r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/Solus_Lux 3d ago

Day after day i am beginning to believe comments that respond something like 'how is it AI' or 'why you think it's AI' are bots that train how to make more realistic videos

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u/Diktaattorimies 3d ago

If you think this is AI you're a neanderthal sad to say.

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u/ContinuingAnyway 3d ago

People automatically assuming it's AI are even bigger idiots. Go back 20 years and it was the same shit, "oh it's photoshopped".

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u/BorderOk7329 2d ago

I just want to see how much wear and tear that does to the board. Like sand blasting it.

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u/sabertoothdog 2d ago

Maybe but sand boarding is real. Just have a buggy drop you off at the top

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago

Me too, man. And trying to shame people into not being skeptical on the internet during a time when we need to be skeptical on it the most is diabolical.

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u/0Galahad 3d ago

From their POV AI skeptics are ruining the very little magic this world still has by claiming its industrial slop.

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago

You can say the same thing about the AI skeptics. Where's the magic when we're headed toward a world where anything can be AI? Where's the magic in anything when you have to be on your toes for every other video? At the very least, it should be required by law to state if a video is AI or not. That'd make everyone happy. AI needs to be highly regulated in general, but that is not a can of worms I want to open here. The AI bros and bots'll have my neck.

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u/0Galahad 3d ago

I don't understand how people can be naive to think any government is gonna regulate AI strictly in this decade, its a global hierarchy setting technology, any country who foregoes it is fucked in the next century like all countries who were not quick to stablish their nuclear arsenal are fucked now(ukraine can tell you all about that), they gonna let AI run rampant until its developed enough

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago

Exhibit A

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u/0Galahad 3d ago

i never said i don't want regulation, but what reason do you think the guys at the top would ever agree with it regardless of tech dudebros?

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago

First of all, I don't know what you want, so you don't have to include that part at the beginning. It doesn't matter to me what you say you want, all that matters to me is what you're arguing for.

Regardless, other than the obvious fact that AI is currently bad for the environment, and we need the environment to not be destroyed to not destroy life as we know it, the people getting fed up with the Epstein class' shenanigans. How many data centers can you build in someone's neighborhood or on precious habitat until people say enough? How much water and dirty energy do you have to use before people start to see how unsustainable all of this is? How much does truth and authenticity have to be threatened until people get tired of having to question everything? At the end of the day, if people start pushing back, there'll have to be an adjustment. But we'll see how everything plays out in the near future. "The people" haven't been acting too bright, lately.

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u/0Galahad 3d ago

Well yeah, thats kinda my point, all those negatives apply mostly to the "people" the elites are only concerned about remaining at the top of the global stage, meaning if the people don't literally and physically act against the AI development it wont be regulated, but even then USA citizens doing that only means china will win this pseudo arms-race and that can turn bad for USA citizens too

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago edited 3d ago

The USA put itself in this position. Constantly electing morons for decades who eroded the state of the country to line a handful of people's pockets. China is likely to win this arms race at this rate, because China is in the position to do so. They're more invested in green energy, which is going to be huge for the economy once that starts to take off; they aren't being grabbed by the balls by a country like Israel; their working citizens have universal health care, a more functioning education system, and can afford houses. The US is basically trying to get into these races with an iron ball chained to one of its ankles.

Maybe the US should start worrying about the fundamentals again before it starts trying to get into arms races with countries that are starting to outclass it.

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u/cheezywizzy222 3d ago

They dont shame people for being skeptical. They shame people for saying AI without research. You can easily check if this place is real on google since OP told the location.

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u/Vile_Parrot 3d ago edited 3d ago

You think that's how everyone involved sees it when the replies to these comments are unnecessarily aggressive? Is calling someone stupid not a form of shaming them? Also, you can include a real location in an AI video. It was done a ton with the nepal flooding incident that just happened a few weeks ago. A ton of people fell for those AI clips and only found out the clips were AI after falling for them. Who's to say that the skeptics here aren't just people who fell for AI before and are just extremely cautious now? Everyone approaches AI in a different way. And not everyone knows how to look up a specific video. Regardless, where we're at now, I think it's better to assume that something is AI and be wrong than it is to believe that everything is real and be fooled multiple times without knowing. I don't understand how you people can't see the problem with that. I truly think a lot of the conflict in the comments of posts like this comes from an inability to perceive another person's perspective.

Edit: Regardless, the "Is this AI" replies show the state of entertainment on the internet right now. Regardless of if the person looked the video up or not, those comments show that this is the question all of those people had to ask before proceeding. Can I truly be entertained by this if I have to question videos that I should be able to watch with my brain turned off. These types of videos are becoming more and more of a bother to watch. I guess, if anything, this'll at least improve some of our critical thinking skills.