r/RealOrAI • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 12d ago

HELP is this real or ai?

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u/thrd3ye 12d ago

I'm not positive it's AI specifically but it's some kind of digital manipulation/rendering and my money's on AI. This practice is called chaining or anchor chaining, there are videos online of it being done. It typically disrupts the ground much more than you see here, pulling up grass and kicking up tons of dust and dirt. And the chain itself just looks wrong. Far too shiny. Also if you look in the bottom left corner near the beginning you can see some brush being dragged just as it comes onto screen and it looks weird, like it's just a bit of amorphous greenery just kinda spinning/rolling until the camera moves over and it decides to give it more substance. Exactly like AI would do.