Fake videos of natural disasters are widely distributed on social networks.

Experts have recorded a massive surge in the spread of fake videos created using AI on social networks. The number of videos with natural disasters — earthquakes, fires, floods — has increased 2-6 times over the past year, depending on the scenarios played out in them, VisionLabs told Izvestia.

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The reason for the rapid growth, according to experts, is not only the increasing availability of AI technologies, but also the algorithms of social networks that willingly promote such videos — they evoke strong emotions, quickly collect views and reposts.

"We conducted a survey in which we asked Russians to distinguish real photos from deepfakes. The majority of respondents (from 62% to 80%) mistook images created by specialized AI for real ones," VisionLabs said.

Over the past year alone, the number of platforms and applications that can be used to create videos of non-existent disasters has grown from hundreds to several thousand, AI creator Sergey Bigulov told Izvestia.

According to him, we are talking about a real revolution in the world of synthetic video content, such models as Runway Gen 4, Google Veo 3, Seedance 1.0 — they allow you to generate 1080p (Full HD) video based on just a text description. Moreover, many of these services are available by subscription for a nominal fee or for free.