Have you ever seen a video thats felt absurd? Maybe it seemed so weird and impossible that you’ve thought that can’t be real. Well you might just be correct.

In 2024 an employee in the British company Arup got a video conference call. The employee thought it was the senior management that had called. It was really criminals that used AI to make their voices sound like management. The unknowing employee transferred approximately $25.6 million dollars in transfers somewhere in Hong Kong for a “secret deal”. He later realized the call was fake and there was never a deal.

AI works in complex ways that are hard to understand and sometimes even detect. AI will take an image and then add pixels to it until it becomes a new image. It can change the picture to be different. According to MIT Technology Review, “During training, it gets shown millions of images in various stages of pixelation. It learns how those images change each time new pixels are thrown at them, and thus, how to undo those changes.” The prompt model decides what picture matches your text request the best.

AI has changed social media greatly. Instead of original, meaningful videos, you may find crazy ones with impossible scenarios and sometimes idiotic content. AI has become a crutch to lean on. Why google something and read paragraphs and articles, when you could read a one paragraph summary that is easy to read? Why watch a video with original artwork, when you could watch a bear sleeping in a bed of desserts? This is the mindset of many young people nowadays that are online. This has some adults worried. Doctor Shiri Melumad (Professor at the University of Pennsylvania) has stated, “I’m pretty frightened to be frank. I’m worried about younger folks not knowing how to conduct a google search.”

A freshman student at Harborfields high school stated, “It can be harmful and spread misinformation.” Another student said, “I think AI is really sketchy and can be used for bad.”

There are many ways to spot if a video is AI or not. One way is to check the source. Is it reliable? Another way is to check for a watermark on the video. If it says Sora or something lie that it may not be real. AI will move smoothly and not shake the camera like an actual person will. These little things may help you understand if a video is fake or not.

So next time you see a crazy video that alarms you, check for AI.

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