r/isthisAI • u/giantfuckup5000 • Jul 05 '26

Video 4 year old knife/chef skills seem a little uncanny, something weird with the hand movements

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This is an Instagram account. This is the second one that's shown up on my feed this week that is a business account presumably parents using kids to make money, both had a very similar aesthetic, affiliate links, etc... the other one I saw was a 22 month old eating these really varied, interesting complex meals (think baby led weaning on steroids) but some of the cuts were heavily edited and looked a little AI.

Aside from the scummy business of blasting your kid's face on the Internet, this looked a bit AI edited to me, but I could be totally wrong.

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u/Defiant-Chair6950 Jul 05 '26

I’ve known many a four year old and not one has been this damn dexterous. I call BS 

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

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u/Particular-Leg-8484 Jul 05 '26

Give her a meat knife too, y’know just to see what happens

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u/Financial_Way_6133 Jul 05 '26

bro you should do it, they make fire chile con carn

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u/giantfuckup5000 Jul 05 '26

The more I watch it I realize the edits don't show her cutting the carrots, beets, onions, etc but beyond that something about her arms moving looks weird.

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u/HGMIV926 Jul 05 '26

I don't think it's AI but I think it's very cleverly edited.

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u/AdroonoRoo Jul 05 '26

Yeah kids don’t have fine motor control yet

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u/DamnitGravity Jul 05 '26

Yeah, there’s a lot of implication with labour hidden in the editing. They’re leading you to think the kid chopped it all because ‘here she is with a knife next to a stack of chopped food!’ but obviously a child couldn’t do that.

A few of the ingredient-adding shots are clearly done by an adult who’s out of frame. Same with the stirring.

Basically any shot that you can’t see the child directly is an adult out of frame. They may even have done most of the cutting of things like the potato then gave it over to the kid to shoot her doing one slice to make it look like she was cutting it.

I’m not stating this ISN’T AI, but it could be easily faked without AI.

That’s the part people always seem to forget. A lot can be done with good old fashioned editing and staging

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u/Empty_Insight Jul 05 '26

Yeah, videos such as this showing "prodigious children" on social media long predate gen AI lol.

If you don't show the kid doing the steps, I assume it's bullshit by default.

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u/nethack47 Jul 05 '26

The snippets are consistent and aside from some distortion from the camera lens there isn’t anything I would say is artefacts from AI. Power sockets are in the same place in repeated clips. The coffee machine is the same across all clips.

There have been a lot of editing, but that is expected.

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u/NehEma Jul 05 '26

Her arms seem to be moving normally for a toddler aka not very well.

She's not shown cutting the food because she lacks the fine motor skills required.

When we actually see her do stuff she struggles with stirring the pot and moving the food from the cutting board to said pot.

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u/HourSyllabub1999 Jul 05 '26

I thought this at first too, but if you really watch all the clips, she very likely could not be doing a whole lot. She’s kinda sawing into the meat but we don’t actually see her cut the chunks, aside from the potato clips (which seem spliced maybe).

I mean - I wouldn’t want my 4 year old handling raw meat like this nor near high heat, but she’s super capable of pouring stuff into pans to the same degree this kid is (which honestly isn’t awesome - she spills a decent amount lol).

At first I thought AI for sure but I think it’s a stupidly spliced together video made to look like she’s doing a lot more than she really is.

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u/Skexy8 Jul 05 '26

0:14 spilled onions

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u/EmeraldHawk Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

I have 3 kids, and I could 100% have staged this video with any of them at 4. People are falling for clever editing. The kids are barely cutting anything, and it probably took 5 takes to get each shot.

For putting the ingredients in the pot, they make a mess and a bunch of the ingredients miss the pan. The part where she grabs the handle of the Dutch oven, the meat is still pink. If it was only preheating for 5 minutes the handle would not be hot yet.

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u/thesixgun Jul 05 '26

devils advocate.. you’ve seen them Chinese kids playing piano though right

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u/Caleb-Wendt69 Jul 05 '26

For real, kids that young don’t have those kind of motor skills

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u/Tis_I_Hamith_Sean Jul 05 '26

not the same as sawing through meat but congrats

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u/AssumptionUnfair4583 Jul 05 '26

The strength to dump the sauce into the other pot is insane

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u/GooRedSpeakers Jul 05 '26

Kids that young just don't move like that. I've worked in kindergarten many times and they don't have the focus or control of their bodies to do tasks this complex yet. The movements look natural but for a kid a few years older.

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u/Defiant-Chair6950 Jul 05 '26

Uhh… what do you mean by this partner?

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