REAL OR FAKE? · VIDEO OF THE DAY

Real or fake? The AI videos of September 18, 2026.

Every day we scan YouTube for the AI-generated clips people are actually watching, then run every one through the same honest AI Generation Likelihood engine that powers our analyzer.

🏆 Video of the Day · scored 60% AI

DON'T POISON IVY – Full AI Animated Short Film (Higgsfield Film Festival)

JOEY · 54.6K views

A complete AI-animated short film, submitted by a small creator group to the Higgsfield Global Film Festival, so it works as a finished narrative piece rather than a tool demo.

Notable AI signals

63°SOUTH | AI-generated short film | Inspired by true events

Shekhar N · 49.7K views

An AI-generated period survival short inspired by true events, following Sir Edward Vane's 1923 polar expedition after his ship, the Valour, is crushed by the ice.

Some AI signals

How Video of the Day works

We scan YouTube for the newest clips made with named AI generators (Sora, Veo, Kling, Runway, Luma and others), keep only the ones that are genuinely AI-generated (not tutorials or reactions), and score every candidate with our public engine. It reads only observable public signals — disclosures, named tools, and viewer comments — to produce a deterministic AI Generation Likelihood. The most-watched clip that clears our bar is the Video of the Day. It is an honest indicator, never a certainty.

Every clip plays through YouTube’s own embedded player and links back to its creator; we never re-host anyone’s video. Want the full breakdown on any clip? Paste it into the analyzer. For the historical record of synthetic media used to deceive, see the Incident Archive.

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