everything is moving too quickly. The transformation has gotten so obvious that Even on normie sites they have to admit that half of internet traffic is bots. everyone has been made aware of the dead internet theory, and thus created the paralysis of lame hollow discussion and ridiculous dichotomies of singularity level or nothingburger AI. It doesn't seems we cant react to monsterous change with the vitality and human-ness as we once did. consensus is like gold these days but I think we can all agree that everything is becoming more and more weird. ITT we try to make sense of this weirdness by trying to take a step back and search for some insights in this mess. Has the amount of AI sloptent increased during your daily scroll? Are the comments you read getting more and more incoherent? Can you spot AI like a voight kompff or have you been fooled more often than you woudl like to admit? How crazy are you getting? LET YOUR CRIES HOPES CONCERNS LOOSE AND SHARE SOME OF YOUR EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING THIS REAL WEIRD TRANSFOR-INFORMATION.
The only social media I use is instagram which I use to keep up with a niche sport that I'm into never see any Ai stuff but saying that I only look at my feed and storys never the explore page or suggested posts
The only social media I use is 4chan, Wired-7 and Petrarchan. In this regard, there are two ways AI makes its appeareance for me: either it's blatantly obvious (its use here may be intended to be noticed), or it is coveted enough to make me not feel 100% sure about its AI origins: I jsut feel a "weird feeling".
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I'm a college student. Since I began my studies, I have had to participate in group projects. Most often than not, someone uses AI, usually in a very obvious way. People who during classes can't write a proper paragraph end up writing a 10/10 contribution to the work, for example. Of course, people may write better at home, but in general their usage is obvious to me, although I prefer not complaining about it.
This year I had to take a writing workshop, and the weird thing is that the teacher apparently was using AI (he showed us examples to guide our writing). I kek'd hard at first, but then I felt uneasy about it.
Lastly, googling things is annoying. I swear if I click on a link at random there's a high probability of it being AI (excessive amount of subtitles, consisting of one or two short paragraphs; verbosity and redundacy, etc.). It doesn't matter if what I'm looking for is a recipe or instructions to use certain software.
Oh! This is my experience, of course.From time to time I hear what my brothers watch on their phones, and it's 90% of the time AI-slop. Artificial voices, images, scripts, etc. There's not a shed o human-ness in those videos.
I suppose some may benefit from their usage. However, my opinion is that since the beginning of the AI "boom" everything is worse.
I think it's undeniable we breached some sort of AI threshold and the rate at which it can more successfully replicate (or resemble, more accurately) human created works is exponentially increasing. Will it ever be able to create something which is indistinguishable from a human masterpiece? Probably not, due to a computer being unable to breach human defined parameters and being inherently limited by the data fed into the model.
When the photorealistic AI imagery came on the scene, I'll admit to being fooled once. But once you understand the pattern, there are obvious tells which distinguish them. I think maybe the more interesting thing, more than the realism and ability of AI, is the way that we are now able to "offshore" a more significant portion of traditionally human labor onto a machine. I mean, the conjuring aspect of AI is really not that different than photoshop or rendering, except insofar as a machine is totally doing it all and in a fraction of the time as a human.
It's very much a spectacle, an illusion, but one that is being bought into full sail. I cannot tell what the ramifications will be yet, if it will just be a toy, or another machine that leads to the demise of labor.
Right now though, the widespread naming of AI made content as "slop" is accurate, as it is mostly a bucket of feed for the masses who either cannot tell or don't care to tell if it is AI.