Yeah that soda vid is pretty obvious it’s AI (especially since she keeps talking after her mouth goes under) just a good example of hi-res AI vids with some impressive detail staying consistent since you seemed won over by just the inclusion of nose hairs. But yeah reflections/lighting are usually a pretty dead giveaway for AI.

If your sense of “AI or not” is based on being too-perfect and reflections being off, then it makes sense that the night vision ones and blurry ones like this slip you up.

The pattern on the cat’s fur going from Gaussian blur to distinct is a good giveaway to look for next time. When digital cameras blur or compress, the artifacts aren’t smooth they’re boxy. Also textures of still objects don’t just get more sharp without the rest of the image being affected.

Plus the shadows really don’t seem to match up. I had to watch a few night vision vids to make sure, but yeah the way the mouse looks, especially on the dudes face really isn’t how things look in night vision. I mean just the extreme contrast in shadow for the mouse while the cat leaves no shadow whatsoever on any part of the bed is a pretty solid sign it’s not real.

Also on the note of you being used to water reflections so reflections being fake are obvious, maybe it’s having spent significant time around cats that made the cat’s movements trigger uncanny valley vibes for me. That’s originally what set me off. Idk what is wrong but my mind says there’s something wrong with that cat lol.

Edit: Here, I decided to try generating one of my own to see how it’d look. Probably could have made it look better if I refined the prompt but I think it’s still a good example:

Prompt: Black and white low quality night vision camera inside house captures cat dropping mouse onto sleeping owner’s face.