AI is going to send us all back to the stone age

[Anonymous]

We are so doomed, these are all AI generated:

This is just an early version. How many jobs is this going to wipe out? People will also not even be able to determine reality from fiction anymore. This is going to do wonders for free elections and maintaining a free society when all sorts of insanely realistic fake videos are going to crop up during elections with all sorts of inflammatory materials after this tech gets weaponized. We won't even be able to make money as onlyfans creators after we lose all our jobs because AI will be able to make that obsolete. Imagine the day when you can simply type in some description of a movie or TV show series you'd like to watch and AI will make the entire movie for you in 2 minutes. R I.P. Hollywood.

We are headed back to the stone age where we will have to go back to the days where we are an agrarian society and everyone barters for stuff. Who's gonna be able to afford clothes, homes, cars, electronics, and everything else that requires money that you have to earn through jobs that no longer exist? I guess we all go back to primordial state and live off the land and band together in tribes? America goes back to being Native American
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[Anonymous]

Meh, not worried.

People said the same thing about machinery replacing farm and factory workers.

The main danger is the abuse by governments and corporations.

[Anonymous]

Watch the details.

In the first video, on the right of the screen, who is the 'box lady'? Does that make sense? Also, where are they?

second vid: who puts their mise en place whole spices on a tray on the back burner... but not in the pot? What is being strained here? And is that biscotti or toast or...?

third vid: again, the writing isn't in a language. If you know anything about garment construction, a lot of those seams are wrong. In the clip with the "woman" driving with her "denim" coat off her shoulder, look at the upholstery in the back seat. What is going on there? Also, a lot of the hair has that "batched" look to it. Too perfect, moves as a solid mass instead of individual strands.

4th vid: what is that brick layout? Also, how is the lighting making different shadows on both chairs, and shadows from the opposite direction coming from the "comedian"? The light that would make that level of shadow on either chair would hit the "woman" at the lower right of the screen. Where's her shadow?

The thing about AI that makes it easy to spot as AI is that it's all made of conglomerate pieces. Where a real scene, or a scene created/structured/directed by a human artist, would have consistent details, the AI is pulling from "things that fit this theme". The pieces don't ever truly line up.

Do people generally notice this? No, because very few humans these days really stop to look at the details, or have any sort of technical background in things like textiles or bricklaying or lighting that would give them the knowledge to know what to look for.

It's uncanny, sure. But we're not there yet. Sadly/fortunately, the knowledge the AI would need to train on to, say, properly construct a garment out of "fabric" with believable drape, is being lost as our community elders with that knowledge pass away without passing it on to younger generations.

The way to beat the AI is to know the things it doesn't. And don't put them online!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Watch the details.



The way to beat the AI is to know the things it doesn't. And don't put them online!!!

Great! Now the A.I. has read what you wrote and data mining the heck out of all the appliances, phones, etc. for "what it doesn't already know". No wonder my Roomba keeps bugging me and wanting input.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The thing about AI that makes it easy to spot as AI is that it's all made of conglomerate pieces. Where a real scene, or a scene created/structured/directed by a human artist, would have consistent details, the AI is pulling from "things that fit this theme". The pieces don't ever truly line up.

ChatGPT was launched to the public 2.5 years ago. The first video generation capabilities came out at least a year after that. And those early iterations were revolutionary...but rough. I spent about 8-10 hours this past weekend building an 8,000+ line codebase (fully functional) with Claude Code. This is all evolving scarily fast, and right now we just don't know what the future is going to look like or what role many humans will play in the broader economy. We'll soon be getting to the point that unless you see something with your own eyes, you may not be able to trust that it's real. OP is right to be concerned.

[Anonymous]

Your daily AI doom and gloom post.
I wonder why you do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the details.



The way to beat the AI is to know the things it doesn't. And don't put them online!!!

Great! Now the A.I. has read what you wrote and data mining the heck out of all the appliances, phones, etc. for "what it doesn't already know". No wonder my Roomba keeps bugging me and wanting input.

Our apartment installed "smart" thermostats and code style door locks that they got for free from the company, why? Because they're making a killing selling all that data. We pay for the electricity so why would the care what our dominion power bill is? They don't care about the environment dumping round up all over the grass here like tons of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your daily AI doom and gloom post.
I wonder why you do this.

Interesting how you collectively lump all humans together as one entity "you."
Does all AI programming do that with other AIs as well? "Us against Them" sorta programming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Watch the details.



The way to beat the AI is to know the things it doesn't. And don't put them online!!!

Great! Now the A.I. has read what you wrote and data mining the heck out of all the appliances, phones, etc. for "what it doesn't already know". No wonder my Roomba keeps bugging me and wanting input.

Our apartment installed "smart" thermostats and code style door locks that they got for free from the company, why? Because they're making a killing selling all that data.

Yep. Most all utilities are monitored like that now.
Grocery stores were one of the first to start micro-monitoring shopping habits with their "loyalty" cards, well before AI even got going to assist.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Unfortunately a lot of old people can’t tell the difference between real and AI. It’s definitely eventually going to cause major societal problems but oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately a lot of old people can’t tell the difference between real and AI. It’s definitely eventually going to cause major societal problems but oh well.

Don't blame old people. Boimers, Z and Alpha are all equally bad at it. Heck, half the programmers seem to believe that AI is more than just a complicated algorithm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately a lot of old people can’t tell the difference between real and AI. It’s definitely eventually going to cause major societal problems but oh well.

If by old you mean anyone over 1 year old, then yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The thing about AI that makes it easy to spot as AI is that it's all made of conglomerate pieces. Where a real scene, or a scene created/structured/directed by a human artist, would have consistent details, the AI is pulling from "things that fit this theme". The pieces don't ever truly line up.

ChatGPT was launched to the public 2.5 years ago. The first video generation capabilities came out at least a year after that. And those early iterations were revolutionary...but rough. I spent about 8-10 hours this past weekend building an 8,000+ line codebase (fully functional) with Claude Code. This is all evolving scarily fast, and right now we just don't know what the future is going to look like or what role many humans will play in the broader economy. We'll soon be getting to the point that unless you see something with your own eyes, you may not be able to trust that it's real. OP is right to be concerned.

Concerned, sure. But not paranoid. There are still obvious tells, and a lot of what it gets wrong will be very hard for it to learn unless someone with specific knowledge sits down and teaches it. I work in textiles. What we do isn't on the internet. Honestly, a lot of it is about to be lost as our elders pass away without passing it on to younger generations. But mine isn't the only 'human industry' like this. There are ways to beat the AI, if you're at all interested in learning them.

Be concerned, and then do something about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately a lot of old people can’t tell the difference between real and AI. It’s definitely eventually going to cause major societal problems but oh well.

A lot of people from multiple generations are citing it like a reputable source. People are stupid af.