The Scissor Lift Rental Company Showing Up at Barstool Chicago Because of Quigs' Fake AI Scissor Lift Crash Video is One of The More Outrageous Things I've Ever Heard

Sometimes I forget that not everybody is as toxically online as the rest of us. For you and me, we see a Barstool Sports employee (Quigs, formerly of NASA) post a comically fake AI video of a scissor lift collapsing inside the Chicago office and instantly realize what it is. To us, that video is very obviously not real. But you have to remember, for a lot of people who aren't as online, this video probably looks pretty realisti– I'm just kidding. I mean come on guys. It is pure insanity how THAT video sent a scissor lift company into a panic that spanned what? At least 12 hours? Maybe more? The amount of people who must have laid eyes on that video... for them to still get to the point of showing up at our office... it's something that would almost be too unbelievable to be scripted.  

Idk what more I can really say that everybody isn't already thinking. I don't want to be too harsh on this unnamed scissor lift company. They were kind enough to take our money and deliver us a scissor lift to rescue a hot dog from the rafters on a moment's notice. But HOW?! How could anybody take that video seriously? How on God's blue and green Earth can human beings with eyes, human beings with eyes who seemingly run a successful scissor lift company, watch that video and allow themselves to go into a panic. Even after the alleged multiple phone conversations in which I'm sure Paige assured them there was NOT a devastating scissor lift crash in the middle of the office. Phone calls where I'm sure she walked them through the video, pointing out the many, many clear indications that the video was not at all real (i.e. not a single employee moving, the scissor lift operator (Chef Donnie) who remained motionless through the crash, the fact that nothing about the video adheres to the laws of gravity, etc.). Even after all that, the next day, for them to still need to physically send a person to the office to see the lack of damage with their own eyes. I throw around the term "mind blowing" a lot, but this one genuinely is giving my mind a suck. 

This just further goes to show that society isn't anywhere near ready to handle what AI is going to throw at us. I know there must have been at least one person at that company (maybe someone under 40 years old with a Twitter account) who was shouting from the rooftops at his co-workers assuring them that this was not a real scissor lift crash. I have to think at least one person there was losing his god damn mind over the fact that the rest of his co-workers were losing their god damn minds over this absurdly fake video. 

I suppose it does say a lot about this company's adherence to safety. If there ever was a scissor lift accident, you can rest assured they would treat it with the utmost importance. Or something like that. I'm trying to throw them a bone here. But it's not like they sent an operator along with the scissor lift. It was literally just Chef Donnie at the wheel.. 

But least they did their due diligence to make sure they weren't sending back out a scissor lift that recently collapsed in on itself. It's always surprising to me the things they'll just let people rent and operate on their own. That company also must think way too highly of Barstool if they thought we were able to crash a scissor lift and somehow manage to put it back together good as new. It also cracks me up thinking about how if that crash were real, and there was footage of the accident, that we would have the balls to outright lie about it in the face of video evidence. But with the way AI is trending, we're about to be at the point where that's possible. Where any video that comes out, people can just insist it's AI and nobody will know whether to believe them or not. 

I still can't get over someone having to come down and survey the scene with their own eyes. I mean watch Donnie operating the scissor lift in that video… 

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On top of him not moving a muscle, I don't even think that body has a head. It's literally unreal. But I suppose ever since Brian Kelly killed that kid, scissor lift companies can never be too careful. So thanks again for lending us scissor lift guys. We really do appreciate it. Sorry about Quigs. And I apologize if I was harsh, but at your next company meeting, it might behoove everyone to run through some sort of "How to Identify AI" training. Not even for your job. But for life in general. If you need someone to run the training, I'm sure Quigs would be happy to help out.