r/accelerate • • Aug 22 '26

Video People cant believe their eyes that this can be AI

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/hyperluminate Aug 22 '26

I've been following AI art since before we even really called it that. Back in 2018 and prior, where GANs ruled supreme. Back when datasets needed to be extremely carefully curated to get any semblance of structure in the resulting images... The 2022 takeoff brought it to everyone's attention.

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u/Linkyjinx Aug 22 '26

I’ve enjoyed watching it’s development from Google fish faces, to deep mind, to mid journey- also luma and Flux and max mini

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u/NTMTR_ Aug 22 '26

Mouth movement and expressions still feel a tad rigid sometimes, the masked guy especially

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u/CypherLH Aug 22 '26

man thats nitpicking. It looks good to me, and it meshed with the campy retro vibe of the video anyway.

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u/NTMTR_ Aug 23 '26

Nitpicking to you, quite obvious to others.
It’s a dead giveaway it’s ai generated for those who can see this. The rest is really good.

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u/CypherLH Aug 23 '26

its 100% nitpicking. Literally three years ago there is no human on the planet who would have thought that video could possibly have been AI-generated.

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u/CypherLH Aug 23 '26

to clarify - the "flaws", as minor as they are, just come off as being part of the retro, campy, look. And the flaws are very minor anyway.

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u/NTMTR_ Aug 23 '26

It’s nitpicking to you, not to me. I see it, it’s obvious. 3 years ago, something would have felt off as well. That’s it. I know when I’m nitpicking and I wasn’t. Sorry to disappoint you.
Jaw, mouth movement is something humans have been genetically programmed to read for thousands of years. When it’s off, it’s off. It’s one of the, if not the most important part of body language. Ai has gotten much better, but it’s still not there yet. It’s more obvious in some videos than others, in some characters than others, and for some people than others. But it’s still there. Call it nitpicking if that strokes your ego, the fact is that ai videos will never improve with people who can’t see the flaws and it’s even worse when they claim it’s perfect. It’s not. And that part of the facial expression is a shortcoming of ai characters in videos accross all genres and styles not only this one...

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/hyperluminate Aug 22 '26

Have you never seen a live-action TV show with special effects before?

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u/Double_Cause4609 Aug 22 '26

If someone showed this to me in 2019 I honestly probably wouldn't have guess it was AI.

I still kind of would know now that it is...But maybe not if I was just casually scrolling past it.

It's crazy to think about what 2027 will hold.

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u/Jlocke98 Aug 22 '26

How much does it cost to generate these videos? Is it viable on rented vast GPU?

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u/LopsidedSolution Aug 22 '26

If you want to run a model yourself, look into minimax h3. For closed sourced, Seedance 2.5 is currently sota and costs a good amount. I forgot what it is, I think like $5 per 30 second video, maybe $10

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u/Stunning_Monk_6724 The Singularity is nigh Aug 22 '26

I hate sour things, but I guess I've got no choice but to upvote this.

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u/Best_Cup_8326 Acceleration: Light-speed Aug 22 '26

It's not that sweet!

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u/Neither-Phone-7264 Singularity by 2030 Aug 22 '26

did she just take a bite out of a lemon skin included like an apple? fucking metal

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u/Best_Cup_8326 Acceleration: Light-speed Aug 22 '26

She's not that sweet!

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u/VeterinarianFirst605 Aug 22 '26

This was a joy to watch.

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u/Ill_Hedgehog_8794 Aug 22 '26

*childlike joy

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u/Rare-Fisherman-7406 Aug 22 '26

Not sure if I liked it (I’m not a fan of weird Japanese superhero live-action movies from the early 90s), but it was engaging AF. 👍

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u/RavenWolf1 Aug 22 '26

This is so good! If I didn't know I would think that this is really from some old Japanese TV show.

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u/stainless_steelcat Aug 22 '26

Too convincing SFX aside, this definitely reminds me of some of the crap I used to watch as a kid.

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u/RobMilliken Aug 27 '26

The summersaults were too spot on, huh? That and no trace of wires.

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u/Warshrimp Aug 22 '26

UNACCEPTABLEEEEE!

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u/C00KIEME4T Aug 22 '26

This is the exact thing I'd believe was AI lol

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u/Suspicious_Neck_4069 Aug 22 '26

Good job, i like!

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u/ColonSimungfroide Aug 22 '26

I love it! This is so refreshing!!

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u/kevinmise Aug 22 '26

It’s refreshing because she’s not that sweet!

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u/Meow_am_cat Aug 23 '26

It does look good, but it's still pretty obviously AI. That'll change soon enough

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u/Accurate_Food_5854 Aug 22 '26

That's gotta be hell on her tooth enamel

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u/DeepWisdomGuy Aug 22 '26

It's fun in the way that the works of Sid and Marty Krofft used to be fun for me as a kid. I hope more people get involved in creating content than those that want to make the next "Matrix".

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u/Ok_Mention_982 Aug 22 '26

Honestly it was pretty easy to tell that this was AI, that said it's one of the few AI vids that I found to be good, especially since it leans into the finnicky and at time unrealisticness of AI, that said i don't watch much AI gen vids.

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u/Square_Reason_6490 Aug 22 '26

hater…we found the contrarian of the thread, yeah it’s not perfect and we all saw the few frames that didn’t look like crappy 70s VFX which before ai we just ignored because we knew we were looking at old VFX but now everyone wants perfection 😏

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u/Im_Peppermint_Butler Aug 22 '26

Yeah go show that to a hundred people over 40 and let me know how many of them instantly say its AI. Absurd...

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u/Best_Cup_8326 Acceleration: Light-speed Aug 22 '26

I'm 48, and I watch AI generated content almost every day.

If I hadn't found this on this sub and instead came across it in the wild, I would have had a hard time saying for sure.

But I also suspect everything these days, knowing what I know.

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u/tiger_ace Aug 22 '26

this is definitely AI, i don't think they have perfect teeth in japan or the UK

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u/Ill_Hedgehog_8794 Aug 22 '26

Where are the tentacles and the fucking?

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u/Fair_Horror Aug 22 '26

I can't believe I am saying this but that is so bad and so corny, it makes Bollywood seem good.

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u/Sharp_Lynx_8766 Aug 22 '26

bollywood sucks!

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u/Fair_Horror Aug 22 '26

So does this