There’s something oddly humbling about watching AI-generated footage of a cheetah absolutely smoking a human sprinter at the finish line. I came across this video the other day – an entire “Human vs Animal Olympics” dreamed up by artificial intelligence – and it’s been rattling around in my head ever since.

The concept is simple enough: what if animals could compete in the Olympics? The execution? Well, that’s where it gets interesting. We’re talking gorillas bench-pressing weights that would flatten most humans, bears arm wrestling, alligators swimming (with a digital clock that jumps mysteriously from 09.0 to 39.7 seconds, because of course someone spent ages generating and editing these clips together). The stadium crowds look real. The tension feels genuine. And the message is pretty clear: we’d get absolutely demolished in most events.