Many people fall for most videos and pieces on the social media as real, and even cling tenaciously on the visuals as fact. However, facts are replete that the social media is gradually taking over and fed with by AI video slop. This report dissects most social media contents to juxtapose real life event and fiction on the net. The BBC had reported a trend in the last six months when AI video-generators “got so good that our relationship with cameras is about to melt.”
The report points at differences in real videos and AI-generated content. “If you see a video with bad picture quality – think grainy, blurry footage – alarm bells should go off in your head that you might be watching AI. “It’s one of the first things we look at,” says Hany Farid, a Computer Science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics and the founder of the deepfake detection company, GetReal Security.
Farid pointed out that AI video tools will eventually get even better, thereby rubbishing any idea that such content is unreal. He noted that AI videos are not more likely to look bad, as the best AI tools could deliver beautiful, polished clips. And low-quality clips aren’t necessarily made by AI, either.
“If you see something that’s really low quality that doesn’t mean it’s fake. It doesn’t mean anything nefarious,” says Matthew Stamm, a professor and head of the Multimedia and Information Security Lab at Drexel University, US. Instead, Stamm said, the point is that blurry, pixelated AI videos are the ones that are more likely to trick you, at least for right now. It’s a sign you may want to take a closer look at what you’re watching.
“The leading text-tovideo generators like [Google’s] Veo and OpenAI’s Sora still produce small inconsistencies. But it’s not six fingers or garbled text. It’s more subtle than that,” Farid added. Even today’s most advanced models often introduce problems such as uncannily smooth skin textures, weird or shifting patterns in hair and clothing, or small background objects that move in impossible or unrealistic ways.
Even when one may tend to fall for the unreal as true, the experts insist that the clearer the picture is, the more likely for one to see those “tell-tale AI errors,” one of the indicators that make lower-quality videos so seductive.
