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William Seger

(12,220 posts) Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:24 PM 14 hrs ago

Dogs adopting their new owners

Maybe two weeks ago, I saw a YouTube video about a shelter that would gather people who wanted to adopt a dog into a room where they would release one dog at a time, and let the dogs pick someone to adopt them. I'm a bit of a sucker for dog adoption videos anyway, and it was quite touching to see the emotional responses when a dog chose someone.

That was the first time I had seen a video like that, but curiously, since then I've seen at least a dozen. It seemed like such a sudden fad that I started to suspect that they might be AI, but if so, it's pretty convincing. Does anyone know if that's been a "thing" for a while, or is it as sudden as it seems to me?

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Dogs adopting their new owners (Original Post) William Seger 14 hrs ago OP

It was proven to be AI weeks ago. sinkingfeeling 14 hrs ago #1

Thanks. William Seger 13 hrs ago #2

sinkingfeeling

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1. It was proven to be AI weeks ago.

Reply to William Seger (Original post)

Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:26 PM

14 hrs ago

William Seger

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2. Thanks.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 11, 2026, 10:48 PM

13 hrs ago

I should have asked Google first, LOL. (I also see that some of them are staged hoaxes rather than AI, which was my second guess.)

I've started calling out deceptive AI videos in the comments, noting that trying to make clickbait money by deceiving people is called fraud. I do wish YouTube would get a clue that they need to do something about this crap!

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