Real or AI? Take the video quiz.
AI video has got good enough to fool most people at a glance. Watch each clip, make your call, and see whether our detector agreed.
10 short clips. Some are real, some were made by AI tools like Sora, Veo, Kling and Runway. Can you tell which?
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Questions
- Where do the clips come from?
- The real clips were filmed by people who shared them on Wikimedia Commons under free licences. The AI clips come from two research datasets of videos made with tools like Sora, Veo, Kling, Runway, Hailuo and PixVerse. Every clip is credited below.
- Did your detector train on these clips?
- No. All of them come from the test set our video model never saw in training, and they were picked for looking realistic before we looked at its scores. The score shown is our video model alone; a full scan adds seven more checks.
- How do I get better at spotting AI video?
- Pause and look at hands, teeth and text; watch for motion that is too smooth or objects that change; and check where the video came from. When it matters, scan it: no one can reliably spot the best fakes by eye.
Read next: How to tell if a video is AI-generated · How accurate our detector is
Clip credits
All clips trimmed to 5 seconds, resized and with sound removed. AI clips: VideoGen-Eval (Yang et al., 2025), MIT; DeepAction (Bohacek & Farid, 2024), CC BY 4.0. Real clips, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Niagara Falls montage 2025-09-06 by G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0
- Walk from the National Museum of Anthropology to the National Museum of Natural History - Philippines by Exec8, CC BY 4.0
- My Cat "Mr Kitty" or "Jellybelly" by PseudoSkull, CC0
- Mckinney Wysong Central Fire truck rush on July 3, 2026 by Ranch9613, CC0
- Trstenica Orebić 183746 by Quahadi Añtó, CC BY 4.0
- Erformance with traditional drums and percussion of the Thai ethnic group (Taken in Khe Ran Village, Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province, Vietnam) by KoheiU, CC0
- Zahrada Sázavského kláštera by Pohled 111, CC0
- LESANY30082025 20250830 104055 by LESANY30082025 / L.ŠAFRÁNEK, CC0
- Parahyangan2 by Slleong, CC0
- Wind and rain from Tropical Storm Eta at night in Clearwater, Florida, US, on 11 November 2020 by MatthewHoobin, CC0
- Sealife-Munich-Rochen-2 by MartinThoma, CC0
- The Maasai Market in Nairobi - we're just looking by The Magic Of Traveling, CC BY 3.0