You can't believe everything you see on the internet. Amid Hurricane Melissa tearing through the Caribbean, several AI videos started popping up on social media. The rise of AI videos can easily fool people and create false narratives online.
Speaking with People, AI consultant Jeremy Carrasco explained that he saw a number of fake Hurricane Melissa videos on the internet. They appeared to have been created with OpenAI's Sora. Many featured the app's watermark but not everyone did. For instance, a video of a passenger plane flying over the eye of the hurricane fooled a lot of people.
"You can see the eye right in the center, clear and calm while the walls spin around it. We're just skimming the top of the clouds now holding steady. It's a surreal sunlight pouring straight down into that turquoise," the voice in the video says.
Fake Hurricane Melissa Videos
However, the AI expert notes the "speaking cadence of the pilot is typical of a Sora voice." He also said there are "wobbly patches of pixels that show up in textures and finer details of AI video." You should use common sense as well. A passenger plane wouldn't fly over a hurricane like Melissa.
It's far from the only Hurricane Melissa fake video, though. So it pays to be cautious with what you see.
An OpenAI spokesperson said: "One of the reasons we launched Sora as its own app was to give people a dedicated space to enjoy AI-generated videos and recognize that they were made with AI. To help people know if a downloaded video was generated with Sora, we add visible, moving watermarks and C2PA metadata, an industry-standard provenance signature."
The statement continued, "We also maintain internal reverse-image and audio search tools that can trace videos back to Sora with high accuracy, and we apply extra safety guardrails to any video with a cameo. Our usage policies prohibit misleading others through impersonation, scams, or fraud, and we take action when we detect misuse."
