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Just another flavor of cynicism for me. Before AI, I would look at most “cute” animal videos and just see an animal performing a trained trick under the guide of “Omg, LOOK my dogs love spontaneously hugging each other, isn’t that cute??!!”

People have ALWAYS lied on the internet.

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GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or the contrived stories. “He does this every day until we feed him <3”

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- DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “This [specie of animal] hid in the corner every day for [X] [months/years] until one day THIS happened! (wait for it)”
  
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yyyesss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There was a wave of “sleepy baby animals collapsing in sleep together” on Spez’s site until someone figured out most of them were “sleepy” because they were drugged.

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- Ifera@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Just like a lot of animal rescue videos. Horrible, heartbreaking animal abuse, staged to look like an act of heroism.
  
  I used to watch those videos on YT a lot, until I suddenly pieced it together, that two cats had the very same markings, and figured out what their scam was, I felt so disgusted I ended up making a massive rant and telling every person I knew for months.
  
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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  next you’ll tell me people don’t always tell the truth on the internet or to not always believe what you read in the newspaper
  
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ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah this was my reaction, before AI cynicism there was “this is obviously scripted” cynicism and then even tropes that built on it like nothing ever happens

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Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People lied way before the internet; Look at the octopus jump to escape the holding tank (crew poured bleach). Staged stuff like that has been going since recording was possible … they even staged pictures.

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