Enlarge / The actual Will Smith consuming spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. (credit score: Will Smith / Getty Photographs / Benj Edwards)
On Monday, Will Smith posted a video on his official Instagram feed that parodied an AI-generated video of the actor consuming spaghetti that went viral final 12 months. With the current announcement of OpenAI’s Sora video synthesis mannequin, many individuals have famous the dramatic bounce in AI-video high quality over the previous 12 months in comparison with the notorious spaghetti video. Smith’s new video performs on that comparability by displaying the precise actor consuming spaghetti in a comical style and claiming that it’s AI-generated.
Captioned “That is getting out of hand!”, the Instagram video makes use of a cut up display screen structure to indicate the unique AI-generated spaghetti video created by a Reddit consumer named “chaindrop” in March 2023 on the highest, labeled with the subtitle “AI Video 1 12 months in the past.” Under that, in a field titled “AI Video Now,” the actual Smith exhibits 11 video segments of himself truly consuming spaghetti by slurping it up whereas shaking his head, pouring it into his mouth together with his fingers, and even nibbling on a pal’s hair. 2006’s Snap Yo Fingers by Lil Jon performs within the background.
Within the Instagram feedback part, some folks expressed confusion in regards to the new (non-AI) video, saying, “I am nonetheless unsure if second video was additionally made by AI or not.” In a reply, another person wrote, “Boomers are gonna free [sic] this one. Second one is clearly him making a joke however I wouldn’t doubt it in a pair months time it’s going to get like that.”
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