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@KarenStrickholm That unfortunately is part of a trend of "fake whale cleaning AI" video.

@ai6yr Noooo!!! I wondered but then there are some many of them! I'm bummed out.

@KarenStrickholm it's genAI rubbish.
Barnacles don't harm whales, there's no reason you should or would scrub them off. No naturalist or marine biologist would do this.
And encouraging whales to come up to boats is incredibly dangerous (for the whales, because shipstrike kills and people are still awful) .
But thankfully it's not real.

@KarenStrickholm welcome, so annoying the Internet is poisoned with endless rubbish now :/ useful to cultivate skills to spot it!