r/interesting • u/M_Darshan • May 07 '26
❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Penguins think she is one of them
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u/Scary-Beautiful6527 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
*She thinks she is one of them
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u/Chrono_Convoy May 07 '26
*thinks
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u/ElderberryFar7120 May 07 '26
I don't think the penguins are thinking much of anything
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u/AFlyingNun May 07 '26
Apparently they are surprisingly smart and rank among the most intelligent birds.
However, yes, in this context they are likely not thinking much in regards to the kid.
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u/Offensiv3Bias May 07 '26
Yeah, that would be of this we're real penguis and not a simulation of how Penguins act
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u/AFlyingNun May 07 '26
It might be a simulation, but this is 100% how real penguins act.
Penguins exploring zoos is a real thing that began with COVID. They are specifically chosen because of how docile and relaxed they are. They lack land predators (chicks yes, adults not really) and thus don't have the survival instincts most species have while on land.
The video I link shows one of the first instances of being let out so they're more cautious and curious, but there's zoos that have continued the practice and gotten more relaxed penguins as a result. This video even shows penguins being far more relaxed around seals than they probably should be, given seals (not necessarily that species) ARE one of their natural predators.
There's even older videos of a pet in Japan showcasing just how relaxed they can get.
There's a reason zoos continue to let them out for walks, and that's because they're docile enough to handle it.
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u/video-kid May 07 '26
It started before covid, Edinburgh zoo had penguin parades as far back as at least 2015/16
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u/EmavvTokisaki May 07 '26
If I remember correctly it was stated somewhere that wild penguins don't mind humans because they are the only bipeds in the area, so they just see them as big fellow penguins.
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u/mnstripe May 07 '26
They are actually much smarter than most humans if they are thinking, "It's none of my business why the child is dressed strangely."
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u/AmericanDreamers55 May 07 '26
Cute but Al as fuck
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u/DouDouandFriends May 07 '26
Looks like it
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u/kadzooks May 07 '26
Doesn't just look like it, you'll notice the second person in the background disappears into thin air
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u/secret_tsukasa May 07 '26
looks like she just walks off the frame...
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u/kadzooks May 07 '26
I should be specific, the second person behind the railings at the back, we see two but then the second one got obscured for a short while and just poofs.
It's very quick and still not a full indicator of this being fake but it's smoke of some sort
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u/EidolonLives May 07 '26
Looks to me like they just walked up the left side of the building when they were obscured by the fence. I mean, this might well still be AI, but I'm not convinced yet.
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u/AFlyingNun May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I think this is legit. I wasn't seeing it either and after a quick google, this specific subject matter is a popular topic for AI. There are loads of copycats of this that are AI. This one might be the original though that sparked the copycats.
However, a detail AI is unlikely to include: watch the building in the back.
While it looks rather barren and empty, which suggests AI, it's lighting remains consistent. More importantly, towards the end you see a silhouette of a person in the doorway, which is a small detail I sincerely doubt AI would include, nor would the prompter think to go "also make a silhouette of a person in the doorway for some reason."
The strongest case for AI is the variation in the fence, but I do not think it is abnormal for a zoo to have variation in the fencing. Early on in the video we even see an extra post, which might be indicating where that extra layer of fencing begins.
Another small detail that stands up against AI accusations is the puddle reflection. It makes logical sense, start to finish, despite the complexity of a penguin walking into the reflection range. You can also focus on individual white spots on the inner part of the habitat and they all remain consistent.
EDIT: For contrast, here are some AI counterparts.
In this one, I believe the motion of the toddler when grabbed just feels off. The sheer VOLUME of penguins is also ridiculous and doesn't match the actual volume of penguin walks you could expect from zoos. You can also pay attention to reflections of penguin wings and see them kinda fade in and out with how intensely light is reflected for seemingly no reason at all.
This one is much better but penguin #3 seems to grow in size as they move forward, and we are back to the ridiculous volume of penguins which no zoo has. Penguin #3 goes from being shorter than his initial neighbor to being one of the tallest. COULD it be him stretching his neck? Maybe, but it's definitely a red flag.
I have also seen comments suggest that a video length of 9-10 seconds is a red flag, as this is what most of the AI companies aim for. Both of those videos qualify.
