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An increasing percentage of animal-related shorts seem to be reposted content with an AI narrator spouting completely made-up bullshit clearly written by someone for whom English is a second language at best
One video mashed together several random videos featuring the same type of animal while the narration tried to pass it off as some heart-warming clickbait story about one individual animal
Remember what they took from you 
I just realized I need to update my go-to definition of hell.
Old def: The demons tell me to answer to a 50 step "how to" problem in a tightly limited period of time. But I can only watch Youtube videos. I watch a vid and the volume is so low and the guy is mumbling so bad - I can't understand a thing. I try another and it seems good at first but the guy jumps from step 3 to step 10. "So now the cover's off." But I don't know what you did! I try a third but the entire time the guy is talking he sounds like he has his entire fist in his mouth. And so on. I fail. I get tortured for what seems like 24 hours straight. And then it starts all over again.
New def: My task is the same. But even theoretically speaking - the absolute best I could ever do is to get to step 5 because everything is from an endless getting-ever-worse AI slop centipede that feeds recycled shit to itself.
It's horrible. For example, I just googled "baby peacock" and 3 of the top 10 results are abominable AI-generated images that are just babified (by mammalian standards) peacocks instead of what an actual peacock chick looks like. It's not just "misinformation", it's actual sacrilegious. It's disgusting, it's offensive, it insults the natural genuine beauty and cuteness of these birds. I do not have words to express how vile an affront to the dignity, beauty, and adorableness of birds these abominations are.
it insults the natural genuine beauty and cuteness of these birds. I do not have words to express how vile an affront to the dignity, beauty, and adorableness of birds these abominations are.
I hate these vile AI concoctions as much as anyone, but this is a very anthropocentric way of thinking about other species. I know you're trying to say "appreciate them as they are" and that's great but in reality people having bad ideas is only an affront to aspects of ourselves, nature don't give a fuck and I worry that this kind of thinking is almost, paternalistic? Dignity is a very human idea; some vultures shit on their own legs to cool down, there's no way to describe them as "dignified" but they're as important and vital to protect as any "majestic" living thing. Plenty of organisms aren't particularly aesthetically pleasing but are still important, and I feel like projecting a human framework over them risks concealing that. I dunno, my education was in ecology, biology, Enviro science etc and it worries me that so much of the work that has to be done needs to be packaged up to appeal to human aesthetics even if that hurts the work itself.
I'm talking to humans about human concepts. The birds don't care, but humans do. It's probably necessarily going to seem anthropocentric to talk about how all life is beautiful and deserves to be preserved, therefore we need a better approach to the environment than "destroy it all and save a few individuals".
I don't think it's paternalistic to appreciate other creatures. I am certainly not coming at it from a paternalistic standpoint, more a stance of loving our fellow living creatures and appreciating them.
Plenty of organisms aren't particularly aesthetically pleasing but are still important, and I feel like projecting a human framework over them risks concealing that.
Aesthetics can be part of it but also I disagree, I think there's beauty to be found in the vast majority of organisms. You just have to look closely enough or consider more about them than how they look, but also their behavior, life cycle, or just how interesting they are evolutionarily. Absolutely true that it's not just appearance that matters. Their place in the ecosystem matters too. Beyond that and more importantly, the fact that other organisms exist and live is enough to make them matter. They live, therefore they have value and rights. I cannot think of a single species that is beyond appreciation. Even ticks and mosquitoes, which I do feel negatively toward for parasitism and being infection vectors, have redeeming qualities. Even blood flukes have things about them that can be appreciated.
Dignity is a very human idea; some vultures shit on their own legs to cool down, there's no way to describe them as "dignified"
Hard disagree. Vultures are wonderful. They're really cool, many (not all, but many) are super cute, and are absolutely dignified and majestic in their own way. The fact that they shit and vomit on themselves to keep themselves cool is just part of their charm.
it worries me that so much of the work that has to be done needs to be packaged up to appeal to human aesthetics even if that hurts the work itself
I think I agree in that charismatic megafauna get more attention and support than more ecologically critical creatures, but the solution to me is to preach the gospel of loving all the creatures so that people care about the environment more as a whole rather than just isolated superstars. But I am interested in hearing you say more about that and your concerns. I am not trained in any of this.
It's so fucking dire. Even before AI any given half of an insanely popular slop cute animal compilation was animal abuse. Not in the sense that somebody punts a puppy through a football goal but where it was really obvious this animal got the raw end of the stick. "Chester the rabbit loves his weekly baths :)" as the poor thing is nearly dying of a stress induced heart attack type stuff.
But through the powers of computer we now combine footage of a roadkilled rabbit with footage of an entirely different, tortured rabbit to create a feelgood story to serve people who "love animals" in the sense that it's a piece of property that's cute to look at
was animal abuse.
There are a disgusting amount of TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/Facebook/Vine/whatever where they "rescue" animals the video creators abused. Like they put kittens in mud puddles and then show them taking the kitten in, cleaning and feeding it, etc. Some take it a step further and break an animal's bones, make it bleed, or whatever cruel things they can think of.
Nothing you see on the internet is real and I fucking hate it. AI is only making it worse.
Sooo many "wholesome" videos of predator and prey animals together and it's horrible because eventually that cat or dog is going to kill and eat the little bird and it'll be all the fault of the irresponsible asshole human owner who put them together. It happened with someone I knew irl and was completely predictable.
And these assholes always get defensive when you say something, like "my precious baby isn't a cold-blooded killer! They're siblings! They're both my kids!" No, animals are intelligent and sentient people too but you can't just anthropomorphize them, you have to respect them for who and what they are
It's both anthromorphizing animals to the point where they get fucked up I think. Which feels weird because in my anecdotal experience everyone who does this is also a huge fan of likening humans to animals in the "I am the wolf among the sheep" thing or "I have incisors like a lion which is why I must eat meat and also my stepson" type deal
I found a playlist of magic schoolbus episodes and for some reason there were 4 hour AI videos thrown in between them. It was a few episodes in so you could give the iPad to your kid then they'd eventually have their brain melted by the AI slop
i watched (clicked through) some nerd stream about a termite colony he was raising and like half the fucking video was just random footage of termites doing shit
YouTube shorts, instagram reels, and TikTok clips are a hotbed of AI and it makes sense. The cracks of even the most convincing AI start to show after a few minutes but it can be pretty convincing in 30 seconds or less.
Yes, I’ve seen an increase in this as well. I can’t wait until Ai just creates the funny animals for us. 😭
There was already an entire cottage industry of channels just reposting other people's animal content for views, I don't see why they need to add AI narration on top of the clips
Lazy as hell
The children will dream of tralalejo tralala, not lions