Modern Hell #20: Lies and Videotape

Artificial Intelligence threatens to distort our reality one day. For now, simpler methods still do it more effectively.

This week, Meta announced a new AI tool that creates original videos from text prompts. The company calls it Make-A-Video, and offered a few examples of what the tool can do on its site. These examples ranged from the more general (“a young couple walking in heavy rain,” a “hyper-realistic spaceship landing on Mars”) to the weirdly specific (“a fluffy b…