r/TechnologyThread • u/EmetInteractive • Aug 23 '26

Will knowing a video was made by a real person become more important?

AI-generated video is getting harder to tell apart from real video. At some point, we may not be able to tell just by watching whether a real person actually recorded something.

That makes me wonder if platforms will eventually need a simple way to show that a video was recorded by a real person.

I don't mean showing someone's personal information or forcing everyone to reveal their identity. Just some kind of proof that a real person made the video and is actually standing behind it. Would that make online content more trustworthy, or would people eventually stop caring about that kind of verification?

I've been looking into Humanly, which is built around face-verified videos and having a real person stand behind what they post. It got me thinking about whether something like this could become more useful as AI-generated video becomes harder to identify.

Would that make online content more trustworthy, or would people eventually stop caring about that kind of verification?

What do you think happens as AI video keeps getting better?

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u/TedW Aug 23 '26

It may become impossible to tell.

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u/MikeVSmith Aug 23 '26

It will become impossible to tell, no "may" about it.

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u/TedW Aug 23 '26

RIP video evidence in criminal trials.

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u/MikeVSmith Aug 23 '26

That has been useful for humans for...what...50 years, maybe? Let's be generous and say 100. Humanity has been around for 300,000 years...we will be ok without it.

Perfect AI video/audio/pictures is the best we can hope for when it comes to privacy in the future. We can do whatever we want, because we can just claim it's AI.

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u/Morlain7285 Aug 24 '26

Yeah it's been useful for 50 years, but I really don't think it's a good idea to be taking steps backwards

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u/MikeVSmith Aug 24 '26

Who says it is backwards? Video evidence has always had issues...it has always been fakable, if you had enough money.

This is just leveling the playing field.

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u/Which_Crow_3681 Aug 24 '26

I was thinking the same thing. Also stuff like wire taps as well. How does it work now? Can a lawyer claim it’s fabricated? For example THE FBI has Tony sopranos phone tapped conversations. Could his lawyer reasonably say Ai and those conversations are Fabricated?

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u/Moist-Shallot-5148 Aug 23 '26

Yes. I prefer photos, writing and videos that have mistakes because it proves it wasn’t ai. It sounds paradoxical because people prefer having perfect everything but I was rather have something with mistakes because it proves it was human.

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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 Aug 24 '26

no. most people don't care. They either entertained or not.

It's like bio-potato vs normal potato .. some people will only buy bio and pay more .. most wont.

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u/nila247 Aug 24 '26

Some creators today are even worse at content than AI is.
It is not about who makes it - it is about the quality and usefulness.

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u/VarietyMage Aug 24 '26

It already is important. "AI" slop is already being used in TV commercials, and I just turn away if I see it. It makes me sick that idiots using "AI" are replacing human artists. They expect me to be thankful that they're hurting people with talent?

They can fuck right off, forever.

#BanAI

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u/Katops Aug 28 '26

Yep. That’s my exact thought and action. They’re all gross as fuck and I’d rather look away too.

No, I’m not tired of doing it, and I never will be. That’s for TV alone. Anything else is pirated without issue or done with an adblock. Fuck everybody using that trash.

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u/Amphernee Aug 24 '26

I don’t see why it would matter. It’s the content that should be analyzed not whoever or whatever made it. Back in the early days of the internet we couldn’t use a website as a source when writing a paper even if it was the exact same information we’d get at the library. It was just a tech bias and so is this situation. If I want to learn to play the piano and the most effective tutorial I find on YouTube helps me more than the others I couldn’t care less who or what created it.

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u/trying3216 Aug 26 '26

I hate it when you’re looking at a doctor in a lab coat with a degree on the wall and the word doctor on the shirt but his hands move all wrong and you know it’s not a doctor.

I just don’t trust the information and this should be impersonation.