better than half our interns

12 days ago by als to c/science_memes

AdrianTheFrog 290 points 12 days ago

I think this is fake and an AI generated image. The only place I can find this story is on slop YouTube channels (just showing this screenshot), it isn't anywhere else online. The image also isn't anywhere else that the Google image search can find, and this ai detector that seems accurate in my experience finds it suspicious

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AspieEgg 147 points 12 days ago

It’s very clearly an AI image to me. Just look at the road lines. A double solid yellow line on the right side of the road is not something that happens in the USA. The double yellow line would be in the center of the road. And if this was a divided highway with the coyote being in the center median, then the yellow line would be a single solid line.

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HugeNerd 42 points 12 days ago

And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?

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Quokka 33 points 12 days ago

And why is there one in the middle of nowhere

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HugeNerd 31 points 12 days ago

For the coyote

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zaph 8 points 12 days ago

As someone who lived in the Mojave desert for nearly a decade, that part isn't that weird. Double yellow and weird spacing in the crosswalk are pretty obvious but a crosswalk that appears to be in the middle of nowhere is quite standard where I was at.

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arrow74 1 point 12 days ago

That was explained well by the post. It allegedly led to a trailhead. I see these types of crosswalks near trails often.

Still AI, but the story checked out

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Steve 10 points 12 days ago

The sign above the button looks like a 1 hour parking sign, and the big brown sign should be legible even with all the jpeg

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Lemmyoutofhere 5 points 12 days ago

Yellow lines always separate directions of travel. So yellow lines will only be down the middle of the road. White lines will be in between lanes travelling the same direction, and along the edges of the road.

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AdrianTheFrog 2 points 12 days ago

there is an intersection near me (east coast USA) with one lane on one side of 2 yellow lines and 3 lanes on the other side. It's definitely possible. It does have turning arrows, but those would be a bit out of view from this angle I think (they're kinda far back). The picture is still very implausible though because of the very uneven lane widths and the weird crosswalk paint. The closest lane looks like it could only fit half a car.

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chemical_cutthroat 50 points 12 days ago

No... it's totally legit.

Here is another image of the same coyote from a different angle that I totally didn't just render on my PC in 30 seconds.

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HugeNerd 73 points 12 days ago

pah, stand aside

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TheBraveSirRobbin 2 points 12 days ago

Nerd!

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Ziglin 1 point 11 days ago

A huge one in fact!

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echodot 4 points 12 days ago

That's actually a more convincing image. The one looks like it's hiding something because it's so low-res

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Buddahriffic 1 point 11 days ago

Oh, from that angle I can clearly see that this coyote isn't trying to cross the road here, it is doing maintenance on the button box, which must have gotten loose. It's a well known fact that coyotes can't operate screwdrivers or even wrenches all that well, so it must have applied some glue or epoxy and is just holding it in place while the adhesive cures.

Like a coyote would have anything to do on the other side of the road anyways lol.

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als 46 points 12 days ago

Cursed timeline 😔

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Feathercrown 29 points 12 days ago

The language/sentence structure and account name are also very suspicious. I want it to be real so bad though

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My_IFAKs___gone 25 points 12 days ago

I like to think coyotes are perfectly capable of this behavior, but they make the conscious choice to be lawless jaywalkers to stick it to the man.

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Dingo_Kidneys 5 points 12 days ago

Shout out to my cousins!

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Feathercrown 13 points 12 days ago

Wait, look at the placement of the road markings, especially the yellow line. Wtf

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chiliedogg 21 points 12 days ago

The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line at the shoulder.

100% fake.

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14th_cylon 13 points 12 days ago

also notice how they try to sound like newspaper article without saying anything specific.

genuine news texts will say "person x from institution y says: >...<" not "biologists believe" and "lead researcher says".

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holy_scroller 15 points 12 days ago

Is the Internet over?

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tacosanonymous 10 points 12 days ago

Yeah. It was amazing and wild while it lasted, though.

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hansolo 15 points 12 days ago

All the text is AI blobs.

Lane markings all wrong.

