I am begging those of you who can't detect fake videos to get off the internet.
For the kids in the back:
No, Bishop Robert Barron of the Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis did not scream at Homeland Security agents on the frozen streets of the Twin Cities.
But plenty of people think he did!!
This one TikTok video has 11 million views, with many copycats racking up views through uploads of their own.
Some astute members of the human race managed to postulate that this might be an artificial video that depicts fictional events.
A regular Sherlock Holmes!
Others tagged POLITIFACT to come and tell them what is true. ðŸ˜
If you subscribe to Dead Internet Theory, then perhaps you believe most of these replies come from bots.
The bots, however, pull their training data from actual people - the kind of people who grill hot dogs in the packaging and still get to vote.
(Yes, that's another thing that's trending on social media.)
If you want to learn how to spot A.I. slop, you have to learn the meaning of "prompts." Computer programs don't see the actual world: They've just been trained to take commands from users and try to replicate the world.
That leads to funny glitches in the Matrix:
The reality is that millions of people around the world get fooled by videos like this, even though they still are relatively easy to spot. I watched one Ethiopian man call out the "bishop" for violating the 10 Commandments (link here, but it involves an F-bomb).
While you ponder how these videos will shape news and political control across the world in the coming years, I'll leave you with the funniest comment:
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