1. Fabricated videos of bears, allegedly generated by artificial intelligence, have been spreading on social media platforms like YouTube and TikTok since early October.
2. One viral video shows an elderly woman supposedly fending off a bear attack on a street, but experts warn these videos may mislead viewers as they do not accurately represent real-life bear behavior.
3. Tokyo University of Agriculture Professor Yamazaki Koji cautions that such misconceptions could lead to conflicts between humans and bears due to the potential for people to misunderstand bear behavior based on these AI-generated videos.