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One thing I've noticed with the set of music generation tools (eg Udio, Suno) is that there's a sort of profound attachment to songs that you create. I've never made music the old fashioned way so I'm guessing the same could be true for that as well, but there are songs I've made on Udio that I personally think are amazing but nobody else really responds to. Conversely I can see similar levels of pride and attachment…

This is not unique to AI. People simply don't care about your stuff. Ask any regular artist or game developer.

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I'm surprised this hasn't already been done (or I'm not aware of it)... Step 1. Train AI on pornographic videos Step 2. Feed AI images of your ex Step 3. Profit

why be weird and use real people for reference? why be extra weird and use a personal reference?

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I assure you that's not enough. These are high quality videos. Once they get uploaded to social media, compression mostly makes imperfections go away. And it's been shown that when people are not expecting AI content, they are much less likely to realize they are looking at AI. I would 100% believe most of these videos were real if caught off guard.

A friend who lives in North Carolina sent me a video of the raging floodwaters in his state- at least that's what the superimposed text claimed it was. When I looked closer, it was clearly an Indian city filled with Indian people and Indian cars. He hadn't noticed anything except the flood water. It reminded me of that famous selective attention test video[1]. I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but it's a…

Indeed watching Reels or Tiktok videos is an exercise in testing your bullshit meter and commenting accordingly to let the uninformed know hey this is most likely fake.

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We heard this same argument when cameras were invented. Yet some of the most valuable paintings in the world were created in the 20th century. We heard it again when electronic music started becoming a thing. Formula 1 wouldn’t exist if the blacksmiths had their way. The unknown scares people because they are afraid of their known paradigms being shattered. But the new things ahead are often beyond anything of which…

One must not use analogy to analyze individual technologies. People were afraid of the camera, yes, but the camera does not attempt to replace painting. AI attempts to replace photography, painting, and all sorts of art with something that looks like the real thing. Photography never tried to do that, as photographs don't look anything like paintings.

Is anyone working on a painting robot that would use colors, strokes and textures based off of great painters?

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> It is totally possible right now to at least generate images with no discernible tell. I have yet to find examples of this

There are numerous tricks and LORAs to make realistic images without the overpolish you get by default: * https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1fvs0e1 * https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1fak0jl/fi...

Haha, I think I can maybe tell on like one or two of those

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Man, everyone is happy with these advancements, and they are impressive. I’m here looking at users and wondering - the content pipelines are broader, but the exit points of attention and human brains are constant. How the heck are you supposed to know if your content is valid? During a recent apple event, someone on YT had an AI generated video of Tim Cook announcing a crypto collaboration; it had a 100k users before…

We are at a crossroads of technology, where we're still used to the idea that audio and video are decent proof that something happened, in a way in which we don't generally trust written descriptions of an event. Generative AI will be a significant problem for a while, but this assumption that audio/video is inherently trustable will relatively soon (in the grand scheme of things) go away, and we'll return to the his…

Which was the era of insular beliefs, rank superstition and dramatically less use of human potential.

I feel that it’s not appreciated, that we are (were) part of an information ecosystem / market, and this looks like the dawn of industrial scale information pollution. Like firms just dumping fertilizer into the waterways with no care to the downstream impacts, just a concern for the bottom line.

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Cryptography-secured/signed generated content / interactions?

worldcoin project solves a lot of this when combined with web of trust, however everyone's knee jerk reaction to worldcoin is pretty bad and so it's annoying to even mention it

Worldcoin was intended to solve it but in practice it's not being used that way. Not enough adoption by users or websites.

Maybe in the future?

I'm a worldcoiner but so far it's just been free money.

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A surprising amount of it is really popular too. I recently figured out that the Movie Recaps channel was all AI when the generated voice slipped and mispronounced a word in a really unnatural way. They post videos almost daily and they get millions of views. Must be making bank.

But it uses AI only for audio, right? Script for the vid seems to be written by human, given the unusual humor type of this channel. I started watching this channel some time ago.

It's hard to tell whether they use AI for script generation. After having seen enough of those recaps, the humor seems to be rather mechanical and basic humor is relatively easy to get from an LLM if prompted correctly. The video titles also seem as if they were generated.

That said, this channel has been producing videos well before ChatGPT3.5/4 so at the very least they probably started with human written scripts.

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> hmmm... Maybe it's because I knew it was testing me, but I noticed it right away and counted the right count. > I could see it being pretty shocking if I hadn't, but I honestly can't imagine how I'd miss that. The point of the video wasn't to count correctly, but to see the gorilla

cool, he noticed it right away

I believe them. Why would people lie on the internet?
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