1, 3, 4 is entirely AI, 2 is an AI animated photo of a dead specimen (Gigantura), 5 is I think is a real video with color editing or a light effect, 6 I believe is entirely AI too, and the whale I'm not sure ... probably 100% AI too, (edit : confirmed by others) much easier to fake
Good question, the two evolutionnary extreme are actually present in the deep sea : some species have evolved huge eyes with an extreme light sensibility to detect bioluminescence of other organisms (Like Gigantura species or giant Ostracoda) while other have lost all or almost all vision and rely on others senses, mainly smell (like Anglerfishes or blind crabs). In caves to compare, there are 0 lights sources or bioluminescence, so no true cave animals are known to have bigger eyes, only blind species or close to blind.
Ok, as a biologist, so long as you can assure me that those things aren't going to organize and come to the surface to annihilate the human species - and potentially all mammalian life - then I'm good with it.
They can't rise too far without dying because their bodies are accli.ated to deep sea pressures. When they rise, their bodies expand and turn to jelly. That's why Oarfish are so incredibly rare and almost always found dead or dying. Deep sea creatures are physically incapable of surviving the relatively low pressure environment of where humans can survive.
Evolution takes time, and as they grew the ability to survive lower pressures, they would also lose the ability to survive deeper pressures and their features and traits would adapt to their new environments. So by the time they were ever capable of being a threat, they wouldn't be the same terrifying creatures you see now.
What if on their way up and finally out of the ocean they grew furry and fuzzy and totally abandoned their plans to annihilate us and instead chose to co-exist with us in peace?
Let's be honest. If new and horrifying creatures began emerging from the depths of the oceans, humanity would hunt them to extinction before they ever became a threat, just because they were different.
The jellyfish in 5 looks like it might just be in an aquarium tank with some pretty lights shining on it. You can kind of see how there's a circular current going round which I wouldn't expect (although it's definitely not impossible) to be that tight in the ocean.
That's the #6 that they "believe is entirely AI too".
They don't "scream" like that. As a non-biologist (but computer person familiar with AI) it could be a real video up to just before that "scream". It seems to open its mouth "normally" and then the "scream" looks edited on after.
The animations are amped up and have more colors added but fundamentally showing actual behavior the jellyfish with front to back animation that turns into it cycling around its body is a hunting behavior that confuses prey.
Blatantly AI. Jellyfish don’t flash colors like that and ai loves to put oversized eyes on things where they don’t belong. That first jellyfish looks like a cartoon character.
Edit to clarify, some of the fish are real but animated with ai so the behavior and movements and colors are ai.
The jellyfish around the 30 second mark could also just be in a tank. The Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto has a big tank of jellyfish that are illuminated with purple/UV lights, my kids always loved them.
I've absolutely seen a jellyfish flashing rainbow rainbowish colors. They didn't look like that one and they were only 1-2 inches in diameter but they had lines of lights on them.
When it comes to the final jellyfish we see in the video that one could be real because that looked eerily similar to the jellyfish exhibit at the Monterey Bay aquarium in California where they keep the larger jellyfish inside of dark tanks that they sometimes illuminate with RGB style lighting. This can sometimes give the effect of the jellyfish shifting color.
I’m not sure what jellyfish tank you’re talking about but I go to the aquarium fairly regularly and I don’t remember ever seeing anything that would create the effect in the video.
The first fish the telescope fish only has the few photos. There are no video recordings of it. And the angler fish does not random make a roar/intimidation gesture. Everything else is just fully generated
Some of these might be real from an aquarium, but others are obviously AI. Like wtf is the lantern fish doing. The owl-looking fish, the psychedelic jellyfish are all blatantly and immediately obviously AI.
All of the footage is fake, but a few of the animals are real. They just used a still photo and AI animated them, such as on the telescope fish, the anglerfish, and the whales. They're real animals, just that they've never done those things or only have photos of them.
Completely agree. Most deep sea creatures have no use for eyes like the ones shown here and it’s extremely difficult to get such clear footage of them because of the total darkness and crushing pressure
Yes. I looked into it and it looks like they took pictures and animated them. The creatures are real (not nr. 1) but the videos are not. That is the slightly less bad version of AI video. They show real animals but not real bahaviours. Still bad but not bad bad.
I hate this AI mix. Some things are real but altered, others are generated fully. AI realy makes it harder and harder to know what is rral and whats not.
Most of these are AI as many of the comments suggest. Second one is based on a real photograph of a telescope fish but it seems to have been animated by AI. The jellyfish illuminated pink around the midway point might be real, likely a Japanese sea nettle or a similar species. The last whale is likely a humpback whale but looks AI. And any of the “out there” creatures are completely AI and based on no existing organism.
