So fuckin hate the whole gen AI shit. Now actual proof can be dismissed as AI as well.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Before that people would just dismiss photos of atrocities as CGI or something...
The word you're looking for is "photoshop"
The original term I heard was "電腦製作" (literally as: Computer Generated)
Example: [X]係電腦製作嘅
The word you're looking for is "doctored"
That's actually the more dangerous/harmful side of it.
whenever I go to watch a funny video with. friend they always complain it looks like ai shit even when I know its from pre ai. just takes the fun out of funny videos.
Bob Saget spent years entertaining us with funny videos of people getting hit in the nuts only for AI to come along and ruin his legacy.
Do you think there are kids with fake girlfriends in their profile pics telling their friends "I swear she's real she's just not on social media and goes to another school"?
The dystopian loser lol.
Well eventually we'll have "memory transfer from your neurotransmitter or you're lying"
That's bullshit, your memory was slightly fuzzy for a moment there. I know an AI-generated memory when I see it
If it's like messing with LLM graphs itd be the opposite. Like" no way you remember the poka dots on that person back there's dress".
unfortunately, if ever there was an era of truth, we are now well into a post-truth era. the world is full of, is run on, and is continually generating more: utter bullshit.
Not only does "pics or it didn't happen" no longer have any meaning, neither does the stock market or the SEC or any of this rule of law or liberty and justice for all horseshit we were fed as kids in school, or any of that trickle down Reaganomics horseshit our parents and grandparents were fed. AI is only the latest in a long line of advancements in the manufacturing, repackaging, commercializing, re-distilling, and the redistributing of greater amounts of complete bullshit than ever before.
It is Bullshit 2.0. It is New Bullshit. Crystal Bullshit, if you're more a bepis fan. Bullshit Classic was what got your parents and their parents riled up in the aftermath of 9/11 -- Fox News and all the other things Rupert Murdoch infected. Now, we can get custom, personalized bullshit for each of us parsed through whatever moral lens ChatGPT is paid to have (or, worse, parsed through whatever moral lens Elon Musk gives to Grok). We have "people" acting as little more than a sausage casing for an OpenAI/Claude API key churning out more infuriating bullshit on the internet every waking minute of the day (and some of them, I'm almost certain, automate some of this during the night while they sleep). And in any form you like -- text, audio, video -- we have bullshit generators for any and every sort of media you like. Whatever makes the narrative they want to push just that little bit more believable to the gullible.
what a wonderful world indeed.
There is some movie coming out called "everyone is lying to you for money "
The quote of this time.
I'm already upset that the golden age of skateboarding dogs and monkeys stealing booze and bicycle birds is over
It's definitely something to mourn.
😔
It still does.
"If you don't have evidence, that the thing you're claiming happened, it didn't happen", is what that phrase is saying. It doesn't follow, that if you have a pic it definitely did happen.
Sharpie in pooper?
You know, of the communities left behind on Reddit, that was one of them.
Wait till we find a way to see into the past...
"Chronoscope Coordinates or didn't happen"
Do what with my colonoscopy???
We're gonna look back in time to see Jesus getting crucified.
Funny enough, I just read a wikipedia article with "Japanese" and "Javanese" in the same sentence... kinds breaks your brain a little lol
Oh my God, an actual shower thought!!!
It works less and less. You can still distinguish Ai images if you have a good eye for it but it's increasingly more difficult
AI my name on her chest from a photo you took or it didnt happened.