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...

 

[Mendel]

The first time a search engine offers an option to filter out ai-generated content, hopefully consumer response is going to drive that option everywhere.
If nobody can find it, you can't make money with it.

 

[jdog]

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.

I do remember walking through a Sears store in the early 1990s and seeing something-something sears.com on a sign and wondered why Sears needed a web page... (Had been using dial-up BBSes and CompuServe for several years by then.)

 

[NoParty]

I do remember walking through a Sears store in the early 1990s and seeing something-something sears.com on a sign and wondered why Sears needed a web page...)

Almost 30 years ago, to the day (11/3/96) the Simpsons had a quick sight gag along these lines.
The family had moved, so Bart & Lisa needed to transfer to Cypress Creek Elementary School.
As they walk in, a sign is seen that includes the (fake, since Fox wasn't a school, & couldn't use .edu) URL http//www.studynet.edu.

That was the whole joke: That this was a fancy school that even had an--obviously unnecessary, thus pretentious--website!
(John Swartzwelder [who wrote "You Only Move Twice,"] could not have known that very, very soon, all schools would have websites!)

 

[jarlrmai]

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The first time a search engine offers an option to filter out ai-generated content, hopefully consumer response is going to drive that option everywhere.
If nobody can find it, you can't make money with it.

In my opinion AI has got somewhat popular because it provides something of the value of the old internet to people, which is a plain text answer to a question without "sponsored" results.

You ask the question, you get an answer.

Google had become increasingly less and less useful as you had to scroll past more and more sponsored links and other presentation of paying companies links rather than the original algorithm which presented useful answers 1st.

In fact I kept wondering when they were going to start dropping this kind of thing in to the AI results, they are likely do so by slanting the AI's training, but if so its pretty much invisible to the user unless you ask for specific products and is denied by the AI when you ask, but they seem to still be offering the plain AI text version when you search form something that's not a specifically a product

Search Bluetooth headphones and you get a normal result of sponsored links to product pages

Search why are Flamingos pink and you get an AI response

Google themselves know it's happening and it's costing them revenue but they are playing the long game, because the cat is out of the bag.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9qzdqpxy48o

 

[Rex Banner]

I believe AI will prove to be a fairly short-lived phenomenon, a blip in our history,

I keep thinking back to the time when 3D was going to be the "next big thing". Most major film studios were making and releasing films in 3D, older movies were being remastered in 3D, broadcasters were starting to produce live events in 3D, and TV manufacturers were telling us "one day soon everyone will own a 3D TV!"

And the general public said "Nah....We don't want it". And that was the end of that.

Obviously the situation with AI is different because there is an interactive component to it, as well as a vastly different business model (at the moment). But I, like you, am starting to wonder if in the end the reaction from the general public to AI will be "Nah...We don't want it".

 

[Mick West]

I believe AI will prove to be a fairly short-lived phenomenon, a blip in our history,

But I, like you, am starting to wonder if in the end the reaction from the general public to AI will be "Nah...We don't want it".

Many already do, but it's not an all-or-nothing thing. Updates on AI have been very significant - irreversibly so. The most significant usage is in various forms of business where it's replacing human workers (and, in some cases, vastly speeding things up, like with math).

But even just in the sense of people using AI to research stuff and make funny images, it's not going away.

Article:

In the new survey, 62% of U.S. adults say they interact with AI at least several times a week.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/ai-in-americans-lives-awareness-experiences-and-attitudes/

AI for making videos? It's only going to get better. There's a financial incentive to use it, but it also lets you make things that would e impossible for the average person. Yes, the public version makes mistakes, but that's also going to get a lot better. Just look at the state of the art that's now available to the public.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yLAbK5F3E8


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZOBC-hvfDs


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TzBJB8K0xQ


Sure, some people will reject AI for ethical reasons. But the time of rejecting AI because it just doesn't look right is coming to an end.

 

[Ann K]

Many already do, but it's not an all-or-nothing thing. Updates on AI have been very significant - irreversibly so. The most significant usage is in various forms of business where it's replacing human workers (and, in some cases, vastly speeding things up, like with math).

Some of us "interact" with AI because our browsers give us no option. A search for a topic comes up with an AI response before we can get to a site with a more thorough discussion of the matter.

 

[Mick West]

Some of us "interact" with AI because our browsers give us no option. A search for a topic comes up with an AI response before we can get to a site with a more thorough discussion of the matter.

Sure, but there are also options if you really don't like that.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com

(and many other ways of doing it).
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&origin=funnel_home_website&t=h_&q=howm+to+turn+off+ai

 

[Mendel]

Sure, some people will reject AI for ethical reasons. But the time of rejecting AI because it just doesn't look right is coming to an end.

First example (SciFi) seems to have had the benefit of professional post-production. Some actors feel very uncanny.
Second example (Scarecrow) gets a bit of leeway because it has a clearly CGI protagonist without facial expressions.
Third example (Fukushima) "doesn't look right" in many ways, e.g. the continuity error with the car door not closing, and other problems.

I've seen better characters in Chinese 3D animation.