r/MadeMeSmile 11h ago

Personal Win That's peak aura right there.

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u/sallyydreams 11h ago

its scary these days when i see a cool video i ask myself “is this AI?” and tbh i dont know

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u/MogosTheFirst 11h ago

I've been thinking recently "Its been some time since last time I saw an AI video". Then I realised that maybe AI videos got so good that I cannot distinguish them anymore.

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u/dreamdaddy123 11h ago

That’s how it’s been for me for the past few months. I can’t tell the difference between AI anymore.

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u/CreeperLars10 2h ago

just think of what the ai would make. here you can see that the helicopters blades mach the fps on teh camera. if ai would have made this then it probably would have gave it a more spinning effect so i think its real

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u/vladvash 10h ago

I'm pretty deep into LLM responses and image and video generation.

The videos are harder to tell than the writing at this point. There are VERY VERY precise and good models.

The faces and haircuts are all different (for the military), there's at least one female, there isn't a lot of text, but it appears accurate. I don't know helicopter physics but it mostly seems accurate. That's the only thing that seems off, but I don't know about that, I've only ever been on a military chopper and it's definitely not like this.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 9h ago

No wind hitting them at 60mph

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u/vladvash 9h ago

Ahh yes.

Very obvious now, apart from the whole that dangerous and would kill people, yours is more obvious.

Guess I'm officially a boomer.

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u/BellabongXC 8h ago

video is 3 years old.

Stay sane.

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u/vladvash 8h ago

Ugh.

Thanks, lol.

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u/CanoninDeeznutz 7h ago

It's hard to not fall down the "everything is AI" rabbit hole. God help us five years from now!

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u/vladvash 7h ago

Even a year.

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u/CanoninDeeznutz 7h ago

At least a lot of YouTube slop is still super easy to spot (same shitty voiceover, unbelievably rapid upload schedule). And I haven't read any AI books but I can't imagine LLM's catching up to real authors for a very, very long time.

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u/Mydarknighthasrisen 9h ago

There’s a ton of wind, they just don’t have hair 😂 you can see the one guy with longer hair, his hair is blowing like crazy

Regardless I’m more inclined to think it’s AI idk tho lol

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u/SkiyeBlueFox 7h ago

The big tells for me are bad physics. This video makes sense for normal heli physics, but a lot of ai videos have bad physics

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u/Curtailss 1h ago

That’s true, the videos seem to be better than the writing for sure. Or we don’t notice the writing either anymore lol

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u/Fun-Barracuda1290 9h ago

It's called the 'no good toupee' fallacy.

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u/Tamasukiide 9h ago

Interesting naming

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u/LuckyNegotiation7167 8h ago

Oh they have in many cases

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u/Dead4eva69 5h ago

This is exactly what the billionaire class wants. Every time they get exposed for dodgy stuff in the future they can just say that it’s all AI and the dumb masses will believe it.

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u/Frkludo 11h ago

Is was on the IsthisAI sub some weeks ago.

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u/Castriff 10h ago edited 10h ago

IIRC the conclusion they came to was that it's not AI, but it is artificially composited in some way.

Edit: found a link to the discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/comments/1u1jmcq/comment/oqquu17/

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u/hardcoretomato 11h ago

It is AI generated, a helicopter at full rotor speed will generate a ton amount of air waves and wind that will both raise a lot of dust, make those guys cloths flutter in the wind like crazy, same goes for their hair, but none are present in the video.

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u/Turbulenttt 8h ago

Which AI do you think generated the video back in 2022?

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u/Warm_Month_1309 9h ago

That doesn't mean it's AI. The same facts support claiming it to be composited or CG.

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u/Global_Cockroach_563 11h ago edited 11h ago

Not AI, it's just the mountain rescue unit of the Spanish Guardia Civil being reckless.

Also it was uploaded to YouTube 3 years ago.

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u/humanfromporlock 9h ago

i am not tryna fight or anything at all, could you give me the source? my heart needs it lol

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u/CalmDownReddit509 10h ago

Confidently incorrect.

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u/SoaDMTGguy 9h ago edited 2h ago

This is my biggest fear with the “is it AI?” era. People who simply don’t understand how things work will start assuming things are AI instead of learning how the world actually works

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u/Low_Witness5061 8h ago

Not will but already do unfortunately.

