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ASMR’s videos had become one of the most pleasant places on the Internet. Until the AI arrived

July 8, 2025 by usatoday24

If in recent days your feeds In social networks they are full of videos in which someone, with a knife, cuts glass planets, stuffed fruits or precious metals in slices of bread, do not worry. It is the latest generation of hyperrealistic videos made with AI, and have found a reef: extremely relaxing, satisfactory images and sounds and thanks to the possibilities of artificial intelligence, also impossible. An unexpected phenomenon. The simplicity of these tiny videos and how easy it is to elaborate them with models such as I see3 have led to have multiplied exponentially in recent weeks. They are clips of just seconds, with a surreal point, in which we see a cut knife, with extraordinary cleaning, all kinds of objects. The small models of planets (usually are of glass or stone) and other glass foods triumph. The grace is that within these objects there may be any substance or surprise: lava, gelatin, flames nuclei … The AI thus exploits its ability to generate hyperrealistic images, but that the viewer knows that they cannot be real. The result intrigues enough to want to know more and stay to the following video, or enter the multiple profiles that make content of this type. Why here and now. Videos take advantage of the ability to see highly realistic textures in the foreground, allowing a prompt to just five lines and a handful of key concepts Very well chosen (“Extreme Macro Perspective, Sticky Separation with Deep Glugs”, “Rich, Slow and Hypnotic” …) these types of videos are generated quickly. That is, they are multiplying at high speed because advanced technical knowledge is not necessary, everything is automatically generated, and there is room for a certain variety: With some imagination, all kinds of objects and sensations can be recreated. Accounts to start. We assure you that as soon as you see a few accounts of this type, you will not have to make more search efforts: the algorithm will take care of the rest and you will have a real avalanche of videos of this type. But if you want some clues, there are some proper names: Impossibleais (well known and followed, glass food), Sicksicee (objects of all kinds, to each more surreal), ASMR_inventory (Video games related objects) … And more: Element.Slice (elements of the periodic table, with realistic effects), Danielleleto (Spread in bread slices impossible objects), click theaii (An original variant: computer key), slice..imposeible (More absurd glass objects) … the list is endless. Where all this comes from. The ASMR (autonomous meridian sensory response) arose Like a phenomenon on the Internet As of 2007, when personal experiences began to share pleasant sensations induced by certain soft sounds and voices. The term was coined in 2010 by Jennifer Allen to describe that sense of tingling and well -being that mainly caused the whispers and soft noises. The first ASMR videos were homemade recordings, made by fans with basic equipment and an experimental approach, and the content was varied: whispers, beaten, crunch and even role -playing games and simulations of invented situations. Its success and massification allowed the subsequent emergence of technologies such as AI, which are radically transforming the way to create and consume this type of content. In fact, these ASMR of knives cutting all kinds of objects and substances are in turn changing, and we are seeing first planes of mouths and hands manipulating all kinds of textures and food, also playing with the surreal (nibbing glass or stones with lava) Exponential growth. And although we all know these videos and their original success, which gave on foot to discussions and parodies of all kinds, they have nothing to do with this new generation of ASMR created with AI, which has automated the contents and multiplied the variants. At the moment the ASMR made with ia is being sneaking into All Trends analysis of the momentand although it is finally a fleeting fashion, that should not make us forget a very important aspect of the content generated with AI: its ability to reinterpret with impossible images and concepts traditional viral materials, which may come to change completely how we consume content. In Xataka | Our concentration has broken so much that we are buying headphones with noise cancellation to be able to sleep

Something weird is happening with the clouds of the planet. Something that will bring not very pleasant consequences

June 20, 2025 by usatoday24

Where are the clouds born? The answer to that question can become much more complex than it seems. Because yes, the clouds are formed in the sky, or in the atmosphere, but the layer of gases that surrounds our planet is vast and in it intermingle predictable factors with chaos. Complex and changing. Trying to answer this question, some scientists have encountered an additional problem: the place where the clouds are born It is changing. The area of the earth’s surface in which these clusters arise has moved and has shrunk what has important implications in the climate and weather of the planet. They are the results of two studies published in recent years, The first In August 2024 in the magazine Climate Dynamicsand The second In May of this year in Geophysical Research Letters. Three cloud stripes. The first of the studies observed how the cloud areas located on the oceans of both hemispheres have moved and contracted throughout the last 35 years. The study focused on three zones: one, called Interopical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) located near Ecuador Earth; and the other two located in average latitudes, approximately between parallel and 60 north and south. Through observations of instruments such as the modis (Moderate Resolution Imptotroadiometer) On board the Aqua satellite, the team was able to map the areas of greatest cloudiness as well as their evolution over time. Interpreting the data. According to The US Space Agency explainsNASA, the tormentous clouds that run through our planet are usually forming in the vertices of large -scale atmospheric circulation areas, such as hagley cells, polar and hard -latter cells or average latitude cells. More specifically in the areas where the currents associated with these cells converge and make warm and humid air ascend. In contrast, the convergence areas where currents carry cold and dry air from upper layers of the atmosphere to lower altitudes correspond to the areas where the heavens tend to be more clear. Change in the trend. The study of the clouds gives us clues about the dynamics of these torments of the planet. The responsible team calculated for example that the area contracted between 1.5% and 3% per decade In recent years. As NASA details, the ITCZ narrowed and the tormented areas in average latitudes moved to their respective poles at the same time that they also contracted. In contrast, the subtopics clear areas expanded. More than a matter of color. The most recent of the studies addresses the climatic implications of change in the cloud patterns of the planet. And it is that the climate our “blue marble” depends a lot on the clouds that overshadow the atmosphere and dye it occasionally in white since this layer of clouds depends on the amount of solar energy that reaches us due to the albedo. The clouds reflect the light and therefore the solar energy that reaches the surface of the Earth, so less clouds implies more energy and more heat. According to study estimates, change implies that oceans absorb 0.37 watts per square meter more per decade due to these changes. And climate change? We could fall into the error of assuming that this change explains the tendency towards global warming that we associate with anthropogenic climate change but the truth is that climatic models already incorporate these changes into them. In fact, a previous estimate made by the instruments of Ceres (Clouds and The Earth’s Radiant Energy System) estimated at 0.47 watts per square meter and for decade the increase in solar radiation that the planet receives as a whole. These changes contribute to the “energy imbalance” that implies heating, but they do not explain it for themselves. “These new findings suggest that the loss of oceanic tormented clouds is a key factor in the imbalance,” He explained George Tseliudis to NASAmember of the team responsible for the studies. According to the expert, these changes could also Help explain The anomalo oceanic warming seen a couple of years ago and that caused the North Atlantic to beat numerous temperature records. In Xataka | The clouds are each time a more scarce resource. And some countries are already “to war” for them Image | Michala Garrison, Modis Atmosphere Science Team / Tseliudis et al (2024), Dscovr Epic

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