Week 5 - Field Guide
Looking on Buzzsumo at trends relating to fake viral content, I discovered a story just recent about the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, being on fire and had everyone's surprise, but to ruin their surprise of it, it was in fact an ai generated fire, but still racked millions of views on Facebook through reshares on the platform. Looking at the video, it is an entirely obvious to see that it looks very unusual to look at, and too sudden to happen out of the blue, plus police and fire departments would immediately be notified, yet not a lot of authority was brought into this occurrence. Experts and fact-checking have gone to say it is a deepfake and entirely fictional, the tower was safe and secure as always but just gives a concerning reminder of AI-generated tools are advancing more and more, and with this and other deepfakes in the past can cause panic and public distrust.















