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Trying hard to scare mom...

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u/marilyns_dayjob 11h ago

Mom: nice try kiddo

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u/Then-Function6343 4h ago edited 3h ago

I love how the little one still got scared when the mom walked by, even after preparing so hard

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u/Live_Angle4621 4h ago

Mom did first come too slowly and them come too soon for poor kitten. Tried still to scare here by standing up!

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u/GANDORF57 2h ago edited 12m ago

Mom's kind of sorry now she taught her offspring Peek-A-Boo. ^(\"Yeah, yeah, oooh I'm so scared!")*

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u/-2wenty7even- 11h ago

Mission failed!

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u/Derfalken 8h ago

We'll get 'em next time!

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u/Educational-Log6855 3h ago

Mission failed adorably!

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u/Televisions_Frank 2h ago

Fission mailed

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u/VaATC 10h ago

Go! Abort! Go! Abort! Go! Abort! Abort! Abort!

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u/Alarming-Course1084 11h ago

There's another cat at the top left corner, I don't think this is AI

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u/Connect_Psychology16 10h ago

We are in a sad timeline

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u/NevadaPL 7h ago

Welcome to shit version of cyberpunk. XD

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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 10h ago

Hooomans!!! 😡😡

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u/THE_CLAWWWWWWWWW 7h ago edited 4h ago

Meh. If I enjoy something I’ll enjoy it regardless. As long as I’m not putting blind faith into something trying to convince me of a narrative or political view - I honestly don’t care where it comes from. Ai or not, this makes me chuckle.

EDIT: I'm going to add this part below for people:

I think another part of my opinion is shaped by what I perceive as the following 2 points:

  • looking to claim harmless things as AI will do more to harm falsely accused artists than it will to stop AI. One of the things that has stuck with me was an image of 4 children in The Office themed Halloween costumes that was crucified for being AI. For example, people were insulting the kids appearances. Well, turns out it wasn’t AI and the people were just insulting actual people.

  • people look harder for AI in things they inherently dislike. Take this massive popular post from yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/ikqaEFdSbe ; it’s an incredible feel-good story, and to be clear I’m glad and proud of the person. But reading it, it is blatantly written by AI. Every paragraph and sentence follows the idyllic chatGPT structure, but no one bothers to think about it there because they like the message.

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u/TheJulian 7h ago

I don't know if I envy this perspective or pity it.

All I know is that I don't share it.

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u/THE_CLAWWWWWWWWW 7h ago

I’m not sure why anyone would ever pity it. It’s simply like enjoying a well-acted skit. Or maybe better described as the ‘art is in the eye of the beholder.’

There are times where skepticism is important, and there are times it is meaningless. The key is simply knowing the difference

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u/TheJulian 6h ago

I don't think I really do pity it. I'm honestly not trying to make a value judgement. I'm trying to understand why I'll never feel like this.

The skit analogy is a good one because I really dislike those videos where something is portrayed as accidental or coincidental and it's actually pre-arranged. As opposed to a skit where no one is asking you to believe that it "really happened" which I love.

There's something about the intent of it all that I can't look past. I can't just suspend disbelief if I'm actually being asked to believe that something is real when it's not. This is not the same thing as watching a TV show or movie or skit where the acknowledgment is preset to "this didn't happen but have fun pretending it did" which I'm fine with.

Perhaps this is a shortcoming on my part. Idk

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u/THE_CLAWWWWWWWWW 5h ago

No I understand your comment and perspective. I want to thank you for taking the time to respond genuinely and critically. I appreciate the perspectives. I think another part of my opinion is shaped by what I perceive as the following 2 points:

  • looking to claim harmless things as AI will do more to harm falsely accused artists than it will to stop AI. One of the things that has stuck with me was an image of 4 children in The Office themed Halloween costumes that was crucified for being AI. For example, people were insulting the kids appearances. Well, turns out it wasn’t AI and the people were just insulting actual people.

  • people look harder for AI in things they inherently dislike. Take this massive popular post from yesterday - https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/ikqaEFdSbe ; it’s an incredible feel-good story, and to be clear I’m glad and proud of the person. But reading it, it is blatantly written by AI. Every paragraph and sentence follows the idyllic chatGPT structure, but no one bothers to think about it there because they like the message.

The first point I would say is the more influential to me, and I just think we are likely to do more harm to ourselves and to creators by trying to look for AI in every corner. And to be clear, I can support regulation of AI and protest the creative use of AI. That’s not mutually exclusive with my current stance either.

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u/Redebo 47m ago

Wait until every human understands that only us have the power of creation and that we can use AI to express it. :)

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u/queercomputer 7h ago

Cat videos are probably the most innocent use of AI. More of these rather than making a joke of politics and art, please.

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u/Vigoureux 3h ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the distinction in your example is that the story may have been written with AI but it IS an actual event that happened?

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u/THE_CLAWWWWWWWWW 3h ago edited 3h ago

Honestly that second one is much less important; it was just on my mind. If someone told you their cat did this, but they didnt get it on video so made this ai video of it, then would that influence your opinion of it?

