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I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be create…
I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be create…
It's not only because of AI, it was a pre-existing trend. Just look at music, books, movies (can't really call them films anymore). Humans are becoming as soulless as machines. The machines are shaping us in their image, human consciousness will be extinct long before humanity becomes extinct physically.
We humans are so excessively dependent on vision input and with entertaining through visuals, too. But more and more all those visuals become meaningless to me and it all just feels like fast-food-junk to me. As any pre-schooler will be able to produce anything (watch out parents) imaginable in seconds doesn't make it better to me or is of any real value. Ok, i needed to edit it again to add: maybe this IS the value…
I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be create…
The drama on this site regarding AI is absolutely hilarious. You'd think this group would be excited about game changing technology but well over half the crowd is crying over it. You deciding the Internet is broken or whatever is a you thing. The rest of humanity will continue to use, enjoy, and create new interesting stuff with it. As if most shit on the Internet hasn't been mostly trash to begin with. Even in the…
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It's just a technology. Much like you can still buy "hand made" shoes, there will be people that create curated hand made content. And if they use AI and you can't tell the difference, does it really matter? I really don't understand why there is so much negativity for a new technology. It's never explained, just taken as a fact and people bemoaning the new state of the world.
Subjectively, I find that the infusion of AI content makes the general internet experience worse. Have you ever researched something to find a video that is AI generated with an AI generated voice? It is the SEO spam of video. I think that platforms will go through several phases in their relationship to AI: first, they will like the artificially increased "content creator" numbers. Second, they will like the increas…
AI destroying mankind has always been a theme, but it's probably not going to be in the form of a physical war. This picture generation will probably have a very negative impact on mankind. Imagination is one of the driving forces of mankind, and so is our desire to realize the things we desire. When these generators become a common thing, human imagination and intelligence will start inevitably degrading. Nobody wil…
It didn't destroy musicians, just changed how they make their money.
Musicians today generally publish music for free, and make money from concerts and merch sales instead (the publishing platforms generate money from ads around the publishing).
Nothing will change about that with the onset of AI generated music - most music is already free today, so you pay for personal experience (i.e. a concert) instead.
I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be create…
The drama on this site regarding AI is absolutely hilarious. You'd think this group would be excited about game changing technology but well over half the crowd is crying over it. You deciding the Internet is broken or whatever is a you thing. The rest of humanity will continue to use, enjoy, and create new interesting stuff with it. As if most shit on the Internet hasn't been mostly trash to begin with. Even in the…
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Trust can be preserved by adding PKI at the hardware level. What you said about CCTV is true; once the market realises and demand appears, camera manufacturers will start making camera modules that, e.g., sign each frame with the manufacturer's private key, enabling Joe Public to verify that that frame came from a camera made by that manufacturer. Reputational risk makes the manufacturer store the private key in the…
Oh wow, that's a great idea. Isn't this already happening maybe? Recently someone said here that it's noticable that videos from CCTV cameras are often filmed with a phone or camera on a screen instead of using the original video, and people were speculating that it might be hard or impossible to get access to the original recording because of bureaucracy or something, but that recording a playback on a screen with a…
I recall an article posted 1-2 years ago about a camera company (Kodak? Can't remember) which was starting to offer something along these lines.
>the companies providing these cameras should be trustworthy, and that the camera's are actually really sending what they actually record, and that the company itself doesn't mess with the original recordings.
I agree. We can't guarantee any of these things, but on the bright side, the incentives are pointing in the right direction to make self-interested companies choose to behave the right way.
It will complicate things and make the hardware more expensive, so I doubt it will sweep through all consumer camera tech unless the "Is this photo real?" question becomes a crisis. There's also the fact that it would be possible to give individual cameras different private keys, with certificates signed by the manufacturer: This would enable non-repudiation (you would not be able to plausibly deny that you had taken a particular photo/video), which has potentially big upsides but also privacy downsides. I think that could be solved by giving the user the option of signing with their unique camera private key (when the user wants to prove to others that they took the photo themselves) or with the manufacturer's key (when they want to remain anonymous).
I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be create…
It's just a technology. Much like you can still buy "hand made" shoes, there will be people that create curated hand made content. And if they use AI and you can't tell the difference, does it really matter? I really don't understand why there is so much negativity for a new technology. It's never explained, just taken as a fact and people bemoaning the new state of the world.
Except you can tell the difference and you will always be able to tell the difference. Its the nature of the beast.
Throwing a bunch of content at AI and telling it to curate it is never going to be the same as a human that intimately knows it.
Its the same with GPT coding. You can always tell the difference between what the machine spat out in 20 seconds and what a knowledgable human would produce.
Artifical Intelligence is by definition artificial.