Why 90% of People Can't Tell AI Videos from Real Footage (And What That Means)
We Just Failed the Video Turing Test In January 2026, Runway released a study that should fundamentally change how we think about video. They showed 1,043 participants a series of video clips — some real, some generated by their Gen-4.5 model — and a...
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douzatan
The trust section raises a different question from the detection test: what is the viewer being asked to believe? A synthetic presenter explaining an approved script and a fabricated customer testimonial can look equally convincing while making very different claims. For a Leadde explanation, I would document the source of the script and distinguish illustrative scenes from footage of an actual event. Visual realism should not be the test for whether a business claim is accurate or a customer's experience is genuine.