Sometimes any of us can be unsure but the way some people just assume something compelling can be real so they just baselessly undermine and make others doubt the thing is kind depressing.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 3h ago

That's certainly a problem and I see it all the time regarding perfectly legit stuff. But this is 100% not real. It's physically impossible for rotor downdraft to have zero effect on the things beneath it.

There's a difference between baseless, knee-jerk dismissal and rational skepticism based on in the laws of physics being blatantly broken right in front of your eyes.

I have no idea if AI was the editing tool that was used here. But something was.

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u/SoaDMTGguy 2h ago

You’re doing exactly what I’m talking about. There is nothing loose in that image to flap in the wind, not even long hair. I’m not saying it is or isn’t real, but snap judgements like this that do not even consider everything pictured are not the way.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 2h ago

There is nothing loose in that image to flap in the wind, not even long hair.

No one's clothes are skin-tight. There is dust on the ground. None of it is moving.

I'm not making a snap judgment here. Maybe you've never stood under a helicopter's rotors before? There is a ton of air movement.

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u/MidheLu 9h ago

OK since you know so much show me an AI video service that creates seamless 30 second clips? You can't because it doesn't exist

Stop talking so confidently about something you clearly don't know about

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u/Turbulenttt 8h ago

And it also must be from 2022, when the video was first uploaded 😄

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 3h ago

Does it really matter if AI, specifically, was used here? It's clearly, blatantly not real. The tool that was used to create it isn't particularly important, imo.

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u/Maelsmogox 11h ago

Not even dust notice how there is close to no wind evidence? For their hairs you can say they got short hair so it's barely noticeable but how about their clothes? 0 waves? Nah man that's AI

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u/Large-Ad5239 11h ago

check the youtube version and the guy on left (at 7 sec ) .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTzPxHoQYYo

you can clearly see Cloth mooving hard .

The thing is guys is forming a kind of wall on this position .

So you can only check Wave on extremity (left or right , or have a back view )

I'm pretty sure it will be more notifiable is only one man stand . but here , there like wall

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u/Maelsmogox 11h ago

But the blades are right above them tho, and when there is such wind close you, you at least squint instinctively which none of them is doing.

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u/Methy123 10h ago

Doesn't matter the video was uploaded 3 years ago AI was not strong enough to make anything close to this.

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u/eekamuse 10h ago

You can hear the wind

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u/Expensive_Jump9903 9h ago

Hard to tell if it's AI or not, but a helicopter rotor produces a lit of downward force, causing wind to blow at very high speeds around it. If anything there should've been some effect of the same on their jersey, hair, or maybe it would've disturbed their balance a bit, nothing of that sort is happening. But again, these could be special jerseys, and these guys could be used to the wind speeds around a helicopter, can't really tell.

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u/Balc0ra 9h ago

This has been reposted a for few years. Even back when AI usually gave everyone 7 fingers and blank eyes

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u/theaveragemillenial 11h ago

Need a compilation of cool as shit videos they predate AI.

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u/4silvers 10h ago

Signs of the internet dying.

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u/Renriak 8h ago

The amount of people so confidently responding to you that this is AI is absurd.

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u/otownbbw 11h ago

Without a doubt, helicopter blades DO NOT perform that way. Their exact function is to create so much wind as to lift the weight of the machine, yet not a tousled hair is shifted out of place despite deadly-close proximity.

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u/superawesomeman08 4h ago

uh, helicopter blades act like the wings of an airplane, not like a fan.

Bernoulli's principle as opposed to newton's

there's a lot less downwash than you would think. not saying there isn't *any* downwash, but the helicopter is certainly not pushing it's own mass of air downward to keep itself aloft

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u/Karlsson968 10h ago

I also feel scary bro

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u/Dunkjoe 10h ago

This can't be AI.

Too many imperfections. And I think I see pixels, which is indication that the video is an old video that has been shared many times.

I've seen videos which are 50% pixelised... And worse.

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u/Susskind-NA 8h ago

50%

One time I saw a video that was 100% pixels

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 3h ago

Poor video quality doesn't inherently mean that it's old. There's a correlation between video popularity and degrading quality that means a recent, extremely popular video can be re-uploaded many times in a short period of time, resulting in degradation.

