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I think it’s AI but everyone seems to think it’s real, idk

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u/RealOrAI-Bot 19d ago

Sentiment: 15% AI

Sentiment reasoning: A small number of commenters believe it is AI due to the perceived lack of visible support for the banner, its impossible size and weight, and visual inconsistencies where tattered cloth appears to turn into clothes. The majority believe it is real, citing it as a type of hot air balloon common in Brazil, and pointing to details like the tearing of the material and the way it interacts with a fence as evidence of its authenticity and realistic video quality.

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u/ProcedureCultural474 20d ago

É real, aqui no Brasil tem um pessoal que se dedica a soltar esses balões mesmo sendo crime ambiental. São balões realmente grandes.

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u/DewDropWhine 19d ago

Do they eventually land? Imagine this coming down and covering part of a neighborhood.

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u/ProcedureCultural474 19d ago

Quando eu era criança caiu um na rua de trás da minha casa. Eu e meu irmão corremos para pegar para nós (era muito inocente tinha uns 9 anos) chegamos primeiro na bandeira dele porém atrás dele já tinha o pessoal que soltou eram uns 60 caras em motos. Imagine 2 crianças gritando que chegaram primeiro no balão que era nosso agora.

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u/mewlf 19d ago

Ok but isn't it extremely dangerous?

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u/ProcedureCultural474 19d ago

Sim, em alguns lugares são a principal causa de incêndio. Quando eu assistia jornal costumava ver direto os estragos causados por essa prática. Alguns o pessoal coloca fogos de artifício, infelizmente sao lindos é um espetáculo de se ver.

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u/Feisty-Problem8780 20d ago

Right now we have this problem where if someone doesn’t recognize something they immediately insist it’s AI.

But if you watch this video it’s clearly not AI. 

Consistency, audio, video quality all absolutely and undeniably real. 

In a few years when ai is able to replicate this type of video it won’t matter people today already can’t tell the difference between clearly ai and not. 

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u/Kryptosis 20d ago edited 20d ago

Which means the problem is only going to get worse with people dismissing everything they don’t want to understand as fake AI. Same as we saw with “fake news” and same as we see with anti-science types.

Meanwhile they’ll be mass generating videos of Jesus, aliens and ghosts and passing them off as real.

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u/One_Help9271 16d ago

Seriously, last month I saw a 3d ball that everyone was saying was ai. I had downloaded the model and was printing it while I was reading that it was ai and couldn't be printed.

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u/chillychili 20d ago

I don't think OP is insisting it's AI. They are just trying to be cautious. And cautiousness can be healthy.

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u/no_rxn 20d ago

I agree. It's been proven at this point people are going to use AI to lie. They aren't going to be up front, they aren't going to add a disclaimer, they want to trick you.

So the correct response is to question and have an open dialog with others to prove reliability in some form, and give people the tools to do that research on their own.

Blindly trusting everything online is how we have declined so far in media literacy. AI waking people up and making them want to research facts should be welcomed, not mocked.

We have always said "don't trust everything you see online" and now that AI is actually reality bending for people who can't visually differentiate it, they aren't expected to question it?

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u/RazzmatazzUnusual843 20d ago

To be honest, it's weird and many people haven't seen anything like this before. I was having trouble even grasping what I was looking at. It's an ominous floating object and the question was posted in an era of AI clickbait.

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u/Least-Dragonfruit238 20d ago

I don’t know about that, it’s just new technology, just watch CGI in movies from 80’s and 90’s, everyone ate that up as looking very real, now watching that stuff it’s laughable anyone thought it was realistic.

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u/AGQuaddit 20d ago

Oh yeah the internet is inevitably going to die off totally within the next few years, ive been saying it for the last few months. This is untenable.

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u/OwnStudy723 20d ago

But I haven't seen it before! It is probably AI! /s

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u/ReadingRambo152 20d ago

I think it's real. In Brazil the Baloeiros launch balloons like that with massive banners, like this one:

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u/d-wombat 20d ago

Oh gosh! I hate it so much!!! Don’t know exactly why.

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u/Yabbos77 20d ago

I just commented this myself!

I have a “phobia” that doesn’t seem to have a name. Giant objects in the sky that don’t belong there.

I saw an ad on Reddit once. It was a scrollable 3D ad of a beach. It was neat technology when I first saw it- and I did the click and drag to move the screen. There was suddenly massive letters above the water with the company name that terrified me.

And it’s not megalophobia, because giant objects in general don’t scare me.

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u/RainbowRatArt 20d ago

Have you watched Nope? Did it trigger that feeling? 🤔

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u/Yabbos77 19d ago

I haven’t. Is it a good movie?

