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Maybe off-topic, but I was taken aback at actually seeing ads on this page. Long time ago that uBlock Origin did not block something for me.. The horror.
I had to disable and re-enable all my extensions to fix it.
One of the worst parts about social media is image crafting. And it even seeps into real life on occasion where you see people at incredible locations spending all their time trying to craft some perfect pic to put up, instead of just soaking in the location or even really enjoying themselves. If anybody can [literally] image craft anything, then the entire point of online image crafting disappears, because anybody can now trivially fake anything.
404 media is really, really anti-ai and especially image generation. In this case stolen isn't as inaccurate as it could be but the article definitely has a strong bias. (Stolen in the same way a musician can steal a chord progression, i.e, not illegal but done faithfully enough sorta unethical)
404 media is lying when they say any image of a man with a wood carving of a dig is stolen. Copyright does not work that way. They need to be sued into bankruptcy for defamation. AI is a wonderful tool that lets anyone creat beautiful images, and the incumbents in the image-faking field are deeply offended by that.
This is the logical conclusion if you believe training on some copyrighted works and then generating different enough content would violate the original copyright.
If I remember correctly, just training on a copyrighted image without generating a similar image was argued in court to be copyright infringement.
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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.
Well, if you care about your city or country, you have to care about many things that are not immediately in front of you. And the Internet is one of the main places where such things can be learned about.
If you alone feel you also need to duplicate their efforts, you may just have control issues, but if the need is genuine and shared by many then you need to rally the people to get the problem solved. Paying an employee to do nothing while you pick up the slack is a plain waste of resources.
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.
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Sure, but the flip-side is that the truth becomes harder to ferret out as well.
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.
Which means that (in turn) you can’t just “log off” and be rid of the problem since it predates... logging off.
Neo thought he could just “log off” in The Matrix. But then then it turned out that the illusions ran deeper than first thought.
[1] Filter Bubble quacks et al
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Similarly T-Mobile doesn't give a shit if I send my friends and family text messages full of lies
T-Mobile also doesn’t send your texts to millions of people based on the engagement they generate.
The comments are probably generated too so it balances out! Youtube shorts are also ruined with tons of "facts" videos that are just generated images and some hilariously bad text to speech readings of wikis. Often though they don't even use any tertiary sources like wikipedia and get some facts very wrong. edit: They also usually have some AI-generated image with some of histories worst dictators made to look nice a…
That wiki's fault. Not sure why we put blind trust that wikipedia facts are accurate that we blame people who reuse the content when the wiki editors are create the disinformation.
And 100% of my YouTube ads are scams the last few weeks, many with deepfake fuckery going on. This whole side of the Web needs to be put down. The algo-feed ad-clearinghouse side. It’s a cesspit.
It's a sign that mass-communication-for-everyone-at-scale isn't a great idea after all. We can just go back to small forums and private group chats. Let human-scale social norms rule instead of algorithmically-amplified grey goo.
There's a reason why a lot of forums went downhill and got replaced by Reddit... moderating them is a constant effort (and Reddit at least takes over the legally mandated stuff like CSAM, piracy and basic anti-spam), admins are tired of skiddies exploiting phpBB or whatever vulnerabilities the very second they get public, you gotta deal with trolls DDoS'ing you for fun, and also users are lazy because they don't want Yet Another Login (not to mention, Reddit centralizes notifications vs a flooded mailbox). And for blogs, the situation is very similar.
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.
Don't worry, the shadow libraries have about 20 million books and 100 million scientific papers available, always increasing. There is little risk of AI spam seeping in there, since piracy is a certain threshold for quality. Who'd risk going to jail for pirating generated spam? ePUB books are basically HTML and CSS, so it's a matter of making a "book browser" instead of a web browser, that can inject links to things…
Who knows, maybe AI people _want_ the Web to fill with garbage so people have to ask their creations for information.