AI video now fools the peripheral gaze — but falls apart on direct inspection
pixlpa · x · 2026-10-02
The author shares their reaction to an AI-generated video: it can pass as real in peripheral view, but on direct inspection its synthetic nature is unmistakable — a snapshot of the uncanny threshold current video generation has reached.
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