So sick of AI generated fake videos on social media etc

That’s another level of black mirror I hadn’t thought of

I think it will be the end of social media. What's the point in following a creator if they're not real, or you don't know if the content is real.

Even on here I'm increasingly not bothering with posts because I suspect they're AI-generated.

Exactly. The BBC has allowed dishonest employees to destroy its unique reputation for honesty and impartiality. That's what really disgusts me.

it’s scary how fast it seems to be moving, will it eventually get to a point where there are no tell-tale signs?

I always used to think how cool it is that future generations will have so much photo and video material of history, but that this rate they probably won’t know what’s real or not 🙄

😧😧Nooooooooooo!!

I still think that most AI videos are pretty rubbish these days (getting better all the time, but there are still tell-tale signs and a 'smoothness' to them IMO), so I prefer to think that back then they would not have been so good/believable.

I have just found the original video on You Tube dated 9 years ago, so I honestly don't think AI was at a very high standard back then.

That video will never not make me laugh!

"What I don't get is that generative ai scrapes websites for the data it uses to generate. But now people use generative ai instead of looking at a website.
So presumably ai will just eat itself"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo

This describes it quite well. The human centipede- shitting out the scrapings, eating them and shitting them out again over and over.

I hate it too. I hate the obvious fakes that are just an insult to the intelligence, but I hate that I've probably been taken in by more realistic looking things plenty of times. Nobody likes being taken for a fool. I hate feeling that I should be on high alert for fakery when I just want to be able to relax and trust the world sometimes- after all, most people are reasonably honest most of the time, most real people have some sort of moral code, but AI does not. Like a lot of you have said, I hate that this is making me suspicious too. My friend sent me a video of a Polish guy skiing off Everest without oxygen. It looks real, and as far as I can tell from cross checking it is real, one of those Red Bull things. But like a PP said, I just want to be simply awed by things, not think "oh wow, that's amazing...hang on, is this just more bullshittery?...." every time

And an old couple apparently standing in the same place 50+ years later or something bs like that
FB is nearly all ads, fake stuff and AI videos you have to scroll for ages to see any actual real people that you know

I also dislike that if I google something the first answers that come up are AI, and its not always true

Most fakes that I have seen have been embarrassingly bad. There was what purported to be film of a bridge collapsing, which showed a number of cars apparently still driving happily through thin air. And another where a massive wave appeared to break over a quayside with several people on it, none of whom made the slightest attempt to get away and were still standing, clearly bone dry, when the wave receded. They can get quite funny when they're as bad as that.

A huge amount of the accounts commenting wishing the fake old lady happy birthday are also bot accounts.

It’s AI commenting on AI. No one involved is real.

@Lovesabadboy but I was meeting with AI developers in 2016. (I don't have any understanding of AI, I was part of a very long chain of generally pointless workers)

I don't think it was that good in 2016 though, but I just had that very sad thought that it might not be real.

I know exactly which video you mean and it has been around for many years (pre-AI), so I think it is definitely real!

I agree with you OP. I watched a video on youtube about tips to spot AI videos:

1. Videos are less than 10 seconds
2. Mistakes in the background
3. AI is better at hands now so check teeth
4. People having a conversation but their face/body isn't aligned to the person they are talking to like people would naturally
5. Fast cuts to scenes that don't follow on from one another
6. Illegible writing on things

Kind of ironic that you’ve started a thread about how you’re sick of AI generated fake videos but are perfectly happy for humans to do the same 🤣

So you don’t have a problem with a state broadcaster splicing together two sentences that were 50 minutes apart in a speech to misrepresent what the most powerful person in the world was saying? Really?

My wife's friends are constantly sending her AI videos of cute animals and babies. They think they are lovely - I hate them!

It going to break up a few people.

I don’t watch any videos unless from a reliable source except craft ones. I may soon have to stop the craft ones, they have been so useful for me learning skills but lately the ai has meant they are completely unreliable.

Someone, please tell me that the panda who was really shocked when her baby panda sneezed is real?

Sadly it’s happening at rapid pace, this is very sobering.

But it is at the point we don't really know if it is real people commenting or just bots stirring up hatred/fear. Every year we get the same Poppy crap about intolerance and I see the same idiotic comments swallowing it but surely by now everyone knows that no one objects to anyone wearing a poppy?

Musk then announced AI would do 80% of jobs and the challenge for humans would be find a purpose

Such a huge red flag right there! Anything that removes humanity's purpose can't be a good thing.

What I don't get is that generative ai scrapes websites for the data it uses to generate. But now people use generative ai instead of looking at a website.

So presumably ai will just eat itself

At the beginning of this year Starmer said AI would be injected in other mainline of the UK same time as Trump announced 500 billion AI industry with Larry Ellison and Theil. Musk then announced AI would do 80% of jobs and the challenge for humans would be find a purpose. Whatever he means I don’t know exactly but he didn’t seem optimistic for humans but he’s optimistic for AI

i can’t believe how many people can’t see a fake happy birthday picture of an old woman saying no one wishing me happy birthday and everybody commenting. It’s Pathetic if one can’t tell what’s real or not but I’m starting to see its getting harder

I hate it. All of it. I hate that people are asking ChatGPT to design them a bedroom, what messages from their partner mean, and how to do their jobs. I hate that people Google stuff and just trust the AI summary when it's usually based off one web result and incorrect.

It's going to be so easy to win elections in the future with a few carefully-placed fake videos for the hard of thinking.