TikTok’s ‘unknowing bunny’ song pits human creativity against AI illusion

Have you been deceived by the video of a pile of rabbits jumping on a trampoline on Tiktok? Well, almost 230 million people were – and many of these viewers did not know that it was actually an AI. In response, the creator who brought us the musical Punxsutawney Phil, Oliver Richman (or @ olivesongs11), wrote and recorded a 30 -second song on AI video, also for Tiktok. He wrote the song the day 576 of a current project, where he wrote a new song every day.

“This project has changed my life in many ways,” Richman told Mashable, adding that it brought him “the joy of creating”. He traveled the viral video of rabbits jumping on the trampoline and said he was “certainly deceived” and “thought they were real”.

“So when I learned that it was not the case, I said to myself:” Oh, I think it’s today’s song. “”

The song of unconscious rabbit on Tiktok now has more than 3.8 million views, 600,000 likes and hundreds of comments like “Bo Burnham! At Disco” and “Wait you see the bear on a trampoline. Spoiler: also AI.”

The song goes like this:

There were rabbits jumped on a trampoline

And I just learned that they were not real

If a bot can live

An unconscious rabbit

It could make the way you make me feel

How to know that the sky is really sunny?

Sometimes I have the impression that your love is as real as

An unconscious rabbit

The video inspired covers and interpretations, hitchhiking videos, reactions and a variety of other really cool human arts. As a creator wrote on a tiktok video using sound, “the fact that this song written on AI becomes viral is incredibly healed. Especially because we, as artists and songwriters, are threatened with our livelihood due to the use of AI. And AI could never create something unique with so much feeling.”

Richman said that the answer to his video was “the most surreal thing of all time”.

“Each work of art I have seen, I like to become emotional,” he said. “It certainly made me feel connected to the beauty of the disorder of being a human. And the imperfections that AI tends to suppress or perfect – seeing this human art has just been a very emotional and cool experience.”

As Tim Marcin de Mashable recently wrote on the influx of false animal surveillance images, he “seems to be a new kind of AI soil”. But give the internet slope, and creators can do porridge (is it a saying?).

Faced with all the Sals AI that we see online, creators like Richman remain positive. “Art is so cool. Human art is so cool, and it really excites me.”

Updated on August 4 at 3:00 p.m. he – This story has been updated to include an interview with the creator Oliver Richman. Some quotes have been slightly modified for more clarity and grammar.