Runway: 90% are unable to identify AI-generated video

By EngineAI Team | Published on January 26, 2026
Runway: 90% are unable to identify AI-generated video
According to study released by Runway, more than 90% of participants were unable to distinguish between actual footage and image-to-video clips produced by its Gen-4.5 model. The business referred to these skills as a "tipping point" for AI media in society.

The specifics:

Just 99 of the more than a thousand individuals who saw 20 five-second video and attempted to determine which were AI-generated received a score of 75% or above.

Buildings and natural settings received the highest grades; the produced versions in those categories were found to be more believable than the actual films.

Runway is launching the new image-to-video features this week, while Gen-4.5 is presently leading Artificial Analysis's text-to-video rankings.

People are already being duped by low-quality AI movies, but Runway's Gen-4.5 and other models raise the bar to a level of realism that is nearly undetectable. There is no solution to a world where "seeing is believing" is no longer valid, despite efforts to establish verification standards. Here, try to recognize the AI films on your own.

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