The internet is becoming inundated with AI-generated wildlife clips, from bizarre interspecies playdates to animal trampoline sessions. While they might be adorable, these highly convincing faux animal videos are posing a danger to conservation efforts, per a study published in the journal Conservation Biology.

“They reflect characteristics, behaviors, habitats, or relationships between species that are not real,” paper author José Guerrero, of the GESBIO group at the University of Cordoba in Spain, told Phys.org.

Researchers reportedly came to this conclusion by analyzing the plethora of AI-generated animal slop that’s proliferating social media — of which there’s quite a bit.

In one uber-viral clip, with hundreds of millions of views, a gang of rabbits can be seen jumping on a trampoline in tandem.

Despite its hyperrealism, the static background and the fact that some of the bouncing bunnies disappear mid-hop are dead giveaways that the clip is fugazi.

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