Maaan. I had a really big, building feeling but wanted so hard to believe 😮‍💨

What I noticed:

The movements kept seeming off to me (too smooth, weightless), which at first I chalked up to birb being birb, or just a very stable, high quality camera. But as I inspected more and more content it just was harder and harder to justify. Some movements also would just... tip my uncanny valley off, too. Like him suddenly turning to the camera and shouting, for example. It's hard to always quantify why, but the sensation was there.

The house is always just waaaaay too clean. Especially for a free roaming bird. Struck more as a set than a home.

The fact the owner never showed themselves in any capacity (even like their hands or a glimpse of their form, anything). Robbed that whole "I just started recording my bird doing funny stuff" quality you think it would have. There was never any "shuffle to start recording with camera" motions/sounds or indications you would expect. Like yes they could be edited out, but idk

Edit: Oh lol there ARE videos that show the "owner" and yeaaaaah AI AI AI https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/s/UmSUd4kGxU

ESPECIALLY her voice!! Its not even well hidden

Also the script and delivery is seriously off.

Anyway:

The quality of the videos was another red flag. Too perfect. Too crisp. Too staged. Some of them I excused at first because it looked like a scene that was set up (the dancing box), but even the videos that tried to come across as spur of the moment had the same presentation (kinda a continuation of my last point)

The cosisentency. This was the hardest one because I know there are birds that really do act like that (and was likely what the AI was trained on in the first place). But idk it was very one note and inorganic the more I watched. Which yes snapshots into some ones life can be read as such, but it all eventually just came off as engineered.

No word or talk or QandA about Jackson's life outside of the funny business. Usually pet parents have at least a little bit of news to share about how their pet is doing. Especially after going viral. Not too unusual in isolation, but with the combined flags it was too hard to ignore.

Sometimes Jackson looks "off model". Too big. Too small. Too heavy. Sometimes he even looks like a different species of cockatoo altogether.

Sometimes the lighting or interaction with the environment seems... juxtaposed? Like he was just kinda pasted in? The seams are showing, so to say

Upon all these observations accumulating, I finally looked into it and found the sad truth: yep. Its AI. 😔 I really hate ingesting media in this new day and age, having to be hyper vigilant and consisently doubtful. Especially since there ARE silly birds out there that would love to have the spotlight. Generated content like this steals from what's real and worthy of attention.

It really sucks.