Investigative report reveals how AI-generated animal videos distort public perceptions of wildlife, highlighting the risk of shifting baseline syndrome in ecology.
Convincing-looking videos generated by artificial intelligence depicting animals in unlikely scenarios or engaging in inaccurate types of behaviour could lead to a 'shifting baseline', a researcher who has investigated this tells Josh Loeb.
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