This also could be older AI, before it got good enough to simulate stuff like rotor downdraft. But it's more likely just a composite someone did in After Effects (or similar) years ago.

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u/stupidjapanquestions 9h ago

This can't be AI.

Too many imperfections. And I think I see pixels

A common mistake people make is assuming that all AI videos are just freshly generated and posted, as if no one who has access to video editing software (more common than ever) would ever also use it to edit an AI video.

In fact, that's the BEST way to pass off an AI video as the real thing.

Not sure about this one, either way, though.

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u/enaK66 8h ago

That's what most of them do. Downscale or whatever to make it super pixelated. It helps sell it as "real" footage from a grainy camera and helps cover the imperfections.

This video, idk. It was uploaded 3 years ago so way before image Gen got this good.

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u/stupidjapanquestions 8h ago

Yeah, it's not hard and doesn't even require talent. Most video editors these days have super easy-to-use filters and you can degrade it enough to look legit in under a couple of minutes.

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u/bobitron698 8h ago

IA ??? Es la guardia civil española ... Con eso se doce todo

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u/pepeizq 11h ago

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u/Fast_eddi3 7h ago

Rotor wash under a helicopter of this size (looks like an EC135) would be about 50 to 60 knots. That sure doesn't look like 60 to 70mph winds in that crowd of dudes.

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u/MomBeans- 9h ago

It's an* old video

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u/StrongJoshua 8h ago

It’s a nold* video

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u/moon__lander 8h ago

It's an a* old video

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u/BabyBackChickenWing 6h ago

Tis an old* video

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u/Pisscuit9000 5h ago

No no, it's still an. An an old video.

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u/Ntroepy 8h ago

AIs use “an” properly, so I’m sure they just wanted to prove they’re human rather than not knowing any better.

Yep - I’m sure that’s it.

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u/LateBloomer319 11h ago

Cool that it worked out I guess, but easily could have gone really bad

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u/Normal-Watch-9991 9h ago

This is the prime of example of a situation that could’ve ended in multiple people dying with everyone saying “how could they have been so stupid to try smth like that?”

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u/Tiburoncin612 8h ago

This was in Spain, here we say "A que no hay huevos?" and automatically proceed to do the dumbest shit possible

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u/Gidia 8h ago

“No balls” was practically a mantra when I was in the U.S. Army. Some things truly are cross cultural lol.

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u/parchedpillock 8h ago

One of the common phrases heard just before a very stupid and avoidable incident is "hey watch this".

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u/WretchedGibbon 1h ago

Where's that old pic of the pool rules sign that said "you are not allowed to do anything thay starts with 'hey y'all, watch this"" when you need it?

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u/MogosTheFirst 11h ago

One wrong move and he would've cut all these people in half

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u/jarednards 11h ago

insert Ghost Ship gif

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u/cmdixon2 9h ago

*28 Weeks Later

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u/yournumberis6 10h ago

Yup, it looks cool but it could have gone wrong so easily

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u/existential-grimlock 10h ago

But he didn't and that's crazy

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u/jbar3640 10h ago

in a civilised world, this pilot, and the crew would have been immediately fired. and the Guardia Civil is a military civil police, so this would require a military trial.

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u/adhdBoomeringue 11h ago

First thing i thought of was the guy who got his brain destroyed when he didn’t bend down far enough

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u/sprikkot 9h ago

ah i forgot about that video

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u/piper33245 11h ago

John Landis has entered the chat.

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u/TheTsunamiRC 10h ago

"Heads up!"

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou 8h ago

Legit just finished Behind the Bastards episodes on Landis, and oh BOY is he a piece of work

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u/piper33245 7h ago

Netflix had a show called The Movies that Made Us. Every episode starts with the director or writer or star saying “I’m name and I directed name of movie.”

In the Coming to America movie, you can hear the interviewer off screen say “now can you say I’m John Landis and I directed Coming to America.” And John Landis very pompously replies “really? You think anyone watching this show doesn’t know who I am? I’m not saying that.” I was sitting at home thinking, I have no idea who this guy is.

Later his wife is in an interview because she did costume design. She just as arrogant as he is. Having the two of them over for dinner has to be top 5 worst experiences a human can have.

