From NPR
AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
By Geoff Brumfiel, Sanidhya Sharma
You’re lazing around the living room after a big holiday meal, when your uncle starts flipping through vertical videos. “Did you see that one of the cat snatching that snake out of a dude’s bed?” he asks.
Is it real? Is it fake? You feel a headache coming on.
There are a few simple dos and don’ts you can use to try and evaluate the authenticity of what you see online...
AI-generated videos are already excellent and improving quickly, said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who studies manipulated media. Even experts can be duped, he said. “I’ve been doing this every day for a long time, and it’s really hard. It’s really hard.”
But there are some fairly straightforward features that can clue you in to whether the content you’re watching might be AI. The biggest tip is the video length.
Most companies limit the lengths of AI videos “because making these videos is computationally very expensive,” Farid said. Many videos end up being just 8-10 seconds in length. While it is possible to cobble together a longer video with a bunch of short cuts, “when you see those little bite-sized videos, it’s a good indication that you should take a breath.”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
