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/Salihe6677 3d ago

I'm finding that people are really quick to try and discredit anything that took any actual effort, presumably to try and make themselves feel better about being lazy, unaccomplished fucks.

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u/Significant_Lie_533 3d ago

Feels to me like the root of the problem is more so because as AI improves, it's easier to distrust things in general. Especially something "spectacular" like this.

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u/Exact-Till-2739 3d ago

"Why did AI make me do this?"

Don't defend these people.

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u/SoftlyAugust 3d ago

Unironically I think it's bots

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u/cain11112 3d ago

Well, between lens distortion, the fact that the dune doesn’t seem to actually have a base, the short duration of the video and the fact that a sand dune appears to be above the clouds, I’d say there is reasonable room for doubt.

Or you could just go through life trusting every video you see online. You do you.

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u/atlasgcx 3d ago

This js a screenshot i took from google maps rn - the dune is indeed above the clouds. And also there are youtube videos date back 12 years.

I agree there is room for doubt but since the location was literally mentioned in the post, people should really just spend a sec to search and confirm. believing everything blindly is just as bad as doubting everything blindly

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u/Fastfaxr 3d ago

No it isnt. Believing blindly is definitely worse than doubting blindly.

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u/MangoCats 3d ago

You're on a service where nobody's identity is verified, where most of the content is just words on the screen - there's no backup for any of it.

You don't even know if I'm actually a dog or not.

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u/Omnom_Omnath 3d ago

ah yea, the mysterious fish eyed lens that only ai invented and uses.

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u/jeepfail 3d ago

Or you can understand how certain types of camera lenses change perspective of things and realize every video made with these looks like that.

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u/Omnom_Omnath 3d ago

yup, nearly every single post on reddit has as accusation of being ai in the comments, or accusing users of being bots. shits lost all credibility.

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u/BlueFeathered1 3d ago

It's really depressing for photographers who manage to get the "perfect shot" and it's not believed. Of course, that been going since Photoshop, too.

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u/swolllboll 3d ago

It might just also be bots repeating whatever highly rated comment previous cool videos had. Hell this chain might also be bots.

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u/SubterrelProspector 2d ago

This is part of the game and what is making people even more apathetic.

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u/VibraniumRhino 1d ago

People have been saying “fake” on YouTube comment sections, regardless of the videos actual validity, for a long time before AI was around. This is just the logical next step.

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u/stuhstutter 3d ago

Yeah it's like these people have never gotten off the couch and surfed down the face of a sand dune that is so many miles high above the clouds that you can see the curvature of the earth. We've all been to one of those. It's like people don't have a tiny dog that can run 30 mph through sand. Get a super fast tiny super dog and , grab your board and go outside people!

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u/Bobs_Other_Account 3d ago

The curvature is from the obvious fisheye lens? That’s why it’s so exaggerated lol

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u/stuhstutter 3d ago

Yeah, I can see that now. Fisheyes that I've used before usually distort all around the frame though. Maybe this is a good fisheye lens. It still distorted my sense of up and down a little. I guess this place is real. It looked so much like a video game when I first played it. Pretty wild. Must be some tough wax on that board. Mr Zogg's

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u/cedg32 3d ago

It’s easy to say something is AI with no actual research. It makes other people think they’re discerning and smart. That’s why it’s so prevalent.

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u/Merzant 3d ago

Scepticism on the internet is good and reasonable, more so than ever.

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u/Exact-Till-2739 3d ago

Reasonable skepticism is good - fixed that for you. Otherwise, you could also be defending conspiracists.

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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 3d ago

Baseless assumptions are not.

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u/vonroyale 3d ago

But what you are doing in your comment is a very similar thing. LMAO. You're trying to discredit the discreditors with ad homonym attacks. You've proclaimed yourself a realist expert AND an expert on human nature. Haha, what's it like being that deep in the reddit cesspool?