AI Video Detector for Reels and Shorts
AI-generated videos are flooding Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts — and they're getting harder to spot every month. Ricktr is an AI video detector built specifically for short-form social video: you share a reel or paste a link, and Rick the Chick inspects it and hands you a Rick Score from 1 (real without a doubt) to 100 (AI slop).
How Ricktr detects AI video
- Visual analysis — Rick examines the footage for the telltale signs of AI generation: warped hands and extra fingers, melting backgrounds, impossible physics, inconsistent shadows, and faces that shift between frames.
- Audio and voice checks — synthetic voices, mismatched lip-sync, dubbing artifacts, and robotic cadence all raise the score.
- File forensics — real camera footage carries metadata from the device that shot it. Metadata from known AI tools is hard evidence, and Rick weighs it heavily.
- Repeat-offender detection — when a channel keeps posting AI content, Rick remembers and factors that into future checks.
What the Rick Score means
1–30: Looks Real — nothing suspicious. Real dog, real drool.
31–69: Kinda Sus — some warning signs, but not enough to call it. Trust your gut.
70–100: AI Alert — strong evidence of AI generation. Six toes, no shadow, hard nope.
Why a detector made for reels?
Most AI detectors were built for images or long text. Short vertical video is its own beast — heavy compression, fast cuts, captions, and trending audio all hide the usual clues. Ricktr is tuned on hundreds of real and AI-generated reels, so it knows the difference between a compressed phone video and a synthetic clip trying to look like one.
Try it free
Your first check is on the house — no account needed. Paste a link or upload a video and get your Rick Score in about a minute.
Want to spot AI videos yourself? Read our guide: how to tell if a video is AI generated.