Losers and Dummies

I’m not upset or anything, I can kinda see what you mean! If you’re expecting anything cool on the internet these days to probably be fake, yeah, the colors on the meat do look incongruous.

Let’s take a second here and use this as an educational experience for everyone. Fake animal photos are totally an internet scourge these days. If you don’t trust the OP of a post like this saying it’s not AI, how else could you check and try to find out?

Three things to help you verify not slop:

1. There’s a bunch of other photos in series with this one on my website, which allows you to see context for when and how the photos were taken. There’s also other photos of this animal and this habitat in other lighting and weather conditions. That’s generally more work than people will go to if they just want to create a viral photo, and you can look for internal consistency.

2. AI isn’t good enough yet to replicate specific stripe patterns on individual tigers, they get all wonky. The animal and her location are named in this instance and it’s easy to google to see if everything lines up.

3. You can also check to see if the thing in photos actually happens. The meatball throwing demo is a very, very common occurrence at this facility! It’s a regular activity during talks when tigers are in that habitat (it is a multi-species rotational space). They posted a video on their Facebook fourteen hours ago of their curator getting a direct shot into a different tiger’s mouth.

Sly Crayfish (Procambarus versutus), family Cambaridae, Okaloosa County, Florida, USA

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) “20090207-National Zoo-191” by JGBoyd, CC BY-NC 2.0

Javelina aka Collared Peccary (Dicotyles tajacu), male, family Tayassuidae, Arizona, USA

A Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu) shows off its formidable tusks at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in Southern TX, USA.

Little fish eats his foods 

Lumpfish are indeed very beautiful, especially pretty under UV light, when they glow a brilliant green. Scientists believe individuals use their bright colors to identify and communicate with each other. Very powerful, though? Not so much. They aren't very stong swimmers-- they don't even have a swim bladder-- and they spend most of their time attached to rocks on the ocean floor.