On June 21, 2025, the Tagesschau (major German TV news program) reported on the growing spread of AI-generated images and videos as instruments of disinformation, agitation, and propaganda. Detecting manipulated content poses a significant challenge and requires careful scrutiny and critical questioning.
Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak, Scientific Director at CAIS, put the increasingly difficult detection into context in the report and described the situation as an arms race: the better the generated content becomes, the better the detection tools must also be. Currently, however, these technical means often still lag behind the quality of the forgeries.
The report by Svea Eckert (starting at 5:19, in German) is available at ARD Mediathek.