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I love that the expressionless Rivian appeared to be bothered by the object as if it was the object that hit it first.
 

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It's not AI, this is like 20 min from my house. The location where it happened was listed.
AI is fully capable of using a real scene and an actual R2 image and creating a boulder and all the movements shown. It appears to not be very good at showing how boulders bounce off cars as though they are rather light, with minimal reaction on the car. The boulder reacts as though it has much less mass than it should as it easily bounces away, and the car acts as it is driving up a pavement incline, and not getting deformed nor significantly jarring the passengers as it easily rolls up a boulder much higher than the R2 clearance. The physics of the interaction is terribly wrong.
 
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AI is fully capable of using a real scene and an actual R2 image and creating a boulder and all the movements shown. It appears to not be very good at showing how boulders bounce off cars as though they are rather light, with minimal reaction on the car. The boulder reacts as though it has much less mass than it should as it easily bounces away, and the car acts as it is driving up a pavement incline, and not getting deformed nor significantly jarring the passengers as it easily rolls up a boulder much higher than the R2 clearance. The physics of the interaction is terribly wrong.
Again, not AI. That video was taken off the page for the shopping center, The Mountain Mile, in Pigeon Forge, TN. There are pictures of the boulder with cones around it sitting in their parking lot. Do I need to go drive down there?
 

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Billions of years tucked in under ground, finally it's brought out into the sunlight, rock thinks it's got it made, soaking up some UV, minding it's own business...then WHAM, Glacier White R!S takes it out.

I think the R1S had some beef with that particular rock, they even pull along side it after to make sure they did the job.
 

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Again, not AI. That video was taken off the page for the shopping center, The Mountain Mile, in Pigeon Forge, TN. There are pictures of the boulder with cones around it sitting in their parking lot. Do I need to go drive down there?
The scene, car, and boulder could all be real, and AI could still be used to create the video motions of the car and boulder from a single still image of all three. Almost certainly is AI.
 
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The scene, car, and boulder could all be real, and AI could still be used to create the video motions of the car and boulder from a single still image of all three. Almost certainly is AI.
Then how did the boulder get into the parking lot? Did it get up and walk there?
 

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Then how did the boulder get into the parking lot? Did it get up and walk there?
The boulder was there. A more relevant question is why you think that how the boulder got there helps prove or disprove the R2 actually drove over it, or AI was used to create a video of the R2 driving over it.
 
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The boulder was there. A more relevant question is why you think that how the boulder got there helps prove or disprove the R2 actually drove over it, or AI was used to create a video of the R2 driving over it.
It was an R1S, not an R2. I'm not sure why you keep calling it an R2. The boulder is in the middle of the parking lot right now. It's in a spot in the driving area with cones around it. It's not AI, you are wrong. Drop it already.
 

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It was an R1S, not an R2. I'm not sure why you keep calling it an R2. The boulder is in the middle of the parking lot right now. It's in a spot in the driving area with cones around it. It's not AI, you are wrong. Drop it already.
Not sure why I assumed it was an R2, except that the vast majority of my activity on this site is discussing the R2. My apologies for the wrong assumption.

What makes you think the boulder wasn't already in the middle of the parking lot before the AI created the video by showing the boulder to the right and ending up where it actually was all along?

It is AI. You are wrong. Bring up more misguided assumptions and I may continue to respond.

I am curious, when was the last time you told someone to "drop it already" that it actually worked? In nearly every case I can recall, that really just meant that the person was tired of doubling down on their mistake, not willing to consider who was right.

Give me a good reason that a car and boulder would actually respond as depicted in the video, and I will admit I am wrong. The bouncing of the boulder as though it was a fraction of the weight of such a boulder, the lack of any scaring of the asphalt from such a bouncing boulder, the absurd movement of the R1S, have convinced me it is AI. Your reasons that it is not AI are all without merit for the reasons I have already given.
 

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Not sure why I assumed it was an R2, except that the vast majority of my activity on this site is discussing the R2. My apologies for the wrong assumption.

What makes you think the boulder wasn't already in the middle of the parking lot before the AI created the video by showing the boulder to the right and ending up where it actually was all along?

It is AI. You are wrong. Bring up more misguided assumptions and I may continue to respond.

I am curious, when was the last time you told someone to "drop it already" that it actually worked? In nearly every case I can recall, that really just meant that the person was tired of doubling down on their mistake, not willing to consider who was right.

Give me a good reason that a car and boulder would actually respond as depicted in the video, and I will admit I am wrong. The bouncing of the boulder as though it was a fraction of the weight of such a boulder, the lack of any scaring of the asphalt from such a bouncing boulder, the absurd movement of the R1S, have convinced me it is AI. Your reasons that it is not AI are all without merit for the reasons I have already given.
Not sure why you are being argumentative and keep stating it is definitively AI when someone you lives right there and has vouched for it says it isn’t. Seems pretty arrogant.
 
 








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