The Short Version
The strongest peer-reviewed evidence directly contradicts this claim. A large 2026 University of Florida controlled study published in PubMed found that humans correctly identified deepfake videos approximately two-thirds of the time — meaning most viewers are not fooled. Sources supporting the claim rely on qualitative assertions about realism or low-authority industry statistics with unclear provenance that contradict the gold-standard empirical findings. The claim overgeneralizes from specific high-quality deepfake scenarios to all AI-generated video.