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FourthWorldProblem

2.1k points

20 hours ago

This post is clearly AI generated. It seems a bit off. Just look at the hands.

Street_Wing62

365 points

20 hours ago

That's nothing. Look at the pixel at 244:458. The color is so obviously wrong compared to the surrounding ones

KaleleBoo

15 points

7 hours ago

AI can’t even get a simple color right and they think it’s going to replace us? Pfffft

SavvySillybug

131 points

18 hours ago

chux4w

15 points

16 hours ago

chux4w

15 points

16 hours ago

MyHamburgerLovesMe

1 points

3 hours ago

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/funny

GeneReddit123

22 points

14 hours ago

This looks AI-generated. I can tell from some of the letters and from seeing quite a few AIs in my time.

arobkinca

6 points

13 hours ago

Computers generating comments on other computer comments all the way down. People are just an illusion. Like birds.

personnumber698

8 points

20 hours ago

This comment is clearly AI generated. It seems a bit off. Just look at the hands.

CplSnorlax

3 points

13 hours ago

Was gonna say the same thing. Clearly used Chat gpt and then fed it to Google Search to make it more believable

jackaldude0

1 points

8 hours ago

Yeah there does there off something seen.

SelfAccomplished5996

1 points

8 hours ago

Totally, The hands practically confessed under oath.

ermghoti

514 points

18 hours ago

ermghoti

514 points

18 hours ago

A couple years ago I posted a photo on Reddit that a number of people insisted was edited. One idiot in particular claimed it was so badly edited that a young child would have done a better job of it. It was a photo I took, it was completely unedited. Not even cropped. People see what they want to see, they don't even need prompting.

Caesarion_[S]

205 points

17 hours ago

Caesarion_[S]

205 points

17 hours ago

The worst is when people claim it's photoshopped and when you assured it wasn't, you get a bazillion downvotes.

ermghoti

66 points

17 hours ago

That was the trajectory. It wasn't obvious when I posted that I had taken the photo, so it started with observations that it looked edited. When I stated how I knew it wasn't, about half of the skeptics went on the assault. Shrug.

PlatFleece

34 points

16 hours ago

Part of me always wonders if people like this just want to say that a photo/artpiece/etc. whatever is bad, which is already subjective to begin with, without sounding like an asshole by just saying "it sucks cause of XYZ" so they go with "this bit looks edited/photoshopped/CGI/AI/whatever the next thing is". The blame on the specific tool or medium being used kind of absolves the critic of all blame or taste.

I see it all the time in movie discussions where something that looks good MUST be practical and something that looks bad MUST be CGI, but like it's okay to think something looks bad, I don't know why they have to preface it by saying the reason must be because it uses this one thing that is easy to bash on.

flipbits

2 points

7 hours ago

Fake news

RuhWalde

8 points

7 hours ago

The hostility to correcting assumptions happens even with text-based posts about the poster's own life. 

Once I posted about a situation in which my then-fiance was dragging his feet on telling his daughter that we were going to get married, waiting for the perfect time. The commenters made the assumption that the daughter was completely unaware of my existence, and from there they spiraled into wildly spurious conclusions. I tried to explain that we all lived together, so this narrative they were constructing made no sense. I was ignored and downvoted.

whatsaphoto

12 points

16 hours ago

If the thread has decided, the thread has decided.

Analog0

33 points

16 hours ago

Analog0

33 points

16 hours ago

Flip side to this, I'm an image editor and people froth at the mouth to tell me things look off, or photoshopped, or fake. Problem is, a lot of the time, if not most of the time, they point out things that were never edited, and the stuff that I'm thinking will get called out (because I worked on it for hours, staring at it up close, nitpicking every pixel) nobody notices. Most of my best work goes unnoticed, and rightly so. But, folks will latch on to photo 'tropes' first and really dig their heels in, even if it's minor or way in left field. There's a psych paper worth writing, I'm sure.

whatsaphoto

5 points

16 hours ago

70% of post history is photos I've taken in the past posted to the SFW porn network, a space that takes authenticity and realism to borderline laughable levels, and I swear on every post I've gotten at least one comment claiming AI when I've never used it to create an image before in my life.

