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Is the video of the man being swallowed by the whale real?

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confusedlots · 14/02/2025 21:17

Having watched it, I can't help but think it's been made with AI. And if it did actually happen, then how lucky it was that someone was filming him at the right time. That's the problem with AI, I don't know what's real and what's not anymore. But it just seems too far fetched to be true!

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soupyspoon · 14/02/2025 21:18

What video

OhWifey · 14/02/2025 21:19

Yes, I heard it being discussed on the radio at lunchtime

Fantina · 14/02/2025 21:20

I’m skeptical too, OP.

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confusedlots · 14/02/2025 21:23

soupyspoon · 14/02/2025 21:18

What video

It's on the BBC news website today. Presumably they are pretty confident it's real to run the story.

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TwentyTwentyFive · 14/02/2025 21:26

Fantina · 14/02/2025 21:20

I’m skeptical too, OP.

Me too. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but it seems bloody convenient it was caught on camera.

Disturbia81 · 14/02/2025 21:29

It looks real to me.
But.. I too hate this AI, I don't know whats real anymore

Lou205 · 14/02/2025 21:29

I hadn't seen this. If it's real it's amazing!

GrandpaFlump · 14/02/2025 21:31

It looks real, but he wasn’t actually swallowed, he went into its mouth then pretty much straight out again.

Whales of this type (was it a humpback?) have huge mouths but teeny throats, so it couldn’t have swallowed him.

There was a similar video a few years ago, maybe this same one, I don’t know.

Never2many · 14/02/2025 21:32

Presumably they were filming the whale in the first place. I mean it was pretty close, so it’s natural that one might get the camera out and film it.

Meandhimtogether · 14/02/2025 21:33

I thought it was his dad that was filming

MJconfessions · 14/02/2025 21:33

I haven’t seen the video (gore/death/injury is not the kind of content I would seek out).

However I don’t understand why you wouldn’t think it could be real. There’s subreddits for example that exist to post content of people dying or being injured etc. That kind of darker content, whether accidental or not, definitely exists on the internet.

parietal · 14/02/2025 21:37

It is pretty plausible. Father and son in separate kayaks with father filming son. Whale appears and takes son and kayak into its mouth then spits him out a minute later. Son then climbs onto dad's kayak to get back to shore. Then an interview with the son on shore from the bbc. It is not at all gory or scary.

Flicitytricity · 14/02/2025 21:37

MJconfessions · 14/02/2025 21:33

I haven’t seen the video (gore/death/injury is not the kind of content I would seek out).

However I don’t understand why you wouldn’t think it could be real. There’s subreddits for example that exist to post content of people dying or being injured etc. That kind of darker content, whether accidental or not, definitely exists on the internet.

It was on BBC National news, not on the dark Web 🙄
It must have been quite dramatic to experience, but he wasn't actually swallowed, he was scooped up and spat out - obviously not tasty enough!
He was interviewed and was remarkably blasé about it.

GrandpaFlump · 14/02/2025 21:38

I wonder if the inside of a whale’s mouth is soft?

Tootjaskoot · 14/02/2025 21:39

I actually wondered if it was some kind of research project, not quite sure quite who would be carrying it out, but something along the lines of assessing whether or not general public would be fooled by an AI story in mainstream media.

TinkerTiger · 14/02/2025 21:41

MJconfessions · 14/02/2025 21:33

I haven’t seen the video (gore/death/injury is not the kind of content I would seek out).

However I don’t understand why you wouldn’t think it could be real. There’s subreddits for example that exist to post content of people dying or being injured etc. That kind of darker content, whether accidental or not, definitely exists on the internet.

The guy survived

Clearinguptheclutter · 14/02/2025 21:44

If anyone has seen the article with the guy I don’t think you’d consider it not to be real

the video wasn’t that graphic really

he was lucky!

TheOliveFinch · 14/02/2025 21:44

He has been quoted as saying it was dark blue and white inside the mouth and slimy. As a pp said the whale’s throat is very narrow so he would never have been swallowed

InternationalColossus · 14/02/2025 21:45

It’s very low drama (interesting — but not ‘extreme’) when you actually watch it, and it seems very plausible to me that the dad was filming his son. AI always has an uncanny quality that this doesn’t have.

I think he may have just been constantly filming with a mounted or bodyworn camera as a lot of sporty people do, so it’s not like ‘suspiciously fortunate’ that he had the camera running

Slimbear · 14/02/2025 21:48

The camera was attached to the back of the fathers kayak -recording the size of the waves.

Kattuccino · 14/02/2025 21:48

The dad had a camera on the back of his helmet, filming behind him. So it was caught completely by chance.

swimsong · 14/02/2025 21:51

parietal · 14/02/2025 21:37

It is pretty plausible. Father and son in separate kayaks with father filming son. Whale appears and takes son and kayak into its mouth then spits him out a minute later. Son then climbs onto dad's kayak to get back to shore. Then an interview with the son on shore from the bbc. It is not at all gory or scary.

It was about one second not a minute.
I doubt AI would render it so badly, it's at a distance and it's hard to see what's going on. Give AI those instructions and it would be much clearer.

InternationalColossus · 14/02/2025 21:53

MJconfessions · 14/02/2025 21:33

I haven’t seen the video (gore/death/injury is not the kind of content I would seek out).

However I don’t understand why you wouldn’t think it could be real. There’s subreddits for example that exist to post content of people dying or being injured etc. That kind of darker content, whether accidental or not, definitely exists on the internet.

You know, you could just say you haven’t seen it. Bit unnecessary to imply that those who have were seeking out injury/death and gore content.

It has been all over reputable mainstream news, no ghoulish seeking necessary, and that would not be the case if it was gory.

TheRealTina · 14/02/2025 21:54

parietal · 14/02/2025 21:37

It is pretty plausible. Father and son in separate kayaks with father filming son. Whale appears and takes son and kayak into its mouth then spits him out a minute later. Son then climbs onto dad's kayak to get back to shore. Then an interview with the son on shore from the bbc. It is not at all gory or scary.

It cannot be gory, whales do not have teeth and do not eat other mamals.