Slop Xing

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pjwestin 8 points 12 days ago

Beyond that, this, "wildlife cam," photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.

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Auli 8 points 12 days ago

Its ai look at how the coyote is standing and pressing the button. It doesn't look natural.

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chunes 7 points 12 days ago

I think this is fake and an AI generated image.

Didn't even need to study the picture. The premise alone is ridiculous

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Jomega 2 points 12 days ago

I've seen foxes use the crosswalk, but never push the button. If the story stayed at "This animal is smart enough to know that it won't get hit if it stays in the little white lines" then I probably wouldn't have clocked it. Still, what a horrible, dishonest thing to do.

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BlueEther 6 points 12 days ago

I looked as well, Gemini said it was real, then I asked for sources and it said it was not true and just a meme.

Same query except asking for sources:

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turdas 31 points 12 days ago

I asked the Magic 8 Ball and it said that signs point to yes.

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very_well_lost 18 points 12 days ago

Gemini is worse than useless when it comes to this sort of thing. It's simultaneously the most confidently-wrong of any AI model and also the most willing to fold to even the smallest amount of criticism.

It will tell you whatever you want to hear, every time, regardless of the actual reality.

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BlueEther 0 points 12 days ago

well I was looking for a good source, and DDG hadn't found one so I went to google - not for it's AI

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DarrinBrunner 12 points 12 days ago

Why do people even bother with AI, when it's so often wrong?

Just say no.

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naught101 8 points 12 days ago

You do see the flaw in your logic here, right?

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hoshikarakitaridia 3 points 12 days ago

These screenshots are art.

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manefraim -1 points 12 days ago

I always get a kick out of people getting frustrated when they SHOW AN AI SOMETHING and then ask if it's "real."

Ai: "Of course its, 'real.' Bitch, you just showed it to me."

Stunning amount of hammer hate coming from people who aim for their thumbs.

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BlueEther 2 points 12 days ago

but I didn't show it, I searched in the google search box, it was googles choice to make up lies about the string of text

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manefraim 1 point 12 days ago

Given the screencaps, I may have to eat my words on this one.

"Entirely true," is rather damning, I must admit.

Sorry, mate.

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ryannathans 4 points 12 days ago

It's a wild coyote repeatedly and flawlessly using a pedestrian crossing, of course it's fake lmfao

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blackbirdbiryani 1 point 12 days ago

At this point I just end up blocking people who post this dumb shit.

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Routhinator 90 points 12 days ago

I have watched the deer in Campbell River walk up the sidewalk single file, wait at a crosswalk for the road to clear, and then cross.

The animals are learning to navigate the new jungle.

But this is definitely AI with those road lines. So a fake story.

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starik 15 points 12 days ago

The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.

I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.

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mirshafie 14 points 12 days ago

Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.

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howrar 9 points 12 days ago

Aren't hares always looking both ways?

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mirshafie 7 points 12 days ago

You mean on account of having their eyes on the sides of their heads rather than in front?

They do, and I honestly don't know how their vision works, but I would guess that they can turn their eyeballs to the front to maybe get some depth perception? At least that's what it looked like to me with this hare. It was a really long, straight road where you could see 1 km or more in both directions, and the hare was being really careful waiting until the road was completely clear in both directions.

It likely also relied a lot on directional hearing, but really was turning its head which I don't think they usually do, since they can easily turn their ears independently.

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psud 5 points 12 days ago

The elevated part is called an island in Australia

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 2 points 12 days ago

I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I'm pumping the brakes, she's waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 2 points 12 days ago

Lol as if Arizona in any way accomodates pedestrians.

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RobotToaster 58 points 12 days ago

That's a Wily Coyote.

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deacon 12 points 12 days ago

Oh bravo.

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naught101 4 points 12 days ago

wAIly cAIote

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starik 45 points 12 days ago

Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have to be very ignorant and gullible to believe it.

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DempstersBox 6 points 12 days ago

Coyotes are smart.

I've watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.

It's not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?

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SomethingBurger 9 points 12 days ago

Coyotes are smart.

I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn't even catch a bird.

