To think there should be a sign / disclaimer on AI generated videos?

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I’m generally okay with AI (used for genuine reasons). I can get behind it with optimising workflows, making information digestible for people etc

Recently however I got caught out watching reels of animals saving babies from falling over, or a cat bringing a mouse and dropping it on a kid’s breakfast plate thinking oh wow that’s crazy! Then someone pointed out to me that it’s AI! Now thinking back, of course it is but it’s really got me questioning reality. And I would say I’m someone quite technology literate, hell I even work in tech so maybe this adds to why I feel like such a fool because I should know better!!

I think social media platforms should make it mandatory to have a little AI sticker at the top of each video to make sure people can distinguish between reality and a computer generated video. Raw footage already contains all the metadata that can be analysed through software to easily distinguish if it’s been recorded or faked, so this isn’t an impossible task.

They already make influencers write in the caption if they’re promoting a product as an ad, this should be treated with the same principle.

There are lots of ones with cats. Saving babies from bears. Frightening away tigers after they've jumped into someone's garden.

Also ones where you think it's Brian Cox explaining some interesting thing about the universe but the voice is just a little too tinny and not quite perfectly Mancunian.

For a while my husband kept getting these ones of unbelievably beautiful women swimmers, in swimsuits with country flags on them, like they were Olympic contenders by the side of the pool but they never had wet hair and just pranced around smiling.

I get cats saving babies, he gets sexy swimmers 🤷

Mine were all dogs! Dogs saving babies from falling, things falling on them, sticking fingers in sockets. The woman that made friends with a bear! Just goes to show how male and female algorithms work 🙄

I saw the 'dog saves baby from fingers in socket' one too!

Yes I agree these should be marked as AI, it's only going to get worse.

And yeah about the male/female algorithm... it must know he's a man from all the geeky stuff he watches. He better not be secretly watching women swimmers all day 😂 (I do know his number to unlock his phone ... I suppose I could check!)

I used to enjoy seeing animal videos or something remarkable. AI is so disappointing.

I’ve also seen at least one with a baby sticking fingers in a socket and a dog stopping it. I’ve also recently seen a kid falling in a gorilla pen at a zoo and the gorilla just kind of handing it back. (The couple of real life instances of this are not as interesting I guess even when the kid didn’t get hurt by the animal).

I think the amount of people thinking they are real is actually quite alarming going by the comments. Don’t get me wrong there are instances where animals have saved children. But not in the way most of these videos imply. I worry it’s going to make people think animals are even more human like than they already do and start putting themselves into risky situations with animals.

In a year or two, A.I videos will be indistinguishable from real ones, and filters will able to alter your appearance flawlessly.

We won't be able to believe anything we are shown footage of. It will be interesting to see how news media cope. Imagine how easily a riot could be started by jacking up a video and sharing it online!

There will have to be some really severe law changes. Perhaps (like Germany) making it illegal to film anyone without theor explicit consent. And making it a criminal offence to share any footage online without signed consent from those involved. Only registered Press with Journalists cards would be allowed an exemption . . .🤔

I agree with pp. You already can't believe what your eyes are seeing these days.

Perhaps it will become a generational thing - everyone who is a child now will grow up naturally assuming you can't believe what you see, and think accordingly.

Everyone older will have to make an effort to remember it and not be taken in ...

But yes i think there should be a faint text disclaimer of sorts across the screen of AI pics/videos. Like samples of photos before you purchase.

TikTok does have a lot of videos labelled as using AI, but not all, which I guess is point question- who would identify, police and enforce videos being labelled as AI? Particularly from a world wide pov (you can’t get a world law) and also from an enforcement POV- who would proactively police sites where users upload themselves?

I think if there is software that makes AI videos, there can definitely be software built in to the social media platforms that will screen whatever is being uploaded. It wouldn’t be hard to implement. You already have software that can scan your university dissertations for likelihood of it being plagiarised or AI created.

Enforcement is going too far, but with enough pressure the SM platforms could make the decision to implement.