AI put Stallone on a skateboard. The internet called it "not AI."
Creator George Wu posted a clearly labelled AI-generated stunt clip: an 80-year-old Sylvester Stallone likeness shredding an impossible skate ramp, carrying a visible "Made with A...
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Creator George Wu posted a clearly labelled AI-generated stunt clip: an 80-year-old Sylvester Stallone likeness shredding an impossible skate ramp, carrying a visible "Made with AI" label. It reached about 1.8 million views. Jim Chuong then quote-posted it with the deliberately ironic caption "Finally, something that isn't AI." That repost climbed from about 9.6 million views to 16.5 million views in a single day. The "not AI" caption is a joke for people who already know the clip is synthetic, not a factual claim, and the synthetic-media label stays visible throughout. Stallone did not perform the stunt; the clip was made with PixVerse-style generative video. View counts are public snapshots verified 2026-09-28.
The real news
The story, straight
Creator George Wu posted a clearly labelled AI-generated stunt clip: an 80-year-old Sylvester Stallone likeness shredding an impossible skate ramp, carrying a visible 'Made with AI' label. It reached about 1.8 million views.
Jim Chuong then quote-posted it with the deliberately ironic caption 'Finally, something that isn't AI,' and that repost climbed from about 9.6 million views to 16.5 million in a single day.
Stallone did not perform the stunt; the clip was made with generative video, and the synthetic-media label stayed visible throughout. View counts are public snapshots verified 2026-09-28.
The absurd
Why this is ridiculous
The clip is watermarked 'Made with AI' - and someone with 16 million followers still captioned it 'Finally, something that isn't AI.' The label did its job for the first 1.8 million, and the joke did its job for the next 16.5.
Truth, turns out, is a feature that only works if the reader switches it on.
The breakdown
How it breaks down
The shift is who carries the proof: 'is this real' used to be a question your eyes answered. Now the label is the evidence, the repost caption is the argument, and the algorithm decides which one wins.
A video can carry its own truth marker and still travel as a falsehood - the caption, not the pixels, is what the feed scores.
The upside
Why it could matter
The upside is the marker itself: a visible 'Made with AI' that survived 16 million views is disclosure working in the open, on the record, where everyone can point at it.
The creators who keep the label visible are building the habit the rest of the internet is still arguing about - that synthetic means synthetic, and the stamp is the sentence.
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