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Notyou 10 points 12 days ago

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DempstersBox 1 point 11 days ago

Not known as the trickster god for no reason

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starik 2 points 12 days ago

I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?

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DempstersBox 2 points 11 days ago

Okay, to set the scene:

I'm eating lunch. Sitting at a high top against a big wall of windows, street level. I am all about this fucking salad bar. And gawking out this window, because once it's mixed properly, it all comes out the same color.

A crow flies by.

Lands at the edge of the curb. Claws around the corner.

Waits for the taxi that was already taking the turn, inches from this bird.

Looks upstreet, looks downstreet, jets across both lanes of main road.

I'm not anthropomorphizing shit, crows are fucking Smart. They know cars are dangerous. I wish my fucking dog would figure that out

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Lucidlethargy 1 point 11 days ago

I live amongst coyotes, and I see them almost every day. What are you taking about? You're asserting a coyote can teach itself to use a crosswalk?

Why? Why would a coyote do this? What is the reward?

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DempstersBox 1 point 11 days ago

I've encountered many crosswalk buttons that trigger a light to stop the car traffic. Often these are along busy main roads, sometimes without a car road accompanying it. Just a pedestrian crossing, with light essentially. Sometimes they have a whole RYG street light, sometimes it's just yellow flashers.

So if the coyote is a proverbial chicken, the course of action is clear

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adj16 1 point 12 days ago

Nah, come on. Don’t be ridiculous. Looking for traffic is one thing - checking an arbitrary box for a specific image just because humans do and understanding it immediately and without mistake is another. I don’t doubt it is possible to train a coyote to understand this, but there’s just no way this happened as stated in the post.

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DempstersBox 1 point 11 days ago

Well sure the post is fake, whatever.

But it's not about the little walk symbol.

I've encountered plenty of of crosswalks at busy roads that trigger a light to stop traffic so you can cross.

The coyote doesn't give a shit about the lights or symbols, but it damn sure wants to get across the road without dying. And if a push of a button stops cars? of course it will.

Especially if it watched someone else do it before.

It's not unreasonable at all, look up those folks that train their dogs to 'talk' with a bunch of buttons on the floor. My dog is smart enough for that, and coyotes would outsmart him out of breakfast

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Draegur 4 points 12 days ago

From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I've ever experienced in my life (so FAR...).

It's crazy how 2016 feels like "a couple years ago" right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like "a couple decades ago" ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing...

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starik 1 point 12 days ago

Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.

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chicken 4 points 12 days ago

I'd believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn't seem to exist.

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starik 2 points 12 days ago

this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists

Especially with video to show us.

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Tattorack 1 point 12 days ago

You mean dogs can't be taught things?

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starik 1 point 12 days ago

No, I don’t mean that.

Dogs can’t teach themselves everything.
That’s not a dog.

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Tattorack -1 points 12 days ago

They don't have to. Unless you think pushing a button in reach is a truly impossible feat to overcome.
It's close enough to a dog.

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starik 3 points 12 days ago

Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?

Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.

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rethnor 1 point 12 days ago

But I want it to be true!

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Catoblepas 35 points 12 days ago

That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.

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BeUnique 32 points 12 days ago

Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.

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Rai 17 points 12 days ago

Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.

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W_itjust_works 5 points 12 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHgfcyMz9A

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naught101 32 points 12 days ago

This is science memes, AI slop does not belong here.

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Feathercrown 31 points 12 days ago

X. Y. Z. Every single time.

Sir you better see this, my slopometer is picking up a reading

Edit: Definitely slop, check out the yellow line and other road markings. Even a solid-white-divided two-lane one-way road, the best "reasonable" match, would only have a single yellow line.

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SGforce 12 points 12 days ago

Didn't even have to look at the image. It's written in the same exact manner as any other "then they all clapped" bs posts

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Feathercrown 5 points 12 days ago

I feel like I'm getting better at analyzing sentence structure from all this

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DarrinBrunner 27 points 12 days ago

Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.

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Rai 17 points 12 days ago

Nope. AI.

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lemming741 14 points 12 days ago

I can't find anything about it but this same deep fried image

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brem 5 points 12 days ago

'Moonlit Sentences' seems like a credible source, no?

