AI crowd jokes wayward mountain lion's tracking collar is really for egocentric training data
silver__tsuki · x · 2026-09-19
A 2-3 year old male mountain lion was safely returned to the wild by California DFW and the Santa Cruz Puma Project, complete with a tracking collar. The AI community turned the wholesome story into a meme, joking that SF is "so evil" it released the lion with a collar purely to harvest egocentric video data for model training.
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