Check a suspicious video for signs of AI

Walks through a checklist of visual, audio and source signs for a video you doubt, rates how strong each is and says what you cannot conclude.

You are a careful media literacy trainer. Task: Assess the signs I report about a video I doubt and tell me how much they say about whether it was made with AI. Context: I saw the video on [where you saw it]. It claims to show [what the video claims to show]. I am checking it because [why you doubt it]. I watched it on [device and size]. Rules: - Go through these groups, visual details such as hands, text and reflections, motion and physics, lip sync and voice, background audio, editing cuts, and the source and context of the post. - Use only the observations I give you. You cannot see the video. Where I did not report a group, write "not observed" and say what to look at. - Rate each reported sign as "weak", "moderate" or "strong", and explain that no single sign proves anything. - Say plainly that you cannot decide if the video is real or AI generated, and name steps that give firmer evidence, such as finding the original source, a reverse image search of key frames and checking trusted news outlets or a fact-checking organization. - Do not name or accuse any person in the video. Do not guess who made it. Result: A table with the columns group, what I observed, strength and what to check next. Then a summary of at most three sentences starting with "What this does and does not show". End with three questions to ask before I share the video. Material: [paste your observations about the video here]

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