When a company releases a new AI video generator, it’s not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti.
It’s become something of a meme as well as a benchmark: Seeing whether a new video generator can realistically render Smith slurping down a bowl of noodles. Smith himself parodied the trend in an Instagram post in February.
Google Veo 2 has done it.
We are now eating spaghett at last. pic.twitter.com/AZO81w8JC0
— Jerrod Lew (@jerrod_lew) December 17, 2024
Will Smith and pasta is but one of several bizarre “unofficial” benchmarks to take the AI community by storm in 2024. A 16-year-old developer built an app that gives AI control over Minecraft and tests its ability to design structures. Elsewhere, a…