A woman in a white leotard waves to a crowd as she walks along a sandy walkway at a beach event: real or AI?

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“.@grok is this real?”

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AI-MADE

A machine made this.

How sure we areVery high

Based on 1 strong and 1 supporting pieces of evidence.

What we found

The clip shows a female athlete climbing a tall turquoise ramp on a beach, spinning off the top, then running down to a cheering crowd and waving. It was posted on X on 3 October 2026 by @DataChaz with the words ".@grok is this real?" and was watched about 1.8 million times. Lead Stories looked at it in a 9 October article about a wave of fake 'stunt running' videos. It found the athlete's arm vanishes and her foot changes shape between frames, signs of an AI-made video. Similar clips set in Las Vegas, Moscow and Giza were posted on TikTok by an account that labelled them as AI content, and one Facebook version carried a Dola AI watermark. Lead Stories did not find who made this particular clip. If a stunt has no named event, place or athlete, look for any news report of it before believing it.

Key facts

Original source: Posted on X by @DataChaz
First published: Not recorded
Earlier appearances: Not recorded
The claim you saw: “.@grok is this real?” · not supported by the evidence
Signs of AI: Yes. Shown below, but not what decided it

The evidence, strongest first

How it looksLead Stories noticed that the athlete's right arm disappears between her shoulder and hand for a moment. Her left foot looks bare and misshapen, then becomes a trainer a split second later. The crowd and announcer look like a real event, but the clip runs just under 30 seconds with no named event, place or date.

Detector scores are often wrong, so they never decide a verdict here.

What we couldn’t establish

Who made this particular clip, and with which AI tool. If you know more, tell us.

Bottom line

A fact-checker found this ramp stunt is one of a wave of AI-made clips, with the same stunt posted elsewhere labelled as AI.

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A woman in a white leotard waves to a crowd as she walks along a sandy walkway at a beach event: real or AI?

A machine made this.

Strong Decides the answer

Supporting Points the same way

Weak Shown, not relied on

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