AI-Generated People Are Now So Realistic It’s Freaking The Internet Out

The internet is freaking out over how realistically AI (artificial intelligence) can now replicate people after a video recently went viral on X (Twitter) with more than 5.7 million views.

The video, originally shared on X by Nicolas Neubert, a creative director looking into “redefining cinematic storytelling using AI,” shows what appears to be a woman speaking into a microphone, giving what appears to be a speech.

Everything about the video would lead one to believe that she is a real human woman. The facial expressions, the hand gestures, the eye movement, they all look almost 100 percent real.

But they’re not. They’re all AI-generated.

Dextero reports that the AI-generated woman in the clip was created using Flux with Lora + Gen-3 Alpha image-to-video.

Reactions on social media to the video ranged from disbelief to fear to skepticism.

“She is not real. We are so cooked,” one person who shared the video wrote. “Don’t believe anything you see now.”

“Wow, artifacts in the lower right and lower left (hands and fingers related) are all that give it away…” read another comment.

“If this image is AI-generated, it’s terrifying; we are one step away from deepfakes so realistic that distinguishing them from reality will be difficult,” another viewer warned. “A single deepfake could land someone in jail for a crime they didn’t commit. The government must implement policies to protect social security.”

“We are absolutely not ready for the AI girlfriend revolution to come,” someone else joked(?).

“This is scary,” another person wrote. “It’s not great yet but it’s easy to extrapolate and see how it’ll be pretty much indistinguishable from reality within 24-36 months.”

They’re not wrong.

“The next generation will simply not trust anything on a screen,” someone else commented.

“We are cooked,” read another comment.