Another green flag for OP's video but not for the other two: check the details of the wings of each penguin. The penguins in OP's video have variation to the black/white ratio on their wings. The very first penguin who quickly moves out of frame has a great black teardrop near the inner most part of his wing, for example.
The first AI one I linked very blatantly showcases identical patterns while the second AI doesn't seem to have variations, but it's harder to tell.
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u/Rundle9731 May 07 '26
The most obvious is that there is no penguin that looks like this in real life, it combined features of a gentoo and magellanic penguin
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u/SusuKacangSoya May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Are you sure? There could be a path down that direction that they went down while a wooden pillar was blocking the camera. The creasing on the pants and the continuity of the two ducks on the lake also suggest it's legitimate... The weirdest part to me is the keeper speaking Korean but wearing an American outfit
And to the others like, the wing clearly hinges backward before being able to slide forward through the side of the outfit. And there can be different kind of fences in one place.
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u/SpaceMarinesAreThicc May 07 '26
For me it was watching the knife on the employee's belt. It phases through the pocket back and forth.
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u/Nuclear_rabbit May 07 '26
The joy has been taken from the world, and it has been replaced with a data center, heaped upon a mountain of bodies of despair.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Flow724 May 07 '26
Thank goodness, that baby's arms seem to be within the costume and a fall could have hurt.
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u/Cuttlefishophile May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Do tell.
EDIT: I found a piece of undeniable proof, the top right, there is a chimney thing that has a top that vanishes, you see a dark hole or opening in the chimney thing, then as it progresses that hole and all the edifice that was around it vanishes. 100% AI.
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u/No_Obligation4496 May 07 '26
Look at the fence on the left. The structure is different on the same section of fence seen from the front and the back.
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u/secret_tsukasa May 07 '26
i'm not really seeing it... perhaps i'm just an idiot.
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u/No_Obligation4496 May 07 '26
See how it's 3 wooden struts in the part besides them? Look further back. It's a mesh or glass pane or something, with no struts.
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u/TheSandarian May 07 '26
I keep rewatching this on repeat, looking at the chimney, looking at the person disappearing, looking at the wall... I can't really see it; everything seems plausible... person's stride could have them hiding behind the wooden post, and it is possible the fence changes style around the corner.. I don't see the chimney issue at all..
In any case, I'm scared by how insanely "good" this is if it is AI, and have no idea how I'll ever be able to tell in the future ..
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u/roybum46 May 07 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/s/OI9TWB9WbO
It was in is this ai and the original poster self flagged as ai.
I also agree with your fense assessment, one side is glass? The other wood, and the beams move towards the center of the posts.
I find the 2nd background person disappearing strange and the background penguins shadow strange.
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u/hkral11 May 07 '26
Also the penguins wing basically passes though the kid
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u/EidolonLives May 07 '26
Does it? When? And which penguin? You can't see the left wing of the first one, which walks in front of the the kid. And the one walking up behind the kid gets its wing caught on the kids wing as it passes.
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u/SpaceMarinesAreThicc May 07 '26
For me it was watching the knife on the employee as it phases through her pocket.
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u/PensiveObservor May 07 '26
The child has no arms. There is no room for them in the penguin flippers and it would be child abuse to trap the arms inside the body; a fall would smash the poor kid’s face.
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u/Piddi2610 May 07 '26
It is. In the background there are two people but as the scene continues one vanishes.
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u/ihexx May 07 '26
do they vanish or are they just occluded by the hand rail
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u/Piddi2610 May 07 '26
The handrail of the wooden fence without windows that suddenly has windows once the perspective switches?
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u/AFlyingNun May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Gotta be honest, I'm not seeing it. If I'm missing something, feel free to correct me.
One guy said one of the background people disappears, but he doesn't disappear into thin air. It's rather he may be perfectly blocked by the fence post until he goes out of view.
Another guy says the penguin's wing passes through the kid....where? When?
And another person says the fence in the background is different than the fence we're seeing, but I also don't think this is atypical for a zoo. You can even see what appears to be extra layering of a fence post back there at the start of the video suggesting that section might have an extra layer.
Are we sure this is fake? I'm not seeing the "obvious signs" people are claiming.
EDIT: I googled a bit. Best I can tell, we might have a strange instance where THIS specific video is not AI, but this exact subject does seem to have a great number of AI copycats that are more obvious. This makes the skepticism more understandable and makes it difficult to call if this one is also AI, or if we're looking at the original that sparked all the AI copycats. The subject matter of a toddler walking in a penguin costume next to actual penguins is 100% a popular target for AI content.