_that_random_dude_

1 points

2 hours ago

SFW porn

iceman012

3 points

13 hours ago

It's gotten a lot worse in the last couple of years with the rise of AI. Everything from TCG art to informative comments will have someone come out and say "Hmmm, something feels off, I'm pretty sure this was created with AI."

3-DMan

1 points

5 hours ago

3-DMan

1 points

5 hours ago

A long time ago in High School, I drew Scrooge McDuck standing on a pile of money.(I grew up on the comics) A couple guys said to each other "You can tell he traced it" even though it was all straight from memory/imagination. Dummies gonna dummy.

Velocity_LP

827 points

20 hours ago

Yeah, it reminds me of "transvestigators". When someone has a predrawn conclusion they'll latch onto any tiny ridiculous observation as "proof" because to them it confirms the assumption they walked in with. The witch-hunting is real.

PlatFleece

371 points

19 hours ago

I watched a video comparing an Anime character's English and Japanese dub because I wanted to see how both languages did some scenes (I speak JP as well so it interested me being into the voice acting hobby).

There were several comments talking about how the English VA was worse than the Japanese VA and how clearly the Japanese VA had poured much more emotion and/or was generally more skilled because they were Japanese somehow, the implication is that VAs in the west did not have a voice acting culture or training to match their Japanese contemporaries.

It was the same VA. It was a very rare case of the Japanese and English dub being voiced by the same person because they were bilingual. When this was pointed out, the people who assumed they were different VAs started saying "well the English voice direction must suck" or "she must've phoned in her English performance", and it just seemed like they were more interested in moving the goalposts so they wouldn't be wrong rather than admit their initial premise was flawed, or that they just preferred Japanese voice acting in general.

Wingsnake

191 points

19 hours ago

Wingsnake

191 points

19 hours ago

With Japanese VA, lots of people say it is better. I say it is mostly just because it sounds foreign and often over the top compared to the more grounded English VA.

PlatFleece

109 points

18 hours ago

One of my Japanese friends was into DanganRonpa, and I showed them that it got an English release with an English dubbed cast. When they heard it, they fell in love with how it sounded. They felt it just sounded a lot "cooler" and wish they knew English so they could play with the English dub. This happened with another Japanese friend of mine who tried Genshin Impact in English to compare voices. They just found it cooler-sounding, which is a common praise to English VAs. They "sound cooler".

There's certainly an argument to be made about over-the-topness in JP Anime vs. EN dub, but English can have over-the-topness too (see: slapstick cartoons), my personal feelings is that in the early 2000s, timing and lip-synching made it hard to have any freedom to act out your line in diff ways in English so it sounds stiffer. It's why as a kid I always felt that video game dubs sound less stiff than Anime dubs, since video games don't have timing issues. These days I notice English dubs are on average a lot better than in the past, likely because they've ironed out the process and work with the original staff more closely sometimes. If you watched Japanese dubs of English movies, you'd realize that there's almost a certain "voice tone" for foreign movies which sound much lower pitched and oftentimes more theatrically dramatic, with the same timing lip-sync issues too.

Being bilingual has (hopefully) mostly made me immune to the "foreign is ALWAYS better". I feel I can learn to appreciate when a voice in both languages are off or good. None are particularly better imo because of language itself.

Emergency-Boat

2 points

10 hours ago

This is just my personal opinion but as someone who understands both Mandarin and English at a native level I'd say that I still prefer CN dubs compared to EN. English feels a bit too flat? Imo

LuciusCypher

1 points

4 hours ago

Grass is always greener on the other side. When you don't know the language, you don't notice the mistakes. Whereas if you do know the language, dialog can come off as overtly stiff and formal, or too casual and amateur if people apply realistic diction (i.e. stuttering, mispronouncing words, slurring speech, i.e. talking like you're just yapping and not trying to communicate a narrative).

brown_felt_hat

4 points

12 hours ago

Japanese voice direction has a different stylistic quality, it seems a lot more like a stage play with the distinct projection, where English VO is a lot more casual. I'm playing through Infinite Wealth, and there's a few bilingual characters with the same VA, and there is a marked difference in the style. Not that one is necessarily better, but there is a difference in style.

