Does a real video show snakes raining from the sky? No, that's not true: According to Sightengine, a platform that detects AI-generated content, the signals found in the video indicate that it is 99% likely to be AI-generated at some moments while other moments register as low as 1%, indicating the content is not likely to be AI-generated. A second detection platform for AI-generated content, Hive Moderation, gave an averaged rating of 70.4% likely to be AI-Generated, and a 98.2% likelihood of having AI-generated speech
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @eyakoby account on X on Nov. 11, 2026. It read:
Palestinians are now sharing that Israel is dropping snakes on Gaza.
You literally cannot make this up.
This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @eyakoby on X.)
Lead Stories uploaded the video to two detection platforms for AI-generated content, Hive Moderation and Sightengine. Both platforms showed variability in their readings during the 14-second duration of the video. Hive's AI-Generated Content Detection Tool (pictured below) gave an averaged rating of 70.4% likely to be AI-Generated, and a 98.2% likelihood of having AI-generated speech (archived here).
Two screenshots below, marked up with green arrows, show how the frame result is displayed during playback. The tool detected a reading as high as 98.2% likelihood of being AI-generated at the end of the clip, while the frame result reading at 3 seconds was only 0.1% -- unlikely to be AI-generated.
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Sightengine's tool features a vertical slider that allows the user to scrub through the timeline of the video and see what the reading is at any given moment. The screenshot below shows the 13-second mark in the video, when the reading was 99% likely to be AI generated (archived here). There were moments in the video when the reading was as low as 1%, or "Not likely to be AI-generated."
(Image source: Sightengine.)
There are several variations of this theme circulating. Some seem to show the same dusty corral with water buffalo, but the woman who is running while filming herself is depicted as a different person. One copy on TikTok was posted on April 11, 2026, by @user9422679247050 (archived here).
Another example (embedded below) is a video posted by @mr_wow2027 on Instagram on Sept. 4, 2026 (archived here). The @mr_wow2027 profile (archived here) is marked by Instagram as an AI-generated profile, and the account's bio says:
