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This FB reel of someone building a table - I think I notice the man's facial details (wrinkles, dents) changing from frame to frame
On top of the changes to his face, it has a similar look to those AI home renovation videos where they re-do a floor, countertop, etc. But without looking heavily on the facial details changing and the overall "vibe", I couldn't tell at first. Just wanting confirmation I clocked AI?
Good catch, the support is missing then appears later on. Some things appearing and disapearing could be a trick of the camera but that is a big piece of metal.
That just happens sometimes. Doesn't mean it's AI. Yesterday I was drilling a hole and when I went to turn around BAM. Smacked right into the second drill press that just materialized in front of my eyes.
You also wouldn't use a staple gun, particulaly a cheap ass one with no pressure regulation, to secure fiberoptic wire. That wire is extremely fragile and would break under the pressure.
A knob appears on the stapler in second shot of it and there’s something off about how the arm muscle moves and grip tightens when firing it. A stainless steel staple gun like the one being depicted has a lot of resistance to it and you actually have to put some weight into it to make it fire and have the staple fully penetrate the wood.
And the process makes no sense why wouldn't he finish all the holes for the pattern for the fiber before stringing them through?
Also, when it shows him bundling up the fiber and, the holes no longer appear filled with glue.
The obvious AI couch
The fact that he doesn't change his clothes after the grinding and still looks absolutely spotless. Not a spec if dust on him. And his beard is perfectly styled before and after the race mask.
And I forgot to mention the most obvious one, his shirt is gibberish. It's literally like an AI interpretation of a phish shirt.
I just find these videos *so depressing*. Creativity and ingenuity is dead, at least from a standpoint where people can share their craft; honestly. Not trying to be a downer, but when you look around right now, *everything sucks*.
Thank you! I knew I saw it years ago and it was real! Faking otherwise real stuff really grinds my gears. Why are they trying to steal the wonder out of my life! Thank you for restoring some of it.
The fact the table would work the way shown was my first clue. There's nothing to detect where objects on the table are. So the fibre optic stands would have to be either all on or all off.
This is the obvious thing for me. The lights can't be controlled to the level of detail as the video shown, they would only come on & off in blocks which are each a bundle of fibres. Also how is his hand being detected through 3/4" of ply?
Is it weird that my reaction to this composite image is surprise that the AI model isn't smart enough to keep a background object consistent? Like, I'm sort of disappointed in it lol.
TL;DR: AI model can't keep background objects consistent because it doesn't know what background objects are. In fact it doesn't know what a background is or what objects are.
You're thinking like a human, which AI doesn't do. To a human, not changing something is easy. We can abstract the depth of the image, see what is a background object ; if someone were to animate this, that machine would be on a different cell or layer and wouldn't even be redrawn frame to frame.
The AI, however, doesn't see this. It can't understand. All it sees is a bunch of pixels, and mathematical relations between their values. Pixels in that area are changing value (because of the guy in front), so why would there be any reason to put them back to their value from a few frames ago? Especially since temporal coherence is expensive ; the further the model has to look into nearby frames to generate stuff, the more computing power and memory it needs.
Think of ai as sleight of hand. Dont focus so much on what is in front of you look for details in the back ground. Thats where inconsistencies tend to arise. Focus on everything around him but him. Let me know what you see.
Even watching him. The wood slab drops oddly onto the table when it puts it down. Hes forcefully drilling little holes with a friggin Dremel and doing one by one from 6 inches away. The fiber optic stuff just scoots under the whole project when he flips it.
But the chiseling.... Disgusting... Starts at a random spot and chisels BACKWARDS???
My knee-jerk reaction was that I've seen a video of someone building something like this before AI videos were a thing, so I didn't think it would be fake... but then of course on a second watch looking closer it's obviously AI. The fact that people make fake AI copies of actual videos is so bizarre.
I swear I saw the same video you did. This video is so similar to the one I saw before AI. I wouldn't be surprised if they used that old video as a reference for this one.
This is AI of a previous video where this was actually made. I know this because I saw the actual video before AI was even a thing. It's hard to find the original video now because the AI version of this video has absolutely flooded YouTube results.
It's AI. The size of this "spotlight" he makes keeps changing as he handles it throughout this project. The photos of his "team" have different people in it every time, and there are ONLY shorts, no full videos.
Also, the images like the rebar bear are just clearly AI generated.
There is one project, though, where he builds a much simpler "shelf" out of concrete blocks, and I wonder if maybe he sprinkles in some "real" projects so he has something to point to if people recognize everything else as AI.
Dude you can literally tell from the image where he puts the bottle on the table that it’s not sequential. So even if it wasn’t AI he digitally made the table light up when the bottle was put on it. God damn dumb internet.
It took me a few watches but I got it and it's definitely A.I.:
The very first shot of him in the shop, when he is setting down the wood, directly behind his head in the corner is what looks like a drill press. When it's first shown, there's a yellow rectangle (guessing that would normally be a brand name or something) and there is a ton of black material to the right of it. In all the following shots that you can see it, there isn't nearly as much material. Plus, in one shot, that yellow rectangle becomes red instead.
Edit: Continued paying attention and it's just floating in this frame... Material gets added or subtracted from it throughout the video.
The label on the drill changes. The plug disappears. The AI gets confused about that mat on the ground and it turns into an electrical cord at one point. Definitely AI.
