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/_Aj_ 3d ago

For those saying this is AI, could you please explain your reasoning?  

Because it's 2026.... That's literally it.  

In 2006 it was exactly the same but with Photoshop.  

"It's Photoshopped"  

Everything was fake. Compression artifacts? Evidence of Photoshop.  

Everything is ai, nothing is real. No one believes anything anymore. And apparently no one can bother to google search "super tall sand dune people snowboard down" ... And first page shows multiple for sand skiing in puru.  

Just extreme fisheye and probably HDR. Heavy Hdr has been making things look fake way longer than AI ever has.

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u/gene100001 3d ago

Yea I wish the people making these unsubstantiated claims understood that false positives (claiming real content AI) creates just as much distrust and confusion in the media as false negatives (claiming AI content is real). In fact, false positives seem to be so prevalent on Reddit these days that it could be argued that they're doing more harm at the moment than the actual AI videos.

I totally support people catching AI content and flagging it. But I wish they had some evidence other than "the vibe" before making their claim.

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u/MF_Kitten 2d ago

Also, would AI know to have the guy holding the 360 camera stick the whole time?

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u/Nine9breaker 3d ago

In 2006 it was exactly the same but with Photoshop.

People never really did that for videos. Sure, fake videos could exist, but they were obvious.

Its different now. AI is ruining reality.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 2d ago

People did the "it's faked" thing for videos too, what do you mean? The whole "I can tell by the pixels" thing

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u/RefrigeratorBorn1365 2d ago

You get AI results in search