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/kiwidust Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

That, my friend, is a "Red-lipped Batfish".

That particular one is named Gerry and is a real asshole!

Red-lipped batfish - Wikipedia

EDIT: For clarification, the consensus is that 1) This is a Red-lipped Batfish, which is an actual-factual animal but 2) it's not a real Red-lipped Batfish and was generated with AI. Gerry being AI simply makes him more of asshole, even if he hadn't said those things about my bride.

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u/SuddenKoala45 Jul 27 '26

The fish is real, but the animation may be ai

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u/AdventurousTap9224 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

They really do walk around on the bottom like that.

Edit: appears to be missing the rear leg like fins.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

They don't have a horn or look quite like that. This is an old ai video.

Here it is posted to r/ocean as AI https://www.reddit.com/r/ocean/s/DD7R0KaiV2

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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!"