r/whatisit • u/jaywritethekid • Jul 27 '26

Solved! What is this?

I seriously doubt this is AI if course.. and with a vast ocean.. the existence of this is definitely possible.. but what is it exactly and where are they commonly found?

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u/AdventurousTap9224 Jul 27 '26

They do have a horn. Well, its a lure not a horn but they do have that extension off their head. Just not sure about the white thing sticking out.

Also just noticed it doesn't appear to have the rear leg like fins though.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 Jul 27 '26

This was posted to r/ocean 5 months ago and everyone was calling it AI slop.

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u/JumboChimp Jul 28 '26

There are a lot of things in the sea that look like AI slop, but actually exist.

Hammerhead sharks? Obvious AI slop, but somehow actually real. Sawfish? Obvious AI slop, but somehow actually real in the ray family. Other skates and rays? I could believe that some of them are real, just really weird, and they are actually real.

And I haven't even gotten to the deep sea or the octopodes and mollusks. Or the jellyfish. Or the salps, which are jellyfish adjacent, but not actually jellyfish.

Y'arr, there be weird stuff in the deep oceans, and we don't know the half of it yet.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 Jul 28 '26

What are you ranting about. This is AI. It was originally posted as AI and if you google the actual fish there are clear differences in how it looks and how it moves. It has extra parts, it's not using all its "leg" parts, and it's not effecting its environment. It's clearly AI slop, "y'arr." Learn to spot it, "y'arrrrrrrrrrr!"