I think what I’m poorly trying to describe there is that people are already selectively choosing when to look for AI. Take that recent Epstein picture of trump for example. It was plastered everywhere with people blaming mods for removing it… turns out it was AI, but no one was being critical because they agreed with the idea of it. (To be clear, this is not me defending trump either. People seem to conflate that pretty often.)

People say we need to be critical of everything, but then don’t apply those critical thinking skills when it matters most. But then they’re more than happy to criticize random harmless images.

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u/kosh56 6h ago

This is fucking sad.

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u/Hixy 5h ago

Nice try AI. I know your kind is the only ones to use an em dash

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u/THE_CLAWWWWWWWWW 5h ago

Lol, that’s not an em dash 😂

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u/ryoujika 8h ago

I hate how we even have to think this

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u/gesocks 7h ago

Give it a view more years and we won't need to think this anymore. We will just have accepted that there is no way to tell.

Pictures and videos will become as evident and real as paintings have been for centuries

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u/balding_git 5h ago

years…

feels like last year these things generating blobs that resembled people if you squinted, now its making full videos

i think we have months at best

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u/gesocks 5h ago

I meant years till we accepted it.

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u/Jay__Riemenschneider 6h ago

I kind of hope it destroys the current version of "the internet"

Facebook and all social media can die.

Lets go back to aim and homestarrunner

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u/Mrkennedyfreak 3h ago

As much as I would love this, and would love some new SB Emails, I don't think it'll happen... Just more fodder for racist boomers to fawn over.

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u/RenownedShark 4h ago

Welcome to the new world order

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u/Vancha 1h ago

We don't.

If AI stops you from enjoying something, it's rational to blame it for being present where it's unwelcome, but when you start seeing AI where it's absent and uninvolved, you might as well just give up trying to enjoy anything digital then and there.

You could do the same thing to yourself before AI by assuming every video was staged or every reddit thread was made up, even when they weren't.

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 3h ago

Im pretty sure it is. Something feels off.

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u/Partyatmyplace13 8h ago

The shadows on the back wall aren't dancing either.

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u/Xabster2 7h ago

What are you talking about?

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u/[deleted] 9h ago edited 8h ago

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u/thlastousla 9h ago

I'm pretty sure this video has been around since before AI was really a thing like it is now. Could be wrong though.

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u/Lutzelien 9h ago

That video is about 15 years old you muppet

Also VERY clearly not AI, man we are in for some dark times

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u/Khaeos 9h ago

This comment is AI

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u/RaisedByWolves9 8h ago

Your upvotes are AI

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u/ABHOR_pod 4h ago

There's nothing intelligent about my upvotes, artificial or otherwise.

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u/LeMAD 9h ago

Neither are AI.

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u/mikenasty 6h ago

Fuck. I was just stupidly enjoying my morning until I read this

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u/gentlejarrod 11h ago

Haha he was tryin' to scare mom but he ended up scarin' himself....super cute 😂

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u/Hardwiredbrain 9h ago

Kittens at this age are so cute..

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u/MasterChiefsasshole 6h ago

Just fuzzy balls of chaos.

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u/doomgiver98 5h ago

Yes that's what happened

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u/cupcakes_and_ale 8h ago

My son does this to me all the time. But he’s a teen now and has gotten much better at it.

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u/NoFaxCow 4h ago

Mine still has the giggles before she does but I’m a dramatic queen

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u/mellowpigyo 4h ago

But instead you get scared

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u/i_am_13th_panic 11h ago edited 10h ago

do house cats not act like big wild cats and pretend to be scared when their young try? that's disappointing.

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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp 10h ago

Sometimes. But that was a piss poor attempt. I wouldnt give it the satisfaction either. I need at least a 3/10 to give a fuck. Lmao

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u/CatastropheWife 3h ago

Yeah poor lil guy, I kept waiting for mom to put on a show like the snow leopards but no dice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRXcW2wVDmM

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u/thermal_envelope 2h ago

That is so awesome! Clearly a performance.

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u/john_san 11h ago

Sooo cute

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u/geekpeeps 9h ago

Went too early. Good plan though.

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u/brneyedgrrl 7h ago

When it stands up on its little hind legs with its little paws in the air!!! OMG that's so cute!!!

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u/4rcher91 10h ago

Raygun would be proud. 

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u/WakaWaka_ 10h ago

Uno reverse card

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u/naab007 7h ago

Patience not yet learned 😂

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u/Hydrishu 7h ago

I'm so tired of having to think if everything is AI or not

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u/KopfSmertZz 8h ago

Killer instinct kicking in

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u/AdrianVideoEditing 5h ago

The moment when you get scared while trying to scare someone xD

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u/summerjopotato 6h ago

This is so cute omg

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u/MidKnightshade 3h ago

That’s nice sweety.

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u/Less_Safe6508 10h ago

She is so cute

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u/DreamySizzleSpice 6h ago

nice one kiddo 🥰

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u/termacct 5h ago

"good ting we inside katz..dis wun no make it outside..." mama katz

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u/onefst250r 3h ago

❗️

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u/Loud-Actuator7640 11h ago

It's this really AI? Hard to tell. The person who has 10 upvotes said it is but can also be just a troll. AI making everyone doubt themselves what is real or not, who to believe or not.