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u/PlayWhatYouWant 19d ago

It's great, but fair warning, if this video is a trigger for you, Nope will set it off too.

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u/RainbowRatArt 19d ago

It's good but a bit artsy and creepy. I liked it and wanted to watch it again but lowkey am afraid of it hahaha

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u/oVioletValkyriex 20d ago

This phobia needs a name, cus it's not about massive objects. It's about objects that clearly don't belong in the sky that happen to be massive.

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u/Yabbos77 19d ago

I agree!

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u/d-wombat 20d ago

I know exactly what you mean. I remember this add of channel 4 in the uk. It showed a quite tall character that appeared in beautiful sceneries like next to the ocean, running in the meadows and such. It used to give me quite a terrifying feeling. I hated that it didn’t belong there.

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u/Yabbos77 20d ago

It makes me so weirdly happy to know I’m not the only person experiencing this weird phenomenon!

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u/Whoknows95967 14d ago

I get this feeling with the video of the carnival rides that don’t really exist. I also got it watching this video but not this first time I saw it. Don’t know why this time I got that really uneasy feeling.

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u/AeroG8 20d ago

megalophobia

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u/ConsciousBenefit87 20d ago

I had no clue what it was so my brain thought it was torn up flesh??? (Because I thought it was AI)

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u/No_Jello_4550 20d ago

I thought it was a clothesline in a tornado

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u/ConsciousBenefit87 20d ago

Yes! That too!

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u/Kwonzle 20d ago

My first thought was AI, but the way its getting caught on the fence is making me rethink

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u/ItsOkILoveYouMYbb 20d ago

I think the fog makes it look bigger than it is.

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u/Yabbos77 20d ago

I hate everything about this massive thing in the sky that doesn’t belong there. BLEGH.

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u/rarthurr4 20d ago

Real, looked fake at first but the tearing

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u/Lobster_Zaddy 20d ago

I thought it was a Halo ring at first

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u/mmabet69 20d ago

True, it just looks “fake” to me? I’ve never seen anything like that before though so it could be a knee jerk reaction. I’ve noticed a few people saying it’s real link a brazilian news website but I don’t see anything in that?

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u/Hour_Papaya_5583 19d ago

Not AI, these happen in Brazil. Used to join a group when I was young and they can be huge. Interesting footage tho

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u/Ariloulei 20d ago

Okay, but why does the tattered cloth turn into clothes?

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u/DewDropWhine 19d ago

Yeah! It looks like it picked up a clothes line or something

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u/jaevega 20d ago

Holy megalophobia

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u/JojoWasaman64 20d ago

Thats jean jacket the second!

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u/JFK9 20d ago

Wow, that balloon is really massive. I wonder what the point of launching it is since no one is riding in it? It seems like a ton of time, effort, and money to make, but I don't really understand the appeal of you don't ride in it or reuse it. It's just an enormous amount of trash after it comes down.

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u/Evening-Rough-9709 20d ago

I don't think that's the balloon but a large cloth banner being lifted by a hot air balloon.

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u/Jase28x 18d ago

Damn that looks like a Halo ring in the distance at the start of the video.

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u/frogsandbirds2 18d ago

Why is this so scary to me?

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u/Tentakurusama 18d ago

Halo music intensifies

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u/gnagetchu 20d ago

I thought it was Halo for a second.

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u/Akira1996 19d ago

I thought they were on a fucking Halo Ring

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u/Adept_Temporary8262 20d ago

AI. Not only is there literally nothing holding the banner up, it would be impossible to make one that size because it would tare itself apart under its own weight. 

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u/ReadingRambo152 20d ago

look up baloeiros. In Brazil they launch massive banners with unmanned hot air balloons like this:

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u/Shed_Some_Skin 20d ago

Not saying it's not AI, but it does look pretty torn apart

There's a lot of details here that look really consistent. The brand logos on the cars, the fence posts, the bikes. The guy lifting it over the fence to stop it getting stuck

But when the camera pans up it looks completely unreal. I wonder if it was originally just video of some more normal kites or something and it's been edited to add the gigantic banner

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u/OriginalShirley 20d ago

It’s not AI you’re right to assume it looks very real. Literally, all it takes is scrolling past the second top level comment on the original post to get the source. Everything in this sub is AI until proven real I guess but nobody actually cares to look for the proof so it’s just AI. 🙄

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u/Feisty-Problem8780 20d ago

You can “literally” see the balloon holding it. 

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u/TheSuperContributor 20d ago

Bro got cooked so hard.

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u/Ya-Dikobraz 20d ago

It's not a banner. It's a hot air balloon. They are massive and they would float like this in the wind even when shredded.

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u/Feisty-Problem8780 20d ago

Definitely not

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