From DW News
Fact check: Old war videos recycled as fake news
By Uta Steinwehr and Adnan Sidibe
Since Israel started bombing Iran last Friday, and Iran hit back in retaliation, the battlefield has not just stayed on the ground but expanded to include the internet. A huge amount of disinformation is being spread there by both sides: mainly old videos being reused as allegedly current material. DW Fact check also found AI-generated videos created to spread false information.
DW Fact check debunked some of them and tells you what to watch out for and how to fact-check content yourself...
According to AI expert Hany Farid, this video has been created by the AI model Veo3, as he stated in a post on the social network LinkedIn. Farid is a professor at the California UC Berkeley School of Information who works in the field of digital forensics. He is the co-founder of GetReal, a company that aims to detect AI deepfakes.
How to spot AI-generated videos?
Farid said AI models currently have limits to a maximum shot length of eight to 10 seconds for one video sequence. If a video has this maximum length or consists of multiple short shots, it is an indication that the video might be AI-generated...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
