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AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by sebastiennight »

throwaw12 wrote: post #35

Apart from ethically bad and evil use cases of this application, can we use it to massage the parts of brain like we do it to our bones and muscles with the help of physiotherapists? reason I am asking it could be some relief to our brains after tedious working day, especially after heavy AI usage

Sure. The relief is actually free ; though once every 10 uses we'll spike your dopamine-related brain centers to 1,100% activation for a quick second while flashing a peptide sponsor ad, then back to normal.

You can of course, also not get the spike ads, by subscribing to Premium. Just have a quick look at this animated QR code, it will explain better than I can in writing.

Edit: there used to be an OSS app you could use where you actually pick what you want activated in your brain and when, but it's been banned after one of the commercial producers's investors convinced the government that this technology was too powerful, so only government-approved apps are allowed now, and an emergency vote passed the BrainControl law authorizing logging of all visual stimuli you look at, in order to protect your children.

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by acessoproibido »

soco wrote: post #80
aubanel wrote: post #78

This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…

Don't forget it's not "the platforms" doing this, it's people like you and me, maybe even people reading this message. We, they, are building this, and don't care about anything as long the paycheck comes. This is the reality.

Speak for yourself, I would rather clean toilets for a living than work on these mind-destroying technologies

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

aubanel wrote: post #78

This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…

I think you're giving this a bit too much credence. And I think you also think there's something special about sorting videos by how often they're viewed in a recent timeframe (which is all you need to recreate evil social media algorithm)

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

barrenko wrote: post #79
aubanel wrote: post #78

This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…

We are doing to our brains and our children the same thing we are doing to pigs in cages, squezeeing every last cent until the planet burns down.

> until the planet burns down.

Common misconception. We won't kill the planet even if we tried to. Wed make it too hard to sustain billions of humans, sure. But they are very different things

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

api wrote: post #100
aubanel wrote: post #78

This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms: - They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos. - But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect. - Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to…

Stop calling them “social” media. They have not been that since algorithmic feeds driving infinite scroll replaced updates from your friends. That was more than a decade ago. There is nothing at all social about the latest generation like TikTok and YouTube Shorts.

If YouTube is social media, anything with a comments section is social media, even the old "guestbooks" of web 1.0 days were social media. It's a pointless term whoever uses it.

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

alexpotato wrote: post #106

What's interesting is that the process of identifying what gets human attention is nothing new. e.g. cartoons from the 1950s were designed to have: - cute animals - short and fast scene cuts - catchy music b/c all three of the above were known to trick the human brain into "sit still and observe" mode. Focus groups did the same thing for advertising which then morphed into A/B testing to determine revealed preference…

Books are designed to be addictive. People said the same things about books as they say about screens nowadays. I think it's more important to understand the emotional hysteria people get themselves into

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by bcjdjsndon »

uniqueuid wrote: post #90

Among my secret research ideas, this is the most dangerous and morally wrong one. If future generations of researchers will wonder why IRB reviews became mandatory for computer science, studies like this will be the answer. Seriously, some people don't seem to realize the point at which they are becoming Fritz Haber.

In general, technology has always decreased our liberty though

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by krapp »

bcjdjsndon wrote: post #115
api wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop calling them “social” media. They have not been that since algorithmic feeds driving infinite scroll replaced updates from your friends. That was more than a decade ago. There is nothing at all social about the latest generation like TikTok and YouTube Shorts.

If YouTube is social media, anything with a comments section is social media, even the old "guestbooks" of web 1.0 days were social media. It's a pointless term whoever uses it.

Youtube is very obviously social media. It is a platform that serves algorithmically sorted third party content based on user preferences and a network of accounts that a user follows, and it allows communication between users through comments. It has communities. It has memes. It is certainly addictive in all of the ways social media can be.

Re: AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

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Post by p-e-w »

Cakez0r wrote: post #43
p-e-w wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This does indeed seem comically evil. And I have yet to see a single paper like this where a researcher bails out and publicly says they refuse to work on such projects. Not one. The most benign interpretation of this observation is that science is filled with spineless opportunists who don’t care who they hurt with what they create. A slightly less benign interpretation might be that many of these people are doing…

In their defence, don't shoot the messenger. Just because they published it doesn't mean that others haven't already discovered it. Better to know its possible than be completely ignorant.

> Just because they published it doesn't mean that others haven't already discovered it.

That’s irrelevant for the moral evaluation. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. If you choose not to kill anyone it won’t stop others from killing. But the fact that this is so doesn’t give you a license to kill.

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