Does a real video show a functioning prototype of a floating bicycle made from recycled plastic bottles? No, that's not true: This video is fake, with an AI detection tool determining with 98.3% confidence that the video was AI-generated. There are real functioning pedal powered boats, but they do not resemble this AI-generated fiction.
The video appeared in a post (archived here) on X published by @anonimavukatx on May 7, 2026. The caption, translated from Turkish by Grok, says:
A water bike made from a plastic bottle
(Image source: @anonimavukatx post on X.)
Lead Stories uploaded the video to the AI-generated content detection tool at Hive Moderation. Hive found "this input is likely to contain AI-generated or deepfake content" with a 98.3% confidence score (pictured below).
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Lead Stories was unable to identify the account where this video originated, but did turn up several variations of this AI-generated video which seem to have been made with the same prompt. In each of the three AI-generated videos (screenshots pictured below), a different man is riding the floating water bottle bicycle. In each, he is wearing a black hoodie with white lettering which reads "WAB ART". Each is pictured wearing olive cargo pants and yellow shoes with a black "swoosh".
On the left side is a screenshot from the video posted on X by @anonimavukatx. In the center below is a screenshot of a video that was stitched in an April 30, 2026 TikTok video by @hassaan_kamboh_reacts (archived here and here). The right side panel shows a video posted on Instagram on May 8, 2026 by @smart_money._ (archived here).
(Image source: @anonimavukatx post on X, @hassaan_kamboh_reacts post on TikTok, and @smart_money._ post on Instagram.)
