One of the things that makes a staged video less troubling is that the staging itself always comes with tells. Camera angles, cuts, framing, and of course actual staging.

AI videos can have that too, but they aren't the inherent tells. AI tells are unnatural: bodies that shift in subtle ways, objects warped or merging outside the center of frame. It's not stuff that you look for because it's not stuff that actually happens in nature, or even in human constructed CGI all that often. But it does add up to a sense of uncanny valley.

"I'll take people shitting into my mouth over dogs. At least it's real humans doing it."