AI-generated video of ICE raid goes viral on Facebook

A police officer wearing a vest that says ICE and a patch that says “POICE” tells a Latino-looking man wearing a Walmart employee vest to “be careful and keep moving.” He directed him to a bus marked “Immigration and Immigration Services.” Next to him, one of his co-workers began walking awkwardly sideways, one foot passing the other in an improbable lunge toward the back of a line of other Latino Walmart employees who appeared to be in ICE custody. The video shows two American flag emojis and the word “deport” superimposed on each other.

video It has 4 million views, 16,600 likes, 1,900 comments, and 2,200 shares on Facebook. This was apparently generated by OpenAI’s Sora.

Some of the comments seem to understand, “Why is he walking like that?” some say. “The AI ​​goes through the guy’s legs through his legs,” says another. Many of the comments clearly don’t. Another top comment reads, “Oh, you can find a lot at Walmart.” “Don’t Walmart do any paperwork before hiring you?” says another. “Are we going to rid Walmart of zombies before Halloween?”

of Facebook’s latest trend that keeps falling into the AI ​​slop toilet AI deportation video. These were posted by an account called “USA Journey 897” and have the general feel of actual propaganda videos posted by ICE or Department of Homeland Security social media accounts. Many of the AI ​​videos focus on workplace deportations, but some resemble horrifying real-life videos seen during ICE raids in Chicago and Los Angeles. account Originally flagged by Chad Loder on 404 MediaIndependent researcher.

Videos typically have text overlaid in three areas of the video where OpenAI’s Sora video generator places watermarks. This, as well as the style of the videos being generated and the tests conducted by 404 Media to create very similar videos, indicate that they are generated with Sora, highlighting how a combination of tools released by some of the world’s richest companies can generate and monetize videos that exploit human suffering (and how incredibly easy it is to hide the Sora watermark).

“Please, that’s my baby,” a dark-skinned woman cries. While being detained by ICE agents In another video. “Ma’am, stop resisting and keep moving,” the officer retorted. The camera cuts to footage of the baby, and the woman says, “You can’t take me away from her. Please, she’s there. Don’t do that, she’s just a baby. I love you, mommy loves you,” the woman says. The video cuts to a scene of a woman in the back seat of an ICE van. The video has 1,400 likes and 407 comments, including “Don’t let go…take everything!”, “Take the baby too” and “I think the days of using child anchors are over.”