From Cheap Fakes to Pure Synthesis: Addressing the New Era of T2V Fake News Videos
Recent text-to-video (T2V) generation models enable fake news videos to be synthesized from scratch, shifting the threat beyond cheap fakes assembled from existing footage. Such news videos can closely match fabricated narratives, creating a modality alignment trap for existing detectors. Existing datasets lack pure synthesis fake news videos. Although directly prompting T2V models with descriptions of fake news videos can yield perfectly aligned samples, it reduces the fake news video detection
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Published: 7 August 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Misinformation
Retrieved: 10 August 2026
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