AI Will Smith eating spaghetti pasta (AI footage and audio)
Roy Cassette · 2023-04-01 · ai-made · 2,062,480 views
Made by AI
Model: ModelScope text-to-video (reported), ElevenLabs · Series: Will Smith spaghetti benchmark
Evidence: Description credits 'ai footage by u/chaindrop from r/StableDiffusion' and says voices were generated with ElevenLabs. It says the images and video came from 'Stable Diffusion'; press at the time attributed the clip to the open ModelScope text-to-video model.
Human role: chaindrop generated the footage (March 2023); Roy Cassette added the AI audio and reposted it.
Pipeline: ModelScope (Alibaba DAMO) text-to-video per contemporary reports → ElevenLabs voice
Lore: will-smith-spaghetti
What's in the video
Description written by Gemini, which watched and listened to the whole video.
Summary
This video is a compilation of early generative AI video clips created and uploaded by Roy Cassette in April 2023. It showcases early text-to-video diffusion outputs depicting actor Will Smith voraciously and awkwardly eating spaghetti pasta, accompanied by synthesized voice snippets and comedic background music.
What is shown
- [00:00] Close-up generation of an AI-rendered Will Smith stuffing a forkful of spaghetti into his mouth as facial features and noodles distort.
- [00:02] A sequence of clips showing Will Smith eating pasta clumps by hand in varied settings, displaying characteristic morphing artifacts, extra digits, and warped skin textures.
- [00:08] Will Smith sitting at dining tables in formal and casual attire, grabbing handfuls and forkfuls of spaghetti.
- [00:14] Outdoor and multi-character scenes where cloned versions of Will Smith interact and eat spaghetti together.
- [00:20] Looping and rapid montages of the pasta-eating sequence with baked-in stock image watermarks.
Claims & numbers
- none
Notable quotes
- [00:04] "Ah, that's hot. That's hot."
- [00:08] "Uncle Phil, come try this!"
- [00:11] "Fresh pasta of Bel-Air!"
Assessment
This is a user-created generative AI meme video rather than an official benchmark or product demo. The video demonstrates raw outputs from early 2023 text-to-video models (specifically the ModelScope open-source pipeline), edited together with cloned voice clips and a soundtrack for comedic effect.
Lyrics & themes
The video features a rhythmic beat layered with synthesized voice soundbites parodying Will Smith catchphrases and television roles:
- [00:04] "Ah, that's hot. That's hot."
- [00:08] "Uncle Phil, come try this!"
- [00:11] "Fresh pasta of Bel-Air!"
- [00:16] "Ah, that's hot. That's hot."
Lore & references
- Will Smith Eating Spaghetti: The primary viral meme that came to define early public perception of text-to-video generation in early 2023, widely cited as an uncanny-valley baseline before rapid model advancements.
- "Ah, that's hot": Will Smith's widely memed reaction line from the YouTube Rewind 2018 video.
- Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / Uncle Phil: Direct parody references to Will Smith's breakout 1990s television sitcom and the character Philip Banks.
- Faint stock video watermarks (e.g., Shutterstock): A ubiquitous artifact from early video diffusion datasets scraped from watermarked web media.
Visual style & craft
The visuals consist of low-resolution, temporally jittery generative video generated by early text-to-video diffusion models. Characteristic AI artifacts include melting facial anatomy, hallucinated fingers blending with noodles, unstable lighting, and floating textures. The raw clips were assembled, timed, and overlaid with custom AI voice generation and background audio in standard video editing software.
Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-09-29 from the video's audio and frames.