original recording of the attack and were looking for the suspect.
Yet, the only video of the incident (archived here) did not show that person's face in high resolution.
InVID said that the wide shot showing the man in his full height was 89% likely to have been generated by AI while the odds for his portrait were 99% (click to view larger):
(Image source: InVID.)
ZeroGPT found that the images were "91% FAKE" and "95% FAKE" (click to view larger):
(Image source: ZeroGPT.)
One social media user even publicly confirmed that they used AI to enhance the quality of a screenshot from the video to produce one of the pictures in question.
While the specific software used to make the close-up was unknown, the OpenAI verification tool revealed that the wide shot was generated by that company's AI tools:
(Image source: OpenAI.)
