Artificial intelligence tools have taken another leap forward. A new wave of generators can create lifelike video along with realistic audio, including dialogue.
These tools, including Google’s Veo 3, are producing viral videos, satirical commentary and even realistic fakes of disputed events like riots and elections.
Below is a collection of real videos alongside A.I.-generated fakes, which were created by writing basic prompts to guide what the tools come up with.
Your job: tell the difference. (Most of these videos have dialogue. Unmute the videos to hear what’s said.)
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Is this conference presentation real or A.I.?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. It was primarily based within the model of a TED Discuss.
In a TED Talk style conference presentation, a man in his 40s with a beard and glasses is looking off camera, into the audience and turning slowly to scan the room. He appears a little nervous, over-emphasizing his words, which echo in the large hall. A small microphone is seen attached to his ear and face. He is wearing a tan suit with no tie. The background is entirely black and he’s standing on a carpeted red circle. He’s talking about sleep, saying that while we sleep, our brains are incredibly active, sorting and consolidating memories and information.
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Is this model real?
Oops, not quite. This was not made with A.I. tools. This was posted to Instagram by Gökhan Ergin, a photographer primarily based in Istanbul.
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Is this a real news broadcast?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. Watchdogs are involved that A.I. could possibly be used to unfold misinformation on-line, together with via sensible broadcasts like these. One present limitation: the clips produced by Google’s Veo are solely 6 seconds lengthy. Although we wrote extra for the anchor to say, the clip ended earlier than the anchor may relay all the data we had included.
A national news broadcast shows the start of a segment, with one male anchor in his 40s wearing a suit and one female anchor in her 40s wearing a business-casual red dress. They’re sitting at a large desk on a news set with a modern vibe. He speaks in a baritone and says, “Good evening, and thank you for joining us. I’m Todd Owens.” The woman then speaks. “I’m Melissa Moore. We begin tonight with a significant jolt to the global financial markets. Stocks tumbled across the board today, fueled by uncertainty from Washington.”
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Is this social media personality real?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. It was primarily based on a real YouTube video collection by a person named Chubby Chekka, who’s strolling from the UK to Vietnam.
A man is seen walking down a dirt road filming himself on his cellphone camera. His body is visible from the waist up. He’s wearing a t-shirt and has a backpack on his back. He speaks with a British accent, talking about how he’s making a big trip across the United Kingdom entirely on foot. He is in his 20s, he has a tattoo on his left arm. The sun is bright in the sky and he’s squinting, with harsh shadows and sharp, rich detail on his face. Everything is in focus, even the background. He’s speaking excitedly but directly, over-emphasizing words like a YouTube influencer. Ultrarealistic, low quality iPhone digital vertical video, for TikTok.
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And this nighttime video?
Oops, not quite. This was not made with A.I. tools. This was posted by Romualdas Šapoka, a YouTube person from Lithuania who filmed his three-day hike throughout the Amazon.
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How about this interview?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. This basketball interview completely imitates an actual sports activities setting, with followers, coaches, and a sweaty participant giving a halting description of his success. Look nearer, although, and a few flaws come via: folks within the background generally fade out and in, and the letters on the participant’s shirt are garbled. The know-how nonetheless struggles with textual content, although it’s getting a lot better.
An interview with a college basketball star. The basketball player is sweaty and 7 feet tall, looking down as a microphone is held to his face by a shorter journalist. In the background, a crowd of fans are slowly leaving the arena up the stairs, while coaches and other players mill about in the background, speaking with each other or exiting to the left or right. The player says that they tried really hard on defense and were able to get a few clutch stops. Television quality sports broadcast quality.
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How about this makeup tutorial?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. Issues have grown that social media may grow to be polluted with A.I. fakes which can be exhausting to detect, creating a brand new wave of influencers who look a little bit too excellent. To generate this clip, we used a a lot shorter immediate than we used for different movies, telling this system solely to create a video by which “a younger girl offers a make-up tutorial.” The know-how can fill in plenty of gaps within the description and depend on its assortment of coaching knowledge to find out what’s related.
A young woman gives a makeup tutorial.
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Is this a real fashion video?
Oops, not quite. This was not made with A.I. tools. It was created and uploaded by Ivy Thompson, a YouTube person with a channel known as “The Sewlo Artist,” who makes movies about classic clothes.
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Is this genuine crypto advice?
Oops, not quite. This was not made with A.I. tools. It was uploaded by the YouTube person Alex Becker, who creates content material about cryptocurrency investing.
The crypto market is a ripe goal for scams powered by A.I., permitting scammers to create pretend endorsements for his or her cash or generate inauthentic assist on social media.
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A real videogame stream, or not?
Oops, not quite. This was made with A.I. tools. The A.I. was capable of render a number of unrelated components collectively: the videogame (fully made by A.I.) alongside an inset field of a younger teen narrating his technique. We didn’t write a selected script for this video, as a substitute prompting the character to easily speak about his technique. The A.I. did the remainder.
The video is a livestream of a video game. A video game is seen filling the window, and a streamer is seen in an inset box on the lower right. The game is a Call of Duty World War II style game. The streamer is a young teen, with a curly mop of hair. The streamer looks bored as he reclines in his gaming chair, and he’s speaking to people not seen, responding to their questions by talking about his strategy in the game.
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None of the fake videos in this quiz took more than a few minutes to create. We wrote a pithy prompt to capture the main details we wanted to see and usually included a rough script for what the characters should say. The A.I. software handled the rest: the people, clothing, sound effects, lighting, voices and more.
At times, the A.I. systems spit out unusable videos. There were sometimes obvious signs that the video was not real: in earlier versions of the makeup tutorial, for example, the woman would sometimes apply blush that seemed to glow on her face. By repeating the request a few times, or adding more details to the prompt, we were usually able to solve those issues.
The tools we used also struggled with text that appeared on screen. It would sometimes produce correct words, like in a version of our news broadcast that contained the words “Financial Update.” But letters were often garbled or imperfect, suggesting there are still a few ways to spot an A.I. fake — for now.
