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Fake eagle YouTube video.

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Subject: Fake eagle YouTube video.
From: Philip Veerman via Canberrabirds <>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:43:37 +0000

First sorry for posting this but it is interesting. Silly season……. There are many fake videos on the internet. The great majority are too absurd and obvious to bother about but this is one that is almost real but I’m sure it isn’t. It purports to show a somewhat large rat like animal playing with an eagle. If you feel like some amusement try this one. By looking at the comments option (via the box button). It looks like I am the only one who has commented with a realisation that it is fake. In other words everyone else believed it is real. Most comments are quite absurd. Most comments are not in English but a translation is available by clicking on the button. Right now my comment is at the top of the list, though that may change. Or it means that no one wants to add any comments after mine.

 

Philip

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/86aGmpj4lF4

 

This is clearly all fake AI generated image! The eagle's lower mandible is deformed. It looks like it is meant to be an eagle, however the feathers are not down to the toes (unfeathered lower legs, like on a hawk), so that is certainly wrong. The position of white plumage on the head and dark and light streaking on head and neck changes constantly. The toes certainly are not real and talons are nowhere near big enough for an eagle. The bird's beak is too long and not hooked enough for an eagle. The mammal (whatever it is supposed to be), changes shape from a long snout to a rodent like head. Besides, the general pattern of white of the eagle does not match any species.

 

Philip

 


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