OK, this was interesting. Last year, I linked to an article by science blogger Darren Naish, who argued that the US cryptid known as Dogman is fakelore rather than folklore (although I suppose you could see it as emerging folklore). YouTube atheist content-creator Emerson Green begs to differ. A former Skeptic, he is much more open to the unexplained than the average "angry atheist" on the web, who (cough cough) merely lacks a belief in cryptids.
It turns out that Green actually saw a Dogman when he was a teenager roaming the woods of a certain Midwest state. Yes, it actually was Michigan, the traditional folkloric haunt of these creatures. Or was it fakeloric? Green is 100% convinced that the running bipedal creature he observed was physically real and attempts to come up with a kind of minimal explanation, speculating that facultative bipedalism might perhaps exist among canids. In the second link, please read the long comment by "donnievance1942".
As I said: interesting.
PS. My AI must have some kind of safety filter against generating pictures of dogmen or werewolves. After several tries, the system finally created a somewhat believable pic of a werewolf chasing two teenagers in the woods, although it still looks as if the monster is just running ahead of them!
What's interesting is that AI can only know what has been programmed into it. That is, AI only knows what we "know" so I don't expect any great revelations forthcoming. Maybe ask to see inside Zuckerberg's brain or something!
ReplyDeleteI think we already know what´s inside, LOL.
ReplyDeleteHeard this conversation this night...abandon all hope, ye who enter Metaworld...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/9/meta_fact_checking_changes_trump_2025
cut to the chase here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/08/mark-zuckerberg-supporting-trump-maga
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