AI and Social Media

[Tonray's Ghost]

[tlarson58]

I see this all of the time now on facebook... military transport planes landing on carriers, Ford Raptors eluding police people skydiving from gondola cars, etc.

People are making AI vids out of everything. Who would think that somebody would want to put the effort into a fake guitar video? What does it get them besides a few "likes?" Well, I guess that a gob of "likes" gets you money from the YouTube universe.

[Tonray's Ghost]

I see this all of the time now on facebook... military transport planes landing on carriers, Ford Raptors eluding police people skydiving from gondola cars, etc.

People are making AI vids out of everything. Who would think that somebody would want to put the effort into a fake guitar video? What does it get them besides a few "likes?" Well, I guess that a gob of "likes" gets you money from the YouTube universe.

It's amazing how much money this false nonsense generates too....we are truly doomed if this is what people respond to. It makes one wonder if this isn't really our 'Sky-Net"...dumb the people down so they don't know what's real and are conditioned to respond to AI creations...don't even need a Terminator.

[peskypesky1]

It's amazing how much money this false nonsense generates too....we are truly doomed if this is what people respond to. It makes one wonder if this isn't really our 'Sky-Net"...dumb the people down so they don't know what's real and are conditioned to respond to AI creations...don't even need a Terminator.

When I was in college, almost 40 years ago, I read books by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard....who was considered totally radical and hyperbolic...because he said we were entering a stage of civilization where The Real would disappear...replaced by simulatons of The Real.

At that time, it was hard to wrap my head around what he was saying....and how Reality could be replaced by the Fake....but now it is all making sense...and I think he was right.

[peskypesky1]

[Tonray's Ghost]

It's amazing how much money this false nonsense generates too....we are truly doomed if this is what people respond to. It makes one wonder if this isn't really our 'Sky-Net"...dumb the people down so they don't know what's real and are conditioned to respond to AI creations...don't even need a Terminator.

When I was in college, almost 40 years ago, I read books by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard....who was considered totally radical and hyperbolic...because he said we were entering a stage of civilization where The Real would disappear...replaced by simulatons of The Real.

At that time, it was hard to wrap my head around what he was saying....and how Reality could be replaced by the Fake....but now it is all making sense...and I think he was right.

Our entire existence may simply be an edition of some alien SIMS game. They're waiting for the part where pesky sells off his Strats, that's when the next big bang happens and the program restarts

[BatUtilityBelt]

Yeah, it's already disturbing and it will get worse fast. We will be fooled more easily over time, and there's nothing chasing that tail that I know of. I think policing it would take a global effort, something like what I would call a distributed trust network. That idea was deemed too expensive in the earlier days of the internet, and shoehorning it in now would be impossible. We can't call BS fast enough anymore and of course real artists suffer.

[Rollin Hand]

TL/DR: Fake stuff is fake.

[uwmcscott]

I spent most of Monday in airports and on planes in a botched flight, which is a different TLDR that i won't bore anyone with. But all you have to do to understand "why" people make videos like this is just observe your surroundings. Especially at an airport where everyone is pretty much bored out of their minds, they simply stare blankly into their phones or tablets. They do it while sitting, walking around, standing in line, etc. They also hand out tablets to their kids of any age to shut them up and let them get sucked into the AI. All those stupid reels/tiktoks of fake/staged/rage bait/AI generated content are simply to get you to click, nothing more. And at the end of the day it's all about money of course.

[tonebender]

Other than this forum and a motorcycle forum I have do not participate in any other social media. I do watch videos on youtube but only stuff I look up because I am interested like a guitar lesson. I am not on FB, X, tiktok or any other thing like that. Not sure how I feel about all this AI stuff. We have been reading fiction and/or watching movies that are just made up stuff for many generations. Things that are not real have been a part of humanity since the beginning of time I suppose. There is no tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Little Red Riding Hood, Rooster Cogburn was just a figment of someone's imagination. I know there is much potential to use the technology to do harm to others but that is nothing new either, in my opinion. Mail is a great thing too, but people use mail to commit fraud. Someone used a printing press to print fake money. It is no surprise that there will be those that use AI to take advantage of others for gain. It'll all shake out.

[Tonray's Ghost]

. There is no tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Little Red Riding Hood, Rooster Cogburn was just a figment of someone's imagination.

No tooth fairy...what !

[RockYoWorld]

It's amazing how much money this false nonsense generates too....we are truly doomed if this is what people respond to. It makes one wonder if this isn't really our 'Sky-Net"...dumb the people down so they don't know what's real and are conditioned to respond to AI creations...don't even need a Terminator.

Beyond that, it's also infected the tools we use to look for information. Our phones and search engines have taken away to reliable search methods and replaced them with "AI" that can easily respond with FALSE answers. People need to be smart enough to look into "why is this the supposed answer" instead of just trusting it, but the ease of getting a baked together answer instead of having to click on many links to webpages littered with terrible ads makes people complacent to just take the nicely packaged answer at the top of the Google results now.