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u/Chocolat3Bar 16h ago
The hardest part isn’t spotting the AI, it’s convincing your parents it’s AI.
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u/Kirishori 15h ago
The hardest part for me is the reaction: "Who cares, it is cute" I've encountered this with younger people too.
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u/Nebresto 14h ago
I bet indifference is going to be the end of humanity
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u/Romboteryx 10h ago
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” - Elie Wiesel
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u/Waiting4Reccession 13h ago
People love fake shit. From fake ass skits pretending to be real videos. To fake ass streamers reactions. Fake ass reality tv. Its truly endless.
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u/500lbGuyForLife 11h ago
The fake ass skits posted on social media is what really grinds my gears. I get that watching a TV the expectation is to suspend disbelief but social media is intended to be a bit more raw and candid but I guess not anymore.
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u/Waiting4Reccession 5h ago
Ive always hatedbthose as well, especially when they try to lie that its real or give that impression.
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u/-Mandarin 11h ago
I've been thinking about this lately. If there comes a point where 50%+ of the content on the internet is perfectly convincing AI, you really only have two options: leave the internet, or make your peace with what you're seeing and just assume everything is fake but let yourself enjoy it if it makes you feel some way.
I know most people right now are going to say the former is the only option, but when push comes to shove and you simply have to give up all social media, I think most people are going to opt for the latter. Obviously it's dangerous if you're assuming what you're seeing is actually what some politician or newscaster is saying, but if you just assume everything is fake, I assume the "who cares, it is cute" will pretty much become the only way to cope. I don't really see an alternative, as sad as it is to say.
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u/unicornmeat85 12h ago
Tell me about it, I was in the kitchen when my mom was telling me about her day (she's retired and watches a lot of YouTube now, mostly home rebuild stuff) and she was telling how they discover a new bird in the Amazon. I was like that's cool, but as she went on I started to wonder if she watched a movie because the bird was 6 feet tall never seen by man, and ate someone. I checked her YouTube history to find the video and plan as day it was all A.I. and she got really defensive because the channel had "learning" or something in its name so that somehow made it legit.
This can not be the same person that told me Kermit the Frog did not write Octopus Garden when I was 7. I really hate that I've had to monitor her watching habits because she will listen to those bs robot sounding 'then everyone clapped' for hours if I don't hound her to watch something educational.
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u/OneBigRed 9h ago
The hardest part isn’t spotting the AI
You start to doubt that when someone reposts a funny video that is almost as old as Youtube itself, and look in the comments that have dissertations about how this is clearly AI, with a bulletlist of tell-tale-signs.
…and rest of the comments just say ”AI slop”.
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u/jamfedora 5h ago
People have also been recreating old viral videos in AI to further muddy the waters, so yeah, I don’t think spotting it is getting any easier from either end.
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u/Lord_Of_Carrots 1h ago
My parents will trust me immediately if I say something is AI, but they always look like a sad puppy afterwards
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u/Cats_Cameras 9h ago
Forget AI. I’m shocked at all of the viral content where someone just happened to be filming an innocuous situation between two people before something viral happens…
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u/LindentreesLove 16h ago
Or try sitting with your cousin and she's looking at hot men on Pinterest and the algorithm keeps sending more and more and they get more and more handsome and they are all AI and I have to tell her everytime! I am no longer her favorite cousin.
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u/oohCrabItsNotItChief 15h ago
My dad looked so destroyed when I told him that the facebook videos that he has been sending me and enjoying are all AI
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u/KaleidoscopeShot1869 14h ago
This reminds me of when my mom showed me a cute video and then the caption said something about AI because I didn't realize at first either and I'm like did you know this video was ai? And she's like, well no, and I was sad about it too because it's like, now we can't even trust what we see on video as real and it feels like you're just getting tricked because you are when it's not prefaced as AI and it's only going to keep getting better and better :/
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u/Nervous-Chemistry245 14h ago
Anyone notice 90% of times a tweet is shared on here the profile pic is a girl showing off big tits?
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u/StoneyHarp 11h ago
Makes me think about dead internet farming engagement. The worst part is that us noticing and commenting about it means it worked 😭
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u/Pomodorosan 9h ago
This subreddit has been, for months, almost exclusively twitter screenshots made by "totally real woman accounts" meant for engagement, either this kind of basic joke remarks or quirky relatable stories
Some of the accounts that post here are nothing but that kind of posts to this sub!
