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I’m waiting on the dryer with my phone in my hand when a video from my Facebook group starts playing. A sedan is stuck on a railroad crossing with the barriers down, and the driver climbs out and runs away. Then a delivery truck that had stopped outside the crossing pushes through the barrier and shoves the car off the tracks just before the train arrives. The caption says the truck driver handled it in a “world-class” way.
I rewind it and watch the truck again, and the part that stops me is the driver’s seat. Nobody is sitting behind the wheel.
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A Delivery Truck ‘Saves’ a Stuck Car From an Oncoming Train? The Truck Has No Driver
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AI Probability (FauxLens)
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Views on the TikTok Original
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Visual Errors Found
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Fooled Index
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AI-GENERATED — Look at the truck’s driver seat. Nobody is in it.
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A video spread online showing a sedan stuck on a railroad crossing with the barriers down. The driver climbs out and runs away. Then a delivery truck that had stopped outside the crossing pushes through the barriers and shoves the car off the tracks just before a train arrives. The caption praised the truck driver for handling the situation in a “world-class” way.
The video is AI-generated. Lead Stories reported that it was marked as containing AI content when it was first posted. Mimikama, a German fact-checking site, traced it to a TikTok account called @trustmeboomer, where it appeared at the end of July 2026 and drew about 2.5 million views on TikTok alone. Mimikama noted that later copies on other platforms no longer carried the AI label.
Lead Stories found five signs that the footage is not real. The truck’s license plate is blank, and the sedan’s plate shows gibberish. The fingers of the sedan driver seem to merge into the road as he crawls out of the car. The road markings disappear in a way real roads don’t. And there is no driver behind the wheel of the truck that rams the car. FauxLens, an AI detection tool, rated the video 95% likely to be AI-made, and a search found no reports from reliable news outlets about such an incident.
One real-world reminder goes with this one. Crossing barriers are there to keep people alive, and nobody should try to copy a stunt like this.
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No one is driving the truck. The truck that pushes the car off the tracks has no driver behind the wheel.
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The license plates are wrong. The truck’s plate is blank, and the sedan’s plate is gibberish.
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The fingers merge into the road. As the sedan driver crawls out of the car, his fingers seem to melt into the pavement.
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The original had an AI label. The TikTok original carried the label, but later copies shared on other platforms did not.
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🚨 AI-Made Near Miss
No delivery truck rescued a stuck car from an oncoming train. The video is AI-generated, it was labeled as such when it was first posted, and it shows an empty driver’s seat, wrong license plates, and fingers that melt into the road.
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That Cargo Ship Swallowed by a Giant Wave? An AI Video With a Caption That Reads Like a Prompt
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A video that went viral shows a large ship completely engulfed by a massive wave crashing over the bow. Lead Stories found it is AI-generated. The detection tool Hive Moderation rated the video 81.1% likely to be AI-made and pointed to ByteDance’s Seedance2 video model as the probable source, and Sightengine rated a thumbnail from the video 99% likely to be AI. Copies of the video found online since at least March 2026 were already labeled as AI-generated content, and Lead Stories could not find who first made it. The Instagram caption reads largely like an AI generation prompt, and a reverse image search showed the clip had been circulating for months.
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YOUR REALITY DETECTOR TOOLKIT |
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Today’s Skill: Find the Earliest Copy and Its Label
The first post of a video often says what later copies leave out.
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Look for the earliest copy of the video
The truck video’s TikTok original carried an AI label, and copies of the ship video from March were labeled too. A watermark or username in the corner can lead you to the first post.
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Read the caption like a script
The ship video’s caption read largely like an AI generation prompt. A caption that sounds like instructions to a computer may have come from one.
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Check the plates, the hands, and the driver’s seat
The truck had a blank plate and no driver, and the car’s plate was gibberish. Small details like plates, hands, and who is behind the wheel are where AI still slips.
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“Trust, but verify.”
— Ronald Reagan
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