A screengrab from a YouTube channel featuring artificial intelligence-generated medical information. A viewer comment says the speaker’s hand gestures look robotic. Captured from YouTube
“AI-generated images have become so realistic that it is nearly impossible to tell them apart,” Yoon, 33, said with a deeply concerned look.
His parents recently showed him a YouTube video, saying they wanted to buy supplement pills promoted by a doctor in the clip. The doctor’s speech and facial expressions appeared so natural that even Yoon almost fell for it, only realizing at the last moment that the video had been generated by artificial intelligence.
“A quick search was enough to show that the advertised pills had no scientific basis, but I worry my parents may fall for AI content again,” he said.
Yoon’s case is one example of the growing dark side of AI technology, as the boundary between reality and fake content becomes increasingly blurred. AI-generated content is beginning to pose a real risk of deceiving people by featuring figures presented as professionals or mimicking television news broadcasts.
