Will Smith parodies his AI viral video and it’s spectacular

Will Smith laughs heartily at artificial intelligence. “This is getting out of control!” the actor and singer wrote on Instagram along with a video of himself stuffing himself with spaghetti. But unlike a viral video that went viral last year, the new material was not created using artificial intelligence. This is a parody made by the artist himself that will make you laugh.

OpenAI introduced last week Sora, your new solution for creating videos from text instructions. The jump in quality compared to other similar tools is impressive – here is an example of the best results. And one way to demonstrate this, which many users have found on social networks, is to recall the now famous short film where a fake Will Smith appears with a deformed face, eating spaghetti.

The real Will Smith laughs heartily in his skit. It repeats not one, but 11 versions created using artificial intelligence.

and which began to spread in March 2023. The artist sometimes shows two paintings so that you can see both what happened in real life and the reconstruction using artificial intelligence. Plays in the background for added enjoyment Snap your fingersrapper Lil Jon.

He even pretends to eat his friend’s hair! After this scene, Will Smith burst out laughing. The post has already received more than half a million likes in less than 24 hours. Some comments note the joke. Others—half jokingly, half seriously—wonder whether this is actually an AI-enhanced version of a year-old video. “It took me a minute to realize the second video was real.”– says one of more than 5 thousand comments.

Will Smith joke about scary reality

The original video of Will Smith, created using artificial intelligence, was published by a Reddit user called “chaindrop”. From the subreddit r/StableDiffusion, the material spread across the Internet in March 2023, he said. ARS Technique.

This clip was created using the open source tool ModelScope.. This text-to-video distribution model was launched a year ago by DAMO Vision Intelligence Lab, the research arm of Alibaba. The system was trained on millions of images and thousands of videos collected from the LAION5B, ImageNet and Wrbvid datasets.

The ModelScope video is laughable compared to what OpenAI’s Sora can now do. But just under a year has passed between both releases, and the progress is terrible. In one example shown by OpenAI, the startup that also created ChatGPT, a close-up of a man with a beard can be seen. It would be almost impossible to admit that he is not a real person. Sometimes the video even imitates skin texture.

OpenAI has no plans to release the product to the general public yet. As the technology company explained, they are going to test it in a closed group. “to assess critical areas for damage or risks”. It will also provide privileged access to certain artists, designers and filmmakers to evaluate possible improvements.

However, the debate about the dangers has been going on for some time. Beyond the Will Smith parody, potential abuses are keeping the industry and authorities on guard. This year, for example, more than 50 countries around the world are holding elections. Many governments and organizations fear that artificial intelligence will be used for disinformation campaigns that will jeopardize this election.

The risk is such that major technology and social media platforms signed an agreement last week. They considered working together to stop artificial intelligence-generated false content during elections. Among the members of this alliance OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Meta.

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