Have you perhaps seen an ultra-realistic video of Will Smith devouring spaghetti, demonstrating the progress of AI? Don’t panic, it’s a joke (for now anyway), with a video that was posted by the actor himself.
A few days ago, OpenAI unveiled its brand new generative AI: Sora. The latter is capable of transforming a textual request into an ultra-realistic video, with examples already abounding on the networks. From a simple sentence, Sora is able to generate 60 seconds of video, which already raises serious concerns about its potential for misinformation.
When Will Smith makes fun of AI
Still, generative AI has not always been as striking as it is today. Last year, a viral video, generated via Midjourney, showed Will Smith devouring spaghetti. The whole thing was full of flaws, but nonetheless impressive at the time, and now shows how far AI has evolved in just a few months.
So much so that in recent days, there has been another viral video which allows us to once again discover the same Will Smith devouring spaghetti, but with an absolutely astonishing degree of realism. A sacred “ slap » technical one could say… except that it is a joke, signed Will Smith.
Is fiction soon (already?) inseparable from reality?
Indeed, it is on his Instagram account that the American actor published this comparative video, allowing you to observe at the top the video dating from last year, and at the bottom a video described as “ AI today “.
We find the real Will Smith through various video sequences, in which he devours spaghetti while reproducing certain head movements, to parody the 2023 video. In the comments, a lot of confusion, some still wondering about the visualizing, or not, the real Will Smith in the video.
For others : ” The second video is clearly a joke, but I have no doubt that in a few months it will be the same “. And it’s very likely. Many Internet users also had fun pointing out that it was an updated version of the 2023 video.
Remember that OpenAI has not, for the moment, made its new Sora tool publicly accessible. For the moment, the company is putting the model to the test to assess its potential for misuse, because for many Internet users, it is/will be increasingly complicated to differentiate reality from fiction.
The emergence of artificial intelligence as a mainstream tool has opened up numerous possibilities for all content producers. Text, image, sound… This new fashionable technology can now provide assistance in many areas, and facilitate work in the most difficult stages of creation. And with an ever-increasing offering, it is important to distinguish which tools provide real added value. So you don’t waste hours trying everything the Google results pages offer!
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Source : ArsTechnica
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