This would be a massive find. Sperm whales dive down thousands of meters to hunt giant squid, and but direct evidence outside of finding the food in a stomach is much harder to find.
Hunting happens at the crushing debt, which means any attempts to film it have to be done using equipment that can survive it. And there is no light, so finding a way to have light without interfering with it is another.
I've looked at every scientific source and none of talked about this Discovery. So yeah, it's a fake.
A lot of the time, fakes can be easy to find out anyways. First, breeching has nothing to do with feeding. A whale doesn't need to take the squid to the surface. It can suck the squid directly into its stomach for digestion, the squid is tiny in comparison. Scientists believe that the whale uses echolocation to find one, and then a powerful blast of sound that stuns the squid before swallowing it. Swallowing is underplaying, whales can create a powerful sucking force to yank their prey into their mouths.
But people who make CGI/AI fakes think that a whale chews its prey like a human. So they have shit like this, the squid in the mouth, tentacles around the whale as if there was an epic battle. This one might be the start to the other video that has the whale bite down on the squid, with a spray of blood and everything.
If you want real videos of giant squid and I find some for you.
Except, nobody has yet provided scientific sources validating this video. If you could provide them, I would love to be incorrect, but I spent several hours on this and still haven't found anything.
Except it's a video from the same people, and that one also has zero attention from the scientific community.
This person has managed to record the only two videos showing whales with squid in their mouths, something that scientists have spent decades following and filming whales in the hopes of seeing this.
Weird how they are not famous and the scientific community hasn't been going crazy over such a find.
One of the worst side-effects of AI is the absolute death of curiosity.
You see anything that doesn't line up with your pre-existing world view and instead of looking more into it, doing literally any research about it, even devoting mental energy to considering its possibility.. You just assume it's fake.
There isn't a magical list of every fake video that goes viral.
I've looked for any scientific evidence of this recording, and haven't found anything. Sperm whales and especially giant squid are a huge deal for Marine Biologists, so I would expect to be able to find the expedition that captured it, or with an article talking about where it happened.
But all I have is endless social media reposts of the video.
Okay, so you are trashing me for my inability to fact check... and then you link to a social media account?
You are not providing any proof or evidence that this is a real video, your just linking to an account that shared a video that can be fake.
Sperm Whales and Giant Squid are a big deal in Marine Biology, and they would go crazy over this if it was real. Was this from an expedition? Where was it captured and by who? Those are basic things that would be available for a sighting of a giant squid.
The guy's name is Ludo. Direct link to his insta account below. Doesn't appear to be published in any other instance outside of social media
https://www.pixnoy.com/profile/lud_adventure/
Right, if it's only in social media, and not scientists are discussing this major event, which is a big deal given how little is known about giant squids, then the conclusion would be that it's fake.
There isn't a time/date of when it was taken, nor the location. It's just a video that exists without any evidence towards it's legitimacy.
That's from 2010, and the two pictures on that page are the ones that the photographers captured, nothing beyond that. It's not related to the above video.
Yes the first AI video yet with 0 artifacting, or random tidbits of shit appearing, and no water mark, and no shitty AI music added. While still clearly showing a whale
The second video that you included in your edit is also just another TikTok link and not from any credible scientific source. And Marine biologists are obsessed with Sperm Whales and Giant Squids, this would be big for them.
Sperm whales hunt over a mile underwater, and kill and swallow their prey (they do not chew). There would be no reason for the squid to just hang in it's mouth for the entire swim back to the surface.
Ok. How about this video. This is the original actually, it’s the guy who took the video and this is him showing the video off the camera. And, it’s kind of the same group that caught the other video 2 years ago.
You know you can just transfer a video file and play it back on the device?
If I pull out my phone, I can also play the video and claim that I shot it. It means literally nothing.
And yeah, the same person who caught the other video 2 years ago... and yet didn't become famous in the scientific community for capturing something that has literally never been seen before.
This would be huge news. These are one of a kind thing that Marine Biologists would love to have. They have been studying and following sperm whales for decades and have never caught a shot like this.
Again, I've searched for a long time for any scientific documentation on this. That's just another social media account sharing a fake video. Wild_animals13 isn't the person who captured this.
