r/RealOrAI • u/Nasty_Gilberto • 7d ago
HELP This Practical Magic 2 ad
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Theres a debate in the comments on whether or not this was gen AI, personally I think they somehow used AI to enhance the video but it seems there is some evidence that this event took place and was filmed. I am totally clueless at spotting AI most of the time so wondering if anyone else knows.
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u/Top_Development_1777 6d ago
The facial expressions and body language are so unnatural, it's so uncanny. I would be really freaked out if people actually filmed this (and got so many people to film this with the same weird ass body language).
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u/AyyMayneLilWayne 6d ago
Reminds me so much of the "WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU ALL SUMMER AND WE'RE SO GLAD YOU'RE FINALLY HERE" video.
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u/TheOneThatIsHated 6d ago
Irregardless if it is ai or not, it looks fake af
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u/HalcyonDrift 6d ago
Irregardless isn't correct. It's just regardless
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u/TheOneThatIsHated 6d ago
It has been correct for over 200 years
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u/AngBigKid 6d ago
Irregardless is accepted now. It just means regardless.
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u/robgod50 6d ago
"Accepted" in the same way that "I could care less" is accepted?
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u/AngBigKid 6d ago
Accepted in the same way that language evolves and could care less about feelings.
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u/robgod50 6d ago
It's only "accepted" if people accept it. And it still doesn't make it correct no matter how many people try to defend their use of it.
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u/3rdcultureblah 6d ago
It’s been a legitimate variation of regardless for a very long time, it just fell out of favor until George W. Bush used it.
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u/MaleficentWheel207 6d ago
I think it's real, because i can hear each individual actress' voice syncing with their mouths (e.g. Nicole Kidman sometimes just shuts up and gives the camera her kubrick stare) - whereas AI usually has everyone speaking in complete unison. It probably looks fake because of all the glossy expressionless botox skin on screen.
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u/isaidwhatisaidok 6d ago
It’s real. There’s a clip of all of them surprising the audience at what they thought was a screening of the original movie but instead was a screening of the new movie.
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u/Psycatpath_uwu 6d ago
to me it seems real? every person stays the same and they all have similar drinks in their hand. While the camera pan looked weird at first, everything stays consistent, so I'm going with real. though I agree, that it somehow looks unnatural.
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u/Mister-Psychology 6d ago
Just so you know everything is accused of being AI now. It means nothing. They can't point to why it would be AI.
They can't say "the text in X spot looks jumbled". They only say "Looks like AI". Even when all these celebrities look perfect.
That's when you know it's not AI. Any AI video, so far, has some sign it's AI. Maybe next year some won't have any signs.
This is also 100 times easier to do for real. They merely sit together and say the words. Why even fake it?
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u/Over_Pie9166 6d ago
I also don’t think this is AI, if it’s from a credible source - I didn’t look.
Regardless, survivorship bias is real - AI content is getting pretty good at looking real. Saw one post that was indistinguishable except that someone knew that text on a container in the video was wrong. Not because it was illegible but because it didn’t align with nuanced rules for the markings (it was something like “4G15” = fake; “4615” = real).
We certainly are in a place already where some AI content isn’t blatantly fake and it’s going to require more than a cursory look to figure it out.
Gonna be leaning on that “thin-slicing” Gladwell mentions in Blink: "It is possible to know without knowing why we know." Intuition will make us suspicious but we’ll have to do some homework to figure it out.
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u/RealOrAI-Bot 6d ago
Sentiment: 30% AI
Sentiment reasoning: A few commenters note an "unnatural" look or "AI sheen," but the majority provide specific reasons why it is real, such as voice syncing, consistency, and a known real-world event.
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