AI authors are using stock images to create fake stories about our rescue efforts, crediting another.
📢 Black Foxes UK led the rescue of the Barry silver foxes, assisted by SHUA Trust Home & Sanctuary, Vets4Pets Barry, Animals Interactive and Animal Farm Adventure Park, yet another organisation is being given credit.
Microsoft's AI authors are using stock images to create false and misleading articles. These articles are AI Hallucinations that spread a false narrative, framing the RSPCA as hero's for action Black Foxes UK and their collaborators took.
🔗 Fake News: Confused Animal Asks a Couple for Help
🦊 We need your support to set the record straight!
🦊 The Actual Rescue Events
"What is believed to be the same fox has also been spotted in Barry. Hayley de Ronde, from the organisations Black Foxes UK, said managing the animals was "difficult".
She said because black foxes are domesticated animals, the local animal warden and council are not responsible for the capture of it.
But between herself, a local cat rescue centre and Vale of Glamorgan council's animal warden, she said there is a plan in place to capture it."
Media reports on rescue of "Shadow" in 2023:
🔗 BBC News, Silver Fox Captured
Media reports on rescue of "Luna" in 2021:
🔗 Barry News, Silver Fox Rescue
🔗 Barry News, Expect More Sightings
Media Reports on the rescue of "Orion", 2021:
In 2021, (once "Luna" was captured by Black Foxes UK and "Orion" was captured by the RSPCA) the Animal Warden, the RSPCA and Black Foxes UK, worked together to get the owner to sign over the escapees and to secure the remaining foxes. No action was taken by the RSPCA in 2023, when one of the the remaining foxes, "Shadow", escaped.
📢 What can we do but put out a statement, even if no one will see it.
We are the only UK organisation dedicated solely to raising awareness of the silver fox, assisting these foxes and their keepers whenever it is needed. We collaborate online with the US rescues such as SaveAFox Cooperation, Clevyr Creatures Fox Sanctuary, Foxes Journey Sanctuary and JAB Canid Education and Conservation Centre. Also collaborating with Hungarian and Ukrainian fox rescues, which allowed them to connect and move silver foxes to safety at the start of the Ukraine war and amidst all the covid restrictions.
We collaborate with UK wildlife and fox rescues and with fox researchers both in the UK and around the world, providing information and support when requested. We have rehomed over 30 silver foxes since we began almost a decade ago, and we have assisted many more. However, we are an online education organisation, fox rescue is a role thrust upon us. It is highly inappropriate for another rescue to be given the credit.
Black Foxes UK is essentially, a self-funded one-man-show, with a few treasured volunteers. Because of our policy for discretion, you won't find us over-promoting the animals we assist or re-home. They have done enough for mankind and we don't wish to glamorise the hobby. We focus on education.
Having to compete in the world of AI is demoralising, I could really do with some moral support to keep going!
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