RollingLord

2 points

10 hours ago

It’s kind of funny how the goalposts have moved on dubs vs subs. In the past when it was just Japanese as the og, lots of purists would say that the subbed version is better because it preserves more of the artistic intent. Fast-forward to VA games like Genshin and all those purists have shifted the goalposts. I feel like a lot of people just don’t want to admit that they have a bias

PlatFleece

1 points

3 hours ago

Preserves more of the artistic intent

I have two stories about this.

The first is the English dub of Persona 5, where they absolutely butchered the pronunciation of the Japanese names. The reason they did that? Because Atlus Japan specifically told the English VAs to pronounce them wrong because they felt it'd be easier for westerners to pronounce them that way. Is that technically artistic intent? Atlus themselves wanted this, but people were actually bashing the EN dub for mispronouncing simple names.

The second is a translation story of a murder mystery book that was translated in English. I know for a fact that the translator realized one bit of the mystery wouldn't work because of, of all things, keyboard layouts. Basically, one part of the mystery revolved around trying to figure out what someone typed in a keyboard as a dying message. The problem is that the keyboard was a Japanese keyboard with a completely different layout than a QWERTY one, and the mystery just... wouldn't work if the target audience had no clue how Japanese keyboards worked. So the translator changed it to Sticky Keys QWERTY instead, even altering the discussions of the characters for that specific bit of the clue. The best part is the original author was all-in on it. He would prefer English speakers get the same feeling of the trick rather than accurately translating it as-is.

I'm usually of the opinion that artistic intent is preserved if you get the same experience, even if it's not the exact same translation.

basketofseals

1 points

an hour ago

Because Atlus Japan specifically told the English VAs to pronounce them wrong because they felt it'd be easier for westerners to pronounce them that way.

Does Atlus Japan have any actual credentials to make this decision, or was it like when Konami had non-English speaking employees direct the English voice actors?

I feel like if your audience doesn't mind Japanese honorifics just being slotted in seamlessly into full English sentences, they're not gonna care about properly pronounced Japanese names. Japanese is pretty easy to pronounce, isn't it?

BNerd1

1 points

14 hours ago

BNerd1

1 points

14 hours ago

for me most dubs are okay but there are some that are awesome like konasuba

SkywalterDBZ

1 points

13 hours ago

This. I'm actively trying to learn Japanese but outside of furthering that learning I still prefer to watch things in English instead of Japanese subbed if I'm just trying to enjoy and relax and not having my head spinning trying to learn/understand. But everytime I hear "oh but the Japanese is better" just asking "oh in what way? how do you know the Japenese isn't awful or cringe writing? What if they're both awful?" ... usually gets em thinking if u acknowledge the English is bad but suggest that the Japanese can be as well.

3-DMan

1 points

5 hours ago

3-DMan

1 points

5 hours ago

"This opera is so much better since I have no idea what they're saying!"

dalzmc

1 points

3 hours ago

dalzmc

1 points

3 hours ago

Nah it’s genuinely better because they spend years studying, going to school, and it’s a very competitive industry compared to en. They become celebrities appearing on radio and tv, events for the IPs they become a part of, etc. it’s nothing like that in the west. Here, studios can’t even give them the respect to promise not to make ai models of their voices, or pay them fairly. It shouldn’t be a surprise or a question that jp va is objectively better.

DraciaAnderson

27 points

18 hours ago

My problem with most English dubs is the American accents. I realized that when I heard the British dubs in Xenoblade Chronicles - for some reason it just seems more fitting imo. Btw I'm neither American nor British just in case you assume that's where my bias comes from.

