# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/61 "2025-03-19T21:52:56Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > But you get your choice of toppings. > > Can I get barnacles on mine? The barnacles are cursed. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/62 "2025-03-19T22:36:08Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@MrAtoz](#): > > > > I was afraid to read the comments to see how many people believed it was real. > > Most of the upvoters are also bots. I heard a stat from a respected source (sorry, don’t have it off-hand) that 50-60% of postings online are ai/bot generated. It posted a message board argument - a raging argument - whereby both sides were bots. Can’t be sure this is true, but I certainly think it’s plausible. > [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s also “How do you train a whale in the wild what this ship is wanting to do”? Focus on positive reinforcement, consistency, short training sessions, and making it fun for both of you! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/63 "2025-03-19T22:46:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Kling isn’t flawless, but it is pretty good. At work, watching without sound, it looks pretty amazing. ---
**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 20, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/64 "2025-03-20T01:12:40Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > At work, watching without sound, it looks pretty amazing. Kling is pretty cheap, too. On a free account they give you 166 credits a month. It costs 20 credits to create a 5 second video from a still image, 40 credits for 10 seconds. It costs only 5 credits to lipsynch an already made 5 second video, so you could lipsynch 33 clips a month for free. You sign in through Google or Facebook, so if someone happened to have two Gmail addresses and a Facebook account… If you subscribe it is currently $79.20 for a year/$6.60 for a month for the lowest tier and that provides 660 credits per month. So you pay 5 cents to lipsynch a 5 second video. (The bigger the package you buy the less it costs per creation.) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/65 "2025-03-20T04:11:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Kling is pretty cheap, too… Thank you, kind and helpful sir. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/66 "2025-03-20T09:28:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I outpainted the original photo to get a 16:9 aspect ratio and converted it into a video clip with Kling. Out of curiosity, in the initial video clip from still image section, did the transition from the initial solemn/reflective affect into big smile come about because you specifically prompted it or was that the AI’s unmediated output? I ask because there’s something really freaky about the smiley face with the content of the lip-synced dialogue samples. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/67 "2025-03-20T12:00:50Z")
The prompt was something like “Shy girl breaks into smile and winks”. (Instead of a wink at the end, it gave a blink at the beginning.) ---
**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 20, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/68 "2025-03-20T19:34:33Z")
Next up in AI video, Stable Virtual Camera. > **[Stability AI’s new virtual camera turns any image into a cool 3D video and...](https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/stability-ais-new-virtual-camera-turns-any-image-into-a-cool-3d-video-and-im-blown-away-by-how-good-it-is)** > > From 2D images to 3D videos > **[Introducing Stable Virtual Camera: Multi-View Video Generation with 3D Camera...](https://stability.ai/news/introducing-stable-virtual-camera-multi-view-video-generation-with-3d-camera-control)** > > Introducing Stable Virtual Camera, currently in research preview. This multi-view diffusion model transforms 2D images into immersive 3D videos with realistic depth and perspective—without complex reconstruction or scene-specific optimization. ---
**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 20, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/69 "2025-03-20T20:03:11Z")
Don’t trust anything posted by an account called “Reality Shorts”, which should really be “_Un_reality Shorts”! There appears to be at least two similarly-named accounts on Facebook, both posting reels featuring AI-generated garbage edited into real footage. ---
**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 21, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/70 "2025-03-21T06:32:17Z")
Revisiting Luma Dream Machine’s beta AI for generating audio to match video. I had it make audio tracks for all of my previous image-to-video tests there, here is a reel of a few dozen of them. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-y_sSp7FXxI/maxresdefault.jpg "Luma Dream Machine audio test reel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y_sSp7FXxI) It seems like it is using the “feel” of several different languages in creating its gibberish audio, not just English. (I’m assuming it is as much gibberish in all languages as it is in English.) It allows you to describe what kind of audio you want, but I let it decide everything on its own in most of these ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/71 "2025-03-21T17:20:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > But you get your choice of toppings. with or without potassium benzoate? ---
**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 23, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/72 "2025-03-23T02:34:06Z")
The latest fad for fans of AI-generated videos appears to be laughingly bad clips of animals saving random vehicles from certain doom. The majority of replies are along the lines of “God is great!” How bad are these? The first one I saw featured a school bus which changed from a ~25-year-old Freightliner to a modern International. The change was obvious, given that the bus is seen head-on for the majority of the clip and the manufacturer’s logo changes about ten seconds in. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/73 "2025-03-27T17:00:32Z")
