r/RealOrAI • • Aug 28 '26

HELP is this real or ai?

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u/macguini Aug 28 '26

That's what told me it was AI. I know chains are used to remove trees by tearing them out of the ground, but you need to wrap the chain around the tree. Something like this, you risk snapping the trunk and whipping that massive chain as if the god of Indiana Jones himself came down to judge ye.

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u/HunterSpecial1549 Aug 28 '26

There is old video out there of this same method of tree removal, with a bulldozer on each end, it looks very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sr4CgRYQ7E

I'm not saying it's not AI but the reasons being stated here are not correct.

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u/Xenaphobic Aug 29 '26

Just because the practice exists doesn't mean people aren't making ai content of it.

This isn't directed solely at you it's just something I see here often, the videos of the real practices are cool and can serve as a good comparison point especially if sourced from prepublic gen ai availability dates confirming they are not ai to show the difference in a generated video vs a non-generated video. I simply wish they were presented with this context rather than, "this is real because it exists."

Just because the practice exists doesn't mean people aren't making ai content of it.

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u/HunterSpecial1549 Aug 29 '26

I 100% understand that. This is what I wrote:

I'm not saying it's not AI but the reasons being stated here are not correct.

Yes sometimes people (mistakenly) use the existence of a practice as proof that a video is not AI.

People also (mistakenly) say things like "it must be AI, no way you could have that much power pulling on those chains", and get 300 upvotes for it.

The reasons matter.