Can we even trust videos anymore?

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI’s Sora 2 app lets anyone with a smartphone create AI-generated deepfake videos, from phony footage of a corgi rock climbing to fake videos of kids carrying guns in school. Is it time to stop believing our eyes?

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0:00.0	Come in, shoes off.
0:02.0	What's the Wi-Fi? Most stream the new series I'm binging. Please can we listen to something that isn't Christmas music? Can you, um... You should have a chance of D-Froster ticket quickly? Everyone! We're gonna video call Auntie Audrey now. Mom, Joe's talking to telly again. Can we share a video with a dog in his outfit? Hosting this Christmas? You need the UK's best broadband technology. E.E. does more.
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0:24.1	Full Fiber is the UK's most reliable broadband technology.
0:26.1	Offcoms broadband terminology research March 223.
0:28.3	Verify at e.e.dochitk slash claims.
0:30.1	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken?
0:33.4	A podcast from the Mayrotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business.
0:38.0	A recent episode asks,
0:39.6	Are boardrooms ready for the new geopolitical reality?
0:43.4	Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode.
0:48.2	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:56.6	This is on point.
0:58.3	I'm Megachakrabardi.
0:59.8	Back in September, OpenAI launched SORA 2, its newest artificial intelligence video generation model.
1:08.4	The app lets anyone with a smartphone create hyper-realistic deep-fake videos with a simple
1:14.5	text prompt.
1:16.2	Well, social media was quickly flooded with these deep fakes, with things like a fake video
1:21.8	of a figure skater performing a triple axle with a cat on her head.
1:26.3	Ladies and September 4, a single axle with a cat on her head. Ladies and September 4, people axle with a cat.
1:31.9	One, two, three, spin.
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