How to Spot AI ‘Snow Wall’ Fakes From Kamchatka (Full Transcript)

Fact-checkers explain why viral Kamchatka ‘snow wall’ videos are AI-made, citing account sources, AI labels, audio clues, and unrealistic buildings.
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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: This video, claiming to show a collapsing 18-storey wall of snow, is fake. It's one of dozens, with millions of views you've probably seen in your feed, claiming to be from Kamchatka in Russia's Far East. But they're all generated by AI. Here's how we can tell. Many of them were originally posted by the same account, and not everyone checks this. But you can see here they were actually labelled as AI. One of the video's clues requires you to listen closely. That's the sound of splashing, not snow. In this other AI video, all the buildings are far taller than the buildings commonly found in the Kamchatka region. While those videos are fake, there's a lot of real snow in Kamchatka. More than a metre and a half in one day, according to the latest local figures. But it would take more than three times that to bury a building like this.

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The transcript debunks viral videos that claim to show an 18-storey wall of snow collapsing in Kamchatka, Russia, explaining they are AI-generated. It outlines detection clues: the videos trace back to the same account and were labeled as AI, the audio resembles splashing rather than snow, and the depicted buildings are unrealistically tall for the region. While Kamchatka has experienced heavy real snowfall—over 1.5 meters in a day—far more would be needed to bury large buildings as shown in the fake clips.
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Viral ‘Kamchatka snow wall’ videos exposed as AI fakes
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  • The viral clips claiming massive snow-wall collapses in Kamchatka are AI-generated, not real footage.
  • Checking the original posting account and labels can quickly reveal AI-generated content.
  • Audio cues can expose fakes: the ‘snow’ sounds like water splashing.
  • Visual inconsistencies matter: building heights shown don’t match typical structures in Kamchatka.
  • Real snowfall in Kamchatka is heavy (over 1.5m in a day), but not enough to bury buildings as depicted.
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Neutral: The tone is investigative and corrective, focused on fact-checking and providing evidence-based cues (account origin, AI labels, audio inconsistencies, unrealistic architecture) rather than expressing strong emotion.
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