# Today I got fooled by an AI video **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 14, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553 "2025-03-14T10:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/21 "2025-03-14T14:09:12Z")
Sooner or later it’ll be good enough to make the alternate ending of _Big_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/22 "2025-03-14T14:11:26Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@Skywatcher](#): > > > > With the exception of a few accounts which tag their images as #ai > > That’s done automatically—by AI. (I’ve seen false positives and negatives for it, too.) Oh, I didn’t mean a literal tag; more like “[Digital artwork created using AI.]” Posts by this account, for example: > **[Beautiful Clouds | Los Angeles CA](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089807983730)** > > Beautiful Clouds, Los Angeles, California. 3,536 likes · 4,211 talking about this. Images on this page are created by artificial intelligence. Explore the creativity of AI-generated art! This one doesn’t bother to tag images; it’s only on their user page. > **[Art of the Sun](https://www.facebook.com/artofthesun2023)** > > Art of the Sun. 22,146 likes · 11,010 talking about this. Welcome to our amazing page! 😍 > ℹ️ Some of our pictures are created by Al. They really should say “virtually all”, though. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/23 "2025-03-16T05:02:16Z")
Saw a great one tonight. > **[1.4M views · 12K reactions | 😎😎 #StarWarsFan #starwarsmania...](https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FzrShFqwW/?mibextid=D5vuiz)** > > 😎😎 #StarWarsFan #starwarsmania #MayTheForceBeWithYou #sith #starwarsmemes #starwars #StarWarsDay #starwars #starwarsmaniac #fypシ゚viralシ. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/24 "2025-03-16T05:14:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > the appearance of the rather homely woman between shots. I know her! Her name is Stormy. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/25 "2025-03-16T08:56:15Z")
Disturbing. I can see the issues you mentioned because I know it’s AI, but I wouldn’t think to look for them normally. Only if the video was of some weird scenario that didn’t make sense would I think to check. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/26 "2025-03-16T15:20:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > First clue, the brush keeps changing length. But it’s only when the scene cuts, it could easily have been different brushes. The only “off” thing about the video was the way the barnacles were shooting off. Nothing else seemed weird to me, definitely not the water. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/27 "2025-03-16T15:27:58Z")
I was just about to point this out. Different ships would have different brushes and setups, and I am not seeing any indication that all these shots were from the same ship. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/28 "2025-03-16T16:54:07Z")
It’s certainly got realistic-ish aspects to it. The barnacles coming off in a big flurry was an obvious tell for me too, but also the machinery itself doesn’t make sense - there’s one scene where there’s a person riding on the brush arm, which didn’t seem realistic; there’s one scene where the arm seems to originate from two different places and the details of the machinery itself - it’s covered with superfluous greebles. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/29 "2025-03-16T17:13:41Z")
Also, the subject matter of the video was suspicious; barnacles are just a normal thing for those species of whale than host them - there is no particular reason for there to be a boat patrolling the open sea and removing barnacles from whales; ‘wait, why the hell is this thing happening?’ is frequently a thematic ‘tell’ for AI videos. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/30 "2025-03-16T17:22:48Z")
But as I say, if the _actual events_ are the key tell then that’s not much comfort. In itself it would imply: 1. AI videos _can_ fool us about more mundane events 2. We might erroneously think a true video is fake because it is depicting a very strange or unlikely event ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/31 "2025-03-16T17:24:14Z")
True - those are both genuine and increasing risks as this technology improves. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/32 "2025-03-16T17:50:29Z")
This other one fooled my wife, but I checked a few things and realized just then that it was fake: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7481399713007209734 No wind moving tail, or the fur; really, the racoon would hold for dear life or would had fallen already. Then after a few days, there was no reliable source coming up with it, So it remained an unsourced TikTok video. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/33 "2025-03-16T17:59:14Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > AI videos _can_ fool us about more mundane events That’s true but I think it’s largely because there’s no risk involved in accepting it so the energy involved in debunking it, or even worrying about it, feels wasted. It’s like an April Fools gag of telling someone that your Aunt Sally dropped a carton of eggs yesterday. I say “Wow, that sucks” and you reply “HA! Got you! I don’t even HAVE an Aunt Sally!” I never actually cared enough to worry about the details and it’s no harm to me that you “Got me” aside from a wasted moment in my life. Likewise, mundane AI videos or images may “Get me” but I only really give a shit if they matter. Even a video of cleaning whales makes me go “Huh, neat” at most and whether it’s true or not has no impact on me so there’s normally no value in worrying about its validity. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/34 "2025-03-16T18:02:12Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Also, the subject matter of the video was suspicious; barnacles are just a normal thing for those species of whale than host them - there is no particular reason for there to be a boat patrolling the open sea and removing barnacles from whales; ‘wait, why the hell is this thing happening?’ is frequently a thematic ‘tell’ for AI videos. - There’s also “How do you train a whale in the wild what this ship is wanting to do”? ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/35 "2025-03-16T18:06:37Z")
Maybe “mundane” wasn’t the right choice of words. What I mean is, say, a video of a woman lying beaten on the ground is, sadly, quite believable; not a preposterous even to, in itself, make us think it is AI. But it may have the power to cause anger. In fact, I don’t know why I’m even ranting about this, because AI videos already have fooled many people and influenced hearts and minds. I just didn’t expect it to happen to me so soon. The key thing, as always, is to check everything and find reliable sources. But it’s going to be like phishing; we have to be vigilant at all times. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/36 "2025-03-16T18:12:32Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > But it may have the power to cause anger. Sure, and if you’re going to act on it then you’d want to know that it’s legitimate. But that’s no different from a faked Tiktok video or other staged video aside from it being harder for most people to fake a whale cleaning boat. If I was going to send $100 to Whale Cleaners International or contact my senators about whale cleaning then I have more invested in knowing that the video is legitimate and giving it a keener eye. If it’s just part of the ocean of internet social media flotsam, then it’s no more worrying than staged videos about a girlfriend discovering that her man is cheating at Taco Bell. It’s a dumb waste of time but not uniquely concerning due to AI. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/37 "2025-03-16T18:22:00Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > It’s a dumb waste of time but not uniquely concerning due to AI. However, the ease of staging something is clearly different. But sure, if you think this isn’t a concern for you, then fine. I think it concerned me just because I am quite a skeptic in general. When someone tells me a fact, it goes through a layer of “how surprising is this” “what evidence would be needed to support this claim” etc. And when I tell people facts that I’ve known, maybe stuff I was told years ago…part of me reevaluates the claim as I’m saying it. I’m not a rube. But yeah for a moment I was taken in by this. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/38 "2025-03-16T18:26:14Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > But sure, if you think this isn’t a concern for you, then fine. My point was more simply “People are easy to fool about things that don’t matter”. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/39 "2025-03-16T18:27:20Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s also “How do you train a whale in the wild what this ship is wanting to do”? Well, lots of fish go to “cleaning stations” where they float passively while cleaner wrasse and similar fish remove parasites from them. It is not ridiculously unbelievable that whales might have a similar instinct, although one might wonder what natural creatures would be capable of removing barnacles from whales. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/40 "2025-03-16T18:37:44Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > It is not ridiculously unbelievable that whales might have a similar instinct, although one might wonder what natural creatures would be capable of removing barnacles from whales. - Except they “know” the tiny fish are there to do their duty. There’s nothing in the whales’ experience about what the ship and big whirring thing are for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553.md?page=3)