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Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

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Re: Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

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Here's one thing I don't get; why did the content farms bother creating all those AI-generated variations when they could have just as easily just used the real photo? Does Facebook have some kind of repost detector that this circumvents?

I imagine copyright plays a role.

Re: Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

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post #24

I wonder if we will get to a point where the web is so saturated with this junk that the web itself starts to lose its luster. If AI can dream up a million impressive wood carvings, it seems like the real carving I saw in person is the only one that is actually interesting.

We blew past that point around 2015.

Can you provide details of this watershed date?

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's time to stop caring so much about things on the internet and focus on the truth that is in front of you, the real things.

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You really think more people rage-commenting on clickbait news articles makes the world better? The parent commenter is right. We should be spending our time on the people and relationships near to us in the real world, not junk on Facebook.

Re: Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

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I like to browse the "conspiracy" side of TikTok - not because I believe them, but because I think it's interesting to watch them form, rise in popularity, and be replaced by the next wave of strange ideas.

In the past month or so I've noticed an increasing number of videos that use obviously AI-generated images as "proof" for everything from a flat earth to Tartaria and the "mud flood".

All of the videos are getting comments that call this out... but they're never anywhere near the top. Of course, the other comments could well be AI-generated as well - but I don't have enough faith in humanity to believe that's the likely.

Re: Facebook Is Being Overrun with Stolen, AI-Gen Images That People Think Are Real

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post #26

Here's one thing I don't get; why did the content farms bother creating all those AI-generated variations when they could have just as easily just used the real photo? Does Facebook have some kind of repost detector that this circumvents?

I imagine copyright plays a role.

Maybe, but why would a content farm care about copyright? Does Facebook have a photo-equivalent of YouTube's Content ID?
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