Google unveiled its latest AI video generation tool – Veo 3 at its annual developer conference I/O 2025. Google Veo 3 directly competes with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s Sora video generator and allows users to generate videos with speech such as dialogues and voice-overs; and audio, such as music and sound effects with text and image prompts.
Every time a company unveils a new AI video generation tool, there's a now-familiar ritual: someone creates a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti . What started as a meme has evolved into a quirky benchmark for testing the realism and capability of AI-generated video. The bizarre scenario—Smith slurping noodles—has become a litmus test for how well a model can handle facial expressions, hand movements, and messy textures like food.
Video of Will Smith eating spaghetti as generated by Veo 3
With the rollout of Veo 3 in the US, users have wasted no time putting Google’s new AI video tool to the test—by generating fresh videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti. Take a look at the video as shared by X user Javi Lopez
Now, take a look at the 2023 AI-video of Smith eating spaghetti
Same video as generated by Veo 2
The 2023 video was criticized for its lack of realism, with unnatural movements and visual artifacts that made it clear it was AI-generated. In contrast, the Veo 3-generated video exhibits a much-improved level of visual fidelity. The textures, lighting, and details of the spaghetti, the fork, and Will Smith's facial expressions are rendered with a high degree of accuracy, showing subtle changes that convey emotion and reaction.
When Will Smith poked fun at the trend
The meme became so widespread that even Will Smith acknowledged. In an Instagram post in February last year, the actor posted a humorous parody of the trend on Instagram, further fueling its popularity and solidifying its place in internet culture.
“This is getting out of hand!,” he captioned the post
Every time a company unveils a new AI video generation tool, there's a now-familiar ritual: someone creates a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti . What started as a meme has evolved into a quirky benchmark for testing the realism and capability of AI-generated video. The bizarre scenario—Smith slurping noodles—has become a litmus test for how well a model can handle facial expressions, hand movements, and messy textures like food.
Video of Will Smith eating spaghetti as generated by Veo 3
With the rollout of Veo 3 in the US, users have wasted no time putting Google’s new AI video tool to the test—by generating fresh videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti. Take a look at the video as shared by X user Javi Lopez
Just got access to Veo 3 and the first thing I did was try the Will Smith spaghetti test. SOUND ON pic.twitter.com/y0CiZwNxgM
— Javi Lopez ⛩️ (@javilopen) May 22, 2025
Now, take a look at the 2023 AI-video of Smith eating spaghetti
Will @OpenAI SORA pass the "Will Smith eating spaghetti" challenge? pic.twitter.com/BvnoPbJ2Lc
— Sarge (@sgt3v) February 15, 2024
Same video as generated by Veo 2
Google Veo 2 has done it.
— Jerrod Lew (@jerrod_lew) December 17, 2024
We are now eating spaghett at last. pic.twitter.com/AZO81w8JC0
The 2023 video was criticized for its lack of realism, with unnatural movements and visual artifacts that made it clear it was AI-generated. In contrast, the Veo 3-generated video exhibits a much-improved level of visual fidelity. The textures, lighting, and details of the spaghetti, the fork, and Will Smith's facial expressions are rendered with a high degree of accuracy, showing subtle changes that convey emotion and reaction.
When Will Smith poked fun at the trend
The meme became so widespread that even Will Smith acknowledged. In an Instagram post in February last year, the actor posted a humorous parody of the trend on Instagram, further fueling its popularity and solidifying its place in internet culture.
“This is getting out of hand!,” he captioned the post
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