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The Newest “Will Smith Eating Spaghetti” Video Includes AI-Generated Squelching and Chomping Sounds That Just Might Make You Sick

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In a new "Will Smith eating spaghetti" AI clip, a far more recognizable Smith can be seen indulging in a tasty-looking plate of noodles.

Just over two years ago, we came across a deranged, AI-generated video of famed actor Will Smith indulging in a bowl of spaghetti.

The clip, which went viral at the time, was the stuff of nightmares, with the AI model morphing Smith’s facial features in obscene ways, clearly unable to determine where his body ended and a forkful of sauce-laden pasta began.

But the technology has improved dramatically since then. In a revised clip shared by AI content creator Javi Lopez, a far more recognizable Smith can be seen indulging in a tasty-looking plate of noodles.

Unfortunately, the clip — which was rendered using Google DeepMind’s just-debuted Veo 3 video generation model — includes AI-generated sound as well, exposing us to a horrid soundtrack of squelching and masticating, the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard for those suffering from misophonia.

“I don’t feel so good,” quipped tech YouTuber Marques “MKBHD” Brownlee.

Nonetheless, it’s an impressive tech demo, highlighting how models like Veo 3 are getting eerily close to being able to generate photorealistic video — including believable sound and dialogue.

 

Google unveiled its “state-of-the-art” Veo 3 model earlier this week at its Google I/O 2025 developer conference.

“For the first time, we’re emerging from the silent era of video generation,” said DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis during the event.

Beyond generating photorealistic footage, the feature allows users to “suggest dialogue with a description of how you want it to sound,” according to Hassabis.

A video sequence opening Google’s I/O, which was generated with the tool, shows zoo animals taking over a Wild West town.

Getting access to the model doesn’t come cheap, with the feature currently locked behind Google’s $249.99-per-month AI Ultra plan.

Sample videos circulating on social media are strikingly difficult to differentiate from real life. And the jury’s still out on whether that’s a good or a bad thing. Critics have long rung the alarm bells over tools like Veo 3 putting human video editors out of a job or facilitating a flood of disinformation and propaganda on the internet.

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The Judge’s Reaction to an AI-Generated Victim Impact Statement Was Not What We Expected

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A slain Arizona man's family used AI to bring him back from the dead for his killer's sentencing — and the judge loved it.

A slain Arizona man’s family used AI to bring him back from the dead for his killer’s sentencing hearing — and the judge presiding over the case apparently “loved” it.

As 404 Media reports, judge Todd Lang was flabbergasted when he saw the AI-generated video of victim Chris Peskey that named and “forgave” the man who killed him in 2021.

“To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the video, which Peskey’s sister Stacey Wales generated, intoned. “In another life we probably could have been friends. I believe in forgiveness, in God who forgives, I always have. And I still do.”

Found guilty earlier this year, Horcasitas’ sentencing was contingent, as many cases are, upon various factors, including impact statements from the victim’s family.

As Wales told 404 Media, her husband Tim was initially freaked out when she introduced the idea of creating a digital clone of her brother for the hearing and told her she was “asking a lot.”

Ultimately, the video was accepted in the sentencing hearing, the first known instance of an AI clone of a deceased person being used in such a way.

And the gambit appears to have paid off.

“I loved that AI, and thank you for that,” Lang said, per a video of his pre-sentencing speech. “As angry as you are, and as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness, and I know Mr. Horcasitas could appreciate it, but so did I.”

“I feel like calling him Christopher as we’ve gotten to know him today,” Lang continued. “I feel that that was genuine, because obviously the forgiveness of Mr. Horcasitas reflects the character I heard about today.”

Lang acknowledged that although the family itself “demanded the maximum sentence,” the AI Pelkey “spoke from his heart” and didn’t call for such punishment.

“I didn’t hear him asking for the maximum sentence,” the judge said.

Horcasitas’ lawyer also referenced the Peskey avatar when defending his client and, similarly, said that he also believes his client and the man he killed could have been friends had circumstances been different.

That entreaty didn’t seem to mean much, however, to Lang. He ended up sentencing Horcasitas to 10.5 years for manslaughter, which was a year and a half more than prosecutors were seeking.

It’s a surprising reaction, showing that many are not only open to AI being used this way, but also in favor of it — evidence that the chasm between AI skeptics and adopters could be widening.

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Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial

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In Arizona, the family of a man killed during a road rage incident has used artificial intelligence to revive their dead loved one in court.

In Arizona, the family of a man killed during a road rage incident has used artificial intelligence to revive their dead loved one in court — and the video is just as unsettling as you think.

As Phoenix’s ABC 15 reports, an uncanny simulacrum of the late Christopher Pelkey, who died from a gunshot wound in 2021, played in a courtroom at the end of his now-convicted killer’s trial.

“In another life, we probably could have been friends,” the AI version of Pelkey, who was 37 when he died, told his shooter, Gabriel Paul Horcasitas. “I believe in forgiveness.”

Despite that moving missive, it doesn’t seem that much forgiveness was in the cards for Horcasitas.

After viewing the video — which was created by the deceased man’s sister, Stacey Wales, using an “aged-up” photo Pelkey made when he was still alive — the judge presiding over the case ended up giving the man a 10-and-a-half year manslaughter sentence, which is a year more than what state prosecutors were asking for.

In the caption on her video, Wales explained that she, her husband Tim, and their friend Scott Yenzer made the “digital AI likeness” of her brother using a script she’d written alongside images and audio files they had of him speaking in a “prerecorded interview” taken months before he died.

“These digital assets and script were fed into multiple AI tools to help create a digital version of Chris,” Wales wrote, “polished by hours of painstaking editing and manual refinement.”

In her interview with ABC15, Pelkey’s sister insisted that everyone who knew her late brother “agreed this capture was a true representation of the spirit and soul of how Chris would have thought about his own sentencing as a murder victim.”

She added that creating the digital clone helped her and her family heal from his loss and left her with a sense of peace, though others felt differently.

“Can’t put into words how disturbing I find this,” writer Eoin Higgins tweeted of the Pelkey clone. “The idea of hearing from my brother through this tech is grotesque. Using it in a courtroom even worse.”

Referencing both the Pelkey video and news that NBC is planning to use late sports narrator Jim Fagan’s voice to do new promos this coming NBA season, a Bluesky user insisted that “no one better do this to me once I’m dead.”

“This AI necromancy bullshit is so creepy and wrong,” that user put it — and we must say, it’s hard to argue with that.

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