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Amazing, thorough, and even-handed analysis. I both thank and salute you for that. So I'll edit the title in a bit, reflecting this stuff.

In my defense, I have a disease which leaves me tired most of the time, and I also happen to have floaters in my eyes. This seemed a pretty low-stakes video, so I 'went for it.'

Altho interestingly, from what I understand of how the eyes and brain work, it seems we commonly fill in a lot of context above and beyond the info our raw vision imparts to us, helping to make our finished vision a smoother and fuller experience. Indeed, i seems like these AI videos actually kind of prey on how that works for us. Very clever, but routinely giving the impression (upon inspection) of being nothing but big fat lies.

Cats sometimes do funny and unexpected things and sometimes people are filming at just the right moment to capture it, but it’s precisely because those things are unusual and rarely captured that they’re big hits online.

I have to disagree here. I've had several cats across my lifetime, and almost every one had one or more unique, quirky behaviors that didn't take much effort to replicate for a theoretical video. Because cats are curious, playful creatures, so whether its using a frozen pool as a skating rink, diving in to boxes of packing peanuts, or yes... playing on trampolines, when you add a favorite person of theirs and perhaps a treat, Robert's your avuncular figure. The video got me NOT because it seemed far-fetched, but because it was highly plausible, cute, funny, and bite-sized in length.