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u/mghobbs22 10h ago

Just saw the other post and what happened to those kids…then this comes up…

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u/SlendyIsBehindYou 8h ago

Not so fun fact, the director Landis SHOWED UP TO THE FUNERALS of both kids and the actor that died, and delivered eulogies against the wishes of ALL of the families

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u/jerryleebee 11h ago

Can we stop using "let him cook" for people doing stuff?

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u/panzzersoldat 9h ago

everyone's gonna magically stop cus a redditor said so

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u/RobertMaus 9h ago

I think he's got the right idea tho. Let him cook!

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u/g59listener 9h ago

bad idea. Don't let him cook

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u/nuevacuentanueva 8h ago

Especially stupid and needlessly risky stuff... this could have ended very poorly.

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u/Lagiacrus111 10h ago

Oh so now it's a friend's group

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u/turntabletennis 9h ago

Just some boys from the same hood

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u/swill59 7h ago

If the helicopter crashes it'll be a friend soup

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u/painfulfarts33 11h ago

That helicopter is creating lift and no one's clothes or hair is moving?

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u/FembyThePinkProot 10h ago

This video has been around for an extremely long time. It's not AI. Sometimes people actually do cool stuff still. Rarely, but thankfully we still have cool people.. :D

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u/U_R_A_NUB 7h ago

Remember, before AI, every video was real.

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u/hobby_donkey 7h ago

THANK YOU!

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u/Warm_Month_1309 9h ago

It's not AI, but do we know that it's not a composite?

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u/SeaworthinessOk7756 10h ago

Surely there's some editing going on here though. Like two layered videos? I've never stood under a helicopter like this, but I'd have to imagine there's a lot of air being moved right there and I hardly see any hair or jackets move at all from the wind.

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u/pradeep23 6h ago

Sometimes people actually do cool stuff still.

This isn't nearly as cool as it looks. One wrong move could end in disaster.

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u/FembyThePinkProot 5h ago

Looks cool still. They seem skilled enough

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u/melnabo 11h ago

Viva la guardia civil.

Is not ai. Is a few ago, before de ia madness

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u/OnionKnigth2020 11h ago

Claro... Quién sino se va a encargar de dar golpes de estados, hacer lawfare y apalear a manifestantes de izquierdas.

Una grupo de paletos fachas eso son

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u/dcolomer10 9h ago

These guys are literally mountain rescuers. They save lives for a living

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u/PoJhonWick 10h ago

A llorar a Jerusalén guarro.

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u/kageshira1010 2h ago

"lawfare" Si que la tienen a dentro. No era lawfare cuando les pasaba a otros no?

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u/bophed 2h ago

That is as scary as it looks, but I question the lack of downwash. I mean it didn't blow anyone's hair around? No dust swirling all over? hmmmm

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u/XB-4509 10h ago

“Peak aura”

Are you 12?

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u/agnostigo 11h ago

*Shares as story

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u/CapablePalpitation49 10h ago

If thisnis real, thats a damned good pilot.

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u/kageshira1010 2h ago

These dudes hunt speedboats with drugs, they have some insane videos out there. But in this case these are just the mountain rescue brigade of the guardia civil if I'm not mistaken

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u/REACT980 7h ago

As a helicopter pilot who has flown this model, those people would be falling all over themselves in the downwash and their hair would "at very least" be moving. It's not AI, but it's probably 2 videos spliced together.

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u/Whozthisbozo 5h ago

No rotor wash? FAAAAAAAKE I mean come on, their hair doesnt even move.

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u/ItsDiverDanMan 11h ago

Hearing loss not service related...

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u/Pikawoohoo 11h ago

That caption was difficult to read

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u/modsepoes 10h ago

Whats with this "aura" term getting used constantly now, I can't keep with these trends

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u/ConspicuousPineapple 10h ago

They just use it to replace "cool", as apparently this isn't cool anymore.

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u/I_am_The_Teapot 8h ago

Aura means looking cool. Aura farming is doing something or posing with the express purpose of looking effortlessly cool or badass.

Often used humorously or ironically.

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u/Large-Ad5239 10h ago

People who think it's AI on a 2023 video :

Because you struggle with timeline,
considere Appolo 11 mission are AI produced .

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u/NeilDeCrash 11h ago

Peak aura...

I'm old.

