People still do it in smaller recreational boats 10-15m in length.

The Edmund Fitzgerald went down November 10th 1975. So you don't have to look back that far.

Sailors are a different breed.

They didn't have AI back then so it was different.

Tbf smaller boats will ride the waves rather than crash through them like this. The bigger the boat, the less it rides the waves and the more it just slams through them.

crossing the Atlantic or the Pacific

*becoming submarines

poor bastards

Came here to point that out too. Weighted mug doing it's absolute best to stay up

Unfortunately this was taken from a channel that only posts AI content, so.. there is no mug.

I don't know if they'd manage in anything extreme like this, but I always liked this design, intended to stay upright in rocking vessels. (Also I've only ever seen the design used for decanters and tumblers, not mugs.)

🤯

I'm no expert on image editing in general and even less so with AI image generation, but I'm pretty sure there's some weirdness where the foreground of the boat interacts with the background of the water.

The railing (which dips in and out of view suggesting the ship is flexing in a way that may or may not be one of those "engineering is actually just absurd" things) seems to be overlapped by the background in a manner that looks plausibly like a compression artefact except for the way it moves:

You can also see that some of the specks in the glass (which are consistent from the video start) appear to get "lost" in the background and/or picked up and carried away by it. Particularly note the one in the top left that "flashes" as it passes a brighter area of the background, but the flash starts several frames before they actually overlap.

There are some other slop-ish but non-definitive aspects like this thingy and its wobbly outline:

But in general this is very convincing.

I should stop nerd sniping myself investigating these things.

You're saying they didn't really jump a bike on the moon. Some people are so lazy.

I know of a Twitch streamer who would be terrified of that.

It was so intense, the crew momentarily turned into a group of white ladies drunk on White Claw.

If that's generated, the temporal consistency is impressive.

Every little detail on the containers stays intact after a full "wipe" of the window. Even the tiny railing on the front

The legend lives on....

Also how the cup does a little fall over then rights itself strangely. AI slop can do things.

I mean are you on a boat right now? If not... being in bed you shouldn't be worried any rogue waves

Worked in boost if I understand what you mean correctly

If you figure out how people do it, let us know!

That's very typical I assure you.

The full video has the fuck hit the bollard front fall off

The coffee mug is a dead giveaway

They make perfect sense. The boat is really really wide and really really long. They’re just close to the camera.

The very close orange containers are higher up, quite a bit even, than the ones you can see in front of them. Same with the blue containers.

I think if anything is weird it’s the fact that I don’t believe that waves break like that out on the open ocean(the seabed is what slows the bottom down, causing the top to be moving quicker), but we also don’t know where they are or how deep the watter is and none of us are experts to begin with.

Waves/swells of that height do exist, though. It’s absolutely fucked how tall they can be out there and it’s crazy how well these boats can keep floating. There was a story of one though, where a hatch at the very front was busted and the empty internal chambers filled. It happened so quickly the entire boat was gone before anyone even really had a chance to react.

Yeah it looks bizarre. I wonder if it's a trick of perspective given that we're quite a bit higher than the rest of the containers in front of us and the blue ones seem closer to our elevation?

Of the stack of papers, only the top one moves and the rest don't so much as rustle around.

Same with the coffee mug

Same here. Makes sense to me because it is a link to a mastodon post.

Probably not.

I hate the AI slop, and I hate that it's getting harder and harder to tell if it's real or fake

How do you know? Nothing about this screams AI to me.