People are seriously worried over woman intimately whispering into camera in viral video

People who've watched a viral video of a woman whispering in bed are getting very worried over what it means.

There's another video doing the rounds on social media and this one depicts a woman lying in bed and appearing to hold a camera as she whispers a message towards it.

However, it's attracted quite a backlash as many have said 'we are cooked' because of it, and if you're not familiar with modern internet parlance it's not a good thing to be 'cooked'.

The whispering woman has got people talking about 'what a dystopian world we're living in' and 'presents a very serious dilemma'.

So the reaction to the video hasn't been great, to say the least, and there's a very good reason for that.

Unsurprisingly, those worried reactions are because the video is AI-generated and the digital woman in it says as much, whispering: "This is wild. I am AI-generated by Veo 3, nothing is real any more."

Veo 3 is Google's 'state-of-the-art video generation model'.

It's got people wondering what happens 'if a dude falls in love with one of those on the internet and he discovers she's not real'.

He gets scammed, presumably.

Someone else trying to look on the bright side suggested that in a world drowning in AI slop 'movies made by real people will become even more valuable'.

Fortunately, AI is not yet at the point where it can con everyone as the videos generated still bear that artificial sheen which makes the people depicted in them disturbingly inhuman, but the progress made in recent years is understandably worrying.

Once AI is capable of churning out content that is capable of fooling your eyes and ears then we really are 'cooked', as the kids these days are fond of saying.

It'll be a godsend to those who use deepfakes to prey on people who can't tell the difference, and the better AI gets the fewer people will be able to tell the difference.

Even worse, if you can't believe the evidence of your eyes and ears then it also becomes easier for people to reject reality and claim that something real has been mocked up by AI.

If it reaches a point where they're indistinguishable then who's to say which is real and which isn't, as some people have already been duped by a similar video depicting an AI version of a street interview.

There are already attempts to do this, as political figures such as UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have been targeted by deepfakes which have tried to trick people into thinking he made comments about Jimmy Savile and the city of Liverpool, with Full Fact rating the clips as fake.

Martin Lewis has previously had to warn people about a 'scam' where a video stole his likeness and used it to shill for an investment scheme.

There's a growing generation of 'AI conmen' who are using improving video technology to scam people out of their money and the more impressive the tools they have to work with, the better they will be at defrauding people.

People have good reason to be seriously worried.