[sidneyprimas]

That's how I see it as well. Very soon, people will assume most videos are AI generated, and the burden of prove will be on people claiming videos are real. We plan to embed some kind of hash to indicate our video is AI generated, but people will be able to get around this. Google/Apple/Samsung seem to be in the best place to solve this: whenever their devices record a real video, they can generate a hash directly in HW for that video, which can be used to verify that it was actually recorded by that phone.

Also, I think it will cost around $100k to train a model at this quality level within 1-2 years. And, will only go down from there. So, the genie is out of the bag.

[bee_rider]

That makes sense. It isn’t reasonable to expect malicious users to helpfully set the “evil bit,” but you can at least add a little speedbump by hashing your own AI generated content (and the presence of videos that are verifiably AI generated will at least probably catch some particularly lazy/incompetent bad actors, which will destroy their credibility and also be really funny).

In the end though, the incentive and the capability lies in the hands of camera manufacturers. It is unfortunate that video from the pre-AI era have no real reason to have been made verifiable…

Anyway, recordings of politicians saying some pretty heinous things haven’t derailed some of their campaigns anyway, so maybe none of this is really worth worrying about in the first place.