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Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

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So if these fans aren’t AI-generated fakes, what’s going on here?

The video features real performances and real audiences, but I believe they were manipulated on two levels:

  • Will Smith’s team generated several short AI image-to-video clips from professionally-shot audience photos
  • YouTube post-processed the resulting Shorts montage, making everything look so much worse