{"id":224487,"date":"2025-11-04T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ai-generated-wildlife-videos-generate-confusion-and-threaten-conservation-efforts"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:04:36","slug":"ai-generated-wildlife-videos-generate-confusion-and-threaten-conservation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ai-generated-wildlife-videos-generate-confusion-and-threaten-conservation-efforts","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated wildlife videos generate confusion and threaten conservation efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-generated-wildlife-videos-generate-confusion-and-threaten-conservation-efforts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A video is circulating on social media in which a leopard enters the backyard of a house where a child is playing, and a cat confronts the leopard and scares it away, protecting the child. The video has garnered over a million \u201clikes\u201d and has been shared more than 15,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>Another series of videos shows bears or deer jumping on a trampoline in a backyard. In another, three raccoons float down a river riding on three crocodiles. All of these videos are created by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, and thanks to their high degree of realism, appear to be real.<\/p>\n<p>Given the proliferation of these types of videos and the lack of research on this topic in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/scientific+literature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scientific literature<\/a>, researchers from the GESBIO group at the University of Cordoba\u2014Jos\u00e9 Guerrero, Francisco S\u00e1nchez, Antonio Carpio, Roc\u00edo Serrano, and Tamara Murillo\u2014have spotlighted this issue, analyzing the different consequences that these AI-generated videos have on the knowledge and conservation of wild species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video is circulating on social media in which a leopard enters the backyard of a house where a child is playing, and a cat confronts the leopard and scares it away, protecting the child. The video has garnered over a million \u201clikes\u201d and has been shared more than 15,000 times. Another series of videos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}