Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows A Woman With No Parachute Pulled Out Of A Plane By Her Skydiving Friend -- Made With AI

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  • by: Sarah Thompson
Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows A Woman With No Parachute Pulled Out Of A Plane By Her Skydiving Friend -- Made With AI Made With AI

Did a novice skydiver pull her parachuteless friend out of the plane, leaving the freefalling woman to be rescued by another skydiver? No, that's not true: This video was made with AI. It was originally published by an account called Built With AI which promotes a platform that teaches people how to make realistic AI characters and turn them into videos. The OpenAI verification tool determined the content was made with OpenAI tools; a SynthID watermark was detected.

The fake video was republished in a post (archived here) by the X account @FunAndFabj5ew on July 26, 2026. It was captioned:

Don't make such jokes, the poor girl's mind is blown 😯🪂🙈

This is a screenshot of the video:

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(Image source: @FunAndFabj5ew post on X.)

A July 26, 2026, reshare of the video (archived here) credited the Instagram account @built.with.ai_, where an early copy of the video was posted on July 23, 2026 (archived here). The video was also uploaded to TikTok by @built_with.ai on July 24, 2026 (archived here) with a "Creator labeled as AI-generated" disclaimer. Both account bios link to a monthly membership lesson program (archived here) which advertises:

Learn how to build realistic AI characters, turn them into videos, and create content that can actually make money -- even if you are starting from zero.

Pictured below are two screenshots from the TikTok video which show moments, at approximately 5 and 12 seconds, where the hands of the characters in the video are rendered with glitches which are typical of AI-generated content.

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(Image source: @built_with.ai post on TikTok.)

Lead Stories uploaded a screenshot from the video to the verification tool at OpenAI (archived here). The results (pictured below) read:

Generated with OpenAI tools
This content was generated using OpenAI tools. The signals below provide supporting evidence for this result.

SynthID detected
We found a SynthID watermark that originated from OpenAI.

X Content Credentials not detected
We did not find a trusted C2PA manifest originating from OpenAI.
skydiveOpenAI.jpg
(Image source: OpenAI.)

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  Sarah Thompson

Sarah Thompson lives with her family and pets on a small farm in Indiana. She founded a Facebook page and a blog called “Exploiting the Niche” in 2017 to help others learn about manipulative tactics and avoid scams on social media. Since then she has collaborated with journalists in the USA, Canada and Australia and since December 2019 she works as a Social Media Authenticity Analyst at Lead Stories.


 

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