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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 432: AI Animals, Dog Murder, and the BLM Gets a New Leader

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, Cal covers the troubling rise of AI animals, an even more troubling case involving the killing of two pets dogs, a quick profile of the new leader of the Bureau of Land Management, and much more.

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0:57.6

Here's Cal.

0:59.8

If your algorithm is anything like mine, you've noticed an uptick in the number of AI-generated

1:05.4

animal videos bouncing around social media.

1:08.3

You know the ones I'm talking about.

1:10.0

There are videos of cats and wolves and

1:12.4

doorbell cameras and videos of raccoons and bears jumping on trampolines. There's a viral video of a cat

1:18.5

chasing away a leopard that had jumped into someone's backyard. And just yesterday, I was served

1:23.6

a video of a bear being scared by a Halloween decoration. These videos are often funny or

1:29.7

shocking, and when compared to other uses of artificial intelligence, they might seem harmless,

1:34.8

but they also look super real. This conservationists, say, can be a problem. Researchers with the

1:41.8

University of Cordova in Spain recently published a paper in the

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