Does a video marked "Real Footage" show a bloody attack by a dolphin on a marine park trainer named Jessica Radcliffe? No, that's not true: The video caption and title both say the footage is real, but the account that published it describes its content as "Realistic AI visuals | Viral edits". Several glitches in the scene, such as people who materialize and vanish, also point to the video being AI-generated.
The video (archived here) was published on TikTok by @impact.vision on August 10, 2025. It was titled:
Dolphin Attack on Jesica | Real Footage of Marine park 💔 #justice #for #jesica #orca #fyp #marinepark #shoking #emotional
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image Source: screenshot of @impact.vision79 TikTok post by Lead Stories)
The video has text captioning that says, "Real Footage," with a broken heart emoji -- but the account description (pictured below) says, "Realistic AI visuals | Viral edits".
(Image Source: screenshot of @impact.vision79 TikTok bio by Lead Stories)
The @impact.vision79 account has published many videos showing fantasy worlds being grown in a petri dish. Four videos posted since August 10, 2025 feature a marine park theme showing attacks on "Jessica" by dolphins and orcas. The other videos have text captioning, Real Footage 2, Real Footage 3, and Jessica is Alived. All of these videos contain unnatural inconsistencies that point to the videos being AI generated -- a glaring example in the "Jessica is Alived" video -- her head rotates 180 degrees on her shoulders after she is pulled from the water. In some cases these videos have been republished by other accounts, introducing the hashtag #jessicaradcliff or #jessicaradcliffe without an AI disclaimer (examples archived here and here)
The "Real Footage" video contains several artifacts that point to it being artificially generated. This video opens with the trainer repeatedly performing an inhuman feat, leaping high out of the pool like a dolphin. Aside from the unnatural ability to launch herself from the water -- she enters the water headfirst and immediately emerges headfirst from the same spot in the water. The logical continuity that her entire body needs time and space to turn while under water is not resolved in this AI generated scene.
At the 0:09 second mark in the "Real Footage" video there are some characteristic AI glitches as the audience reacts to the attack. Pictured below are a series of screenshots from the 0:09 to 0:10 second timestamps of the video where two glitches happen simultaneously on either side of the frame. On the left, there is a seated man wearing tan shorts, a white shirt, and black sandals. When the trainer is attacked, he stands and then vanishes or transforms, as a woman in a white dress enters the frame from the left. On the right side of the frame a woman in the second row is wearing blue shorts and a blue bikini top. After the trainer is attacked she seems to lead forward and another person materializes from her position. That person, wearing black shorts, runs forward toward the pool's edge, while the original woman is still visible in her seat.
(Image Source: screenshots from @impact.vision79 TikTok video by Lead Stories)
