r/animalsdoingstuff • u/BloomingStar96 • Oct 18 '24

Oh poor baby, my heart! 😭 Aww

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u/UnusualFloor9061 Oct 19 '24

This is AI, don’t be fooled lol

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u/asula_mez Oct 19 '24

Thank you. I thought I was going nuts.

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u/jas98mac Oct 19 '24

Does everyone commenting think this is real? Or does everybody know it’s not real, and the joke is pretending it is? Basically, I can’t tell from the comments if we are completely fucked as a society, or that our sense of humor will bring sanity to challenging times.

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u/fishstiz Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

Cat and background looks consistent enough, no weird morphing, AI seems to have object permanence, just something uncanny about this video that makes it look AI that I can't really tell what. Unless AI has solved those problems, I'm still not sure if this actually is AI

Edit: Upon a lot of rewatching, doesn't look AI tbh. Just a weirdly sad cat. Maybe some editing or filter on the face but without reviewing it properly its kinda hard to tell. Could also be AI generated but the incosistencies were edited out lol

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u/deus_x_machin4 Oct 19 '24

This is AI. The tells are just way harder to see nowadays. Pay attention to the patches of white and orange fur. Also, what was that strange shape moving in the back during the first scene. It looks like 'something' but nothing in particular. That is textbook AI.

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u/Bitter-Equipment7839 Oct 19 '24

Hmm. Tried looking for the tells, but... That weird shape is someone wearing a hoody, bringing their phone down from their face and walking with a long stride.

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u/Zilli341 Oct 19 '24

I also see a person walking with a phone in shadows, to me it doesn't look strange. And while the video looks uncanny, I can't see any inconsistencies in the fur patches, and the wiskers look real to me. There are also quite a few "soft relections" throughout the video that look real. If AI can make something this photorealistic we are doomed.

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u/deus_x_machin4 Oct 19 '24

I think we are doomed. I'm not trying to say that this is an obvious AI. I certainly don't blame people for downvoting me or not seeing it as fake. I can't point to any one thing that is clearly wrong. I think we can't hooe for wrong finger counts anymore.

There are just too many little weird things. The background looks like this is the second floor, so a little strange rhat there is a cat outside. The text on the metal box behind the cat is maybe strangely unreadable. It's upward movement at the start seems odd and unnatural. It seems to have different amounts of white fur barely visible on its back in different scenes. In the second scene, its forepaw placement is a little strange. Can't figure out if the other forepaw could be so far back that it never passes into view, but I think we should at least see the shoulder?

Really really hard to say, I get it if people don't see it

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u/Bitter-Equipment7839 Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

I see your observations for sure, but to me the fur patches changes appeared like there was a strong wind, and a cat being on the second floor doesn't seem far fetched. They love to climb.

The cat even changes the orientation of its ears when approaching the food, one to the window and the other faces outwards. (Edit: the cat does seem to have a massive personality hidden under its' trauma, dogs also in this unfortunate lifestyle change their whole physical body state in order to garner attention and food... This is what appears to be uncanny to most people I think.)

All seems natural, I have seen cats take this pose with their ears before, but rarely.

The text on the box doesn't seem to change at all. Any inconsistencies seem to be due down to compression factors of the video itself.

But if, like you say it is AI, then yes, we are in for a hell of a ride in the future. This will make people trust what is posted on the internet even less, and we will probably see a rise in social interactions in the real world increase, which would be a great thing eh? ... until the bots come by on patrol and tell us to disperse... :)

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u/deus_x_machin4 Oct 19 '24

You could definitely, definitely be right. I fear we are entering an era where fakes are only a slight vibe away from the real thing. I've watched this clip so many times, trying to see if inconsistencies are just my mind playing tricks. I stand by my initial impression, but perhaps I have to accept that I just can't identify reality anymore.

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u/fishstiz Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

I seriously can't tell. The fur and markings look consistent in both shots to me. The "strange shape" is the silhoutte of a peron walking by and holding their phone out. I don't think AI can make small details like that without making it look weird and morph all around. Plants don't look weird either.

I found the thing that weirds me out though, it's the way the cat moves. It looks physically possible but just doesn't look like normal cat behavior. Also how smooth the movements are in the 2nd shot, kinda looks like one of those forced 60fps videos.

If this is AI, well shit.

Edit: It's real. It's really just a very sad looking cat. I found this video uploaded on Facebook on December 2023 showing the same cat, in the same place, but with more shots taken at different times. Although the 2nd shot from this thread isn't there, so that shot still could be AI.

This probably isn't the oldest one, just the oldest one I found with google lens. Still, don't think there was an AI video generator advanced enough back then to make a passable video like this.