Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality — MIT Media Lab
Visual media has long served as a reference for what feels real, but generative video models now produce synthetic footage closely resembling real-world scenes…
Publication March 13, 2026 Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., & Maes, P. (2026). Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798358 Abstract Visual media has long served as a reference for what feels real, but generative video models now produce synthetic footage closely resembling real-world scenes. Such media increasingly appears in…
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