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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.
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.
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.
The elevated part is called an island in Australia, or if it is protected it’s a pedestrian refuge
Aren’t hares always looking both ways?
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.
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.
You mean dogs can’t be taught things?
No, I don’t mean that.
- Dogs can’t teach themselves everything.
- That’s not a dog.
- 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.
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.
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?
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
Coyotes are smart.
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.
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…
Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.
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.
this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists
Especially with video to show us.
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).
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
Beyond that, this, “wildlife cam,” photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
All the text is AI blobs.
Lane markings all wrong.
Slop Xing
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.
pah, stand aside
That’s actually a more convincing image. The one looks like it’s hiding something because it’s so low-res
The lights are facing weird directions.
Yeah, add a bit more jpeg to hide the too perfect focus and lighting and it’d be very convincing.
The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line at the shoulder.
100% fake.
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”.
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.
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.
And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?
And why is there one in the middle of nowhere
For the coyote
I do believe I used to watch a documentary about a Coyote in the desert, and quite a bit of that involved it on a paved road as well. I do believe it understood more complicated things than just pressing crosswalk buttons, if I recall it flat out knew how to place orders from an Acme Catalog an assemble quite a few fairly complex machines.
You got me there buddy I’m dying 😂🤦🏾♂️
He was fairly stubborn about it. Instead of just Ubereatsing over a Big Mac and fries which would have been cheaper.
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.
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
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
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.
Is the Internet over?
Yeah. It was amazing and wild while it lasted, though.
Cursed timeline 😔
The language/sentence structure and account name are also very suspicious. I want it to be real so bad though
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.
Shout out to my cousins!
Wait, look at the placement of the road markings, especially the yellow line. Wtf
Its ai look at how the coyote is standing and pressing the button. It doesn’t look natural.
I think this is fake and an AI generated image.
Didn’t even need to study the picture. The premise alone is ridiculous
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.
It’s a wild coyote repeatedly and flawlessly using a pedestrian crossing, of course it’s fake lmfao
Was about to comment that if this story was true and not all made up, it’d be really funny.
However my bullshit meter was also blaring because of how many youtube shorts nowadays are about animals acting like humans and people just eat it up without questioning it.
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:
I asked the Magic 8 Ball and it said that signs point to yes.
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.
well I was looking for a good source, and DDG hadn’t found one so I went to google - not for it’s AI
Why do people even bother with AI, when it’s so often wrong?
Just say no.
You do see the flaw in your logic here, right?
See your problem here was asking for sources. Why would you need sources sir? You should just enjoy you got an answer, Sheesh!!
These screenshots are art.
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.
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
Given the screencaps, I may have to eat my words on this one.
“Entirely true,” is rather damning, I must admit.
Sorry, mate.
At this point I just end up blocking people who post this dumb shit.
Also fuck cars.
Reminded me of an old SNL sketch https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7343222159218674950 (only video I could find)
But be careful when you put your dick in, the exhaust might be hot. You know, not HOT hot, just hot.
You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it’s just warm enough for a while.
This guy fucks cars!
Fuck cars after a safe cooldown time.
Also fuck off. :)
Also fuck me :(
This is science memes, AI slop does not belong here.
That’s a Wily Coyote.
Oh bravo.
wAIly cAIote
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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
I feel like I’m getting better at analyzing sentence structure from all this
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.
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.
If there’s a camera there, why isn’t there a real picture?
Nope. AI.
I can’t find anything about it but this same deep fried image
‘Moonlit Sentences’ seems like a credible source, no?
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
Google street view of Route 87 outside Payson looks like this.
Gonna need sauce on this one.
An LLM lawl
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?
There is legal precedent!
