I’m pretty sure that Ann Reardon, of the YouTube channel “How to Cook That” is not an AI generated bot. I’ve been watching her informational, food themed videos since long before it became possible to generate a fairly realistic video just by telling a computer what you had in mind. However, in the the video below she does and excellent job of showing the kind of clues to look for to tell if other videos are likely to be fake.

Is there a problem with a computer generated video on a food related topic. There doesn’t have to be but the “person” presenting it has never tasted the food. There is little guarantee that the “food” they make is palatable or, in some cases, even edible. Worse still is the fact that such videos are often used to market fake products or to extract details about enquirers for nefarious purposes.

They have got very good and often the best clue now is that you’ve seen a spate of other remarkably similar videos with different “people” and different settings but exactly the same movements and script. Watch Ann’s video though where she also goes through some other traits that, for now at least, still remain as common giveaways.