No, Seriously, What the Flip?

Penguin released a new trick today.

I would love to see the raw footage of this live performance, because I’m pretty positive this is AI. Specifically this woman here…

And here…

To be clear, I know this is a real person who was really there. I'm saying her reactions—what she said and the expression on her face—were generated by AI. To me it's obvious.

I know Penguin has been using AI video effects in their demo videos for a while now, but this is the first time I've seen a video using it for the spectator's reaction. We're not okay with this, right? If this becomes commonplace, demo videos will go from their current state (mostly useless) to something that's actively destructive to your ability to sense if something is a good trick or not.

Now, I've always been a big Penguin Magic fan and I may be proven wrong on this. Maybe that's her real reaction and she's just on mescaline or something. If the raw footage matches up to the ad, I will buy 50 copies of the trick and distribute them to readers of this site as an apology to Penguin for questioning their integrity.

We'll see.