Our Pets Are Now Olympic AI Divers. This Is Fine.
Welcome back to Ctrl+Alt+Trend, where we sift through the digital dumpster fire so you don’t have to.
And folks, the internet has officially decided that solving world peace can wait. What’s really important right now? Apparently, determining which tabby cat would nail a perfect triple somersault off a 10-meter platform… via AI.
Yes, the latest TikTok rabbit hole is the ‘AI Cat Diving Trend,’ where our feline overlords (and occasionally bewildered dogs) are photoshopped, filtered, and generally AI-morphed into Olympic-level divers. We’re taking images of pets looking vaguely like they’re in mid-air (usually jumping off furniture) and feeding them to AI that places them onto diving boards and into perfect, splashless entries.
Because clearly, giving our pets the dignity of just, you know, napping in a sunbeam wasn’t enough. We had to assign them arbitrary scores based on questionable AI interpretations of their fuzzy forms pretending to execute a pike dive. Think your cat is aloof and judgmental now? Wait till they see the AI scoring panel give them a 6.5 for ‘entry splash.’ The passive aggression will reach stratospheric levels.
This trend is a perfect storm of everything the internet loves: pets doing human things, slightly janky AI results, and a collective agreement to prioritize utter nonsense over literally anything else. It’s the digital equivalent of everyone simultaneously deciding socks should go on hands.
So, next time you’re doomscrolling, take solace in the fact that somewhere, an AI thinks a corgi just stuck the landing on a reverse 2 ½ somersault. The future is weird, and it has whiskers.