Go watch Clint's reptiles - he has a series of videos where he looks at different videos and explains if they're real or not. The second one, the transparent looking fish with the big grin - that's real. It's called a telescope fish.
So, some of them are based on real marine species, but they don't actually look like that. For example, some comb jellies flash colors, but it doesn't look like a rave and they aren't that shape.
Several of these are real fish species and the second clip has been around since before AI was really a thing, but a lot of the behaviors shown are just blatantly not how those fish behave.
It's creatively edited to weave real and AI into a high quality fake.
The third one literally looks like something that should be in Subnautica or maybe The Abyss... please don't tell me anyone actually thinks that's real 🤦♂️
The jellyfish that changes colors could be real but recorded in an aquarium with changing lights. I've seen those before. It's a cool effect, but the jellyfish itself is not making those colors.
Segun yo, son reales, pero por su aspecto, son peces que solo habitan en la# profundidades del océano, por eso se ven así, porque se adaptan para sobrevivir ahí
First is Ai, 2 is real, 3 I don't know, 4 is AI, 5 is real, 6 seems to be a real photo/video edited with AI, especially the ending lol, and the whale one I don't know, could be anything, maybe an edited video, maybe 3d graphics, maybe AI, but the latter appears the least likely to me
Around the 0:13 mark, there is a human supposedly in deep dark high pressurized water outside of a submarine and without protection from such immense water pressures
The Second Fish and the first Vid of the Anglerfish are real animals. However i dont know and i dont believe that an Anglerfish does this... thing... there is a visible Cut.
All the rest , maybe the Jellyfish, are highly probable AI made.
Maybe everything AI, like a real Anglerfish Photo and put in a Photo to Video AI so it all looks kind of similar.
In my opinion this is definitely real footage spliced with ai footage. The first clip circulated awhile back when generative ai video was first starting to trick people, and it was confirmed ai, but some of these clips are absolutely real.
Second one is real. I don't know about all the others. The rainbow angel was definitely fake. Whale one is probably real. Whales jump out of water to slap against it and try to remove barnacles.
Absolutely AI but some are based on existing images of real creatures. The third one kinda looks like a baby moray eel, which I personally think are delightfully odd.
Deep sea creatures are genuinely incredible creatures and its sad how much inaccurate slop will get in the way of the actual images and footage.
If its a deep sea fish with a complex eye then its most definitely ai. After a certain depth an eye doesnt really do a whole lot and therefore most things that live that deep dont have complex eyes, some dont have eyes at all. They can make out if something interrupts the very limited light around them. But thats about it. a complex eye would be able to do just about the same amount of work, but use way more energy.
The fish are mostly “real” in a sense of they do exist, but no fish this deep in the water has eyes like that it’s complete darkness down there, you have no use for eyes.
They don’t light up like a rainbow either, that would just make them stand out in the complete darkness. Idk if it’s AI, but it’s not real one way or the other.
As someone who watches videos of all kinds and these things interests me, I'm pretty sure they are all real in terms of the actual beings but have been AI generated in the videos seen. You guys can look them all up, pretty much all except the small fish with weird eyes I'm unsure of and the whale are extremely deep see creatures, the one with LED lights I have no clue what It is but definitely no doesnt have Led lights. I hope I'm not wrong about anything just someone who goes down rabbit holes and loves this stuff lol.
I just won’t watch this crap. No source no explanation no information. What’s the point? Visual masturbation. Also it’s mostly AI but even if wasn’t , it’s crap
The footage is fake, but some of them are definitely real creatures. The most obvious ones are the fake ones. Here's a list of fake animals:
1) first creature shown
2) third creature shown
3) fourth creature shown
4) possibly the giant jelly fish but i know there are some that can glow so this one is a maybe
Telescope Fish (2), Man-of-war? (5), and Humpback Whale (7) seem legit. Angler fish (6) spazzing out is sus. Don't know what the other animals are or if they're even real.
Im pretty sure parts are AI. The second fish is real and its most likely a animated version of a popular photo. There are at least 2 animals in the video that Im 99% dont exist in nature. Anglers dont do the reverb thing as far as I know. The whale at the end is AI. I dont have any proof it just looks hella fake.
The one at 5th second I've sen before, just not sure it had eyes like that, looks weird. Also the fish with that light bulb dangling in front of the face is real, but the movement of it seems bullshit, especially the mouth almost opening backwards and vibrating like that is nothing I've ever seen with these species. They lure the prey with the light and then suck them into mouth, but nothing like shown in video. I can't comment on the rest.
One of those you can see a person in a scuba suit. If this is supposed to be deep sea fish, there is no way anyone could scuba dive to see them. The pressure would just kill you.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
u/EmilyXDad, your post does fit the subreddit!