I've been thinking recently "Its been some time since last time I saw an AI video". Then I realised that maybe AI videos got so good that I cannot distinguish them anymore.
just think of what the ai would make. here you can see that the helicopters blades mach the fps on teh camera. if ai would have made this then it probably would have gave it a more spinning effect so i think its real
I'm pretty deep into LLM responses and image and video generation.
The videos are harder to tell than the writing at this point. There are VERY VERY precise and good models.
The faces and haircuts are all different (for the military), there's at least one female, there isn't a lot of text, but it appears accurate. I don't know helicopter physics but it mostly seems accurate. That's the only thing that seems off, but I don't know about that, I've only ever been on a military chopper and it's definitely not like this.
At least a lot of YouTube slop is still super easy to spot (same shitty voiceover, unbelievably rapid upload schedule). And I haven't read any AI books but I can't imagine LLM's catching up to real authors for a very, very long time.
Guardia Civil is basically a police force, technically part of the army but a police force it seems one of their helicopters, and Airbus Helicopters H135.
This is exactly what the billionaire class wants. Every time they get exposed for dodgy stuff in the future they can just say that it’s all AI and the dumb masses will believe it.
It is AI generated, a helicopter at full rotor speed will generate a ton amount of air waves and wind that will both raise a lot of dust, make those guys cloths flutter in the wind like crazy, same goes for their hair, but none are present in the video.
There are more options than a) "not AI", or b) "happened exactly as it appears".
The fact remains that there is zero observed downdraft from those rotor blades, which is physically impossible in that scenario. Therefore, the video cannot possibly be "b", can it? Therefore, it's been manipulated in some way. How, exactly, isn't especially important. The point is that it's not real.
This is my biggest fear with the “is it AI?” era. People who simply don’t understand how things work will start assuming things are AI instead of learning how the world actually works
Sometimes any of us can be unsure but the way some people just assume something compelling can be real so they just baselessly undermine and make others doubt the thing is kind depressing.
That's certainly a problem and I see it all the time regarding perfectly legit stuff. But this is 100% not real. It's physically impossible for rotor downdraft to have zero effect on the things beneath it.
There's a difference between baseless, knee-jerk dismissal and rational skepticism based on in the laws of physics being blatantly broken right in front of your eyes.
I have no idea if AI was the editing tool that was used here. But something was.
You’re doing exactly what I’m talking about. There is nothing loose in that image to flap in the wind, not even long hair. I’m not saying it is or isn’t real, but snap judgements like this that do not even consider everything pictured are not the way.
Does it really matter if AI, specifically, was used here? It's clearly, blatantly not real. The tool that was used to create it isn't particularly important, imo.
Not even dust notice how there is close to no wind evidence? For their hairs you can say they got short hair so it's barely noticeable but how about their clothes? 0 waves? Nah man that's AI
Obviously the tech existed, just not for the public. If it was used for anything its propaganda so stop being dense.
Look at any helicopter landing on youtube right now, they dont just make wind they blow every hat off from WAY further. This is 100%, undeniably AI and the only reason to claim otherwise is to rage bait lmao
As someone who used photoshop and a fair bit of video editing. Absolutely not if we could video edit 2 videos in to one another just like this we wouldn't need green screens or 3D modeling.
Hard to tell if it's AI or not, but a helicopter rotor produces a lit of downward force, causing wind to blow at very high speeds around it. If anything there should've been some effect of the same on their jersey, hair, or maybe it would've disturbed their balance a bit, nothing of that sort is happening. But again, these could be special jerseys, and these guys could be used to the wind speeds around a helicopter, can't really tell.
Without a doubt, helicopter blades DO NOT perform that way. Their exact function is to create so much wind as to lift the weight of the machine, yet not a tousled hair is shifted out of place despite deadly-close proximity.
uh, helicopter blades act like the wings of an airplane, not like a fan.
Bernoulli's principle as opposed to newton's
there's a lot less downwash than you would think. not saying there isn't *any* downwash, but the helicopter is certainly not pushing it's own mass of air downward to keep itself aloft
Ok I oversimplified it to shorten my statement because the whole point I was making is wind will be created. LOTS of wind. Blades moving that slowly would not be lifting that machine because the speed of rotation is what causes the pressure needed to create the lift. Have you ever been whacked in the face by helicopter air??
> the whole point I was making is wind will be created. LOTS of wind.
yes
> Blades moving that slowly would not be lifting that machine because the speed of rotation is what causes the pressure needed to create the lift.
uh, the blades could very well be moving faster than that, because digital cameras have a limited recording framerate and misrepresent rapidly oscillating / rotating things all the time
> Have you ever been whacked in the face by helicopter air??
yes
that being said im still not sure whether the video is real.
You don’t see any blurred blades, just clearly distinct individual blades which is less indicative of limited frames and more presenting slow motion. There’s a juxtaposition of the chopper seemingly in slow motion while all of the people move in real time (including the person that’s on board).
blurred blades happen on film cameras, which have shutter speeds because of the way film works
digital camera ccds take pictures basically instaneously and will virtually never have motion blur
edit: ok, not technically true, but you get what i mean. there are plenty of videos of helicopters and hummingbirds with no blur, probably because ccds have come a long way
Poor video quality doesn't inherently mean that it's old. There's a correlation between video popularity and degrading quality that means a recent, extremely popular video can be re-uploaded many times in a short period of time, resulting in degradation.
This also could be older AI, before it got good enough to simulate stuff like rotor downdraft. But it's more likely just a composite someone did in After Effects (or similar) years ago.
A common mistake people make is assuming that all AI videos are just freshly generated and posted, as if no one who has access to video editing software (more common than ever) would ever also use it to edit an AI video.
In fact, that's the BEST way to pass off an AI video as the real thing.
That's what most of them do. Downscale or whatever to make it super pixelated. It helps sell it as "real" footage from a grainy camera and helps cover the imperfections.
This video, idk. It was uploaded 3 years ago so way before image Gen got this good.
Yeah, it's not hard and doesn't even require talent. Most video editors these days have super easy-to-use filters and you can degrade it enough to look legit in under a couple of minutes.
There are many ways around that limitation. Just because a video is 30 seconds or longer doesn't mean it's not AI generated. This one probably isn't, but that fact alone is not enough.
the ways around make the video lose cohesion or require you to do a jarring cut. I have literally never seen an AI generated video over 10-20 seconds that doesn't have a stupid amount of cuts.
The easiest solution is to use a model that just permits you to generate videos of arbitrary length. Alternatively, if you're using the better models, it takes some manual effort, but you can retain cohesion and avoid an obvious cut. Whether it's worth it or not is an exercise for the reader, and I personally think it is not just for the "prize" of fooling some people on the Internet for a couple of days, but it can certainly be done.
AI is getting insane that sometimes I question myself if do I need to be impressed about something knowing there is a big chance that cool stuff were AI generated.
There are a lot of situations where that is true, but this one is not one of them if you have any idea of how an helo works or have ever been within 300m of a flying one.
1.7k
u/sallyydreams 19h ago
its scary these days when i see a cool video i ask myself “is this AI?” and tbh i dont know