We were taken in by one yesterday, at least for about thirty seconds. Mr. brown owned and loved a Karmenn Ghia many years ago. I clicked on a video that said VW was coming out with a new Karmenn Ghia. It was a nice retro-looking vehicle, complete with chrome bumpers just like in the early 60s. It was the bumpers that clued me in. I know that cars had to switch over to a kind of impact-absorbing bumpers in the 70s and the cool chrome ones were extinct. The whole video was one big AI fake, and I’d link to it, but I don’t want the originators to get any more clicks. People in the comments, however, seemed to really believe that there was a new Karmenn Ghia. It’s getting scary. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/74 "2025-03-27T17:10:47Z")
My mom is really in to YouTube now, since we’ve got it set up on her Roku. At first she was pretty much just watching content from channels she subscribed to but of course YouTube is just a big suggestion algorithm, so there’s a ton of recommended videos. We started watching a video about “15 things Costco employees say you should never buy at Costco” and it was clearly an AI video. The voiceover was much better and less robot-y than I’m used to when it comes to automated videos but within a few minutes they showed a package of food and the text was all nonsense, so I knew. Then as the video went on, none of the footage was actually from Costco. But, it actually did seem like good advice on what not to buy from Costco, in the 5 minutes we watched. I’m sure the info was carefully scraped and compiled from other sources. I’m also pretty sure it would have gotten less informative as it went along, like the images got less specific. I talked to my mom about AI videos and why this particular one was AI and what to look out for. Suggested maybe she stick to her subscribed channels. It’s not like this particular video was going to do her any harm, but I feel like if we make the choice to watch them they just get more credence. And eventually she will start getting more AI stuff that truly does her harm. I think our kids and our parents are now being babysat by misinformation robots. We are truly in an Idiocracy. ---
**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 27, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/75 "2025-03-27T17:32:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I think our kids and our parents are now being babysat by misinformation robots. We are truly in an Idiocracy. Well I would say there’s no shame in being taken in by these things. Of course I would say this, as the OP… But the point is, the number of “tells” is going down all the time and soon will be basically nil. So the focus should really be more on what we _do_ with the information we get from a video, rather than depending on spotting artificial videos. If something is surprising to us, or makes us angry at a politician or whatever, do we have the voice that tells us “How can I double-check that this was a real event?” If there was ever a time when “seeing is believing” was always rational, it isn’t now. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/76 "2025-03-27T17:49:00Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Well I would say there’s no shame in being taken in by these things. Of course I would say this, as the OP… Oh absolutely 100% no shame in being taken by it! Or advertising or anything. The science and manipulation tactics behind it all is way more complicated than any average person’s abilities to spot it. The crappy part is that the same technology that’s showing us barnacles and Costco hacks is also being used to manipulate voters and sow hate, and that’s such a bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/77 "2025-03-27T20:24:28Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > If something is surprising Or something that isn’t surprising, that plays on your prejudices. Selected by an algorithm that _knows_ your prejudices. ---
**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 28, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/78 "2025-03-28T00:57:38Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > If there was ever a time when “seeing is believing” was always rational, it isn’t now. The unreliability of photos and video being taken for granted in the future has long been a staple plot point in well-written science fiction. Video v6eing inadmissible in court cases, that type of thing. (In _badly_ written science fiction, the fakery is a suprise, an example being people being impressed by Wesley’s Picard voice sampler in the early ST:TNG episode _The Naked Now_.) This just happens to be one of the few cases where the promised (or warned) SF future actually catches up with the present. ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/79 "2025-03-28T01:11:46Z")
Yep. The first example I thought of was _The Running Man_, where video is used to: 1. Convince the public that Arnie was responsible for the massacre 2. That Arnie lost his fight to Jesse Ventura 3. That previous winners were celebrating on a tropical island, instead of taking a more…permanent rest. What’s interesting of course is that the audience is convinced of the truth with…more video…the notion that the audience might not know _which video to trust_ isn’t considered. (As you can tell by me using the actors’ names, I haven’t read the book…perhaps in the book the video is accompanied by confirming details which wouldn’t work so well on the big screen?) ---
**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 28, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553/80 "2025-03-28T01:21:40Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > As you can tell by me using the actors’ names, I haven’t read the book…perhaps in the book the video is accompanied by confirming details which wouldn’t work so well on the big screen? It has been a very long time since I’ve read the book or seen the movie, but as I recall any similarly between the two was purely accidental. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-got-fooled-by-an-ai-video/1015553.md?page=5)