AI Went From Glitchy Spaghetti Hands to Movie Level Realism in Three Years, Let Will Smith Show You How

Everyone remembers where they were the first time they saw it. The clip. The legend. The cursed masterpiece. Will Smith eating spaghetti.

What started as a weird AI demo has somehow become the internet’s most unhinged measuring stick for artificial intelligence progress, and a viral X post is now walking people through just how far things have gone. Spoiler alert: it is a lot. Like, disturbingly a lot.

The montage opens in early 2023, back when AI video was still firmly in its awkward toddler era. The original clip, generated with an early ModelScope model, shows a spaghetti-eating Will Smith who looks almost human until you notice his face melting, his mouth moving independently of physics, and noodles behaving like sentient rubber bands. It was uncanny. It was horrifying. Naturally, it went viral.

Very quickly, “Will Smith eating spaghetti” stopped being just a meme and became a benchmark. If an AI could convincingly simulate a human eating spaghetti, one of the hardest things to animate thanks to faces, hands, textures, and chaotic noodle physics, realistically, then it had officially leveled up. Researchers, developers, and meme lords alike kept coming back to it.

The montage then fast forwards through the years, and each new version feels like a jump scare in the opposite direction. By late 2024 and 2025, the faces stop glitching. The forks behave like forks. The spaghetti actually looks wet and heavy instead of floating through space like haunted yarn. Will Smith starts looking less like a wax figure and more like, well, Will Smith.

Then comes the 2026 stuff, and that is where things get genuinely wild.

Recent clips generated with models like Kling 3.0 show fully photorealistic scenes. Not just one guy eating spaghetti, but multiple people at a table. Natural lighting. Realistic body language. Conversations are happening in the background with AI-generated audio that syncs to mouth movements. The pasta twirls correctly. The chewing looks right. Nothing glitches. Nothing screams “AI” anymore.