The Supergrandma athlete of YouTube
YouTube thought I’d really enjoy this video:
I very quickly smelled an AI rat. First of all, I don’t think women ever compete on the pommel horse. But secondly, although there are some 75-year-olds who do remarkable things, this “Marha Stillman’s” feats just didn’t seem real.
And they’re not. If you go to the video’s channel it becomes even more clear, because not only is Stillman a whiz at the pommel horse, she can do just about everything – the world’s most versatile athlete.
From the comments, it seems that these videos dupe a lot of people even though the channel site admits to being AI. The following message appears there, although you have to click to see the whole thing:
Official AI-generated sports highlights featuring 75-year-old athlete Marta Stillman — competing at world championships, setting records, and delivering unreal moments with realistic broadcast presentation.
Full TV-style coverage, professional commentary, authentic camera angles, and high-energy action — all created with advanced AI.
The creators even have her physique change somewhat in line with the demands of the different events, as well as her hairdos, outfits, and makeup. For example, she’s slim for most, but here she’s somewhat bulked-up and de-glammed for the shotput:
O brave new world, that has such AI people in it.
If it leads to a reflexive distrust of any and all photo and video, that’s overdue. For too long, many decades now, photos and videos have been staged, edited, curated, whatever to give misleading impressions, and because people don’t think of that as “fakery” they are more easily taken in.
Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun wasn’t just about business practices of the Japanese, but about video evidence that would be so easy to fake as to be meaningless.
Artifice Ignorance, using technology to enhance stupidity.
Who can earn a buck from that?
I left television about 3 decades ago because it had become a vast wasteland.
Switched to cable where I wasn’t bombarded by ads every 7 minutes.
Cable switched to advertising so I ditched it about a decade ago.
I was watching more and more YouTube; independent talents providing targeted content…
Lately I notice more and more AI crap in my YouTube feed.
I’ve gone back to reading books. Real, actual, physical, non-electronic books. And playing piano. Real, physical keys striking real, physical strings.
Which reminds me. Because I’ve been searching a lot of guitar tabs to crib piano chords for popular music YouTube figured out I’d enjoy this. It was right. Really great story. If you haven’t heard of Jude Kofie I think you’ll enjoy these two videos. The first shows his talent, the second is a news story on how it was discovered and fostered.
https://youtu.be/SUhlirCpKVM?si=e044urFB4k-P_JZ7
https://youtu.be/k8-2leAoV6c?si=kJgeHVkSHxaRrusP
That first clip is from the Pianote youtube channel. They do some fun videos showing professional keyboardists designing parts to songs they’ve never heard on the fly. I find it fascinating and fun to watch!
Art being created in real time!
https://youtu.be/Vep37knwSf4?si=X-ko6EKYGTBq9PGP
This is a neat one: https://youtu.be/Vep37knwSf4?si=X-ko6EKYGTBq9PGP
She does a great job. The bass line she adds at the beginning is nearly spot on and her Moog solo is really, really good!
Yeah, I once had a next door neighbor who won a medal in the Senior Olympics.
She was a wonderful woman, but she had the wrinkles, age spots and glasses to prove her age. She didn’t look anything like this AI freak.
She spun the wrong way for the shotput. Right handers go counterclockwise. AI is not very smart.
The three vertical dots on youtube allow you to “Do not recommend …” It it is AI I give it the three dots.
Thanks for the tip, Om!
I am apparently in a temporary AI trial with my security cameras.
Pretty good over all with one gross error.
Alerted on:
A black bird is perching and flying on the lawn
Then
Two black dogs playing in the yard
Followed by
Two black dogs running and walking in the yard
Followed by
A black dog and a black puppy are walking in the yard
It was none of these. It was a large black and red jumping spider hanging from a foot long web from the eves having captured a flying bug and blowing around in the wind a few inches from the camera.
This impressed me:
The oldest known finisher of the LoToJa Classic (the long-distance cycling race from Logan, Utah, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming) is Larry Peterson from Centerville, Utah. In the 41st annual event on September 9, 2023, he completed the race at age 79, earning recognition as the oldest finisher that year. He averaged 19.8 mph over the roughly 203-mile course, finishing in a time of 10:13:20.
A friend of mine entered that race, and had to drop out because he developed blisters on his butt. It’s tough. To do it at 79 is amazing.
View the course, about 10,000 feet elevation gain.
Chuck, you’ve been had. 19.8 MPH means he was running about a 3 minute mile.
19.8 MPH means he was running about a 3 minute mile
It’s a bicycle race.
I hate hate hate this AI fake stuff.
AI should use its powers for good, not for evil!
OTOH, AI empowers YouTubers with a new video form that you don’t have to puzzle out whether it’s real or not, but just enjoy.
