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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 very ignorant and gullible to believe it.
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Submitted 2 days ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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starik@lemmy.today 2 days ago
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 1 day 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?
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Coyotes are smart.
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.
starik@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
adj16@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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?
Draegur@lemmy.zip 1 day 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 was not yet a thing…
starik@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Sadly, I heard all subway dogs got eaten by the alligators in the sewers.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
starik@lemmy.today 1 day ago
this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists
Especially with video to show us.
rethnor@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
But I want it to be true!
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 days ago
That’s a Wiley Coyote.
deacon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh bravo.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
wAIly cAIote
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Damn the lead researcher is brutal! Using this opportunity to shit on the interns like that.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Alas, neither the researcher, interns, not coyote exist.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is science memes, AI slop does not belong here.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Also fuck cars.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
But be careful when you put your dick in, the exhaust might be hot. You know, not HOT hot, just hot.
Mikina@programming.dev 2 days ago
You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it’s just warm enough for a while.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Fuck cars after a safe cooldown time.
Wataba@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Also fuck off. :)
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Also fuck me :(
grainOfSalt@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Reminded me of an old SNL sketch www.tiktok.com/…/7343222159218674950 (only video I could find)
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
X. Y. Z. Every single time.
Sir you better see this, my slopometer is picking up a reading
SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 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
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I feel like I’m getting better at analyzing sentence structure from all this
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Chat, is this real? Because I want it to be real.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Nope. AI.
lemming741@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I can’t find anything about it but this same deep fried image
brem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
‘Moonlit Sentences’ seems like a credible source, no?
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If there’s a camera there, why isn’t there a real picture?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
If the coyote ever does jaywalk, are they gonna issue it a ticket? 🤔
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There is legal precedent!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 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.
Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Gonna need sauce on this one.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Metostopholes@midwest.social 2 days ago
Aw, who’s a good boy?
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 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).
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s awesome and sweet!
doleo@lemmy.one 2 days ago
the coyote hasn’t jaywalked once
That’s because jaywalking is not a real thing
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 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.
arotrios@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also better than 90% of my managers.
RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Science meme or facebook meme?
pseudo@jlai.lu 2 days ago
In my neighborhood, cats cross on crosswalk and look both way before.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This is where things are going: AI trash that’s painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.
I hate the future.
ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 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
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
BS
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
My brain chose to read part of the quote as
“*DOT voted unanimously to keep the
coyote on its inspection staff*”
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 days ago
The city deer in my hometown do the same thing minus pressing the buttons. They have learned to cross the roads slowly and use key crosswalks. City deer and their fawns no longer get killed by cars.
The deer that live in the surrounding hills and outside the city sprint across the roads and wherever they want. Those deer get hit and die all the time, particularly the fawns.
Animals are smarter than we give them credit for.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 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.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
And what kind of pedestrian crossing looks like that?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 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.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 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.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No… it’s totally legit.
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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 2 days ago
pah, stand aside
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echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That’s actually a more convincing image. The one looks like it’s hiding something because it’s so low-res
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Cursed timeline 😔
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 2 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.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wait, look at the placement of the road markings, especially the yellow line. Wtf
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The road has a solid middle stripe and a double-yellow line near the curb.
100% fake.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 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”.
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
All the text is AI blobs.
Lane markings all wrong.
Slop Xing
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Is the Internet over?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Yeah. It was amazing and wild while it lasted, though.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Beyond that, this, “wildlife cam,” photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 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@suppo.fi 2 days ago
I asked the Magic 8 Ball and it said that signs point to yes.
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 2 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.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why do people even bother with AI, when it’s so often wrong?
Just say no.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You do see the flaw in your logic here, right?
manefraim@lemmy.world 2 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.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 days ago
These screenshots are art.
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Its ai look at how the coyote is standing and pressing the button. It doesn’t look natural.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t even need to study the picture. The premise alone is ridiculous
Jomega@lemmy.world 2 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.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 days ago
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.
blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At this point I just end up blocking people who post this dumb shit.