Yes. Looks like your AI checker is busted. There are many more AI videos more realistic (and less lol) on OpenAI’s Sora. It’s equal parts cool and terrifying to see how realistic they can be now, and somewhat terrifying how few people know it’s already gotten this good
I’m partly skeptical because of the AI witch hunt around here. Just not getting the AI vibe on this one.
Video background has too many random, and sensible, details. Details like the fur on the cat’s underbelly, guy’s nose hair, the imperfect IR reflection from the cat’s tapetum lucidum looks real, the slight deep-sleep face twitch, nothing too perfect, no uncanny valley.
If this is AI, throw it all out the window, everything is AI.
But just for fun! Throw me a Sora video that looks real. Let me test myself!
I’m not sure I can send direct Sora links that someone without an invite can open. But here’s a link to the some very good looking promotional videos made by OpenAI.
In the app it’s all like vertical TikTok videos mostly and much worse quality, more like the cat mouse video of this post. But still very impressive. I’ll edit this comment if I can find a way to upload one. (Oh that’s also likely why this video is cropped btw, so they could cut out the Sora watermark)
As for “AI witch hunt” my instance (dbzer0) is probably the most pro-AI instance of the entire fediverse. I’m a programmer and engineer so I find AI fascinating, that said, I don’t particularly like when people pass off AI as real.
I’ll also admit that I feel unsettled when I can’t tell if a video is AI or not. So when I see AI I point it out. I don’t say it’s wrong to post or right, I simply call it what it is because I prefer when people understand what is and isn’t reality. And I appreciate when others call out AI so that I know what is and isn’t reality.
Edit: this was the first video on my feed rn that looked pretty realistic, tell me if you can open it or not: House flooded with soda
The soda video looked fake to me. Impressive for sure, but too perfect, unlike this video. Her face’s reflection in the water looked like something from a video game. Not to be the “seen many pixels in my life” guy, but I’m on the water a lot. :)
Took awhile for the first example you gave to load, but those all scream fake to me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s mind blowing tech ATM, but something’s always uncanny, too perfect even with intentional blurring.
Only videos I’m currently questioning are some nature Shorts on YouTube. Sometimes struggling with those.
Yeah that soda vid is pretty obvious it’s AI (especially since she keeps talking after her mouth goes under) just a good example of hi-res AI vids with some impressive detail staying consistent since you seemed won over by just the inclusion of nose hairs. But yeah reflections/lighting are usually a pretty dead giveaway for AI.
If your sense of “AI or not” is based on being too-perfect and reflections being off, then it makes sense that the night vision ones and blurry ones like this slip you up.
The pattern on the cat’s fur going from Gaussian blur to distinct is a good giveaway to look for next time. When digital cameras blur or compress, the artifacts aren’t smooth they’re boxy. Also textures of still objects don’t just get more sharp without the rest of the image being affected.
Plus the shadows really don’t seem to match up. I had to watch a few night vision vids to make sure, but yeah the way the mouse looks, especially on the dudes face really isn’t how things look in night vision. I mean just the extreme contrast in shadow for the mouse while the cat leaves no shadow whatsoever on any part of the bed is a pretty solid sign it’s not real.
Also on the note of you being used to water reflections so reflections being fake are obvious, maybe it’s having spent significant time around cats that made the cat’s movements trigger uncanny valley vibes for me. That’s originally what set me off. Idk what is wrong but my mind says there’s something wrong with that cat lol.
Edit: Here, I decided to try generating one of my own to see how it’d look. Probably could have made it look better if I refined the prompt but I think it’s still a good example:
Prompt: Black and white low quality night vision camera inside house captures cat dropping mouse onto sleeping owner’s face.
Yes. Looks like your AI checker is busted. There are many more AI videos more realistic (and less lol) on OpenAI’s Sora. It’s equal parts cool and terrifying to see how realistic they can be now, and somewhat terrifying how few people know it’s already gotten this good
I’m partly skeptical because of the AI witch hunt around here. Just not getting the AI vibe on this one.
Video background has too many random, and sensible, details. Details like the fur on the cat’s underbelly, guy’s nose hair, the imperfect IR reflection from the cat’s tapetum lucidum looks real, the slight deep-sleep face twitch, nothing too perfect, no uncanny valley.
If this is AI, throw it all out the window, everything is AI.
But just for fun! Throw me a Sora video that looks real. Let me test myself!
I’m not sure I can send direct Sora links that someone without an invite can open. But here’s a link to the some very good looking promotional videos made by OpenAI.
Best Sora Videos
In the app it’s all like vertical TikTok videos mostly and much worse quality, more like the cat mouse video of this post. But still very impressive. I’ll edit this comment if I can find a way to upload one. (Oh that’s also likely why this video is cropped btw, so they could cut out the Sora watermark)
As for “AI witch hunt” my instance (dbzer0) is probably the most pro-AI instance of the entire fediverse. I’m a programmer and engineer so I find AI fascinating, that said, I don’t particularly like when people pass off AI as real.
I’ll also admit that I feel unsettled when I can’t tell if a video is AI or not. So when I see AI I point it out. I don’t say it’s wrong to post or right, I simply call it what it is because I prefer when people understand what is and isn’t reality. And I appreciate when others call out AI so that I know what is and isn’t reality.
Edit: this was the first video on my feed rn that looked pretty realistic, tell me if you can open it or not: House flooded with soda
The soda video looked fake to me. Impressive for sure, but too perfect, unlike this video. Her face’s reflection in the water looked like something from a video game. Not to be the “seen many pixels in my life” guy, but I’m on the water a lot. :)
Took awhile for the first example you gave to load, but those all scream fake to me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s mind blowing tech ATM, but something’s always uncanny, too perfect even with intentional blurring.
Only videos I’m currently questioning are some nature Shorts on YouTube. Sometimes struggling with those.
Yeah that soda vid is pretty obvious it’s AI (especially since she keeps talking after her mouth goes under) just a good example of hi-res AI vids with some impressive detail staying consistent since you seemed won over by just the inclusion of nose hairs. But yeah reflections/lighting are usually a pretty dead giveaway for AI.
If your sense of “AI or not” is based on being too-perfect and reflections being off, then it makes sense that the night vision ones and blurry ones like this slip you up.
The pattern on the cat’s fur going from Gaussian blur to distinct is a good giveaway to look for next time. When digital cameras blur or compress, the artifacts aren’t smooth they’re boxy. Also textures of still objects don’t just get more sharp without the rest of the image being affected.
Plus the shadows really don’t seem to match up. I had to watch a few night vision vids to make sure, but yeah the way the mouse looks, especially on the dudes face really isn’t how things look in night vision. I mean just the extreme contrast in shadow for the mouse while the cat leaves no shadow whatsoever on any part of the bed is a pretty solid sign it’s not real.
Also on the note of you being used to water reflections so reflections being fake are obvious, maybe it’s having spent significant time around cats that made the cat’s movements trigger uncanny valley vibes for me. That’s originally what set me off. Idk what is wrong but my mind says there’s something wrong with that cat lol.
Edit: Here, I decided to try generating one of my own to see how it’d look. Probably could have made it look better if I refined the prompt but I think it’s still a good example: