Anyone remember the beginning of the Running Man, where Arnie’s character is framed by digitally-manipulated footage? We’re finally at a time when that bit of science fiction becomes science fact.
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The vignette contains a number of mechnical mistakes.
The recovery truck to the right is nearly perpendicular to the drivers position of the tank
but the crane is rotated towards the viewer (us) while lifting a heavy tank slightly sideways.
Support legs are not used to stabilise the crane. The rotating crane rotates around a point almost directly above the rearmost axle which is a very unstable design.
Water is sloshing off the glacis so there should be a hole under the tank since it has just been lifted straight up by the crane that is lifting sideways.
The other trucks are pulling in different directions which is dumb and none of them are anchored or stabilised so they would slide on the mud towards the tank.
This sequence is amusing:
The knobbly road wheels are spinning but the track and ground does not move in relation to the wheels, the track and the ground are obviously stationary but the spinning wheels should be moving forward. What on earth are those knobs on the road wheel rubber supposed to be?
The support roller is way too close to the roadwheel top, one little bump and the roadwheel would make contact which is not good since they rotate in opposite directions.
Almost like trying to run in a bad dream, legs are pumping but the body is going nowhere …
Front mounted engine in a Panther?
How would the engine hatch be secured? Where is all the other stuff cluttering up the inside of a tank engine compartment?
Where can I buy one of these ratchet wrenches?
The motions sure ratcheted my brains
Different engine, different engine hatch and
WHY ON EARTH is there a shaft going straight out where it would have to pass through the hatch?
I wonder which nut or bolt this strange socket wrench is about to work on?
OOPS.
New engine, engine bay repainted, the strange axle is gone and seems to have been replaced by a radiator and/or fan shroud?
I wonder where the hose (yellow line) is supposed to connect?
Aha! It goes here:
Well, well, well, I’ll be screwed if I have ever seen a hose clamp being tightened by jamming a screw driver into the hose. I’m not a vehicle or engine mechanic but ..
Aha! It is the Replicator brand hose clamps. The mechanic pulls a new hose clamp straight out of the one clamping the hose
New engine bay, turret with no hole in the mantlet to fit the gun barrel, new engine
new engine bay hatches (split type) which seem to have migrated from the glacis are to the engine
deck behind the turret and the interior of the engine bay has been repainted again
Why is there a distorted balkenkreuz on the INSIDE of the engine bay hatch?
Angled hydraulic dampers for the hatches (green lines on the right)
Lowely sequence of attaching a hose to with the wrong connector while turning the nuts in random directions, including sideways.
Mechanic cringe.
The whole video is like a bad dream where random visual fragments are jumbled up and the sleeping brain is trying to make some sort of sense from all the fragments.
Every mechanic would love to have that third hand in some situations.
The mechanic should be wearing gloves. I wonder what his wife will say about those dirty fingers?
She might like the third hand though?
Some more wild wrenching using a spanner to wrench on a hose/pipe clamp by clanging the spanner on the pipe.
Excellent, the gloves are back!
Isn’t the pipe blocking that other pipe coming out from the armour?
The AI sure loves hose clamps. A bit excessive to put hose clamps
on welded pipe joints though …
Job done, chromed the engine (strange design, I wonder what type of engine it is?) and polished the brass pipes (steampunk inspired??)
the engine is back where it belongs under the glacis, new hatch design and the turret looks like the T-34/85 turret with the rounded lower front corners.
Maybe it isn’t the engine at all, maybe it is a vodka distillery?
Balkenkreuz overdose, circular engine opening from the rear end of a T-34 in the glacis of the “Panther” tank. Turret looks more like a T-34 than a Panther …
The track links look more like a Matilda than anything else …
The weight distribution of the big ring is also wonky, hangs horizontal but the chains are on one side …
Gloveless mechanic installs gun sideways across the open engine hatch in the glacis.
The hatch has been redesigned again …
Strange hatches/small turrets above the glacis, strange unadjustable adjustable spanner being used on imaginary bolt/nut.