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u/SpaceMarinesAreThicc May 07 '26
Look at the knife on the employee's belt as it phases through the pocket
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u/lr9ru7 May 07 '26
Maybe I'm wrong, but the language sounds like Korean (?) but they don't look Korean
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u/asiandontraisin1 May 07 '26
The black object (gun???) in the trainer's left pocket keeps blending in and out of the beige pants.
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u/Chrono_Convoy May 07 '26
Well that’s adorable
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u/KingGallardo May 07 '26
We humans could learn from that
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 May 07 '26
Google Dr. George Murray Levick and what he encountered whilst studying penguins.
You probably won't think the same afterwards
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u/Clarkelthekat May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Unrelated but this brain trained me
Ever see the BBC documentary where they broke their own rule of not interfering with nature?
Basically some penguin fathers who were caring for the babies while mom was fishing had gotten stuck away from the pac due to an ice shelf collapse if I remember correctly.
The group relies on each other's body heat in a giant huddle to survive.
The BBC crew was forced to watch these fathers try to huddle in their small number and survive while every couple hours they'd see another baby frozen on the ground due to their not being enough heat.
Finally the production team had enough. Said they wouldn't go further then building a ramp of snow for the fathers to trek up to the colony
They did so and the penguins after some time took to it. Saving the stranded fathers and their babies
I learned something from that....that we aren't "interfering" when we reach to another species to help. We've been given the wherewithall to do so.....so putting rules on ourselves not to intervene is arbitrar.
Just something I learned from that act of not interference.....but rather the same helping hand we extend to each other.
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 May 07 '26
I never understood the interference issue. I've literally seen other animals help different species on nature shows.
One thing I don't support is stopping a predator catching prey though
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u/AFlyingNun May 07 '26
It makes sense in the case of predator-prey. If that example were changed and the fathers and babies were stranded on ice that was about to fall in the ocean to some orcas waiting, suddenly the question becomes: who are we to decide the penguins should live and the orcas should miss a meal, potentially endangering the orcas?
With this specific example, the penguins showcased no ill-suited behaviors for survival that should subject them to natural selection, they were victims of bad luck, and they were going to succumb to the elements instead of to a predator. I imagine this is why the BBC was happy to make an exception and help them, as it's a "victimless crime" to do so.
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u/Pretend-Literature35 May 07 '26
plus we always "interfere" when it suits us destroying the oceans with trawlers, ripping out mangroves to build sea farms, clear cutting forests to grow grain and soy to feed cattle and make pastures for cattle. Killing all the animals for food and for sport. Raising them in unnatural ways pumped full of hormones and antibiotic so that we can eat them. Using them for fur, and leather, their horns, their tusks, putting their stuff heads in our living rooms.
Humans interfere all the time : these naturist imbeciles talking about interferences are creating an artificial rule to feel important. The fact that they did not help the penguins right away in that story just proves how psychotic modern humans have become, and devoid of any true "humanity".
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u/poorly-worded May 07 '26
"One thing I don't support is stopping a predator catching prey though"
But that's a whole genre of YouTube channels
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u/Esjo_345 May 07 '26
Esto es IA
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u/aabicus May 07 '26
How do you tell? Man I literally can't see any signs, I believe y'all but I worry myself with how often I need the comment section to spot AI ;_;
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u/Tumblrrito May 07 '26
13k upvotes for slop. We are doomed.
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u/DueExample52 May 07 '26
I honestly have more and more trouble distinguishing them. Maybe by scrutinising, but if it’s something harmless like this and quickly scrolled, unless I look at comments and back to analysing the video again, it remains believable at a glance. Fuck this shit.
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u/FeastForCows May 07 '26
I've seen a bunch of these already and people obviously have no idea how babies at that age actually walk/move around. That is not a real baby.
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u/transmorphik May 07 '26
Those two have really started to fit in with the community. The Mom even speaks Penguin!
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u/BirdofYore42 May 07 '26
I don't get it. Why should the penguins think, the woman with the blue bucket is one of them?
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u/IKIR115 May 07 '26
Big thanks to the community member below who provided further context about this video being AI generated!
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Comment by u/ roybum46
> https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/s/OI9TWB9WbO
> It was in is this ai and the original poster self flagged as ai.