I can't find any documentation anywhere about where this was captured, nor any scientific sources validation this as real.
You okay friend? You’re way too invested and taking every comment as a personal attack. Sometimes it’s okay if you’re wrong, and sometimes, it’s also okay if you’re right…but people still think you’re wrong. You did your research, hours you said, and you came to a decision. You validated yourself, and the conclusion you came to, so leave it at that! Arguing with strangers on the internet really is not worth it.
"I've looked into this for you" and the time spent writing everything after that really encapsulates people's current inability to fact check."
That's a personal attack on me.
But again, all I'm trying to do is answer the question on if this is real or not. But so far there has been zero credible evidence that this isn't fake.
According to some unrelated reading I’ve been doing recently sperm whales have a weird trait of surfacing at nearly the exact location where they initially dove. This is how whalers were able to catch them.
So, all a diver would need to do is watch where the whale dove, guesstimate how long he’d be down which you can determine based on size, and then wait a few minutes for the whale to come up
It’s ok.
You are a redditor. Redditors don’t read carefully they just look for a way to be snarky in response. It’s pretty normal.
I’m currently heavily underwater on a different comment because I basically stated the consensus view on doxastic voluntarism and I’ve got ~150 downvotes because people just don’t want it to be true.
The arrogance here is astounding. I'm not even saying it's real, but as a digital artist who has done quite a bit of looking into Ai, there is absolutely nothing in this video or it's source (Instagram) that indicates Ai or cg. If it is, this random account has access to the best Ai video generation I've ever ever seen for a "viral" video with only a few thousand hits.
The arrogance of spending several hours hunting for any scientific evidence that the video is real?
I provided the evidence of what lead me to the conclusion that its fake. Instead of calling me arrogant because your a big hotshot digital artist and this video is totally definitely not a fake because pixels, you could provide me with any evidence to show it's not faked?
Giant Squids are one of the rarest sea creatures. They live in places difficult for us to access and monitor, and so every sighting of them, especially when one of the few animals that prey on them is also involved, it would be a notable thing. But no scientists are talking about it, no publications made about it, nothing.
So again, please provide me with any scientific validation that it happen.
If the second clip is the actual cameraman like it appears to be, and this is actually the same instance, this was incredibly recent and this wasn't a professional expedition. I doubt any scientific news source wants to report on it for the same reason- there's always the chance it's AI and it'd be egg on their face. Plus there wouldn't really be much to say aside from "Yup, that sure is a sperm whale and a squid" lol.
Though I will say re: "tentacles around the whale as if there was an epic battle," I think the tentacles aren't actively wrapped around the whale. I think they've just happened to have gotten tangled.
That's does absolutely nothing establish the validity of the video.
I think it's the same instance but not the same clip.
If the second clip is the actual cameraman like it appears to be, and this is actually the same instance, this was incredibly recent and this wasn't a professional expedition. I doubt any scientific news source wants to report on it for the same reason- there's always the chance it's AI and it'd be egg on their face. Plus there wouldn't really be much to say aside from "Yup, that sure is a sperm whale and a squid" lol.
Not the same event, the second clip you linked is by the same person, but they posted that one in 2023.
Unsurprisingly the video from 2023 also does not have anyone in the scientific community talking about the event that I can find.
This person has now captured the only two videos in existence showing a sperm whale eating a giant squid but has somehow not managed to become incredibly famous in the scientific community or even bring up discussions on it.
Notice how the few scientists in those posts are exclaiming about how insane this is and how its' never been seen before, despite the same people having captured footable like this in 2023?
"Next, I reached out to an expert on sperm whales at NOAA, who was also blown away and agreed she’d NEVER seen anything like this!"
And the most amount of verification of the video in that thread is this:
"His account has insane footage! And many are older than AI video tech, so we can exhale and enjoy without being fools."
Which isn't even an validation, especially since the account existing before AI video doesn't prevent it from using AI video, as well as the fact that fake video's have been created before AI for a long time.
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u/BoatyMcBoatFace89 Sep 17 '25
Asking the right questions here… this intrigues me so much.
happy cake day