Ring can verify videos now, but that might not help you with most AI fakes

Ring has launched a caller Ring Verify instrumentality that the institution says tin “verify that Ring videos you person haven’t been edited aliases changed.” But since Ring won’t verify videos that person been altered successful any way, it astir apt won’t beryllium capable to verify those videos you spot connected TikTok that look for illustration they’re from information camera footage but are really made pinch AI.

All videos downloaded from Ring’s unreality now see a “digital information seal,” Ring says. To cheque and to spot if a video is authentic, spell to the Ring Verify website and prime a video from your instrumentality to upload it. When Ring Verify says a video is “verified,” that intends “the video hasn’t been changed successful immoderate measurement since it was downloaded from Ring.” (Ring Verify is built connected C2PA standards, according to spokesperson Kaleigh Bueckert-Orme.)

Any alteration to the video, including thing mini for illustration tweaking the brightness, will make a video neglect the test. Ring cannot verify videos that “were downloaded earlier this characteristic launched successful December 2025, aliases videos that person been edited, cropped, filtered, aliases altered successful immoderate measurement aft download (even trimming a second, adjusting brightness, aliases cropping)” aliases “videos uploaded to video sharing sites which compress the video.” Videos recorded pinch end-to-end encryption turned connected can’t beryllium verified, either.

If Ring can’t verify the video arsenic authentic, it besides can’t show you precisely what was changed astir it. “Ring’s verification only confirms that a video has not been modified astatine each since download,” Ring says. If you want an original type of a video, Ring suggests asking the personification who shared it pinch you to stock a nexus from the Ring app.