# Runway — The Turing Reel

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-01-22T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/research/theturingreel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7898-the-turing-reel
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Models affected: Gen-4.5

Runway published a research study demonstrating that over 90% of participants could not reliably distinguish videos generated by its Gen-4.5 model from real video. The company also released image-to-video capabilities for Gen-4.5 and launched a website where people can try the test.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/research/theturingreel:

> Over 90% of participants could not reliably distinguish Gen-4.5 outputs from real video.

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