Don't fall For these AI-generated videos of Hurricane Melissa

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00:00As a massive Category 5 hurricane churns over Jamaica, officials are warning the public

00:05to not believe everything they see.

00:07Hurricane Melissa is expected to be the strongest storm on record to ever strike the island,

00:12with winds spurring up to 185 miles per hour, terrifying locals with extremely powerful winds

00:19and sustained torrential rain.

00:21While the small island nation is getting hit by the historic storm, dramatic videos are

00:25circulating online purportedly showing the devastation.

00:29Flooding at an airport in Kingston,

00:37Floodwaters rushing through Jamaican city streets,

00:49the ominous eye of the supposed hurricane as seen from an airplane window,

00:56and a man surfing flooding water in a man-made ditch.

01:01The only problem is the videos aren't real.

01:04We have many of our ministers here with you to give you the information, the correct information.

01:11I am in so many WhatsApp groups, and I see all of these videos coming.

01:17Many of them are fake.

01:19And so we urge you to please listen to the official channels.

01:23Some of the fake videos, many of them AI-generated, are watermarked with Sora, an AI text-to-video generator.

01:30A series of realistic-looking, unauthorized deepfake videos hit social media after OpenAI launched,

01:37the upgraded Sora 2 on September 30th, sparking complaints that it was using the voices and images of celebrities,

01:44without proper credit or compensation.

01:46Celebrities, including Breaking Bad star Brian Cranston, even brought up the issue to SAG-AFTRA,

01:52after the actor popped up in a fake video that showed him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson.

01:57The tech giant even blocked users from creating deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr.,

02:02after his estate blasted what it described as disrespectful depictions of the late civil rights icon.

02:08But how hard is it to know if a video is AI-generated?

02:11Supposedly, it's pretty tough.

02:13The post went to Times Square in July to see if both locals and tourists could tell the difference between real models

02:19and fake AI-generated bots.

02:21The results were pretty shocking.

02:23That looks real to me.

02:25She's an AI bot.

02:26I pray you're going to make me look like an idiot out here today.

02:29Mmm, real.

02:31She's fake.

02:32What?

02:33After showing each participant three snaps of real-life influencers

02:36and three of computer-generated AI models, and asking them to guess which was which,

02:41not a single person was able to guess all six correctly.

02:44Fake, man. That's AI, man. That's AI.

02:47That's real.

02:48Oh, my.

02:49The old adage, don't trust everything you see on the internet, still holds true.