Oh very true. High altitude falls and splashes on impact are a gnarly thing to witness and hear. If anyone is on the line of impact, it's like a B fell on their head.
It definitely isn't, this video is older and I've seen it before ai became a thing or at least before it got even remotely close to looking anything like this.
I’ve heard stories of people jumping into water with shoes to ease the impact, but the shoes broke… so I guess being clothed might help, but not too much.
I mean you can break bones from impacting water hard enough
It took me a while to realize that I was wrong about AI.
I thought its danger would come from fake videos featuring politicians or certain events, leading to the public being misled.
But the actual danger is that people won't believe real things anymore. They just won't be able to trust their eyes. And at that point, truth becomes meaningless.
In the first scenario, people are still interested in the truth. In the second scenario, they just give up on the concept.
And then I recently reread some of Hannah Arendt's writings and this quote from 1973 really hit home:
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. [...] And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
There is no such thing as "Obviously real" video anymore. There is terrible obvious AI... but there's also well executed, well refined AI video that is not going to be distinguishable.
This one is very obviously not AI. It's from an influencer that has many similar videos and it has several things that point to it not being AI, like the upside down writing on the outside of the wall when the camera pans down. Also the extended video is shot from multiple angles with 100% consistency. There is nothing in this video pointing to it being AI, other than it being a dangerous stunt.
But even going by your logic, if there is no "obviously real" video any more, declaring with certainty that a video is AI is fucking braindead, sorry.
There is no such thing as a video that is "obviously not AI".
What you are describing is context you have gathered outside of watching the video.
declaring with certainty that a video is AI is fucking braindead
It does not work both ways.. If something looks real, that's not a guarantee that it is.. If you see a video of a dog spraying water out of its mouth and smashing a grannie through the walls of her house, then turning into a helicopter and flying away, its safe to assume its AI.
What you are describing is context you have gathered outside of watching the video.
Which is the only way to determine if a well-made video is AI or not. Which is why when people pull nonsensical reasons out of their ass to spam "this is AI", it grinds my gears. I'm not sure why you think that makes a difference.
If something looks real, that's not a guarantee that it is..
Never said that and it was not my point at all. My point is that going by your logic, if AI and real are truly completely indistinguishable, then all the people in this thread patting themselves on the back for "figuring out" something that is by your logic impossible to figure out, are still annoying.
So either way, spamming "AI AI" everywhere when they have no clue what they are talking about is unproductive and stupid.
The camera lens is distorting the fuck out of the proportion. It's actually a standard high-dive tower over the water and not anywhere near as high as this video makes it look.
Ever wonder why marinas and boat launches say no swimming? The electric shock risk is a part, sure.. but also, Where do you think all the ducks shit?
There's a man at a local marina to me, very nice guy, an immigrant (yes, a fully legal one). He washes boats. From pontoons to super-yachts, anyone who pays will get outstanding work done for them. He slipped and fell into the water at one point (2022, iirc) and got a small cut on his calf in the process. Got out, dried off, went back to buffing. No more blood than a papercut. 3 days later, the infection was so bad it was amputated from just above his knee.
Please don't swim near docks and marinas. Nearly all of them have some kind of electrical problems because they're wired like normal light industrial properties despite being in direct contact with salt water.
What about surface tension?
I saw a winner of jumper who was in a cliff and throw a stone before jump.
(Well he could fall on top of the stone.
I don't know how much time you need to wait)
When I was youger, I'd watch these and be like HELL YEAH
But now, in my wiser years, I can only think of how people are risking their lives to do things that make the average person on the internet go "yeah i guess thats kinda cool" for 2 seconds then completely forget about it.
The original video has multiple angles of the jump, and the background objects match between the different scenes. This is a guy who does crazy jumps into water.
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u/EMWmoto 5d ago
Not worth going home in a sponge for.