I just looked for ai slop on the internet and some videos are very realistic, so realistic it makes me doubt my ability to discern what’s real from what’s created to play with my emotions and generate money for the creator or advance an agenda.
I’m in my 40s. Video sites are full of what I assume overconfident people younger than me with comments like how boomers would believe any of these videos. I’m not that old myself yet but this stuff is scary. It can be used to denigrate a politician, to demonize or ridicule minorities, to share misinformation, to make porn using the face of somebody who rejected a disgruntled man…
It’s also very sad society actually wants this. It shows lots of people are actually very gullible and stupid.
A better question would be, how do I avoid being gullible with images and video so realistic? Because the more technology advances the worse it’s going to get.
The tells are getting subtler but currently a good tell is the camera work. If the video looks amateurish (grainy, blurry), but the video is more stable than a $60k gimbal mounted movie grade model with active scene stabilization, it’s probably AI. Another giveaway is motion morphing items from hammerspace where there’s a visible “seam” where the LLM is trying to reconcile two prompts. (example: you see a video of a horse rider, and the bridle and reins might suddenly decrease in length instead of becoming taught when the rider wishes the horse to stop, or you may see objects morph into existence from other structures, but so fast you might have to rewatch it a few times to catch it.)