Colby Martel slips his sisters into a real-or-AI quiz

A passerby spots the generated portraits with confidence, until a real face trips her up and the final image gets personal.

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Are These People Real or AI?🤖

Colby Martel has family photos mixed into his latest guessing game. In "Are These People Real or AI?🤖", a passerby studies portraits in a park and decides which faces belong to actual people. The Short drew about 3.8 million views since yesterday.

She makes a strong start, dismissing the first generated face as looking "too perfect." Then come two real portraits with a connection to the man holding the microphone: both are Martel's sisters. Her reasoning for the second is less technical than charming: "She's happier than AI."

A real person eventually fools her, but the final image produces a different kind of recognition. She immediately spots an AI-generated male version of herself. Martel confirms it, and she delivers her verdict: "He's hot." For a creator whose recent uploads mostly ask strangers to guess names, this quiz ends with the participant recognizing her own face in an unfamiliar form.

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The numbers

The portrait quiz also brought in nearly six times the comments of a usual first day for Martel's Shorts.

subscribers

1,670,000

▲ 30,000 in the last 7 days

total views

2,063,420,006

views per day

8,275,015

typical day: 8,147,594

the video

views

4,126,955

likes

93,983

comments

1,095

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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1,690,000

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1,670,000

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1,670,000

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1,630,000

As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.