Anime-style AI video of pancake making is getting too real to tell
Plenty-Reindeer-3251 · reddit · 2026-11-01
A Reddit user shared an anime-style "cooking pancake" video showing a Japanese-animation kitchen scene with natural hand motions and lighting that is hard to distinguish from real footage.
It's another showcase of how mature AI video generation has become at rendering 2D anime aesthetics with realistic action, and a test of viewers' ability to tell AI from reality.
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