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[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 minutes ago
[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Actually, polls show that most people are not fond of AI-generated content and want it to be labelled or don't want it at all.

As for generating your own entertainment at home, see interactive movies. They did not take off because people don't want to be "working" for their entertainment. That's their time to relax and not make decisions.

All in all, we're not as careless as it may seem.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Not to mention those interactive movies from the early 90s games that also didn't take off because they were sorely lacking in the game department

[–] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

I'd be very interested in these polls if you have some to link!

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just swap security cameras back over to analog, problem solved for video evidence

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You could just as easily burn a deepfake onto tape.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago

Reading this made my eye twitch.

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 35 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

I wonder if personal websites with links to each other, like in the olden days, will start growing in popularity again because of how trust is slowly eroded for anything not in your direct control, and search engines becoming more and more useless 🤔

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 1 points 48 minutes ago

But, but, how will we monetize it? How!?

/s

I long for the early 2k internet. So much potential positivity for humanity.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Gotta spin me up a Neocities page...

[–] sandflavoured@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

Same here! This will be the way for me.

[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Part of the fun of watching stuff isn't because it "customised to me" it's sharing an experience with the creator(s) and friends, family etc.

I see genAI being used as a tool for creators but not as an automation of content creation.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I don't think everyone is into that link tho (/j)

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I think this vastly overestimates the average person's ability to recognise or even care to recognise what is AI and what is not.

You've got all those videos on Facebook which are BLATANTLY AI and the comment section is split between "wow, amazing!" and "it's AI you fucking morons"

The latter will eventually leave the platform and the former will be all that's left.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Then new people will grow up in an environment where its only the wow amazing people and they never hear from the its ai you moron people.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

We're a dying breed. There are people alive today who will never know anything other than the post truth world.

Interesting times.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

And it is not going to take 10 years. It is right around the corner.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 7 points 7 hours ago

email. gmail already summarizes every mail by default in the US. most emails are bot spam. ppl start using ai bots to answer emails. is that the internet of things?

I made every one of these predictions years ago

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 7 points 9 hours ago
[–] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This has already happened, many years ago. I know this because everyone but me is actually a highly sophisticated robot that resembles a member of my species. I'm onto you.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

When I was a kid I had a theory that I'm the only conscient being in the world, and that everyone is some sort of a robot.

I couldn't share it with anyone, because obviously no one was real but me.

[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He figured it out. Time to shut it down.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Finally. This iteration was starting to become weird anyway.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 6 points 9 hours ago

you can't trick me machine. You can't convince me I am the robot and you are the conscious. it can't be possible.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 111 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

in fact, this green text was made purely from asking chatgpt what ai will look like in 10 years

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 25 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Unironically the best greentext I ever read was the bottomless pit one written by AI

That was like 3 years ago when generative AI was fun and whimsical

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 hours ago

The first ai green texts made me laugh so much. They managed to perfectly capture the essence of a green text but because they were dumb they would create the most weird situations.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The last time I had fun with LLMs was back when GPT2 was cutting-edge, I fine-tuned GPT2-Medium on Twitch chat logs and it alternates between emote spam, complete incoherence, blatantly unhinged comments, and suspiciously normal ones. The bot is still in use as a toy, specifically because it's deranged and unpredictable. It's like a kaleidoscope for the slice of internet subculture it was trained on, much more fun than a plain flawless mirror.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

much more fun than a plain flawless mirror.

yeah agreed! Back in the day I used to generate text for fun with n-grams and I never went higher than bigrams bc it was boring without those unexpected disfluencies. I thought of it being like an electric guitar, you want it to sound a little raw.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I personally doubt that will happen, since the current models require a lot of data to get better, something we actually don't have. The real danger is what happens once we figure out how to make models without an absurd amount of data.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

As well as that, the internet is less reliable since there's a lot more botshit on it.

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 10 hours ago

We should get polaroids and analog film again

[–] TranscendentalEmpire 53 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This guy bought so many rare monkey tokens. Ai is impressive in some aspects, but it's not nearly as impressive as the marketing that drives the massive amounts of investment into it.

The US economy is doing anything it can to create growth, which is causing investors to create a bubble around AI that is "too big to fail".

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

you seem to underestimate just how fast ai is growing.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 40 points 14 hours ago

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell." - Edward Abbey.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 8 points 10 hours ago

Skynut is coming, in all its smutty glory and we can do nothing about it

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I have long-since decided to stop watching new media altogether, opting instead for anime that I downloaded and hoarded before 2030, that I can verify was made before generative AI gained popularity

And I'm open to recommendations, I need to stockpile a good 30 years worth of content and I only have like 2 right now

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have a friend that does a rolling schedule on her hoarded old media, which according to her, is sufficient for the rest of her life.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Frankly I could probably make do with what I got. If I redownloaded every anime I ever watched, I'd have a little over 4 years worth of material to watch and rewatch over and over again. But if I never saw anything new, I'd never see anything new, and all my favorite shows were new once

New to me, that is. All my favorite animes came out like 15+ years ago

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

War and Peace 1966. A great adaptation of a great novel.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 13 hours ago

Man, the AI Bros shilling this stuff are really active in 4Chan, apparently.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Before the invention of video, humanity didn't have video evidence either and still managed. We are approaching the end of a ~150 year time period in the history of humanity in which video evidence is persuasive.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

"Managed" in the sense that crimes could only really be resolved if you had witnesses, and "managed" in the sense that it was far more common for people to be wrongly convicted. Photo and video evidence are pretty crucial to having modern crime resolution rates.

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