Sure Enough to Share? Overconfidence in GenAI Video Discernment is Associated with Sharing Intentions

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In an online study of 973 people judging whether videos were AI-generated, average accuracy was 62.5%, and people who were overly certain in their judgments were more likely to share videos and to label AI videos as human-made. The authors argue metacognition should be part of media-literacy efforts.