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In my neighborhood, cats cross on crosswalk and look both way before.
Isn’t there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
This is where things are going: AI trash that’s painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.
I hate the future.
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
That’s a Wiley Coyote.
Oh bravo.
wAIly cAIote
Also better than 90% of my managers.
That’s awesome and sweet!
They eat cats.
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
And cats torture birds
And birds are dinosaurs
And dinosaurs are oil that run cars that run over coyotes that eat cats that kill birds that are dinosaurs that are oil that…
The amount of dinosaurs in oil is less then negligeble at best. Oil is the result of huge mats of dead plankton getting trapped below the seafloor and then pressure-cooked into crude oil. We’re talking millions of tons of dead plants and animals accumulating as sediment in (geologically) short timeframes, more than would have ever been possible to produce with the biomass of dinosaurs.
Nerd
With a passion
on Ilkey Moor baht hat!
And cats eat mice.
And mice eat birds?
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.
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.
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.
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!
Aw, who’s a good boy?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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
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.
All the text is AI blobs.
Lane markings all wrong.
Slop Xing
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:
You do see the flaw in your logic here, right?
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.
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.
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.
Beyond that, this, “wildlife cam,” photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
Cursed timeline 😔
Is the Internet over?
Yeah. It was amazing and wild while it lasted, though.
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.
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.
pah, stand aside
Nerd!
It’s a wild coyote repeatedly and flawlessly using a pedestrian crossing, of course it’s fake lmfao
Gonna need sauce on this one.
An LLM lawl
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.
Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.
I can’t find anything about it but this same deep fried image
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.
‘Moonlit Sentences’ seems like a credible source, no?
