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AI-fabricated stunts get shared as real events, not mocked as slop

The Bulletin, Oct 22 · read the original

A deepfake video of an elderly woman surviving a Final Destination-style stunt spread across TikTok, X and Instagram starting Oct 22, framed and shared as a genuine world-record attempt until fact-checkers debunked it the same day, a sharper claim than ordinary AI-slop mockery.

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