Fake and outdated videos and images are circulating on social media misrepresenting the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran’s counterattacks.

A house cat stares down a leopard in a suburban backyard. The big cat growls, the child in the background freezes, and—against all odds—the cat lunges. The leopard turns tail and bolts. Within seconds ...

SUQIAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 9, 2025 - An illustration photo shows Sora2 logo in a smartphone with the OpenAI logo in the background in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China on October 9, 2025. (Photo credit ...

The footage was real, verified, and delightful: a security camera clip of a coyote bouncing on a backyard trampoline in Los Angeles. Days after the video went viral, near-identical kangaroos, bears, ...

Generative deep learning models are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can create texts, images, audio files, and videos for specific purposes, following instructions provided by human users.

AI videos are now hard to spot, but you can still verify them using tools like Google Gemini, Hive Extension, and Tencent’s detector, or by manually checking for unnatural motion, eye blinking, ...