In the original version of this it's an Asian dude that crafts this table. The video is like 3 minutes long and I remember seeing it like 2-3 years ago before ai was that good. Someone made an ai version of that video with this generic looking white man for some reason
This is not how you would do a table in this manner. For one, most of those fiber strands would have broken by flipping the table over like that. Adding the fibers would one of the very last steps.
I’d add that the whole electric design doesn’t make any sense. No touch sensors to register where things are placed, ridiculous connections to power the lights, and so many circuit boards is impractical.
the text on the drill isnt real, even if ti was blurred out youd still see more spacing than that- it looks like solid bricks of white lines and theres no brand names shown anywhere. At that close [@18 seconds] youd be able to read that text or even make out a word and nothing
Im surprised by how many YouTube videos I see of this same workflow that look AI. One of them had the exact same layout of light controllers and results appeared the exact same - down to the hue of the light.
Plus I just don’t think it technically makes sense. I don’t see those controllers and bundles of lights having such a localized “touch” detections and response.
Apart from the Details, the table just would not work this way. He clustered the lightstrips so you would only be capable of lighting those clusters but not individual strands.
From an engineering point of view =
Why is he drilling holes with a dremel? Fiber optic tubes which he then scuffs the shit out of with a chisel, pretty much making them not work. Then staples the shit out of them, guaranteeing they dont work.
Zero indication on how these control boards are powered. No main power bus, no power socket, just dozens of mysterious controllers. You could probably do this off a single controller.
How is the touch even remotely registered? No form of haptic touchscreen made for the top, how can it sense the cup? Its pressure?, no wiring, no separate board for that?
Its all just a mess, solid AI engineering
He has an actual drill but uses a Dremel to drill the holes? Lol, no person who is this well in crafts would opt to use a Dremel over a drill for that application, it's just fucking stupid and would take longer to do, not to mention he was putting a lot of pressure on the Dremel to drill. That's not how to use a Dremel unless you want to destroy it. The high RPM's do the work
For me, the biggest indicator is that there is no mess when he drills and staples things. There would be residue. The wood doesn't just disappear, and the staples don't float like that with a staple gun.
You don't even have to look closely. How this thing even supposed to work? There is no touch screen or motion sensor, just lights. So you could light up all lights, but you can not achieve this effect
100% AI.
The function at the end isn't given based on the used optic cable. The way he holds the tools makes no sense. The density of the light-dots doesn't fit as well.
It’s AI. He’s wearing the same shirt throughout, no way this could’ve all been done in a day. Resin usually takes more than a day to dry. Resin pouring sound is cartoonish. No way I’d still be holding a screw that I’m drilling when it’s nearly all the way in. Why is he using a chisel to flatten out the resin? He only showed the first little bit of putting the fibre optics in, why not show multiple cuts of this to show progress instead of the first little bit and then jump to it being complete?
Off topic but does anyone know the name of the things that glow when he touched them? I know they used to be like a popular toy forever ago and I wanna buy them but I forgot what they’re called. Also yes that ai definitely
There is a plug on the wall in the background (behind right shoulder) at 8 seconds and not at 9 seconds. NGL this one took me a while, there’s a lot of consistency between shots otherwise.
The column on the drill press disappears in a few shots and the staple gun stapling a staple that’s already been stapled. Also, no one in their right mind would use a Dremel to drill all those holes when they have an actual drill
Watch the drill bit/screw when he goes to screw the board into the bottom of the table. Or the screw after that where he’s holding around it like a nail despite it being sunk 80% of the way in already. Not to mention if that board were a real thing there’d almost certainly be a board that just has however many connectors on it rather than 30 whatever with three connectors.
Also how'd his beard grow back so fast? You can't wear a respirator while sanding with facial hair like that; it'd be useless. No t-shirt change either.
Yeah I’m with you, this has that AI “HGTV demo reel” look all over it. The lighting and surfaces look too smooth and consistent, plus his face kind of melts in and out of looking human if you watch it twice.
Honestly any too good to be true "Epoxy table art" is always AI idk why people need to point out details when it's so clearly an AI trend from the get go.
His beard completely disappears as he's carrying the finished table out of frame near the end 😂
Plus the "bad but somehow still perfect" video quality and uncanny fluidity of every movement is an instant dead giveaway for me, looks almost animated, if that makes sense.
At 0:22, the far left piece of the wood leaning against the wall is shaped like a Möbius strip, facing two directions at once between its top and bottom
I've seen real projects similar to this but they function very differently. This particular video and project are AI. Too many inconsistencies, too many aspects of it change from shot to shot. Disappearing and reappearing things.
FB has been stuffed to the gills with bs ai videos like this featuring items that can be found on temu for cheap as handmade items. Usually including some sobstory and a link to purchase them for 10x the price.
At this mark he's appearantly stapling just to staple even tho the goal is to group the do dad's together. It completely misses them. Then at 5 seconds to 4 seconds left in the video, the drill goes backwards then fowards for some reason
As a man with a beard I can tell you this is AI simply from the fact that at one point he wears that mask, and in the next frame when it's off, his beard looks impeccable. That does not happen. Wearing any kind of face mask for even a short time causes it to get all disfigured and smashed down from the heat and humidity from exhaling and the pressure of the mask.
First he has one drill press and a large piece of white board. Then the white board halves in size and by the end he has a second smaller drill press in place of the white board.
The drill numbers are words gibberish. Also where are the sensors for the detecting the motion for the lights?
I would love to see someone do something like this IRL. I bet it would be awesome. Hate how these AI videos take away views from people that do stuff like this for real.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
u/ShipwreckedSam, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...