AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt

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AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt

Article Published December 12, 2025

This article originally appeared on the Reuters Institute website on December 12, 2025.

By Georgia Edwards, Zuzanna Wojciak, and Influencing AI from the Outside alum Shirin Alren

The fast evolution of generative AI makes it increasingly easy to create visual content that looks indistinguishably real. As AI-generated content mimics authentic scenes and locations, open-source investigators face a new challenge: verifying what’s “real” in a world where reality itself can be fabricated.

With the release of advanced video generation models like Veo 3 and Sora 2, generative systems can now create entire moving sequences from text, images, or other audiovisual inputs. As these models advance, the boundary between authentic footage and AI-generated fabrication will become more difficult to discern.

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