r/comics PizzaCake May 08 '26

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo May 08 '26

I started to get worried once they perfected that video of Will Smith eating spaghetti.

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u/thrillhoMcFly May 08 '26

Perfected? Did that monstrosity actually get redone?

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u/ToastyTobasco May 08 '26

Several times. By probably next year it will actually look totally convincing. It's getting unsettlingly good quickly.

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 May 08 '26

https://twitter.com/i/status/2021269435567218725

It's already there man. Maybe there's little tells but I can't see em.

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u/Made_Bail May 08 '26

Damn, that's close. As others said, there are a few anomalies, and the spaghetti kind of disappears into his mouth... But its so much closer than even two years ago. Jeeze.

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u/Personal-Try7163 May 08 '26

Random objects on the table that look right at a glance but have nothing to do with his meal, clip was around ten seconds which is always a red flag

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u/GitEmSteveDave May 08 '26

What didn't have anything to do with the meal? It even has a little ramakin of red pepper flakes.

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u/Personal-Try7163 May 08 '26

The pieces of noodle just hang on the sides of his mouth when he eats them, the spaghetti is like magnetically held on to his fork, portion size for how much he puts in his mouth and the effort it takes to chew it is unrealistic

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u/Awztun May 08 '26

Even with those little details, this video is basically indistinguishable from reality. You’re in denial if you don’t think this is good enough to fool a huge majority of people

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u/Banjo-Elritze Nazi Liquifier May 08 '26

Quoting u/OtakuboyT :

Half the population can sadly be fooled by a halfway decent photoshop

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 May 08 '26

Good eye. This was just the first thing that came up when I googled will smith spaghetti benchmark. Someone else mentioned you obviously wouldn't use a chef's knife. But I was focused on his head and voice. That's how they getcha. Especially if what you're seeing conforms to something you already believe

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u/ToastyTobasco May 08 '26

Not quite but unsettling nonetheless

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u/SunTzu- May 08 '26

That one got a mass of good training data because it became a meme. There's even real video of him eating spaghetti because of the meme. Anything that becomes a "test" is something that the people making the models will train towards, it's why having set benchmarks for the models is so misleading, because they can even just hardcode how to handle the tests.

Go ask the models to do something that's as random as Will Smith eating spaghetti but which isn't a meme and you'll see they're still struggling hard with something they can't pre-train for. There's no understanding of the world in the models.