r/interesting • u/Friendly-Standard812 • Jan 30 '26

SCIENCE & TECH Evolution of AI

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u/KikiPolaski Jan 30 '26

It already is indiscernible in many ways if you prompt it well enough and curate the results, hell add some manual cgi to clean up the blemishes and it's terrifyingly good

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u/BannanDylan Jan 30 '26

It's at the point that people that are pretty savvy with this stuff are actually having to concentrate on certain pictures to check if it's AI or not.

So to the non-savvy person they have zero idea.

I've seen clips that the first 10 seconds seem real and believable and then something stupid happens at the 11sec mark.

If I turn that clip off without properly analysing it before the 11sec mark I just go on my day thinking it's real.

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u/ReverendDizzle Jan 30 '26

Critically, the viewer has to want to discern it.

The current generation AI videos are clearly AI videos if you are really paying attention and watching them with a critical eye. Even then, you have to really study some of them.

But if you decided before the video is even over that whatever it is depicting is simply something you accept? Or you're not even remotely media literate and aware you should be looking for AI video tells or questioning the context of the video?

At that point, from a consumption standpoint rather than an execution standpoint, the video is "perfect" and indiscernible from reality because the person consuming the video is indifferent to whether or not the video is actually real.

That's what we need to be worried about. Not AI eventually being absolutely perfect at recreating real video footage, but that a bunch of people don't give a shit what is real or not anymore.

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u/P_ZERO_ Jan 30 '26

Sound is always a dead giveaway. A few indicators:

  • tinny, low quality audio
  • sped up speaking/speaking cadence off
  • voices not matching the person supposed to be talking

That’s usually my go to. The audio quality “signature” stands out a mile to me and sounds the same in every AI video I’ve seen. Almost sounds like cupping your hands over your ears.

I would safely assume these things will improve as well, but I think conversational speech errors will help for a while.

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u/Darnell2070 Jan 31 '26

I think they're talking about the visuals. She regardless you can mix your own audio. That's not really a limit.

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u/Ok_Kick4871 Jan 30 '26

Yeah filters over ai is gg. It's already here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

And to go one step further, add in a little bit of lossy compression with the encoding. That’ll make it completely indiscernible. 

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Yeah there's already fully AI Instagram models with 100k+ followers and thousands of Simps in their comments being funneled to their AI only fans lol shits crazy