Modelscope's 'Will Smith Eating Spaghetti' AI Video Became the Internet's Benchmark for How Cursed AI Video Used to Be

In March 2023 a Reddit user fed the prompt 'Will Smith eating spaghetti' into Modelscope's open text-to-video model. The result — Smith's face melting into the pasta, jaw unhinging, noodles phasing through his cheeks — became an instant meme and the unofficial benchmark for AI video quality. Every new model (Pika, Runway, Sora, Veo) has since been judged against it. The clip now has 50M+ aggregate views across platforms and is cited in academic papers on video generation fidelity.