# Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Real Videos

> Source: <https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/seeing-is-not-believing/>
> Published: 2026-07-24 03:39:37+00:00

Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., & Maes, P. (2026). Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798358