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Have you come across viral videos showing people who appear to mock Native Americans selling Indigenous-style jackets? Lead Stories has identified several of these clips in recent weeks and determined that many were showing "Artificial Indians" (also known as "AI"). The people are not real Native Americans and the scenarios depicted in the videos were not real -- social media…

Have you come across viral videos showing how people mock influencers for wearing Christian-themed clothing? Lead Stories has identified several of these clips in recent weeks and determined that many were AI-generated. The people and scenarios depicted there were not real -- social media accounts posted this kind of content to play on religious sentiment, driving likes and shares as…

Have you seen viral videos showing large cruise ship disasters with the boats sinking dramatically into the water? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. The videos have similar looking cruise ships sinking with various crowds watching as the ships go down. Some of these accounts…

Have you seen viral videos showing people, mostly veterans in military fatigues with the U.K.'s flag, invoking patriotism to make social media users follow a specific account? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. Some of these accounts post videos of different-looking men saying the exact…

Have you seen viral videos showing older veterans being disrespected or bullied by authority figures? Lead Stories has spotted several such videos recently and found that many were created using artificial intelligence. These videos do not show real people or situations. Instead they seek to exploit feelings of sympathy and patriotism by triggering emotions such as indignation and anger among…

Have you seen viral videos showing timelapse construction of secret bunkers, underground rooms or hidden lairs out of wild materials and objects that would give the builders a safe place to hide to survive a catastrophic event? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and has found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. They…

Have you seen viral clips showing people dying from "overfloating" the edge of infinity pools or from falling down from the top of the building after a collapse of the pool's transparent walls? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and has found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. An expert specializing in swimming…

Have you seen viral videos showing people making Indian street food using their feet or other body parts or pouring dirty water in it? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such clips recently and has found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. Often the goal of such videos is to generate engagement on social media by…

Does a real video show an angry group of Muslims in England shouting "Unclean" and defacing a butcher shop with graffiti? No, that's not true: The Hive Moderation AI-generated content detection tool determined with 75.9% confidence the video was AI-generated. Lead Stories visual analysis documented several visual glitches incompatible with reality and typical of AI-generated content. The graffiti lettering appearing…

Have you seen viral videos showing people walking on water while wearing some type of floating or anti-gravity shoes? Lead Stories has spotted a number of such videos recently and has found that many of them were created using artificial intelligence. Except in rare situations, they do not show real people or events because what they show is physically not…