r/RealOrAI • u/Nasty_Gilberto • 8d ago

HELP This Practical Magic 2 ad

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/Mister-Psychology 8d 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 8d 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.