AI video slop is everywhere. Take our quiz and try to recognize it

You’re lounging around the living room after a big holiday meal when your uncle starts scrolling through vertical videos. “Did you see one of the cats snatch the snake out of some guy’s bed?” he asks.

Is it real? Is it a fake? You feel a headache coming on.

“We are overrun with nonsense,” said Mike Caulfield, one of the book’s co-authors Verified: How to think clearly, be less deceived, and make better decisions about what you believe online. “It just floods the zone and at some point the mental faculties are just exhausted.”

But Caulfield and other experts say there’s no need to give in to despair, at least not yet. There are a few simple do’s and don’ts you can try to assess the authenticity of what you see online.

Don’t assume everything is fake

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