AI Generates A Fake YouTube Video About Alaska's Tok Mukluk Fire

COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL 

THIS IS NOT ALASKA 

An AI-Generated YouTube Site Makes Up An Imaginary 

Tok – Complete With Pictures, Theatrics & Bizarre

Fantasy In Order To Sell Ads 

It all sounds and looks very plausible. But is it?  

No. It's Made Up 

In an AI rendering of Tok, the Alcan is a dirt highway, DOT managed to put up standard-issue brown and white road signs overnight, and Tok lies in a valley, glowing into the darkness like a small city. 

Imaginary 'Tok Family' packs up a toy moose and a pup named Scout and gets ready to leave the house on a moment's notice on You Tube video. 

SEE AI YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT MUKLUK FIRE FOR YOURSELF 

Mt. Drum In The Copper Valley
Grafted Into Tok YouTube Story

Artificial Intelligence "News Story" About Tok Fire Invents A Deliberately Phony World 

This is what Fast Eddy's really looks like... 

Actual photo of Fast Eddy's. (Journal archives) 

Fast Eddy's has big, comfortable booths. It's exciting. It's homey. It's basic. And it's very real; a beloved resting place straight out of the legacy of the old Alaska roadhouses. Which makes messing with Fast Eddy's something of a crime. Especially after the start of the terrible Mukluk Fire in Tok, ignoring the reality of this place  -- Fast Eddy's and Tok in general - is a real insult. 

This is what a AI YouTube Pretends Fast Eddy's looks like...

Fantasy Fast Eddy's. (YouTube video) 

In the AI version of Fast Eddy's, the famed local restaurant is magically turned into a tiny, made-up log cabin. It's not on the straightaway of the Alcan. It's on a hill, on a winding road. It's on the wrong side of the Alcan. The trees look like watercolors. The terrain is – perhaps – more like the Denali Highway than Tok. 

The Journal wrote to Nick Young, whose family owns Fast Eddy's, and asked what they thought about this rendering of their place. Here's what Nick wrote back. He said that absolutely nothing in the You Tube site was recognizable to him, or accurate:

FAST EDDY'S ISN'T BUYING IT: ZERO PERCENT TOK  

When Nick Young, at Fast Eddy's in Tok, took one look at the YouTube video the Country Journal found on the web about the Mukluk Fire, and the Journal asked him: "Do you agree that a lot of that is not Tok? Like what percent?" Nick answered with a single comment. 

"I would say zero percent. I did not see one image or video portion of that video that resembled anything in Tok."

 

This is a fake AI generated scene in the YouTube video.