00:00This video is fake.
00:02It's completely AI-generated and thousands of people are watching it,
00:07probably thinking that it's real.
00:08And there are tons more going viral right now.
00:11Nepal is currently experiencing devastating floods,
00:15with nearly 500 people reportedly killed and hundreds more missing.
00:19And as this disaster grips the country,
00:22AI-generated videos like this one are spreading across social media.
00:27When a disaster like what we've seen in Nepal happens,
00:31there's normally a period where nobody quite knows what's gone on or what happened.
00:36We often call this in our research information voids.
00:40And these are basically prime opportunities for people to try and shape what's happening.
00:46So how do we know that this one isn't real?
00:49I put this video through two AI detection tools, Google Gemini and Resemble AI.
00:55Both flag the footage as AI-generated, but there are also clues you can spot yourself.
01:01Look at these cars here.
01:02As the water appears to hit them, they seem to disappear.
01:06And look at the speed of this wave.
01:09The movement just doesn't look physically realistic.
01:13Now these are just some visual signals that can tell you whether or not a video
01:17is manipulated by AI or fully AI-generated.
01:21I would just say slow down before you share content.
01:24I think that's the single most powerful thing.
01:26It's deliberately engineered to try and make you gasp and hit share immediately.
01:31And this is exactly the kind of content that we would want to be pausing and reflecting on.
01:37And we're increasingly seeing AI-generated videos spread during wars,
01:41natural disasters and also around polarising topics like migration.
01:45Do we ever see people trying to monetise the information void and make a profit from these videos?
01:53The main incentive is going to be capturing attention and advertising revenue,
01:58because there's going to be this massive spike in public interest over content around what's happening.
02:04And so cynically there is this like financial opportunity.
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