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Delphia 2 points 12 days ago

Just because the image is made up doesnt mean its impossible. I have witnessed on several occasions different stray dogs walking down the footpath and using pedestrian crossings to cross the road after looking both ways.

If livestock can figure out gate latches from watching people its not completely unreasonable that a coyote might have concluded "The humans do this and I've never seen a splattered human on the highway" and m I mimicked the behavior.

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starlinguk 2 points 12 days ago

If there's a camera there, why isn't there a real picture?

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Natanael 1 point 12 days ago

Why do AI sloppers spread AI slop even when the real thing exists? Because they're lazy as fuck and are allergic to the effort it takes to find sources

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Delphia 1 point 10 days ago

People believe all sorts of stupid shit. If OP wants to believe that a coyote learned to use a crossing it doesnt break any laws of physics and that makes them happy well I dont mind. Its not impossible, it could happen despite it being extremely unlikely.

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Kolanaki 25 points 12 days ago

If the coyote ever does jaywalk, are they gonna issue it a ticket? 🤔

Also: Has the coyote been observed constructing engineering projects to catch a roadrunner, but they keep backfiring on him?

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WoodScientist 2 points 12 days ago

There is legal precedent!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial

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altphoto 24 points 12 days ago

Also fuck cars.

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DasFaultier 7 points 12 days ago

But be careful when you put your dick in, the exhaust might be hot. You know, not HOT hot, just hot.

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Mikina 6 points 12 days ago

You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it's just warm enough for a while.

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DasFaultier 2 points 12 days ago

This guy fucks cars!

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Iron_Lynx 1 point 12 days ago

Is he a dragon?

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altphoto 4 points 12 days ago

Fuck cars after a safe cooldown time.

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Wataba -7 points 12 days ago

Also fuck off. :)

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Ardyssian 4 points 12 days ago

Also fuck me :(

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HugeNerd 16 points 12 days ago

It's amazing the amount of things we've never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

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TheFogan 6 points 12 days ago

It’s amazing the amount of things we’ve never observed before suddenly having endless videos now that AI sludge is clogging up the world.

Remember the old meme of "paranormal/bigfoot sightings" per year timeline... with a point where there's an enormous drop at "camera invented", and then bounces back with "photoshop invented".

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HugeNerd 3 points 12 days ago

I also feel that the economy has something to do with it, I seem to recall the 1970s were replete with the Bermuda Triangle, spontaneous human combustion, ghost ships like the Mary Celeste, Sasquatch, crystal skulls, devil worship, backwards records, astral projection, possessions and exorcisms...

Then when the economy got better people were busy stacking Benjamins and watching Miami Vice and I feel like all this stuff lost popularity.

Now we're back to war, inflation, and uncertainty and we're back to nonsense.

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Poem_for_your_sprog 16 points 12 days ago

Gonna need sauce on this one.

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Rai 5 points 12 days ago

An LLM lawl

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HugeNerd 12 points 12 days ago

Google street view of Route 87 outside Payson looks like this.

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Metostopholes 11 points 12 days ago

Aw, who's a good boy?

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Fredselfish 10 points 12 days ago

That's awesome and sweet!

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Zephorah -3 points 12 days ago

They eat cats.

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unemployedclaquer 17 points 12 days ago

And cats torture birds

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brem 14 points 12 days ago

And birds are dinosaurs

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Iamsqueegee 9 points 12 days ago

And dinosaurs are oil that run cars that run over coyotes that eat cats that kill birds that are dinosaurs that are oil that…

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Zephorah 1 point 12 days ago

If it’s starlings, that’s fair.

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OwOarchist 4 points 12 days ago

Not if you keep your cats indoors ... like you absolutely should be doing, both for the benefit of the cat and for the local wildlife.

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Zephorah 1 point 12 days ago

I do such that my cats would probably be terrified of the outside. Even so, there are ferals hunting the fields.

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ignotum 4 points 12 days ago

Good, cats are an invasive species that do a lot of damage to the ecology wherever they are introduced, the coyotes are just protecting their local ecosystem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...

