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.

00:16While the small island nation is getting hit by the historic storm, dramatic videos are

00:21circulating online purportedly showing the devastation.

00:25Flooding at an airport in Kingston, floodwaters rushing through Jamaican city streets, the

00:37ominous eye of the supposed hurricane as seen from an airplane window, and a man surfing

00:44flooding water in a man-made ditch.

00:49The only problem is, the videos aren't real.

00:52I am in so many WhatsApp groups, and I see all of these videos coming.

00:58Many of them are fake, and so we urge you to please listen to the official channels.

01:04Some of the fake videos, many of them AI-generated, are watermarked with Sora, an AI text-to-video

01:10generator.

01:11A series of realistic-looking, unauthorized, deepfake videos hit social media after OpenAI

01:17launched, the upgraded Sora 2 on September 30th, sparking complaints that it was using

01:22the voices and images of celebrities, without proper credit or compensation.

01:27Celebrities including Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston even brought up the issue to SAG-AFTRA,

01:33after the actor popped up in a fake video that showed him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson.

01:38The tech giant even blocked users from creating deepfakes of Martin Luther King Jr. after his

01:43estate blasted what it described as disrespectful depictions of the late civil rights icon.

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