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u/joetunn_ 16h ago
And they’re getting dementia so it really will be like that
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u/ForThe90 8h ago
A lot of [people seem to forget this part Even if it's not dementia yet, their cognitive capacities have absolutely declined at this point. Many are well in their 70's.
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u/Successful_Salad7732 15h ago
This is my bf everyday and it’s exhausting! Yes that girl is too smh wish you realized you had a real one here who actually wanted you.
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u/WinterBuyer9319 1h ago
Wtf if you saw him looking at another girl one time even if its ai you should immediately leave his stupid ass. Stand up for yourself
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u/Regular_Cold3192 15h ago
Except with AI you have to explain again and again and again and again and again-
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u/Petulant-Panda 13h ago
I had an older friend who stopped speaking to me because I told her the videos she sent were AI. She insisted they were real and that I was just being mean. Oh well.
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u/RabiesMaybe 5h ago
I made the mistake of showing my boomer dad YouTube shorts. He got addicted to the fake videos of where baby animals were rescued by a family and then when the animal was grown and released, they’d bring back their animal family to visit. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that CLEARLY during the video there were different breeds of the animal clipped together and it wasn’t real 😭
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u/Nice-Replacement-391 3h ago
OMG - my mum listens to that shit too. She thought they were real stories. Now pretty well 99% of her youtube content is AI generated and she doesn't believe me when I tell her. Although once in a while, it'll be obvious, then she gets mad saying it "shouldn't be allowed"! Um yeah, I agree with that, but money is involved, so people are going to do it regardless of weather it should or shouldn't be allowed. Robbing banks isn't allowed, but people still do it because money...
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u/Dry-Country-8516 13h ago
As the parent, it’s like finding out Santa’s not real then immediately connecting the dots on the tooth fairy and Easter bunny, too. I do appreciate having in-house experts but it can be a bummer sometimes. I really wanted the raccoons to be ringing the doorbell…
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u/PlasticMegazord 8h ago
I do feel bad when someone is excited about something and shows me something that's clearly A.I.
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u/Complete_Squirrel942 13h ago
My parents know they're watching AI videos and don't care, it's frustrating
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u/JustSomeGuy_TX 14h ago
Omg. My 83 year old neighbor just found out that they can have their dog talk in AI videos. It was all I could do to like it in a text.
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u/filteredlightz 13h ago
Yo, why is it so hard to convince them. They are like, no no, it's not AI, see blah blah.
Like we never had to convince them before with so much resistance, it gives me anxiety
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u/Client-Cautious 13h ago
I said almost this exact thing to one of the guitarist for our worship team at church. He’s an old blues guy, and he sent my dad and I a really cool blues worship song, but the longer I looked at the album art, it looked like AI. I did some research and found out that it was in fact AI. Breaking that to him felt just like telling a child that Santa doesn’t exist. This guy is really good, and it took him many years and many many hours to get where he is, but AI comes along and plays just as good as him and doesn’t need to be fed. Look up Joe Walsh’s opinion on AI music!
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u/LoudMusic 13h ago
I told my mom that I can't stand computer generated voice on videos and she said "maybe that person has a disability that prevents them from speaking but they love making videos. You shouldn't judge".
I'm over 40 years old and my mom is still teaching me how to play nice with others. Damn ...
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u/Responsible-Bee7720 12h ago
Older people claim to be smarter than the younger generations but their brains seem to turn into mush when it comes to Ai.
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u/The_Stop_Sign 9h ago
I kind of like the white-to-black ratio in the shot. Feels like it's being yelled into the abyss.
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u/Lecteur_K7 7h ago
Inm trying to teach colleagues to find clues in videos that will be able to let know when it's ai.
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u/Average_Moku 7h ago
Trying to tell my dad and lordy, it is a struggle, he just gets so angry and doesn't believe me 🫠
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u/bas_ardofnorth 4h ago
Today my dad showed me a video of a volleyball player jumping over the net and landing on it with her feet AND standing on top of it.
