From Full Fact
Video shared with claims it shows a large ‘pro-Palestine’ demo in Japan is AI
A video shared on social media with claims it shows a large demonstration “for Palestine” in Japan has been created using artificial intelligence (AI).
The footage has been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook with claims it is the second largest demonstration of its kind after Sydney, Australia. It appears to feature two clips, one showing thousands of protesters on the street of a city, and another showing crowds outside a stadium-style building.
In the second half of the clip, Palestinian flags are present, while in the first, signs and banners with what appears to be Japanese lettering can be seen...
Professor Hany Farid, who specialises in digital forensics, misinformation and image analysis at the University of California, Berkeley, and is Chief Science Officer at GetReal Security, a cybersecurity company focused on preventing malicious threats from generative AI, told us there were “several tell-tale signs that this video is AI generated”.
These include the fact that each clip is under eight seconds long, which is “typical” of current video generators. The motion in the crowd also “has the tell-tale signs of being AI generated” and Mr Farid’s team extracted a SynthID watermark from both the audio and video, showing that this video was made with a Google product. Mr Farid’s team suspect this was most likely Google’s AI video generator, VEO 3...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