Gloveless mechanic with extremely big hands uses tweezers to install a paper balkenkreuz decal.
Tank has grown back to real size, hands are much smaller in relation to the tank and the decal has grown so the tweezers are not needed anymore.
Wow, love those quad exhaust pipes …
That cardboard balkenkreuz glued to the glacis though …
Turret inspired by a T-34/85 …
AI is like lots of movies: Inspired by real events …
And one more sequence shows the spinning wheels again
Two exhaust pipes in the glacis and WHAT is that crumpled stuff between the exhausts?
Air inlet/outlet for the radiator? In the middle of the glacis, where most armour is needed?
Check out those elephant trunk lifting eyes …
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The whole video is rather amusing if it is watched at 0.5 or even 0.25 speed with muted sound.
Slow motion is needed to be able to see all the wild discrepancies.
AI is not intelligence in any way, shape or form. It uses statistics to figure out the most probable result based on all the material it has consumed. This works reasonably well when the the question concerns an area where there is lots of text to crunch through the statistics muncher.
When it comes to videos of ‘WW II tank recovered from bog/lake/ruins’ the AI runs into problems because there is a limited “knowledge base” to feed the statistics muncher.
Most tanks pulled from bogs and swamps are old Russian stuff so the “Panther” inherits T-34 features (it was designed as a reaction to the T-34, sloped armour and all)
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AI takes on some carpentry and plumbing.
Not quite as wild as the Fever Dream Mechanics
but …
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There is an even krasser video of the “recovery” of an AT-AT from the bottom of the sea!
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My daughter is currently taking an online course. The assignments are “graded” by AI - occasionally by a real human. IF you submit an essay, for example, and it is too well written, it gets flagged as AI, and rejected. An appeal takes months to complete. Some students are now doing one of two things. They are either dumbing down their work, inserting errors, or documenting their process by video taping themselves writing the paper, AND submitting ALL their research notes along with the essay.
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a tried and tested method to throw reviewers off the track,
distract them from any remaining real faults …
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The irony is that when Wikipedia first started up my sister (a teacher) would edit the entries to introduce some real whoppers so she could catch out lazy students that didn’t check the references! Now we have to introduce errors to show we didn’t use AI…
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No kidding! At the 40 sec mark, while cleaning the “interior” there’s an inexplicable German cross on the interior turret side.
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“Will Be When”?
Where have you been?
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“The problem will be when one political party creates something to cause chaos. We are close. That will be done to cause you to lose faith in what is shown. When that happens, you will fail to believe the truth when it is shown. Those that control the narrative….”
That’s already happening!! 
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WTF was that!?!? it was like some surrealist fever dream, was it meant as a parody of AI or meant to be serious?
I need to try that paint with rag technique truly flawless. Forget “wax on, wax off”
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The production is interesting, but the whole subject is totally unbelievable and amateurish.
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I wonder people watching that kind of video realize it’s AI, or do they just not know too dumb?
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Money.
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Wow, that’s great.
Almost as goofy as the Corey Goode BS.
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and the paint covers a larger surface than with hairbrush or airbrush,
truly amazing …
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AI is getting scary, and as people have mentioned it could soon be used for nefarious political reasons. There was a drama on the BBC a few years back called The Capture in which a soldier was convicted of kidnapping, which sort of predicted what could happen. There’s a 3rd series coming out this year.
AI is ok when it’s used for low level stuff made by low key amateurs, where it’s easy to spot the 3rd arm someone has, or the incorrect style of vehicle. But when it gets taken over by the professionals who knows what could happen
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I agree. It’s frightening to think video of you entering a bank could be transformed into video of you robbing the bank.
Or anything else.
“Well, we have video of you…”
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and the obvious countermeasure would be a similar video of the DA, judge, Chief of Police
having “fun” with someone other than the person they are married to,
or maybe children …
Faked images is a dangerous sword that cuts both ways …
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