So sick of AI generated fake videos on social media etc

Ooh I hope you're right! I've been wanting to spend less time on social media for years but found it too addictive. However, it's become so shite lately I've stopped wanting to go on it as much, hope it continues.....

Yes, especially older people. My mum included! They then go off taking the video as reality. I think AI will make our brains evolve! Into what is another thing 😐

We can escape this. Switch it off.

Exactly this. Especially older people. What to me is blindingly obviously AI to them they take at face value which is shocking.

I've just remembered that a few months ago I was fooled by a trailer for a Pixar film about Sphinx cats, I was really looking forwards to a film it turns out doesn't exist.

But there must be examples of more serious issues about AI. What if people use it to try and prove they were elsewhere when they committed a crime? Or that it was someone else who did it not them?

I loev AI but I completely agree with videos. I clicked on link the other day excited to finally see the trailer for the Henry Cavill Highlander movie.... Fake, AI. Sigh.

I find it scary and worrying. Its hard to believe anything that you see and read on social media now. I think AI is a very dangerous thing that will lead to tragedy and will be abused .

@MistressoftheDarkSide Tribes are online though. I was invited to something hobby related through social media, and I would say the group was predominantly aged 18 - 20 with about three forty somethings who actually went.

I didn't go, couldn't be arsed with the travel, but the organiser said to me that it got discussed (being raised to be chronically online and the whole education system pushing you to it) and it was one of the reasons they wanted to meet up in real life.

Next bit of positivity - one of the AI workers I know gave a talk at a sixth form college recently. He was annoyed because some of the kids were so horrified at what was happening to creativity and artistry. I was relieved to hear that 😂

I was also invited to a Taylor Swift fan thing and stupidly didn't go because I was thinking I might be the oldest person there. Then I saw the pictures. I think it was a range from 20 to 70. They all seem to have had a lovely time. I do think I would've enjoyed that. They've got a private group on discord now.

I can't really be bothered downloading more stuff but it is very much a private group - that's why they wanted to come off social media. My main contact that still messages me through Twitter occasionally so hopefully they'll meet up again.

So it isn't really that different than a group of people that you know and go to the pub with - or poetry readings or outward bound expeditions or whatever your thing is.

It's encouraging to see that people will find a way to connect on a human level.

maybe the generation after that so the kids who are maybe 10 years old now - that's a bigger worry. They won't know if they're meeting a real person or an AI bot trying to lure them to something.

YANBU I see it on TikTok all the time, have to double-check a lot of videos now to make sure it's not AI. I saw one user point out a video was AI and someone responded 'who cares? It's still funny' - no it's not, it's just slop thrown up to generate views and likes without actually putting in any effort or work.

I've rejoined a writing community and although it hasn't happened to me yet it's easy to throw around 'oh you use AI for your writing' comments even if it's not true.

I hate it - I hate the AI overview on Google and don't get me started on Chat-GPT or whatever it's called. My friend started an office job last year and she was like 'oh yeah I use it for emails when I don't know how to word it'. I started my office job several years ago and like anything learning to write professional emails is a skill, one that she's not developing because she's using AI to do it for her 😭

Well Facebook seems to think that the thing I'm most interested in is pet skunks and skunk rescue, which I thought was quite random and a bit odd as Ive never shown an interest in skunks as far as can recall.

I mentione this to DP and he said that pet skunks were a thing. I've not thought any more about it until now and I'm now wondering if this is AI that has fooled us both?

Yes, vividly remember a picture of the Nazi's burning books as an example of the expression. Would we believe the same now? I personally think the controversy around the Gaza genocide is evidence that no, many people do not believe what we see any more.

Anyone remember when we use to say “a photo never lies”? I miss those days.

Twitter really is the pits isn’t it

Anyone who wants to see the dead internet in action just needs to go on Twitter and look at a funny video posted by a bot.

Underneath there will be hundreds of comments but they will just be bot accounts tweeting random other videos nothing to do with the original, or fake accounts tweeting anodyne comments like ‘cats and dogs are best friends’, or porn bot accounts saying ‘I get hot watching this’. And sometimes different accounts tweeting exactly the same comment.

And because Twitter is monetised the original bot account will be making money based on the engagement with their tweet, even if that engagement is all bots.

I've noticed that. Bless them.

I understand why my nanna used to get me to program the video every week as a kid, despite keeping repeatedly showing her. I get it.

I just get the AI of morbidly obese people falling through floors usually. Every one I hide, 3 more pop up.

Yes, I think if you type your query and put "-AI" at the end, you'll get better results

I suspect they will remove that option, though.

Isn't that Dead Internet Theory? Another thing that's been going on for a while.

Or possibly another thing that got me labelled to conspiracy theorist when I first said it.

I remember trying to explain to someone why AI would not actually get smarter and smarter, that it would be mostly the garbage in, garbage out model, and he thought I was joking.

On the plus side, we will all get that time scrolling back if no one uses social media. I am hopeful we might start actually talking to each other again and making more of an effort to see people face to face, maybe the high streets will make a comeback?

All of them including GB News Reform propaganda

And now we can't even trust what's broadcast on the BBC news!

I hate it. I also hate how Google has changed with the (often inaccurate) AI summary coming up first - is there a way of turning that off? I find it scary and worry how it will affect jobs in the future, already we receive so many emails at work clearly written by AI.

It's absolutely happening. If you go on Twitter it's just right-wing bots winding up other right-wing bots, with the odd real person caught in the middle and believing these are all fervent racists and this is how reality is now, and London is fallen 🙄

It's pointless as a social media platform because Musk allowed the bots to completely take over. Facebook is now going the same way, but more with AI videos to confuse the boomers (and I include my family boomers in that).

It’s my birthday I’m 89 and I hand crafted this chair. No one has said happy birthday to me.