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This is a real video, taken from a social media post by Donald Trump on his Truth Social account. This clip is taken from the 1:12 timestamp in the video.
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This is an AI generated video. The footage is taken from Swifts' NYU commencement speech in 2022, however, she never says the words in the above clip during the full speech. If you compare the video closely, you'll notice differences in the mouth movements and lipstick color from the modified lip-syncing technology. The audio, however, is from a real interview with Taylor Swift. The full footage can be seen on Youtube.
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This was made with A.I. tools. Watchdogs are concerned that A.I. could be used to spread misinformation online, including through realistic broadcasts like these. One current limitation: the clips produced by Google’s Veo are only 6 seconds long. Though we wrote more for the anchor to say, the clip ended before the anchor could relay all the information we had included.
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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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This is a real video, taken from a virtual interview between him and Farzad and published onto YouTube in 2024. This clip is taken from around the 5:02 mark in the video.
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This is an AI-generated video, with footage taken from Cruise's speech at the Producer's Guild Awards in 2023. Real Tom Cruise fans would immediately know that he has never worked with Will Smith, Julia Roberts, or Sandra Bullock in his whole career.
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This is a real video, taken from a small interview with Will Smith after he won the SAG award for Best Actor for his performance in King Richard. This clip is taken from the 2:25 timestamp in the video.
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This was made with A.I. tools. This basketball interview perfectly imitates a real sports setting, with fans, coaches, and a sweaty player giving a halting description of his success. Look closer, though, and some flaws come through: people in the background sometimes fade in and out, and the letters on the player’s shirt are garbled. The technology still struggles with text, though it’s getting much better.
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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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This was made with A.I. tools. It was based in the style of a TED Talk.
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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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This was made with A.I. tools. It was based on a genuine YouTube video series by a user named Chubby Chekka, who is walking from the United Kingdom to Vietnam.
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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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This was not made with A.I. tools. It was uploaded by the YouTube user Alex Becker, who creates content about cryptocurrency investing.
The crypto market is a ripe target for scams powered by A.I., allowing scammers to create fake endorsements for their coins or generate inauthentic support on social media.
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This was made with A.I. tools. The A.I. was able to render multiple unrelated elements together: the videogame (entirely made by A.I.) alongside an inset box of a young teen narrating his strategy. We didn’t write a specific script for this video, instead prompting the character to simply talk about his strategy. The A.I. did the rest.
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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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This is an AI-generated video, with footage taken from Biden's Oval Office Address on July 24, 2024. The audio is completely made up and does not match the original speech. Although, "The time is always right to do what is right" is a quote that is indeed attributed to MLK.
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This is an AI generated video, using footage from a commencement speech that Zuckerberg gave at Harvard in 2017. You can watch the full speech here. In this example, the speech was made completely from text-to-speech technologies, and was able to generate Mark's voice in both English and Mandarin Chinese. This is completely possible today using simple, open source technologies, like the ones that power Kapwing's AI Personas.
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Sources: The New York Times