Actual TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention

Given that Google released its Veo 3 AI design last week, social media sites customers have actually been having fun with its capacity to quickly create very realistic eight-second clips total with sound and lip-synced discussion. TikTok’s formula has actually been serving me lots of Veo-generated videos including difficult challenges , fake news reports , and also surreal brief narrative films , to name simply a few popular archetypes.

However, among all the AI-generated video experiments spreading out about, I’ve additionally noticed an unusual counter-trend on my TikTok feed. In the middle of all the videos of Veo-generated characters acting to be genuine people, there are currently likewise a number of video clips of actual people claiming to be Veo-generated avatars.

“This has to be real. There’s no way it’s AI.”

I located this trend when the TikTok formula fed me this video topped with the extra-large subtitle “Google VEO 3 THIS IS 100 % AI.” As I viewed and paid attention to the supposed AI-generated band that seemed playing in the jampacked edge of somebody’s living-room, I check out the inscription consisting of the supposed trigger that had actually produced the clip: “a band of bros with beards playing rock-and-roll in 6/ 8 with an accordion.”

@kongosmusic We are so cooked. This took 3 mins to produce. Simple punctual: “a band of brothers playing rock-and-roll in 6/ 8 with an accordion” ♬ initial audio – KONGOS

After a couple of seconds of taking those inscriptions at face value, something started to really feel a little off. After a couple of more seconds, I finally observed the video clip was uploaded by Kongos, an indie band that you may acknowledge from their minor 2012 struck “Feature Me Currently.” And after a little excavating, I found the band in the video was in fact simply Kongos, and the song was a 9 -year-old track that the band had actually dressed up as an AI production to get focus.

Here’s the unfortunate thing: It worked! Without the “Look what Veo 3 did!” hook, I could have promptly scrolled by this video prior to I took the time to pay attention to the (pretty good!) track. The unique AI angle made me stop just enough time to take note of a Kongos track for the very first time in over a decade.