Did a video from "Sky 8" really show a chimp on a scooter, on the run from police cars on a freeway and did this chimpanzee escape from "metro zoo" downtown? No, that's not true: The video of the Vespa-riding monkey bore the watermark of AI tool Sora and was generated using artificial intelligence. It contained several text artifacts typical of such videos that you would never see in a real television clip.
The viral video appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published by a Facebook page named "LMG" on October 5, 2025 with a caption that read:
Wild chimp on the run 😂
This is what the thumbnail of the video in the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Thu Oct 9 07:27:44 2025 UTC)
The video showed the watermark of OpenAI's "Sora" tool (archived here), a service that allows users to create realistic-looking videos using artificial intelligence. The Facebook page "LMG" features several other AI generated videos and it has a bio (archived here) that reads:
Gaming video creator
Besides the watermark there were other glitches, such as a red banner that seemingly couldn't decide if it wanted to show the words "Breaking", "Live" or "Events", a static blue banner that cut off the word "CHIMP" as if it was meant to be scrolling by and an actual scrolling banner that appeared to show gibberish characters:
(Image source: collage of glitches in the "LMG" video put together by Lead Stories)
