
AI-generated videos are everywhere, with clips generated by OpenAI's Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 from Google appearing everywhere on social media and even in your news feed. Between the big names and dozens of smaller AI tools cranking out hyper-realistic clips, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic.
But after months of testing these tools, I’ve found one consistent giveaway. It’s not the melting hands, blurry backgrounds or too-perfect lighting. It’s the eyes. The eye-line wobble is the new uncanny valley