Most people now can't separate AI videos from reality, new Runway study reveals – not even its co-founder

• A new Runway study asks volunteers to identify AI videos
• Clips were correctly identified only 57.1% of the time
• The videos were generated with the new Runway Gen-4.5 model

It seems we're through the looking glass when it comes to the verisimilitude of AI-generated videos: in a new test run by AI video company Runway involving more than 1,000 participants, the volunteers were only able to correctly identify AI or real videos 57.1% of the time.

Considering that guessing at random would land you somewhere around the 50% mark, that's a worryingly low figure. Even Runaway co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Anastasis Germanidis admitted to failing "quite a bit" in the task (via The Information).

If Runway's own team members are struggling, then the rest of us don't stand much of a chance. The fake and real clips were set to the ...