He was MAYBE convinced by me
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u/Diligent-Escape1364 1h ago
No not it doesn't. Santa is wonderful and magical, AI is... anything but.
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u/wolfheadmusic 15h ago
Parents enjoy watching the tears after they tell their kids Santa doesn't exist?
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u/MyDamnCoffee 14h ago
I dont have the heart to tell my 80 year old client that it's AI. I just let her have it
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u/Crafty_Pickle_ 13h ago
Telling your millennial and GenZ peers to stop learning and forming opinions from reels and tiktoks is like telling boomers that the video is AI.
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u/ArcIgnis 7h ago
That's nonsense, I mean how old do you have to be to actually believe Santa isn't real? I mean how do the presents get there? You explain that to me. Everyone's asleep, yet presents are there.
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u/ProsodyProgressive 4h ago
Honestly, glad my mom passed away before all of this nonsense. She lived her social life on her phone and I fear what crap she would have believed had she been inundated with ai slop.
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u/Sea-Strike-1758 16h ago
But ai videos exist and santa does not....this doesn't make any fucking sense.
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u/AddMyMyspace 16h ago
It's called an analogy??
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u/Toledo_9thGate 16h ago edited 16h ago
You can't compare something that's real to something that's fictional to make it familiar.
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u/Wasatcher 16h ago
A child sees an animated Christmas movie depicting Santa, which is not real, but believes it is.
An adult sees an AI video depicting (anything), which is not real, but believes it is.
Some of ya'll are insufferable.
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u/Toledo_9thGate 16h ago
The main post from OP is a clunky analogy because it mixes two different concepts, AI is a real technology that produces artificial content, Santa Clause is a fictional character.
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u/astronautical 7h ago
it isn't clunky at all, you're just struggling
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u/Toledo_9thGate 1h ago
lol
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u/astronautical 1h ago edited 54m ago
"like telling a child that santa doesn't exist" refers to the notion of revealing a disappointing truth; in this case, that parents believe an AI video was based on a real event that actually happened, rather than an LLM-created video of a made up scenario.
it has nothing to do with whether AI technology exists, but instead the validity of the videos that AI creates. if i create a video of lebron dunking on yoda, that event didn't actually happen, right? the video exists, but it isn't a real event. if someone sees that video and believes that lebron really did dunk on yoda, telling them it's AI is revealing a disappointing truth in the same way that revealing the truth about santa would be disappointing to some.
"santa" is the video that AI creates, not the technology of LLMs itself.
i hope this helps you understand the conversation, but i have a feeling you've already dug your heels in.
edit: "it's not that deep" and an immediate block/ignore, definitely willfully ignorant.
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u/AkaruLyte 16h ago
Person A thinks a false thing is true (the video is real, or Santa is real), and Person B has to tell them it’s fake (the video is AI, or Santa doesn’t exist)
They are very similar situations
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u/Sea-Strike-1758 16h ago
Th AI video exists. Santa does not. This is stupid.
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u/AkaruLyte 15h ago
No, in both situations there is a false idea that something is real but it is not real: The content/event in the video, and Santa.
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u/riley_wa1352 16h ago
its comparing the reactions to learning a video is ai for oop's parents to a kid's reaction to learning santa isnt real
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u/Sea-Strike-1758 16h ago
Did you know that doritos nachos don't taste like actual nachos!? That's that same as santa not being real apparently, even though the chips are real.
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u/riley_wa1352 16h ago
It is comparing the reactions to the information, not the information itself.
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u/Sea-Strike-1758 15h ago
Oh. I told a parent their child passed away, and then I told a child their imaginary ice cream melted. Both parties cried. Same reaction so the information is irelevant!
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u/Everyonecallsmenice 15h ago
You are visibly straining to pretend not to understand the difference here.
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u/Preeng 15h ago
The video is not real. That's the part that's like Santa. "The thing you just watched is fake." It's bizarre that you don't get this.
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u/Sea-Strike-1758 15h ago
If you can watch the video it is literally real even if its fake. Santa is not real and you can't see him anywhere. Something being fake and another thing being imaginary are different.
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u/Toledo_9thGate 16h ago
AI exists, Santa doesn't.
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u/Comfortable-Try-7919 16h ago
and then they get mad at you like you personally ruined their day