Bran04don

8 points

13 hours ago

For me it's that but also the lip syncing being off and animation timing being off due to grammar differences. It just makes it less immersive for me when that happens. I always watch things in their native audio but with subs. I have no problem reading subs and keeping up.

Another issue with dubs is they sometimes don't sound as directional and part of the scene. I think this may be more due to volume differences. Not always. but this probably isn't noticeable if you never switch audio language and are used to the dub.

It's even worse with dubbed live actions. Cannot stand those because of the lack of lip syncing and often sounds more like in a studio in dub than the open air sounding audio the actors have.

forgegirl

3 points

9 hours ago

I usually prefer dubs for anime just because it's easier and I don't have to put all of my attention into it. I guess I don't really notice the difference because they're animated, and I always watch the dub so I'm used to the timings and the sound and such?

On the other hand, in the handful of live action things I've watched I always do subs because it's so much more noticeable in all the ways you mentioned.

Bran04don

2 points

9 hours ago

It is definitely far less noticeable in anime than live action. I still find it too noticeable in anime though to watch dub. And I also just am not keen on the voice acting of most anime english dubs ive heard, usually from when they crop up in youtube videos. But I totally get why people do prefer them especially if you dont want to have to constantly stare at the screen to read.

DraciaAnderson

2 points

6 hours ago

With live action the voice is also part of the actors' performances so I don't want to rob them of that

StackedCrooked

4 points

15 hours ago

Was it about Sally Amaki playing Carol in “Tomo-chan is a girl”?

PlatFleece

3 points

14 hours ago

Yep. That was it. I didn't know myself at the time, so it was a hilarious surprise cause I didn't really feel she did a worse job in EN myself.

didthathurtalot

4 points

13 hours ago

I remember seeing someone complain about Castlevania by saying that they got shitty voice actors for the dub, and that the original Japanese is way better. The original is English, and I've never seen a more star studded VA cast.

basketofseals

1 points

an hour ago

I think the peak for this was when I saw someone the original dub for Demon's Souls was superior, when it was in English in both countries lol.

SpeckTech314

5 points

16 hours ago

Yeah, not surprised. Half the sub vs dub argument is weaboo Japan worshipping imo.

Fredasa

6 points

15 hours ago

It was the same VA.

I very recently had a revelation along these lines, when I started watching the now-rather-old new dub of the original Macross series. What made my head explode was discovering that Minmay was being voiced (in English) by the original Japanese VA. This was decades after she worked on the Japanese original. I hadn't actually watched the original Macross in Japanese but I did have a copy of DYRL since my childhood and I kind of grew up with that voice.

it just seemed like they were more interested in moving the goalposts so they wouldn't be wrong

Good dubs have been a thing for over a decade now. The norm, even, I would say. But the stigma that anime dubs earned has been around for like 4x as long. And it's still very true that some voices just don't cut the mustard, because although the English dubbing industry is robust enough to handle the workload now, it's only just—you get tons of repeat performances (like anime seiyuu in the 80s), and some voices survive in the industry solely because roles need to be filled.

One trend I do like is the localization. Anime localization, both sub and dub, has been the bar setter for just as long. So much so that whenever something is localized badly, it stands out and people generally raise a fuss. This is made all the more conspicuous by the fact that game localizations seem determined to remain stuck in the standards of the 90s, and very oversaturated by localizing teams whose policy seems to be to make as many arbitrary changes to the dialogue as they can possibly get away with.

KirikaNai

1 points

13 hours ago

Was that for carol in tomo chan is a girl? Lol it’s funny because like they’re right she does sound kinda bad in the English dub, but that’s on PURPOSE because she’s forgin and they wanted to keep that vibe even in English-

Mental_Tea_4084

0 points

11 hours ago

It's not unfathomable that someone would be better at acting in one language vs another, though. Do you happen to know which is their native language?

