Ring can verify videos now, but that may not help you deal with most AI-driven fake videos

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool The company says It can “verify that the videos you receive from Ring have not been edited or altered.” But since Ring will not verify edited videos anywayYou probably won’t be able to verify the videos you see on TikTok that look like surveillance camera footage but are in reality Made with artificial intelligence.

Ring says all videos downloaded from the Ring cloud now include a “digital security seal.” To check and see if a video is original, go to Ring Verify website And select a video from your device to upload. When Ring Verify says a video is “verified,” it means “the video has not changed in any way since it was downloaded from Ring.” (Ring Verify was built on C2PA standardsaccording to spokesperson Calle Bouckaert-Orme.)

Any change to the video, including something as small as adjusting the brightness, will cause the video to fail the test. Ring cannot verify videos that were “downloaded before this feature launched in December 2025, videos that were edited, trimmed, filtered, or changed in any way after downloading (even cutting a second, adjusting brightness, or cropping),” or “videos uploaded to video sharing sites that compress video.” Videos recorded with end-to-end encryption turned on also cannot be verified.

If Ring can’t verify the video’s authenticity, it also won’t be able to tell you exactly what was changed in it. “Ring verification only confirms that the video has not been modified at all since download,” Ring says. If you want an original copy of a video, Ring suggests asking the person who shared it with you to share a link from the Ring app.