So sick of AI generated fake videos on social media etc

I miss being awed as well. Remember those days when you saw something that looked amazing or cool. Now it's all fake or you are doubting it.

Yes you're right to be fed up with it OP. Fake AI videos and pictures are becoming more and more common. At first they were really easy to spot but not any longer. It's very worrying. I know several people who do digital art and they say AI is wrecking their industry and putting them out of work.

@Cupofteaforyou "No, that's not a golden eagle on the high street!"

thank goodness for that, if it ate the ducklings on the way to the shop that would be really sad. 😂

YNBU

I follow horses and bird watching and i get the most ludicrous AI pics and videos. OK not so bad in the scheme of things, but it irritates the frog out of me. No, that's not a golden eagle on the high street!

You're right to be worried about banking apps etc. Eventually they'll all be hacked and, i hope, high street banks come back!

Yanbu. And the number of people who don't realise it's AI and can't spot ChatGPT either 😬.

I wouldn't be surprised if somebody really was making synthetic edible eggs in that way though

One of the points made in the fact checker article was that as the cost of manufacturing edible artificial eggs would be far greater than the cost of a real egg, there is no reason to create artificial ones.

My colleague showed me one about a physio hitting people with rocks. They thought it was hilarious. It was bizarre. Just because the person in the video is ai generated how does that make watching it ok? It was more snuff film than Tom and Jerry.

@MistressoftheDarkSide i'm all right thank you

Thinking of finding an intensive hobby because I can't seem to get into TV or books anymore and I obviously don't want to engage with all the crap online

I'm in a social group now and we make a point of going to pub music night. It's not very good, but we know they're real!

@shuddacuddadidnt I wouldn't be surprised if somebody really was making synthetic edible eggs in that way though

i'm losing weight and I'm also having a rethink about what I eat. I hadn't been too worried about chemicals in the past, but I feel as if we're in a new world of chemicals, if that makes sense.

someone's already mentioned about living on a farm. I was away earlier this year, in England. I was in a shop and some ducklings came in.

no, this is not the beginning of a joke 😂🐥

I told the lady behind the counter and she said "oh they like to come in. Their parents usually come and get them. if they don't, we'll carry them back to the pond." my mum later said to me that she felt the country was going to divide into people who want to live in the place where ducklings can wander into a shop, and people who just want to live in AI generated globoslop.

in reality, the former will be far more expensive than the latter. Which does make me think about how I should plan my life.

I tried to show my child a photo of a platypus on google but so many of the tops hits were AI I just had to give up!

Oh that's horrendous!

I'm so gutted :(

All the hard work that goes into music and acting will be swiftly wiped out.

This world is going to become somewhere I really don't want to be!

The problem is you risk offending someone if they are real. There's one about a minor celeb where she looks like she is drunk and saying things very unlike her way of talking, but people are using it (and posting it on here) as a way to show her character is different to what we were shown on a certain show. So we are caught in a "do you believe the show edit or do you believe her 'home video'?" situation. If I went into the comments and suggested it was AI all of her haters would scoff and say it was my bias.

It's not only AI generated videos, but the use of a real video then lying about what it shows. eg the claim that the Chinese are making artificial eggs. A friend told me about it and I said that was impossible and didn't believe it.

She insisted it was true, as she had seen the video of them inserting the yolks etc plus her daughter had sent it to warn her. She forwarded the video to me and I did a quick google search which labelled it false (they were manufacturing realistic looking toy eggs), and said also that this story is now an Urban Myth.

The thing is, as this deception becomes more widespread, we will become skeptical of everything, as pp have said.

Not to mention the world of employment

Leaders and commentators and researchers are already talking about AI leading to a 3 day working week or much shorter working hours like a few hours a day in the future, so that as the work needing to be done gets less, it is divided out more equally, so everyone has something to do and earn. Also talk of universal basic income.

(If you put my paragraph, which I completely wrote myself btw, into ChatGPT it will give you loads more info on that and you can ask it how true this is and what the evidence is! 😀)

YANBU. I have deleted all my social media accounts and this is the reason why. There is so much AI bullshit sloshing around, and even thought I (think) I am rarely fooled by it, it makes me despair for mankind to see how many people buy it.

Facebook and Instagram both have algorithms which mean the majority of what you see isn't from your friends or people you follow, which means they hardly even count as social media any more, really. They're just basins of AI slop and people arguing in the comments.

I haven't missed it at all since I deleted my accounts!

Totally agree.
It's so sad that now every video I watch, I question. I don't want to have to sift through and try to work out what's real or not.

I hate hate HATE it.

I honestly wish AI had never been invented, it is destroying lots of things. Last night my husband played me a new song. I loved it! And then he tells me it's AI generated, and not actually a real artist.

The music and film industry is going to be destroyed.

Such sad times.

Agree! Twitter had already gotten very weird post-Musk with right wing, racist, violent, pornogrpahic content etc.

But now the other half of bizarre AI videos.

It’s going to be the end of social media - what’s the point of it, when it’s all fake designed to stoke outrage and clicks.

@MistressoftheDarkSide hiiiii 🥰

It isn't a coincidence it hasn't been used to help humanity with healthcare first, for example. They want to profit from us all first then drive us into needing it more before finding the most profitable way to sell it to the healthcare providers.
It's the least humanitarian way they could have possibly done it.

@IBorAlevels sorry to be thick
What is being cloned and what are you ordering a new one of please?

I was literally talking to a guy about this today and he said he and his entire group of friends don't read the news any more because there's simply too much going on and it damages their mental health. I could see his point. It's exactly what the aim is though, for us to stop listening and trusting what is reality. So dystopian.

The younger generation don't seem as concerned or the ones I know anyway. They need to alert viewers to which ones are AI videos fast