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u/SweetDove 8h ago

The clip is a 15 year old repost, from before AI.

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u/FistyFistWithFingers 7h ago

Phew! Just a repost. Thought we were becoming creatively bankrupt

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u/SweetDove 4h ago

I mean we -ARE- but, not from this specific video lol

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u/NoPoet3982 9h ago

It is a bit weird how the kitten turns around and tries again. I've never seen that irl.

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u/Wise_Advertising_888 10h ago

I deleted my earlier post saying this is AI as the consensus seems to be that it isn't. Apologies and great that you managed to capture such an adorable moment with your pussycats.

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u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 10h ago

Pooh see cats!

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u/dirtyox 8h ago

But what if it was ai does make it any different

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u/UniqueCoconut9126 8h ago

……Yes…..

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u/Wise_Advertising_888 3h ago

Yes. Yes it does.

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u/sparkplay 7h ago

The little butt wiggle at the start 😂

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u/Squbasquid 4h ago

Is this the same pair where momma comes waddling in with the little one screaming?

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u/Kagamid 4h ago

This ain't her first rodeo.

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u/lmichaeb 4h ago

Bless his little heart.

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u/elektric_eel 3h ago

Awwwww 😭😭♥️

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u/redbrick01 3h ago

at 0:8 is where the little one give its all!!! LOL Love this....

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u/Dist__ 3h ago

i think it is ai, look at frame 0:03

it is anyway cool, i don't blame RAM and GPU prices for these videos

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 3h ago

Unless that kitten has a cropped or deformed tail this is AI. This whole sub now is jist riddled with ai garbage

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u/Mottis86 2h ago

Love how she got spooked herself when the mom appeared and she still went "boo!" afterwards

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u/nevelsmary0 2h ago

Nice try kitty!

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u/ArmchairFilosopher 2h ago

This was better a couple days ago before this repost messed with the audio...

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u/_prince_rai_07 2h ago

Better luck next time

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u/_prince_rai_07 2h ago

Better luck next time

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u/bupnnymimzy 2h ago

When you realize your mam cant scare you

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u/Jazzlike_Pianist8872 2h ago

What’s the breed of this cat ?

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u/maddsssi 1h ago

i volunteer at a cat shelter and the amount of times i see the babies doing this to their mom or siblings is the best. poor moms need a break from the chaos causers 😂

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u/ExpensiveBookkeeper3 8h ago

That’s cute

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u/Historical-Culture99 7h ago

This cat feels familiar ... Like a typical arc raiders player

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u/PA55W0RD 6h ago

Jeez mom. At least pretend.

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/rip_cpu 11h ago

I don't think this one is AI, I don't see any obvious signs like AI meltiness or inconsistent objects/limbs appearing.

For example the carpet? That dog cartoon design is very uniform, it looks like an actual printed design as oppose to an AI thing which I would expect to have little weird variances.

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u/terraphantm 11h ago

Are you sure this is AI? It seems too real

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u/lokkayne 11h ago

its ai?? how can you tell?

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u/Klatty 11h ago

This is AI???? Holy shit I’ve been fooled hard.

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u/Grst 11h ago

It's not.

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u/up___97 11h ago

Same 🤙🏻

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u/Radiant-Ask-5716 11h ago

How do we tell what is AI and what isn't? At what point will AI become indistinguishable from reality? AI and its growth frankly terrifies me, and any way to distinguish between it and reality would be much appreciated.

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u/NoirKorbo 11h ago

Yes. I couldn't care less about political and celebrities deep fakes but Ai is spoiling cute little cats videos and that's horrible

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u/listenhere111 11h ago

Don't care if its AI. I thought it was great.

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u/gmennert 10h ago

For this? Yeah great, no harm in a little fun. But next time you can’t differentiate it’s something to influence you, or a fake allegation. Then you should care if it’s AI.

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u/unwarrend 11h ago

I know. SO sleepy. Also, while I can believe that it might be AI, can you explain how you know?

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u/FloranceStahl 11h ago

But His Mother doesn't Seem to understand

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u/Triksterloki 11h ago

And that is why the Emperor banned AI from being studied by Mechanicum. So we don't have to second guess whether a video with kitties are real or not

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u/sucobe 11h ago

Hmmm. 9 second video… the larger cats shadow in the beginning up against the structure looks off but the more telling detail of AI is the last frame with the jagged hair on the larger cat. I’m also on mobile, and it’s 1am…

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u/Mleko_O 11h ago

It's 1am wherever you live. Try to google "time zones" and have some fun discovering rest of the world!

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u/dc456 7h ago edited 6h ago

What are you even trying to say? That they’re not tired and potentially making a mistake at 1am, because it’s not 1am in other places?

What next? That they’re not looking at a smaller screen on mobile because other people use monitors?

It’s like you’re trying so hard to sound smart that you’ve just ended up sounding really stupid.

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u/codespace 8h ago

Pedantry isn't a personality.

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u/GabeLeRoy 10h ago

Yes its AI .. look between 4-5 seconds.. there is a bug in the paw animation.. and it flick from top to bottom