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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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...
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.
I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You're talking like we don't have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than "thousands of years".
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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
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.)
142 Comments
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 290 pts · 8d
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
AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 147 pts · 8d
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 8d
And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?
Quokka@quokk.au · 33 pts · 8d
And why is there one in the middle of nowhere
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 8d
For the coyote
TheFogan@programming.dev · 14 pts · 8d
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.
xeno_the_warrior_prince@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 8d
Natanael@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 8d
Maybe the coyote can call 911 for you
zaph@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 8d
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.
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 8d
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
Steve@startrek.website · 10 pts · 8d
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
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 8d
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.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
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.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 8d
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 73 pts · 8d
pah, stand aside
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
Nerd!
Ziglin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
A huge one in fact!
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 8d
That's actually a more convincing image. The one looks like it's hiding something because it's so low-res
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
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.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 46 pts · 8d
Cursed timeline 😔
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 8d
The language/sentence structure and account name are also very suspicious. I want it to be real so bad though
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 8d
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.
Dingo_Kidneys@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 8d
Shout out to my cousins!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 8d
Wait, look at the placement of the road markings, especially the yellow line. Wtf
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 8d
The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line at the shoulder.
100% fake.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 8d
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".
hansolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 8d
All the text is AI blobs.
Lane markings all wrong.
Slop Xing
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 8d
Is the Internet over?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 8d
Yeah. It was amazing and wild while it lasted, though.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8d
Beyond that, this, "wildlife cam," photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 8d
Its ai look at how the coyote is standing and pressing the button. It doesn't look natural.
chunes@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 8d
Didn't even need to study the picture. The premise alone is ridiculous
Jomega@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
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.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 6 pts · 8d
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:
turdas@suppo.fi · 31 pts · 8d
I asked the Magic 8 Ball and it said that signs point to yes.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 8d
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.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 0 pts · 8d
well I was looking for a good source, and DDG hadn't found one so I went to google - not for it's AI
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 8d
Why do people even bother with AI, when it's so often wrong?
Just say no.
naught101@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8d
You do see the flaw in your logic here, right?
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
These screenshots are art.
manefraim@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 8d
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.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 2 pts · 8d
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
manefraim@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
Given the screencaps, I may have to eat my words on this one.
"Entirely true," is rather damning, I must admit.
Sorry, mate.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 8d
It's a wild coyote repeatedly and flawlessly using a pedestrian crossing, of course it's fake lmfao
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
At this point I just end up blocking people who post this dumb shit.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 90 pts · 8d
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.
starik@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 8d
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.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 14 pts · 8d
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.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 8d
Aren't hares always looking both ways?
mirshafie@europe.pub · 7 pts · 8d
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.
psud@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 8d
The elevated part is called an island in Australia
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 8d
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.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
Lol as if Arizona in any way accomodates pedestrians.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 58 pts · 8d
That's a Wily Coyote.
deacon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 8d
Oh bravo.
naught101@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8d
wAIly cAIote
starik@lemmy.today · 45 pts · 8d
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.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8d
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?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 9 pts · 8d
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn't even catch a bird.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 8d
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Not known as the trickster god for no reason
starik@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 8d
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
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
adj16@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
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.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
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
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d
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?
DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
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
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 8d
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...
starik@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 8d
Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 8d
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.
starik@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 8d
Especially with video to show us.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
You mean dogs can't be taught things?
starik@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 8d
No, I don’t mean that.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 8d
starik@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 8d
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 8d
I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You're talking like we don't have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than "thousands of years".
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 8d
But I want it to be true!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 8d
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 8d
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 8d
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 8d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHgfcyMz9A
naught101@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 8d
This is science memes, AI slop does not belong here.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 8d
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.
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 8d
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
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 8d
I feel like I'm getting better at analyzing sentence structure from all this
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 8d
Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 8d
Nope. AI.
lemming741@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 8d
I can't find anything about it but this same deep fried image
brem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 8d
'Moonlit Sentences' seems like a credible source, no?
Delphia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
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.
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
If there's a camera there, why isn't there a real picture?
Natanael@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 8d
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
Delphia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 25 pts · 8d
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?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
There is legal precedent!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_trial
altphoto@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 8d
Also fuck cars.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 8d
But be careful when you put your dick in, the exhaust might be hot. You know, not HOT hot, just hot.
Mikina@programming.dev · 6 pts · 8d
You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it's just warm enough for a while.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 8d
This guy fucks cars!
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
Is he a dragon?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 8d
Fuck cars after a safe cooldown time.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · -7 pts · 8d
Also fuck off. :)
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 8d
Also fuck me :(
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 8d
Gonna need sauce on this one.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 8d
An LLM lawl
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 8d
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.
TheFogan@programming.dev · 6 pts · 8d
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".
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 8d
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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 8d
Google street view of Route 87 outside Payson looks like this.
Metostopholes@midwest.social · 11 pts · 8d
Aw, who's a good boy?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 8d
That's awesome and sweet!
Zephorah@discuss.online · -3 pts · 8d
They eat cats.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 8d
And cats torture birds
brem@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 8d
And birds are dinosaurs
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 8d
And dinosaurs are oil that run cars that run over coyotes that eat cats that kill birds that are dinosaurs that are oil that…
Enkrod@feddit.org · 8 pts · 8d
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.
resterWink@lemmy.darkc0de.one · 1 pts · 8d
Nerd
Enkrod@feddit.org · 3 pts · 8d
With a passion
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 4 pts · 8d
on Ilkey Moor baht hat!
Zephorah@discuss.online · 1 pts · 8d
If it’s starlings, that’s fair.
ignotum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 8d
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/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 8d
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.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 1 pts · 8d
I do such that my cats would probably be terrified of the outside. Even so, there are ferals hunting the fields.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8d
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.
kuoushi@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 8d
And cats eat mice.
brem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
And mice eat birds?
arotrios@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 8d
Also better than 90% of my managers.
pseudo@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 8d
In my neighborhood, cats cross on crosswalk and look both way before.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 8d
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.
darthelmet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8d
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.
RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 7d
Science meme or facebook meme?
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 5 pts · 8d
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).
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
Isn't there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d
BS
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 8d
My brain chose to read part of the quote as
"DOT voted unanimously to keep the
coyote on its inspection staff"
ashenone@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 8d
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
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
Nonetheless.
prex@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 8d
Was going to suggest nevertheless but TIL
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8d
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.)
slacktoid@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 8d
Don't fuck with the crows they will poop and drop trash on your ass, this is the future I wanna live in lmao
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d
This is where things are going: AI trash that's painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.
I hate the future.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
To be frank with you, the internet has all ready been fully loaded with clickbait photoshop nonsense for decades
ddplf@szmer.info · 1 pts · 7d
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.