Why AI slop video apps could kill online truth
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The internet is in its AI slop era – and tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker thinks we should be paying a lot more attention.
Stokel Walker has covered AI for years, and has been teaching people how to spot a fake. Then he saw Sora 2 – a new OpenAI tool for creating highly realistic AI videos.
“We have this alternative reality that’s just a few phone taps away” says Stokel-Walker.
While Sora 2 is currently only available in select countries including the United States and Japan, Stokel-Walker says it’s a “godsend” for people who want to muddy what’s true on the internet.
It used to be that to prove something was true, we’d say “show me the video evidence”, he says. “Now that’s no longer the case.”
Combined with a recent study by the cyber security company Imperva, which claims that almost 50% of internet traffic comes from non-human sources, what we think of as true and human online is increasingly being challenged.
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On OpenAI’s webpage ‘Launching Sora responsibly’, the company says that “every video generated with Sora includes both visible and invisible provenance signals”, including watermarks and C2PA metadata, as well as internal reverse-image and audio search tools that can trace videos back to Sora. They also stated they have "guardrails intended to ensure that your audio and image likeness are used with your consent”.
When approached by Mashable about the potential of Veo 3 to be used for misinformation, a representative from Google DeepMind, said all content generated by Google’s AI tools have a digital watermark embedded directly the pixels of all of their content, and that they’ve launched a verification portal to identify AI-generated content made with Google AI . Visible watermarks have also since been added to videos made with Veo 3.
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