Ladies and gentlemen:
–Goldie & Frenchie, “A Dachshund Reveals His Side Of The Story”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFKPKrLVKp0
In which two canine podcasters, Goldie & Frenchie — a lab and a French bulldog — interview a dachshund to get the real skinny on being a dachshund.
Hilarious and surprisingly informative.
Chases Eagles;
Two black dogs playing on the lawn and it was really just a SPIDER?
That is absolutely tragic.
Important to remember that engagement is what gets these people who make fake videos paid. If you link it, repost it, leave a comment on it, watch it, even to blast it, you are putting money in their pockets and encouraging more of the same.
Molly Brown, truth be told, I couldn’t figure it out from recording either. I had to inspect in person.
Click the Vertical Three Dots on the left upper margin of AI dreck on YouTube and select – “Don’t recommend chanel”
That will stop AI dreck from that one, but often there are similar sites that send the same dreck (thanks to the algorythm that tracks what you’ve watched) to your YouTube feed. Give them the Three Dots too. The algorythm will learn (teaching the AI LLM a thing or two).
I’ve gotten brutal with “Don’t recommend channel.”
It’s the only way to be sure. 🙂
Huxley,
Thanks for the link. Watched all the family breeds and had some laughs. I confess to a secret liking for dachshunds. Especially the long haired version. I once dreamt my favorite German Shepherd would shrink down to dachshund size when I picked him up and nuzzle my face. I took him on the Metro like a Frenchwoman. Then I would put him back on the ground and he would expand to regulation GSD size.
If only…
@ Chases Eagles > “It was a large black and red jumping spider hanging from a foot long web from the eves having captured a flying bug and blowing around in the wind a few inches from the camera.”
Maybe he was trying to break into the movies.
“Have you ever wondered how filmmakers created mind-bending visual effects long before computers and CGI existed? In this video, we break down the innovative in-camera techniques used in classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Metropolis, Ben-Hur, The Invisible Man, and early George Méliès films. From growing heads and floating pens to impossible camera tricks, watch through to the end to see how these early visual effects shaped modern filmmaking.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunR4zCQ5Fk
Extended film sequences illustrate the narration.
Almost all text with only a couple of videos, but the links from this post to some other AI-related articles looked interesting.
https://medium.com/of-intellect-and-interest/the-great-optical-illusions-of-film-and-tv-79571a39f6fd
Aesopfan “Maybe he was trying to break into the movies.”
Lol … Good one!
Granny stepped outside the circle. Disqualified.
Chuck @ 8:07pm,
Wow!
So AI “Granny stepped outside the circle”, did she?
She ain’t the only one…
“Research suggests as many as 6.4 million unwittingly enrolled in Obamacare with taxpayer subsidies”—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/waste-fraud-minnesota-being-paid-taxpayers-outside-state
+ Bonus…
“A third of federal agencies in audit lacked regular fraud monitoring or evaluation”—
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/one-third-24-federal-agencies-gao-reviewed-lacked-regular-fraud
Short version:
“Democrats — the party of lawbreaking”—
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/magazine-letter-from-the-editor/4420818/democrats-party-of-lawbreaking-ice-minnesota/
H/T Powerline blog.
An 80 year old woman finishes the Ironman Triathalon in Hawaii.
She is the oldest woman ever to finish the Ironman.
This is NOT AI; it is for real.
See here:
https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2025/10/16/80-year-old-becomes-oldest-woman-to-finish-ironman-world-championship/
@JohnTyler
That’s impressive. Re: the 79 year old in the cycle race … I checked and he died last year. Damn, it’s a crap shoot at this age.
@Chuck:Damn, it’s a crap shoot at this age.
If it makes you feel better, the Social Security actuarial tables are not detecting any sign of human lifespan topping out yet. All ages have higher probabilities of living longer than they used to, and there’s not yet any bending in the curve that would indicate an upper limit is being reached.
That said, there probably is one, and the Reaper comes for us all eventually. We just don’t know when it will be.
As for Chases Eagles’ spider, at least the total number of legs observed was correct!
“……..crap shoot at any age….'”
I know an 89 y.o. individual who did absolutely everything wrong in regards to healthy living.
This person has more recently survived, TWICE, getting Covid; this included two stints in ICU.
In lieu of listing 10 things that will ensure an early “natural” death, you could just put this individual’s photo.
This person is still alive, albeit in not so great health, but still alive.
Then we hear stories of how those in very good health – they exercised, ate good foods, etc., – just drop dead, suddenly, without warning.
My takeaway from all this is that one’s genetic makeup is the primary factor in longevity. True, best to do whatever you can to be/stay healthy – it can’t hurt (I don’t think), – but it does not necessarily mean you will not drop dead at 65 years of age.