A performance as scheduled in front of a crowded audience, jumps and choreography forced to forcefully from an orca on command of her trainer, Jessica Radcliffe, then the tragedy. The woman is attacked by the wild animal and dies in the tank.
This is how a video has stopped that upset the social networks, becoming viral thanks to thousands of views, clicks and shares. Also after days from the first appearance of the movie, posts and articles on this fatal accident continue to appear.
These are images that disturb, that make discuss and could not do otherwise since the video of which we are talking about is the work of artificial intelligence. The case begins and ends with that only recovery of Jessica Radcliffe, with absent details and questions that are not answered.
Let’s start from this last point. It arises spontaneously to ask who Jessica Radcliffe or date and place of the accident is. Who is the Orca responsible for his death? It is not given to know neither through the articles that appeared on the net nor by doing any more research in short, a little healthy fact-checking.
The information circulating is almost absent and does not help to put the pieces of the story back together raise only further doubts. No official press release was issued by a water park and no declaration by the police.
Tour of the different social platforms there is not even some other video shot by a spectator present that day as if nobody had witnessed the scene. We know well how difficult it is to believe these coincidences in the era in which we live where, whatever happens, the first thought of many is to take the mobile phone and record.
Searching and looking, the only “test” that remains is that video of the last moments of life of Jessica Radcliffe in its many versions. But we don’t satisfy ourselves. Google also warns us about a sudden change of plots, details and titles. Typing in English Killer Whale to Jessica Radcliffe The screen shows us this notice.
The role of the AI in (dis) information
Checking multiple sources, we come with not too much difficulty to a conclusion: there is no trainer named Jessica Radcliffe who died at the hands of an orca. Radcliffe has never died in any orche show because it simply does not exist and has never existed. It was artificial intelligence that created it.
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To many the potential of the AI are literally afraid, not knowing what or who to believe anymore. Videos that seem so real they alter to the decidedly more fictitious others, generating confusion, disappointment or amazement. We do not have time to deepen that totally invented stories or actions have already reached millions of users.
Complications, sometimes, are not only their contacts as even those who do a job. Does the sensationalistic adventure of the pendulast school operator Giuseppina Giugliano and her 10 hours of daily train to reach the workplace?
Here then that once again, we find ourselves in front of a fake news rebound everywhere. However, behind this story there is something true.
The truth behind the video generated by artificial intelligence
The fake (let’s repeat it once again to avoid misunderstandings) accident that affected Jessica Radcliffe hides a fund of truth because, unfortunately, the circumstances it describes have happened several times in the water parks of the world such as i Seaworld.
Several trainers with years of experience died in training sessions or end of the show. One of the cases that was most discussed was the death of Dawn Brancheau in 2010. The trainer was violently dragged into water by Tilikum, an orca that inspired the documentary Blackfish on the devastating impact of captivity on these animals.
The orca male was held responsible for other fatal aggressions, but still exploited until the end of his days. These tragic events have rekindled the spotlight on the miserable living conditions of the orche in captivity, from abuse to very strong levels of stress to which animals are continually exposed.
The widespread news and the investigative work of animal protection associations led the public to re -evaluate the work and image of the water parks, seen no longer as a source of entertainment but as places of exploitation and pain.
Artificial intelligence is not needed to denounce the suffering of animals imprisoned in amusement parks or circles. The reality of the facts is already of his monstrous. In this perspective, we can certainly say that the Jessica Radcliffe story has contributed to bringing back to the center of attention a burning theme, giving visibility to the victims of captivity: animals.
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