Is a video of a lady in Atlanta telling a reporter that she sells $2,000 in SNAP food stamps each month for $1,200 authentic? No, that's not true: The video originated on a TikTok channel that acknowledges all of its content is AI-generated. The post includes "AI-generated" in the description of the video. The video does not exist on Atlanta's Fox 5 News website.
The claim originated in a video (archived here) posted on the what.if1411 TikTok channel on October 28, 2025. The caption read:
Atlanta lady tells why everyone is mad over food stamps #AI
original sound - What If
AI-generated
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Thu Oct 30 16:07:33 2025 UTC)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of TikTok)
The 15-second video shows a reporter holding Fox 5 Atlanta microphone standing on a sidewalk interviewing a woman. This is the transcript:
Atlanta lady: I'm gonna keep it real with you. I get over $2,500 a month in stamps. I sell them, $2,000 worth, for about $1,200 to $1,500 cash. That's why everybody's upset. Folks say we're taking advantage, but that's how we get by.
Atlanta reporter: And that's the frustration we're hearing out here in downtown Atlanta.
AI-generated videos are sometimes created based on real videos, but Lead Stories was unable to identify the reporter from the Fox 5 Atlanta website (archived here), nor could we locate a video including the woman talking about food stamps. A Fox 5 Atlanta news veteran did not recognize the reporter when he viewed the video.
The video has been duplicated on other social platforms without an AI disclaimer, but the host channel of the original version makes no secret that its videos are not real. The what.if1411 profile reads: "what IF the channel of possibilities"
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of TikTok)