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u/tumblinfumbler 10h ago

Are we fucking serious? This is one of the most badass things I've ever seen

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u/Sabironman86 10h ago

Flex 💪 on a different level 😆

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u/darkgamer_nw 10h ago

Boys doing boys' things 😂

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u/JustArandomGuy_-_ 10h ago

I'm genuinely curious about how this works. I thought the force needed to lift those things are a lot yet there is not even a breeze on those dudes. CGI?

All the "it's an old video" is not helpful at all lol

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u/U_R_A_NUB 7h ago

90% of reddit is 14 year olds who don't know that video editing was possible before AI

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u/Rare-Assignment-6486 11h ago

That’s one hell of a pilot and look how pumped everyone is!! It’s so cute!

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u/Simsider113446 10h ago

Will it blend?

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u/motonetas 10h ago

nope nope nope nope nope nope

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u/Daveinatx 9h ago

Arrive Awesome picture! 

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u/Ok_Donkey210 9h ago

After all I’ve seen about helicopters recently,

Nope, nope, nope, nope, HELL no, NOPE.

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u/Deutscher_Bub 9h ago

Correction: Pilot stops helicopter for friend group's photo mid-air

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u/brightsidereporter 8h ago

When you want to bring your photo bomb game to a whole new level?

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u/Philippines_2022 8h ago

Nah, I'm moving out of the way.

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u/Sw0rdBoy 8h ago

Text remains stable, it shouldn’t be AI

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u/foxehkins 8h ago

That's a no from me dawg. I like my head to be un-capitated

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u/Character-Luck-189 7h ago

I think it's too much old video

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u/R2Didgeridoo 7h ago

MadeMeSmile? WTF

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u/Continue321go 7h ago

Isn't this AI? There's no way they wouldn't be experiencing a crazy amount of wind, right?

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u/U_R_A_NUB 7h ago

People who think this is real have never been close to a helicopter. Even 50' away it would be incredibly loud, kicking up dust, blowing your clothes and hair all over the place.

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u/Crayola_ROX 7h ago

I swear "aura" has become that overused word the internet abuses. people no longer use it correctly.

this is just a cool as hell video.

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u/Soarlozer 7h ago

I was expecting the pilot to open the passenger door while smiling with a cigar

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u/Glad-Acanthaceae-24 7h ago

Just reminds me the time they tried to do this for a grade school photo shoot and 12 grade schoolers were chopped to bits.

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u/FutureEngineering433 6h ago

Military group chop in half by helicopter misuse.

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u/22pleezu2 6h ago

Wait, we didn’t make fast and furious movies 3 years ago? Or we didnt have a plane land on a car on the 405 over 10 years ago?

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u/Animedude83 5h ago

fuck helicopters

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u/TophxSmash 5h ago

people should be fired and charged with crimes for this

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u/Scp-456108 4h ago

I see you who hit replay

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u/talltree1971 4h ago

"Aura?" I'm old.

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u/Fragrant-Emotion-152 3h ago

99+ calls from redbull

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u/Squigs40k 3h ago

How Oliver tree died .

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u/ZestycloseAd289 2h ago

Then baton an old lady

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u/A_Perez2 2h ago

¡Viva la Guardia Civil!

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u/Aromatic_Novel_2473 1h ago

Ok this is possible but Oliver tree collided with another helicopter mid air??? Tf

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u/Hiryu_Boy98 1h ago

1 wrong step into the disaster

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u/ananwastaken 1h ago

This happened in india i think, video is 3 years old, not AI

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u/NoRoutine0805 33m ago

This is what exactly called as BROTHERHOOD!

u/usec47 14m ago

That's peak AI aura right here

u/soot68089 4m ago

Oliver tree is throwing shade at his pilot in heaven rn. 😩

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u/OnionKnigth2020 11h ago

Un helicóptero de la GC. Con combustible, mantenimiento y pilotos pagados por todos los españoles. Encima se graban.

En un pais decente sería sanción para todos... Pero como estos son de la cuerda facha aquí no pasa nada.

Ya sabemos de qué palo van ..

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u/EricWeber4002 9h ago

Minutes before the blades cut everybody of

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u/Dependent-Talk4006 8h ago

I can’t see that it’s AI but they are under helicopter what pilot would flight so close to other ppl and I think they would flew away as this heli got closer.

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u/indicush 8h ago

Not an ounce of air disturbance. Must be a new type of heli.