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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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Post by kube-system »

goles wrote: post #2

While this may be a particularly dangerous way of thinking[1], it might be good that everything on the internet is becoming obviously fake, AI-generated junk. So that peoples attitude toward things that are real or borderline but are manipulated by bad actors, whatever their motivations may be, also lose some of their influence over the public. And (hopefully) the public becomes more skeptical about everything on the…

I don't think it actually is obvious to many.

What will probably (and already is starting to) happen is that people will revert to deriving truth through tribalism rather than evidence.

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Post by carlosjobim »

jprete wrote: post #100
carlosjobim wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm hoping you were intending sarcasm. Speaking for myself, the _last_ thing I care about is AI researcher access to massive corpora of pirated clean text. Who knows, maybe AI people _want_ the Web to fill with garbage so people have to ask their creations for information.

You completely misunderstood my comment. I don't understand how you could interpret it so wrongly?

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Post by dissident_coder »

The Patriot AI in Metal Gear Solid 2 was probably the most prescient prediction that Hideo Kojima has ever made, and it's even worse than even he imagined.

The irony of it all considering Kojima was also falsely accused of assassinating the Shinzo Abe just last year.

The Most Profound Moment in Gaming History: https://youtu.be/jIYBod0ge3Y

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

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Post by reustle »

dissident_coder wrote: post #108
wharvle wrote: post #33

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.

This is why I refuse to turn off my adblocker on YouTube, and never will. I'm not rewarding YouTube with my money (for YT Premium) for being absolutely useless at vetting their advertisers. I'd rather just not use YouTube at all if it comes to it.

You eventually get to a scale where vetting is near impossible. Paying for premium brings them closer to a state where they don’t need advertising at all.

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Post by holoduke »

wharvle wrote: post #33

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.

time to go back to BBS. text only. New protocol. Completely outside of www.

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

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Post by reustle »

philomath_mn wrote: post #15

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Often referred to as the dead internet theory

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

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Post by aeontech »

cabirum wrote: post #8

But the most views and comments on these images are also ai-generated. Aren't they?

From the article:

> I tried to determine if the commenters, too, were bots. The vast majority of them clearly are not. Most commenters I looked into are people who have been judiciously posting family photos, political arguments, and status updates on Facebook for decades.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are real. There's still an incredible number of Facebook users (especially the older generations) that just scroll through Facebook for hours each day and earnestly interact with things they see.

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Post by randomdata »

labrador wrote: post #84

Believe it or not, there is a high brow Facebook where this is not a problem. I spend a lot of time on FB with my older friends where literature, film, poetry and science are topics and never see fake stuff. It's called out. That said, I can believe it's a problem on low brow Facebook, I just haven't seen it.

I have seen it. Nobody I know posts on Facebook anymore, so when Facebook is desperately trying to find content to fill the feed it turns to whatever it can come up with from random accounts.

The apparent active group of friends you have is no doubt why you haven't seen it. That activity gives Facebook something to work with.

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Post by jvolkman »

miah_ wrote: post #53
wharvle wrote: post #33

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.

This right here is why we adblock. Google needs to wake up and do something if they really want to stop people from using adblocks on Youtube, or their other properties.

YouTube offers an ad-free service.

(yes, I know content providers can still embed their own promotions into their videos).

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