Hank green did a vlog on this a few weeks ago and it’s a great explainer.
This comment is pretty depressing but it seems to be the path we're headed to:
> It's bad enough that people think fake videos are real, but they also now think real videos are fake. My channel is all wildlife that I filmed myself in my own yard, and I've had people leaving comments that it's AI, because the lighting is too pretty or the bird is too cute. The real world is pretty and cute all the time, guys! That's why I'm filming it!
Combine this with selecting only what you want to believe in and you can say that video/image that goes against your "facts" is "fake AI". We already have some people in pretty powerful positions doing this to manipulate their bases.
You don't have to be vague. Let's be specific. The President of the United States implied a very real voiceover of President Reagan was AI. Reagan was talking about the fallacy of tariffs as engines of economic growth, and it was used in an ad by the government of Ontario to sow divide within Republicans. It worked, and the President was nakedly mad at being told by daddy Reagan.
I have no idea how such a thing would work.
And annoyed and suspicious techies can use it to check other people's content and report them as fake.
Yeah, there are a lot of dumb people who want to be deceived. But would be good for the rest of us to have some tools.
And this is the crux of the issue - we are beelining to a world where EVERYTHING gets an AI filter in front of it. In a few years there will be no authentic content at all.
This is an example of how people viscerally hate anyone passing off AI generated images and video as real.