The popular YouTuber known as CR1Tikal demonstrated the horrifying power of AI videos this week after tricking regular viewers.
Real name: Charles Christopher White Jr., CR1Tikal is one of the most popular YouTubers on the platform. He uploads daily and is known for his deadpan comedy streaming, where he talks about games, politics and a wide range of subjects.
However, on Sunday he uploaded a tech-centric video titled “We Are Fully Cooked.” He starts by saying, “Now I've seen some stupid s*** in my time…but this takes a terrible cake.” Or did he do it?
About two minutes after the video, CR1Tikal reveals that the deployment was actually generated by AI. “How many people have noticed that the first 15 seconds of this video you're watching is being generated by AI,” he says at the moment of microphone drop.
Cr1Tikal explains that the intro was generated by Reddit users in AI, including scripts, visuals, and audio. He takes out the watermark and zooms in, noting that viewers were unable to see the hand, the original video's giveaway. The AI model still seems to be struggling to get its hands right.
“If you're paying enough attention, you can see that when my mouth moves, it looks a little creepy,” he adds. “But maybe they won't come here with a magnifying glass trying to investigate everything they're seeing.”
It appears that many people were fooled by AI-generated intros, and despite tuning every day on his channel, normal fans were unable to communicate.
Cr1Tikal says that someone made a similar clip for a similar AI just eight months ago, but it was awful. This is how fast things are moving in the AI video space. “It'll get better until we get closer to being indistinguishable,” he adds.
AI content is becoming more popular
Not only is AI videos really good at impersonating real life, they're also becoming more popular in their own right as a medium. You may have noticed a new style of video on social media.
The mysterious video called AI Slops appeared to come primarily from China and was called “pet dramas.” South China Morning Post. These videos are titled “Lovely Baby Met a Plane Crash, Poor Pug Rescued him,” and have earned a crazy amount of views and have received 427 million views at the time of writing.
Last year, the AI video for the polar bear “rescue” went very viral one weekend, and many thought it was real.
