A generation who thought they were immune from being fooled by AI has been tricked by this video of bunnies jumping on a trampoline: 

@rachelthecatlovers Just checked the home security cam and… I think we’ve got guest performers out back! @Ring #bunny #ringdoorbell #ring #bunnies #trampoline ♬ Bounce When She Walk – Ohboyprince

The video currently has 183 million views on TikTok and it is at first glance extremely adorable. The caption says “Just checked the home security cam and… I think we’ve got guest performers out back! @Ring”

People were excited by this. The bunnies seem to be having a nice time. @Greg posted on X  “Never knew how much I needed to see bunnies jumping on a trampoline”

Unfortunately, the bunnies are not real. 

The video is AI generated. This becomes clear when, between the fifth and sixth seconds of the video, the back bunny vanishes. 

People want to believe, and the fact that it is AI generated is causing widespread crisis among people who thought that AI slop would only fool their parents. We are as a culture intensely attuned to the idea that animals might do cute things at night when we can’t see them, and there have been several real viral security camera videos lately of animals trepidatiously checking out trampolines. 

This particular video was difficult to discern as AI in part because security camera footage is also famously the blurriest type of footage. The aesthetics of this particular video make it very difficult to tell that it’s AI at first glance, because we are used to looking at surveillance camera footage as being blurry and dark, which can hide some of the standard signs people look at when trying to determine if a video is AI generated. The background of the image is also static; newer AI video generators are getting pretty good at creating the foreground subject of a video, but the background often remains very surreal. In this video, that’s not the case because of the static nature of the background. Pretending to be nighttime security footage also helps to disguise the things AI is often bad at—accurate movement, correct blur and lighting, and fine details. Tagging “@Ring” was also pretty smart by the uploader, because it gives a plausible place for the video to come from.

People are responding totally normally, embodying a very relatable arc; the confidence of youth to think “that will never happen to me,” followed by the crushing realization that eventually we all become old and susceptible to scams. 

This guy sings that the video of the bunnies “might manufacture the way you made me feel – how do I know that the sky’s really sunny?” 

@olivesongs11

7/29/25 – day 576 of writing a song every day

♬ original sound – olivesongs

While @OliviaDaytonn says “Now I feel like I’m gonna be one of those old people that get scammed”.

@oliviadaytonn I wanted them to be real so badly #bunnies #trampoline ♬ original sound – olivia dayton

Another TikToker says the bunnies were “The first AI video I believed was real – I am doomed when I’m old”

@catenstuff #duet with @rachelthecatlovers #bunny #AAALASPARATUCURRO #bunnyjumpingontrampoline ♬ Bounce When She Walk – Ohboyprince

And @sydney_benjamin offers a public apology to her best friend for sending her the video. “Guys, I fell for AI.. I’m quite ashamed, I think of myself as like an educated person.” She says that she felt good when she busted a previous AI video trend for her friends (Grandma Does Interviews On Street).  

@sydney_benjamin

This one was hard to admit

♬ original sound – Sydney Benjamin

This video breaks down the animal-on-trampoline trend and explains how to spot a fake animal-on-trampoline video. 

@showtoolsai How to spot AI videos – animals on trampolines #bunnies #dog #bear #bunny #ai ♬ original sound – showtools

Of course, because the bunny video went viral, there are now copycats. This video, published on YouTube shorts one day after the first, by a different account, is also AI generated. 

This is a theme that has a long history of being explored in song; for a more authentic trampolining-bunny musical experience, there is this video which is from a comfortably pre-AI “9 years ago”. 

The uploader, @Rachelthecatlovers, only has four other videos. The account posted its first video a year ago, then waited, then posted a second one this week, which is also somewhat unusual for AI slop. Most AI slop accounts post multiple times a day, and most of the accounts are newly created. @Rachelthecatlovers has one other AI bunny video (the flap to the door disappears) and a bird cam video. It also has a video of grapes being rehydrated with a needle, tagged #bunny. 

People are freaked out by being fooled by this video and are clearly confident that they can usually spot videos that have been generated. But maybe that’s just the toupee fallacy; you only see the bad ones. Trampolining bunnies have broken that facade.