Hot take about that viral 'real human' video from last month

Everyone's sharing that video from the Denver mall where the guy supposedly has a twitch that proves he's human. But I watched it frame by frame on my laptop and his eye movement matches a common AI glitch I saw in a paper 3 years ago. People are so desperate to believe something's real they ignore the obvious tells. Has anyone actually run it through a detection tool or are we all just guessing now?

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anthony7632d ago

Wait @danielm80 is seriously suggesting an AI detector thought his cousin's dog was 84% fake? That's exactly my point - these tools are about as reliable as a fortune teller at a county fair. I ran that Denver mall video through three different detectors and got results ranging from "definitely human" to "92% AI generated," which tells me absolutely nothing. The whole conversation is just people picking teams based on vibes and confirmation bias at this point.

danielm802d ago

Man, that video gave me such a weird feeling when I first saw it. I remember last year I was sitting in a diner in Aurora and this guy at the counter kept doing that same twitch thing, but he was definitely human because he complained about his meatloaf for twenty minutes straight. So I dunno, maybe the real glitch is just people being people. These AI detectors are no better than flipping a coin these days anyway, I tried one on a picture of my cousin's dog and it said 84 percent synthetic.

walker.julia2d ago

The whole AI panic is just bleeding into how we see everything now. Last week my neighbor swore the automated voice on the pharmacy line was a robot, but it was just a tired guy named Steve from New Jersey. We're all walking around with this hypervigilance, seeing glitches in every awkward pause or weird eye movement. It reminds me of when everyone thought they had lyme disease from reading WebMD. Now we're diagnosing people in mall videos with AI instead of just accepting that humans are messy and sometimes twitchy. That detector stuff is just digital tea leaves.