The Disturbing Rise of AI-Generated Deportation Videos

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00:00Please! That's my baby! Let me go!

00:03Ma'am, stop resisting. Keep moving.

00:06You can't take me from her! Please! She's right there!

00:08Don't do this! She's just a baby!

00:10Get her in the vehicle.

00:11Videos on social media sites like Facebook show intense dramatic scenes of federal agents detaining migrants,

00:17many of which are racking up hundreds of thousands of views each.

00:21The catch? They're fake and made by AI.

00:24The latest in the scary trend of videos created by artificial intelligence can be prominently seen on the Facebook account USAJourney897.

00:34The account, which was flagged by independent researcher Chad Loader to 404 Media,

00:39a journalist-founded organization focusing on digital media, features dozens of AI-generated videos of the same theme.

00:46Many of the AI videos posted by the page show workers at prominent U.S. chains like McDonald's or Walmart

00:52being ushered into vans by federal agents as they plead to see their kids.

00:57Others show mothers and fathers being emotionally ripped away from their weeping children as

01:02officers coldly instruct the parents to put their hands behind their back.

01:06The videos, which are garnering tens, even hundreds of thousands of views, do not bear an AI watermark,

01:12but all display the same superimposed text, reading

01:16deportation, along with emojis and a pair of American flags.

01:20While some of the videos note in their captions that they are created by AI for, quote,

01:25entertainment and creative purposes only,

01:27many do not, leaving viewers who don't know any better to discern their validity for themselves.

01:33Matters are only made more alarming as AI-created videos evolve and become more and more realistic.

01:39404 Media notes that the account began to post the fake deportation videos back in February,

01:44which were quickly identifiable as AI at the time.

01:48The more primitive videos would show arms bizarrely detaching from bodies,

01:52sunglasses appearing and disappearing from agents' faces,

01:55and movements that appear simply unnatural.

01:58In early October, the same time that OpenAI's Sora 2 was released,

02:02the videos posted by USAjourney897 became considerably more realistic,

02:08although some still had blatant issues in more complex scenes.

02:11The AI videos aren't just dangerous when it comes to duping viewers into believing a fake clip is real,

02:17but the opposite as well.

02:19The author of 404 Media's report, Jason Kobler, warned,

02:23it gives people the chance to claim that any video is AI-generated,

02:27and serves to generally litter social media with garbage,

02:30making real videos and real information harder to find.

02:34The AI videos aren't the first of their kind to take social media by storm, however.

02:38Last month, heartwarming videos from the Basin Creek Retirement Village TikTok account went viral,

02:45featuring apparent residents explaining their hilarious punny Halloween costumes.

02:49What are you, Gail?

02:52None of your business.

02:55Wow, Doris, what's your costume supposed to be?

02:58Breadwinner.

02:59However, some viewers were devastated to discover the Basin Creek Retirement Village

03:06doesn't actually exist.

03:08The account's bio reads,

03:10A fictional world made with AI and a lot of heart.

03:14And while the cute AI-generated videos are relatively harmless,

03:17there have been far more morbid examples in the past.

03:21In August, AI videos showing a female orca trainer being violently eaten by a killer whale

03:26went so viral that several news outlets began covering the story,

03:30while the name of the fictional orca trainer, Jessica Radcliffe, began trending on Google.

03:36It was quickly revealed that the orca trainer and the Pacific Blue Marine Park

03:39where the fake incident was said to have occurred did not exist.

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