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I just adjusted my way of thinking. Before it was "this video is staged, until proven otherwise", now it's "this video is AI, until proven otherwise".

My spouse yelled at me after she showed me too many AI videos, and I would watch it and 1) if it's under 15 seconds, 2) too good to be true, 3) has unrealistic physics, and/or 4) has AI artifacts, I wouldn't enjoy the video, and just say "yeah, that's AI."

She just wants to enjoy the videos, and didn't care if staged or AI or what. She likes the concept of what's on the video. AI takes that away from me, and not her, apparently.

It is a great exercise to test your media literacy. That you can't even trust cute cat videos and art really does suck though.

I do hate being a cynical bastard but the slopification of the internet has made me this way.

Upside is that I now look a lot closer at the pictures in my feed.

I have a business idea:

Vintage social media.

Only media that verifiably exists on the internet before 2021 is allowed. That's still billions of cute animal photos and videos.

EDIT:

And a sister project: RAW-only social media. Only photo/video uploaded as raw sensor data (which even phones can take now) is allowed. Metadata is stripped, and they're post-processed by the site.

Why? RAWs are technically possible to fake, but difficult enough to deter lazy slop spam. As a bonus, they can't be heavily edited either; they're unprocessed, unglamourous slices of reality. And they can be served in HDR with modern compression, as a cherry on top.

...Now I just need a few billion dollars to host it, and about a trillion to survive anticompetive attacks.

Just another flavor of cynicism for me. Before AI, I would look at most "cute" animal videos and just see an animal performing a trained trick under the guise of "Omg, LOOK my dogs love spontaneously hugging each other, isn't that cute??!!"

People have ALWAYS lied on the internet.

How to avoid AI Slop:

Step 1: Adopt a cat (aka: be adopted by a feline overlord)
Step 2: Observe the cat (but make sure to occasionally wink-blink at them)

I have begun policing myself for feelings of amazement. Seems to be the biggest thing slop tries to induce, followed closely by outrage. I know I can't control when something makes me outraged or amazed but I definitely can choose what I signal boost

Better quit browsing shorts and get a real dog instead

Solution is to either enjoy for what it is or stop consuming it.

At least the ones where the cat or dog start Fortnite emoting at the end are obvious.

Before ai there was photoshop. People who knew how to use it could make good fakes, but far from everyone could do that.

Then ai was created, it was fun to experiment with image generation, but it still was kind of a toy, and images was obviously generated.

Now ai became so advanced, that some ai "photos" or "artworks" require through examination to determine whether its real or fake.

If ai is so "good" right now, future generations of ai will make it nearly impossible to distinguish real pictures from generated, doesnt matter if its a photo, drawing, or other digital artwork.

Or, it could be one of those videos from china which animals are forced to act.

It's interesting to watch people sus this out in real time. Society as a whole will land on some sort of "solution", and I expect it's one most of you won't like.

i usually assume something is not AI unless its obvious or someone in the comments says its AI

Do we even know what is AI nowdays? websites like tiktok, are number one in the list of testing AI content.