He's camera shy

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.

  I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.

  We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it’s flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos…

    Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I’ve been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven’t added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is as good a time as any to recommend downloading a copy of Wikipedia! And if you already have your copy, please seed afterward!

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t even mind AI stuff existing, but there probably should be a tag for it

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  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Out of curiosity, any particular reason you checked in April every year?

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      None, really. Started devouring every morsel of information I could a bit over a decade ago, until it turned into less than a trickle in April, and then I quit. Then April sprang back the year after, I remembered my compulsion, and I checked for more information again, until there was nothing left. And then it turned into a tradition for me.

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bigfoot was the second shooter at JFK’s assassination so he had to go into hiding but was subsequently killed by the CIA

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    CIA kills JFK. CIA creates Bigfoot. Bigfoot kills JFK. CIA kills Bigfoot.

    Some Nietzsche shit right there.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    subsequently killed by the CIA

    And the reverse vampires!

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    • Snailpope@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You mean those very tan people, you can only see in mirrors, who donate blood and love garlic and the lowercase t?

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    • msprout@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Where does The Rand Corporation fit into all of this again?

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  • rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The true story: Fives “older self” fired the first shot, it got redirected back at him by „Days of Future Past“ Magneto. But then a SCP-1000 Bigfoot stepped in as the replacement sniper. World History is crazy.

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They were mad bigfoot beat them to it.

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• undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And ghosts too. You’d think we’d all be up to our eyeballs in ghosts videos by now but no.

  We all know why of course. Ghosts are just lazy. How can I be expected to believe in a group who clearly don’t believe in themselves?

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I hate to say it, but this graph just made the most compelling argument against the noble Squatch I’ve ever seen. Not that I believed, but this has to be the ultimate hope-killer for true believers.

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• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is because we have seen a lot of new tech that makes cameras water resistant/proof and technological advancements in submarines. No one’s made a backwoods proof camera yet.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keep Bigfoot’s name out of your filthy mouth.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Are you talking about Terry?

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And ufos too.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We got a lot better at identifying FOs.

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      low quality camera: holy shit what is that? is that an alien!!! where is my cow?? the aliens took it!!!

      high quality camera: holy shit why is there a hubcap going to space at 999999999mph???

      teenagers on TikTok: TODAY WE SRE TAKING THIS COW TO MCDONALD’S!!!

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Here in Europe we don’t believe in that shit, read somewhere that it correlates with education

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  • frostphunk@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t believe in cameras, giant squids, or Bigfoot

    👀

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, go step in that faerie ring. See what happens

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Aww gross! I got spored on!”

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …wikipedia.org/…/Category:European_legendary_crea…

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sorry to break the news bro, cameras exist.

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder how this graph will be affected by AI image generation

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whoa, I would have never guessed bigfoot onlyfans was so unpopular - at last it’s a steady following.

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