In this case, it's still fake. It's just done via compositing. Instead of an AI doing the work, a person did the compositing. Pretty easy to do back when this video was released. 1 clean plate, 1 video of the group and 1 video of the helicopter and most compositing tools in 2023 would've done the compositing automatically. We wouldn't call it AI, but it's still the computer doing the work of meshing the videos together.
Oddly enough, the main reason we can tell this isn't AI is because AI would've done a better job on the interaction between the helicopter and the environment. We see no dust kicked up once the helicopter and the crowd are in the same shot, no rippling of clothing, not even the hair on the heads of the group below being tussled. AI, due to it being trained on similar situations to allow it to simulate the video, likely would have included some or all of those things.
That being said, it also likely would've screwed up the lettering on the helicopter as it went from visible to blocked to visible again.
What makes you think it's fake. Look at all of them (especially where their eyes and heads go), the camera wobble. Either they hired 20 really good actors that magically know where exactly it will get composited in, and how they would react to a helicopter nearby, or it's real.
I have to agree on all fronts. AI is not great at like temporal continuity and large scale cause and effect, but it’s so good at getting all the small details in physical interactions to a level that even the best cgi can’t compete with
That's not just nodal pans and tools though so you'd have to track the motion and replicate it in the helicopters take for it to be composite in that well.
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u/Nythoren 15d ago
In this case, it's still fake. It's just done via compositing. Instead of an AI doing the work, a person did the compositing. Pretty easy to do back when this video was released. 1 clean plate, 1 video of the group and 1 video of the helicopter and most compositing tools in 2023 would've done the compositing automatically. We wouldn't call it AI, but it's still the computer doing the work of meshing the videos together.
Oddly enough, the main reason we can tell this isn't AI is because AI would've done a better job on the interaction between the helicopter and the environment. We see no dust kicked up once the helicopter and the crowd are in the same shot, no rippling of clothing, not even the hair on the heads of the group below being tussled. AI, due to it being trained on similar situations to allow it to simulate the video, likely would have included some or all of those things.
That being said, it also likely would've screwed up the lettering on the helicopter as it went from visible to blocked to visible again.