Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte and Senator Ronald dela Rosa shared a viral post about a supposed interview of youth sentiment on Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment proceedings.
However, the post was FAKE, and supporters of both politicians even tried to advise them that this was created using AI.
We are fact-checking this and a flood of posts to help netizens determine AI content amid several viral content widely shared online.
AI = artificial intelligence
AI stands for artificial intelligence. Over the years, AI has been applied in several formats, ranging from the automation of text drafts to improving the processing speeds of tasks that would have taken hours if these were done manually, such as manually sorting data across applications.
It is now possible to draft essays and arrange complex data in seconds, and this is only a few of AI’s applications.
How does AI create photos and videos?
Nowadays, AI “learns” how to create by matching instructions, usually text-based, with its database of files. With a massive collection of these images and other raw materials, AI programs can then draft a file or photo or video based on these instructions.
Guide to detecting AI posts
We are creating this guide to help MindaNews readers detect viral AI posts, with some examples and how to avoid mistakenly sharing AI posts.
This week alone, AI videos and photos have made rounds online, ranging from jokes of laborers supposedly vlogging from the construction site of the ancient pyramids to photos of popular individuals like Manny Pacquiao and to more serious claims like man on the street interviews.
Mayor Baste shared the post and said: “And the liberals say they have Gen Z support. Come on.”
It is not clear whether Baste is trolling his audience; his posts at that Facebook Page commonly features him making fun of news personalities and political enemies even as he is serving as Davao City’s mayor.
On the other hand, his family’s ally, Senator Ronald dela Rosa, appeared to be misinformed about the same post.
Sharing the same content the next morning at 7:49 a.m., dela Rosa said “Mabuti pa ang mga bata nakakaintindi sa mga pangyayari. Makinig kayo mga yellow at mga komunista!”
How to detect AI posts, our advice
- Count to eight
- AI videos generated by generators such as Veo 3 (a Google product) typically show eight seconds of clips at a time. The time limit per clip (not the entire video) is a credible indicator that the content is AI. The eight-second limit is what the Google Product is capable of doing so far.
- The laws of physics
- In videos like the one posted by AY GRABE, it was easy to determine that it was an AI post because some areas of the post seemed too two-dimensional despite being a 3D rendering. We also noticed some details such as different hair styles, skin tones, nose shapes, and voices.
- Look closer
- At the risk of increasing the post’s views, examine as much detail as you can see in any of these suspected AI posts. You’ll see that some textures randomly change for no reason, especially background textures. A study from Hong Kong University and the Chinese University in Hong Kong developed tools that could identify, through mathematical modeling, how textures were inconsistent across different frames (see puppy video screenshot below). In that video, the eyes moved illogically around the puppy’s head. The researchers’ tools also detected inconsistencies in how the grass looked.
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