Golf carts drive off a golf course into queuing traffic: real or AI?

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AI-MADE

A machine made this.

How sure we areHigh

Based on 1 strong and 0 supporting piece of evidence.

What we found

The clip shows two golf carts leaving a golf course and swerving through lanes of queuing traffic, while a voice says "Oh no way, no way. Are they going for the road?" It was posted on X by @CensoredTube on 5 September 2026 as a real incident near Naperville in Illinois. Other copies on Facebook named different places, including Naperville and Arlington Heights, and one was posted as far back as April 2026. Lead Stories found Facebook copies carrying a note saying the video was created using AI and the story was for entertainment. It searched Google News and Yahoo News and found no reports of any such event in Illinois. When the same dramatic clip is said to show different towns, treat that as a warning sign and look for the earliest copy.

Key facts

Original source: Posted on X by @CensoredTube
First published: Not recorded
Earlier appearances: Not recorded
The claim you saw: No caption recorded
Signs of AI: Yes. Shown below, but not what decided it

The evidence, strongest first

Strong Decides the answer

Published fact-checkLead Stories, 7 September 2026↗

Supporting Points the same way

None.

Weak Shown, not relied on

How it looksOne golf cart rears up on its back wheels, which a slow, heavy cart would not normally do. The carts cross several lanes of traffic. The cars around them keep rolling forward as if nothing is happening.

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

What we couldn’t establish

Exactly how it was made, and with which prompts, beyond what the sources above say. If you know more, tell us.

Bottom line

Made by AI: a published fact-check traced it.

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