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By Srijanee Chakraborty An image generated through artificial intelligence is circulating on social media, specially on the Threads platform, with false claims that it shows a visual of the solar eclipse from Toronto, Canada. BOOM found that the viral image is actually artificially rendered by a digital content creator who had posted the image on April 1, 2024 as an April Fools prank, days before the total solar eclipse actually took place on April 8. We also ran the image through Itisaar.ai, a tool developed by the Image Analysis and Biometric Lab (IAB) at the Indian Institute of Technology (…

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