It’s important to remember that AI itself isn’t the enemy. Many animal welfare organisations use AI responsibly.
Nope.
So this is becoming a real problem in the animal rescue world.
TL;DR: Fake “rescues” divert funds from real ones with their dumb AI content.
Edit: adding more for context - you probably notice me as someone who posts a lot of animal pictures. I follow dozens of various animal rescues, and some of them have been sounding the alarm bell.
Animal rescues run very lean in terms of funding; they rely on volunteer labor and the generosity of people who subscribe to their social media channels.
That’s where they will often have donation drives and requests - and they will post plenty of cute anima pics to support the cause. Of course, it often takes a volunteer hours per week to get great pics to post.
So some assholes empowered with Artificial “Intelligence” are creating fake rescues with fake images and diverting funds from real rescues.
Yes, people really are that gullible, especially on Facebook. A lot of older people cannot tell the difference.
I’ve literally never seen this. Where is it posted?
Facebook and Instagram usually. I’ll try to grab some screenshots but I also avoid groups that post AI so it doesn’t show up as much in my feed.
Edit: here is an example of fake bats being posted to a bat group. While this is not a group pretending to be a rescue, they will occasionally sell bat-related merchandise. It’s just a quick example, there are definitely more:
Yeah, I don’t use those platforms. Where’s the downvote button?
Another problem is that children who watch enough of this slop are going to get killed trying to approch wild animals “like in the video”. We truly are living in the worst timeline possible.
Absolutely, that’s another danger of this dumb fake content.
AI* is bad at everything it does. It only provides mis/disinformation and hurts everything it touches (environment, job sector, ‘IQ’, ANYTHING with RAM/SSD/HD in it).
- LLMs as opposed to the broad category of AI
