In today’s digital age, social media has become an essential part of our daily life. Thousands of videos and photos go viral every day on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. Sometimes a shocking statement of a leader is seen and sometimes a video of a celebrity comes out, which becomes difficult to believe. The big problem arises when many of these videos seem so real that people accept them as true without thinking.
Actually, in the changing era of AI, making videos has become very easy. At the same time, now fake videos can be created by copying someone’s face, voice and gestures in a few seconds. This is the reason why it has become difficult for common people to differentiate between real and fake videos. However, if you pay a little attention, you can easily identify whether a video is made by AI or is real by some signs. In such a situation, let us now tell you how we can identify which videos have been made with AI and which have not.
Keep an eye on facial expressions
No matter how advanced AI becomes, it often distorts facial expressions. Many times in deepfake videos, the smile does not look like the real thing, the movement of the lips does not match, the eyebrows and cheeks are seen moving strangely. Apart from this, the movement of the real person’s face is natural, whereas in the fake video there is a slight disturbance.
Check light and shadow
In the original video, the light falls naturally on the faces, clothes and background. Whereas in AI videos, the lighting of the face often does not match the rest of the frame. Many times the shadow appears to come from one direction, while the light appears from the other direction. Sudden changes in facial brightness in different shots could also be AI video.
Pause the video and check frame by frame
If you have any doubts about any video, stop it and watch it carefully. In videos made with AI, sometimes the edges of the face appear blurred. The hair blends into the background in a strange way or glitches appear. After some time, changes in the shape of eyes or teeth may also be seen. If things in the frame do not appear to be in the same place then the video may be fake.
Check the difference between voice and tone also
The voice in deepfake videos often sounds excessively clear or machine-like. Sometimes the voice lacks emotion and the tone remains the same throughout the video. There are fluctuations and emotions in the voice of a real person, whereas this lack is clearly felt in AI generated audio.
Take help of reverse search and fact check tools
If a video is going viral rapidly, then Google Lens or Google reverse image search can be used to check the truth behind it. You can also trace the source of the video by uploading its screenshot. Apart from this, tools like InVID also help in checking the authenticity of viral videos.
You can also take help of AI detection tools
Today, there are many websites and tools which scan photos, videos, audios and text and tell whether they are made by AI or not. Tools like AI or Not, GPT Zero, Zero GPT, QuillBot Detector and ThecHive AI Detector are considered very useful in this.
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