In a video on OpenAI's new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens - each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he's making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, "Are my piggies enjoying their slop?"
Over the weekend, Donald Trump's Truth Social account posted an AI-generated video purporting to be a Fox News report promoting "medbeds." Unless you spend a lot of time hanging out on far-right conspiracy forums (and in that case, get help), you might not be familiar with these supposed magical beds that can reverse age, cure disease, seal wounds, and regenerate limbs.
"No, it's that the original version featured a gay couple getting married. But in the film's Chinese release, someone digitally altered it - quite possibly using AI - and replaced one of the men with a woman, Bloomberg reports, and the homophobic and censorious implications are irking audiences across the globe. "What's happening outside the film is even more terrifying than what's shown in it," wrote a user on the Chinese social network Weibo, as spotted by The Guardian."
AI-generated deepfakes, particularly of public officials, pose an escalating threat, with incidents quadrupling and fraudulent losses reaching $897 million cumulatively by mid-2025.