AI videos are getting very good. How do we detect their trickery?

[Ann K]

@Mendel

We are f*d. I mean, this is going around for a long while now. And also there are many youtubers who are real, but have partly AI generated content. And how about all the AI bots everywhere? Can you tell who is and who isn't? I can guarantee you wont be able. And if you can, then that will very soon change.

It is interesting the lady from "how to cook that" is pointing this AI out, but in my view we are beyond the obvious and easy to spot AI content. It will only get worse and I think we already have videos and youtubers out there that are 100% AI and NOBODY can spot it.

AI being hard to distinguish from real people doing real things has one principal drawback that I can see ...people no longer can trust the media, and therefore find it harder to trust each other. The implications of that are so severe that it makes people turn on the industry itself. (Indeed, the mid-term elections showed AI initiatives to encounter strong opposition in most places that had them on the ballot.) I believe AI will prove to be a fairly short-lived phenomenon, a blip in our history, but for now it's a tool that promotes mistrust among us, whether deliberately or not.

 

[john.phil]

Bridgwater Carnival 2026 (UK):


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnXYVhdNPtQ

Spoiler

Actual footage of Bridgwater Carnival 2026:


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YFQIaIGAMg


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwtimtKnOw


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEkSPZGWxsI


Google search results filtered for YouTube videos lists AI sources first:

source: https://www.google.com/search?q=bri...zS6DimXnFJYnpRYm5EF5JGZgGK9ZLSlUDAORynGtEAAAA

 

[NoParty]

I believe AI will prove to be a fairly short-lived phenomenon...

I've been saying the same thing about the internet, smart phones & vaccines!!

Okay...just kidding on that...but I've been trying to figure out AI's future role for the last couple of years.

I definitely see plenty of promise, in certain areas...but perhaps even more danger.

Having a know-nothing like Trump tell us to ignore the ("fake") warnings, and let the companies self-regulate, was making
me very concerned that the powers that be are not going to take the warning signs seriously enough, until it's possibly too late.

Then the mid-term happened, 4 days ago, and it looks like maybe the grown-ups WILL work towards meaningful guardrails.

Honestly, right now, I wouldn't bet one way or the other...