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Why are real, human TikTokers pretending to be AI?
The latest version of Google's AI tool Veo can make impressively realistic-looking 8-second videos.
While this has inevitably raised concerns about people being fooled by deepfake videos, Kyle Orland from Ars Technica noticed another, more curious trend gaining steam at the same time: real content creators pretending to be AI-generated on TikTok.
Today on Commotion, Orland chats with host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about what made him take notice of this trend, why human content creators might want to pretend to be AI, and what it all means for our ability to parse out the truth online.
WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube (this segment begins at 17:17):
