A ‘Novice Skydiver’ Video Shows a Woman Pulled From a Plane With No Parachute — It Was Built With AI
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AI-GENERATED — The clip shows a woman falling with no parachute. OpenAI’s own tool found its watermark buried inside the video.
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On July 23, an account called Built With AI posted a short video showing two women standing in the open door of a plane, ready to skydive. One of them has no parachute strapped on. Her friend appears to push her out anyway, and the parachuteless woman tumbles through the air screaming until another skydiver catches up and rescues her mid-fall. It looks exactly like the kind of terrifying near-miss that gets clipped and shared everywhere.
None of it happened. The account that posted it isn’t a news page or a skydiving community; Built With AI exists to promote a platform that teaches people how to build realistic AI characters and turn them into video. When fact-checkers ran the clip through OpenAI’s own verification tool, it detected a SynthID watermark, the invisible signature OpenAI’s video tools embed in anything they generate.
The video kept spreading anyway. A copy reposted to X on July 26 was captioned as if it showed a real, alarming prank between two friends, and it picked up traction from people who had no idea the “skydiver” and her friend were never real people at all. An earlier upload to TikTok two days before that did carry a “creator labeled as AI-generated” disclaimer. By the time the clip reached X, that label was gone.
No skydiving school, aviation safety board, or news outlet has any record of a real skydiver ever being pulled out of a plane with no parachute on. The only place this ever happened was inside an AI video generator.
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An AI-tool account posted it first. The video’s first post came from an account that exists to promote a platform for building fake AI videos, not to document real skydiving accidents.
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A hidden watermark gave it away. OpenAI’s own verification tool detected an invisible SynthID watermark embedded in the video, the signature its tools leave behind.
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The AI label got stripped along the way. An earlier TikTok upload carried an AI disclaimer. By the time the clip reached X two days later, that label was gone.
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No real incident, no real report. No skydiving school, news outlet, or aviation safety board has any record of a real skydiver being pulled from a plane without a parachute.
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🚨 100% AI-Generated
Nobody was pulled out of a plane without a parachute. An account built to promote AI video tools generated this entire clip, and OpenAI’s own verification tool confirmed it, complete with a hidden watermark. Once the AI label got stripped off somewhere along the way, it spread as if it were a real, terrifying accident between friends.
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No, Iran Did Not Hit a U.S. Aircraft Carrier With Ballistic Missiles
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A video spread on Threads on July 24 claiming to show an Iranian ballistic missile strike on a U.S. aircraft carrier, warning of a strong response over the Strait of Hormuz. Fact-checkers searched for any real news coverage of such an attack and found none, and an AI-detection tool put the odds the footage was AI-generated at 99.8%. The ship in the video didn’t even match a modern aircraft carrier, built more like an old World War II-era battleship, and the American flag looked digitally pasted on, staying stiff and motionless even as an explosion went off right beside it.
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Today’s Skill: Check Who Posted It First
The first account to post something scary usually tells you more than the clip itself does.
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Check who posted it first
The skydiving video’s first post came from an account that exists to sell AI video tools, not to document real events. Look up who originally posted a shocking clip before you believe it.
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Run it through a verification tool
OpenAI’s own tool found a hidden watermark buried in the skydiving video, proving it was AI-made. Several free tools online can check a video or image the same way.
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Notice a disclaimer that goes missing
The skydiving clip had an AI label on an earlier upload, and that label vanished by the time it reached a wider audience. A disclaimer disappearing partway through a repost is itself a warning sign.
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