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DarrinBrunner 3 points 12 days ago

And, small dogs that bark in backyards in my neighborhood.

They easily hop six-foot block walls, and snatch chihuahuas and other such tasty snacks.

We don't have any stray cats in my neighborhood. The very few cats you see outside are skittish af and stay close to home.

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kuoushi 2 points 12 days ago

And cats eat mice.

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brem 2 points 12 days ago

And mice eat birds?

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arotrios 9 points 12 days ago

Also better than 90% of my managers.

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pseudo 7 points 12 days ago

In my neighborhood, cats cross on crosswalk and look both way before.

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SeeMarkFly 6 points 12 days ago

When they first started the noise for blind people to cross, the mockingbirds learned the "song" and would sing at very inappropriate times. That made the city change their tune.

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darthelmet 6 points 12 days ago

Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.

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ComfortableRaspberry 5 points 12 days ago

Was working at night with my mother, when I was a teen. We were out delivering newspapers and magazines to shops, gas stations, ... when we saw a huge mass at the side of the street to ahead. Coming closer we realized it was a horde of cows, gathered around a bus stop sign. It was wild and we had a hard time to convince the police we're not on drugs when we called them (a roaming horde of dark cows at night is definitely a road hazard they have to take care of).

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RaccoonBall 5 points 12 days ago

Science meme or facebook meme?

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Gammelfisch 2 points 11 days ago

Isn't there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?

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MedicPigBabySaver 2 points 12 days ago

BS

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Lucidlethargy 1 point 11 days ago

This is where things are going: AI trash that's painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.

I hate the future.

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ddplf 1 point 11 days ago

I'm communicating with AI everyday, that's my job, and at this point I'm pretty sensitive to it's jargon.

The sequence of 4 short sentences climaxing at "Every single time." really gave me that nasty itch.

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PalmTreeIsBestTree 1 point 11 days ago

To be frank with you, the internet has all ready been fully loaded with clickbait photoshop nonsense for decades

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WoodScientist 1 point 12 days ago

The future is going to be very strange indeed. Humanity is taking up more and more of the world's land surface. More and more of the available habitats are inside human territory. Wildlife can live within human cities and suburbs, but it requires a great deal of adaptation. Imagine a future where hundreds of species are as adapted to living in our cities as pigeons or raccoons are. If we don't blow ourselves up in atomic fire or fall in an ecological collapse, this is a likely future for our species.

Cities are a habitat. They offer certain opportunities for resources such as food and water. They offer spaces for nesting and reproduction. Cities represent one of the few ecological niches on this planet that hasn't been fully exploited by evolution. And nature abhors a vacuum. Any ecological niche will be filled eventually. They do require extensive adaptation however. Behaviors that are adaptive in the wild are maladaptive in cities.

If we manage to somehow keep our crazy way of life going, I imagine in a few millennia our cities will be swarming with dozens of semi-domesticated species similar to raccoons and pigeons. And I imagine they will exhibit any number of clever and surprising adaptive behaviors like this coyote here.

Hell, people may even find ways to harness this wildlife. Maybe instead of hiring people to pick up trash, we could train crows to collect it for us. Maybe you could train crows to gather up trash, take it to a bin, and have the bin dispense a treat for the crow.

I hope the future will be strange indeed.

(Wrote this before I saw that it's AI. I'll leave this here as the point still stands.)

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slacktoid 1 point 12 days ago

Don't fuck with the crows they will poop and drop trash on your ass, this is the future I wanna live in lmao

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ashenone 1 point 12 days ago

Driving on 101 near Olympic National Park and I was pulling out of a gas station onto the hwy, I saw a dear approach the road, look both ways and wait for a car to pass before crossing the road. Nor quite pressing the walkway button but impressive none the less

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pdxfed 1 point 12 days ago

Nonetheless.

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prex 2 points 12 days ago

Was going to suggest nevertheless but TIL

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Tyrq 1 point 12 days ago

My brain chose to read part of the quote as

"DOT voted unanimously to keep the

coyote on its inspection staff"

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