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Gonna need sauce on this one.
An LLM lawl
My brain chose to read part of the quote as
"DOT voted unanimously to keep the
coyote on its inspection staff"
Even if the picture wasn’t obvious AI, it’s not proof of the story being told. What’s being described is so implausible, you would have very ignorant and gullible to believe it.
I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.
this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists
Especially with video to show us.
Coyotes are smart.
I’ve watched a crow check both ways for traffic before flying low across the road.
It’s not implausible at all. Are you familiar with the idea of a cargo cult?
Coyotes are smart.
I saw a documentary on CBS that said otherwise. A coyote couldn’t even catch a bird.
I’m familiar with humans creating cargo cults. Regarding your crow anecdote, are you familiar with the idea of anthropomorphization?
Okay, to set the scene:
I’m eating lunch. Sitting at a high top against a big wall of windows, street level. I am all about this fucking salad bar. And gawking out this window, because once it’s mixed properly, it all comes out the same color.
A crow flies by.
Lands at the edge of the curb. Claws around the corner.
Waits for the taxi that was already taking the turn, inches from this bird.
Looks upstreet, looks downstreet, jets across both lanes of main road.
I’m not anthropomorphizing shit, crows are fucking Smart. They know cars are dangerous. I wish my fucking dog would figure that out
Nah, come on. Don’t be ridiculous. Looking for traffic is one thing - checking an arbitrary box for a specific image just because humans do and understanding it immediately and without mistake is another. I don’t doubt it is possible to train a coyote to understand this, but there’s just no way this happened as stated in the post.
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).
It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI as we presently know it was not yet a thing…
You mean dogs can’t be taught things?
No, I don’t mean that.
- Dogs can’t teach themselves everything.
- That’s not a dog.
- They don’t have to. Unless you think pushing a button in reach is a truly impossible feat to overcome.
- It’s close enough to a dog.
Is that what the story claimed? That a coyote just pushed a button?
Coyotes are not as trainable as dogs because they didn’t evolve alongside humans for thousands of years.
I dunno. When did the first humans arrive in North America? You’re talking like we don’t have examples of other animals learning about/from humans in significantly less time than “thousands of years”.
I have watched the deer in Campbell River walk up the sidewalk single file, wait at a crosswalk for the road to clear, and then cross.
The animals are learning to navigate the new jungle.
The story is fake on its face. It involves so much more than a wild animal waiting until it’s safe to cross the street. A coyote supposedly learned the difference between the crosswalk symbols, understood the connection between the button and the symbols, and learned and bothered to use them. Then, when humans gathered hours of video footage of this miracle, they only showed us a single grainy still image.
I’m disappointed in some of the comments here (not you - the whole comment section). People need to be more skeptical.
Lol as if Arizona in any way accomodates pedestrians.
I had a deer trot out of the woods and up close to the shoulder of the road. As I’m pumping the brakes, she’s waiting for me to pass while craning her neck to look down the highway, both ways. It was a bit surreal.
Early morning walking to work, I took a shortcut over a highway. Saw a hare that stopped, looked both ways, and then crossed when the road was clear. It got to the elevated section between the lanes (not sure what this is called in English), stopped, looked both ways, and then continued when the road was clear.
The elevated part is called an island in Australia, or if it is protected it’s a pedestrian refuge
Aren’t hares always looking both ways?
You mean on account of having their eyes on the sides of their heads rather than in front?
They do, and I honestly don’t know how their vision works, but I would guess that they can turn their eyeballs to the front to maybe get some depth perception? At least that’s what it looked like to me with this hare. It was a really long, straight road where you could see 1 km or more in both directions, and the hare was being really careful waiting until the road was completely clear in both directions.
It likely also relied a lot on directional hearing, but really was turning its head which I don’t think they usually do, since they can easily turn their ears independently.
Like others said, seems fake. However it did remind me of what I saw when I went to the town in Japan with all the deer. They just cross the road whenever the fuck they want and expect cars to stop for them, and they do. It’s the deer’s town, the humans are just living in it.
BS
Was working at night with my mother, when I was a teen. We were out delivering newspapers and magazines to shops, gas stations, … when we saw a huge mass at the side of the street to ahead. Coming closer we realized it was a horde of cows, gathered around a bus stop sign. It was wild and we had a hard time to convince the police we’re not on drugs when we called them (a roaming horde of dark cows at night is definitely a road hazard they have to take care of).
Google street view of Route 87 outside Payson looks like this.
This is where things are going: AI trash that’s painfully obvious and obscenely absurd pulling people in.
I hate the future.
Isn’t there a crow in Japan that does something similar at a crosswalk?
X. Y. Z. Every single time.
Sir you better see this, my slopometer is picking up a reading
Edit: Definitely slop, check out the yellow line and other road markings. Even a solid-white-divided two-lane one-way road, the best “reasonable” match, would only have a single yellow line.
Didn’t even have to look at the image. It’s written in the same exact manner as any other “then they all clapped” bs posts
I feel like I’m getting better at analyzing sentence structure from all this
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
If the coyote ever does jaywalk, are they gonna issue it a ticket? 🤔
Also: Has the coyote been observed constructing engineering projects to catch a roadrunner, but they keep backfiring on him?
There is legal precedent!
In my neighborhood, cats cross on crosswalk and look both way before.
Aw, who’s a good boy?
