Animal rescue stories are popular on YouTube.
A YouTube channel sharing animal rescue stories now has 1.2 million subscribers.
The only problem? The stories are completely made up and the videos are generated using AI.
This content literally outcompetes videos from real animal shelters — for profit — while misinforming our children and anyone who cannot see the difference.
I cannot begin to describe how much that angers me.
🤔 Actually for once I just wonder if there's a silver lining to this cloud. Maybe AI animal rescue will price the reverse animal rescue* videos out of the market? At least, it may be the same people making them but it's less risky to them and less harmful if there are no real animals involved.
(* Where a healthy animal is filmed as the "after" state, then abused, starved, mutilated and filmed being "rescued" as the "before state", and usually killed so they can start afresh.)
Randahl Fink
Electropict