A video of what appears to be a cryptid, eight-foot-long centipede-like creature crawling across a muddy road has gone viral on social media, with people claiming it's rare footage of the creature. This article examines the claim.
Claim: Rare footage of an 8ft long centipede-like creature.
fact: The video was generated using Runway's AI video generation tool, Gen-3 Alpha, and is not actual footage of the creature. error.
To verify the veracity of the claims in this viral video, we performed a reverse image search on some keyframes from the video. This search uncovered an “X” post by user @IXITimmyIXI, which is a higher quality version than the viral video.
In the comments section of this post, Timmy responded to a user who asked if the video was AI-generated, saying that it was. He said that the video was generated using Runway's Gen-3 Alpha tool. In his profile, Timmy states that he is a Community Manager for Runway.
Videos generated using this tool have a watermark in the bottom right corner, which can be seen in Timmy's videos (here and here) and in videos generated by other users (here and here).
In short, the video of this so-called unusual centipede-like creature was generated by AI.