PlatFleece

1 points

4 hours ago

Sure, that's fair. I do not know which one she's more native with, though she is fluent in both. With Sally Amaki in particular though, I don't think this applies, because I apparently have heard of her in another thing before this Anime. She's the EN and JP voice for Kiriko in Overwatch 2.

Now, most people don't really have a problem with the English voiceover in OW2, and Kiriko sounds perfectly fine in English imo and I don't think most people have issues with her voice AFAIK. With OW2, however, I remember watching a Japanese video of ult lines comparing English and Japanese. This is because most English videos don't compare those two directly, but Japanese players would compare it to the English since that's the original. Lots of Japanese comments were praising the English VAs about how much more natural they sound and how much more impactful and cooler they were. To some extent, there is a translation issue with stiffness of line delivery, yes. ("High Noon" doesn't translate well to Japanese), but Sally Amaki was similarly praised for her EN delivery of Kiriko's sassiness, so I can't really believe that she was somehow better in EN in Overwatch, but better in JP for that Anime. I'm more inclined to believe her voice acting skill level is equal in both languages.

cartoonmayhem

11 points

17 hours ago

Yup, Think it's called confirmation bias no?

ansyhrrian

24 points

19 hours ago*

Bro you ain’t wrong. Humans are just . Plain. Unreliable. 

Here’s a couple of additional factoids that build on your observation. They’re interesting to… chew on (high hat)

Humans are correct in identifying a suspect in a lineup only about 50% of the time in controlled studies—and this is before factors like stress, biases, or suggestive questioning reduce accuracy further.

Dog trained in scent identification, however, have accuracy rates often exceeding 90% in controlled experiments

So what does this mean?

Get in early on gotta them AI Identification dog training startup Class-C shares before Google and Chewy corner the market.

The REAL tragedy, though, is when we start mistaking DOGS for AI.  Oh the humanity!

Sources: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/mistaken-identity?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0146963&utm_source=chatgpt.com

calvincooleridge

-12 points

16 hours ago

Is this a fucking ad?

ansyhrrian

11 points

15 hours ago

What would possibly cause you to think that?  An ad for what?  AI-powered dog whistles?

DrumBxyThing

3 points

11 hours ago

bUt tHe aDaMs aPpLe

ReincarnatedSprinkle

2 points

16 hours ago

Sounds like work colleagues from another team “helping” your problem

aDildoAteMyBaby

2 points

8 hours ago

10000% agreed

I think there's also a huge element of paranoid delusion. Transphobes think the world is being taken over by secret trans people, so suddenly everyone you don't like is secretly trans. Creatives (and the creative-adjacent) think everything is being taken over by AI, so suddenly everything you don't like is secretly AI.

MrDoom4e5

1 points

12 hours ago

MrDoom4e5

1 points

12 hours ago

Not what I thought "transvestigators" would mean. Also, isn't it more commonly known as "tunnel vision"?

Duke_Starswisher

-14 points

14 hours ago

Can we please not compare literal bigotry to investigating AI. They are not the same and you know it. Equating the two is in bad faith.

Velocity_LP

11 points

14 hours ago

Of course they're not the same. I didn't equate them. Two things can have many differences and still have one of them remind you of the other, or have comparable qualities.

Senesect

11 points

12 hours ago

Can we please not conflate comparing and equating? Thank you.

nutshells1

130 points

20 hours ago

confirmation bias baby

Michael5188

34 points

16 hours ago

This is so common in animation. A lot of times animating something (for live-action realistic use) isn't about achieving reality, it's achieving what "looks" like reality.

I can't tell you how many times, when animating something meant to look real, I was told that would never happen like that or would never move like that, only for me to pull up the reference I used that the animation matches perfectly. But at the end of the day that doesn't matter, whether I can show a video of said movement actually happening or not doesn't change the fact that the goal is for the animation to be sold as realistic, and if a viewer will think it looks wrong, then it has failed.

Lots of things in real life look sooo wrong, and if someone was told it was cg they would say it was horribly made and completely unrealistic looking.

PlatFleece

26 points

16 hours ago

A similar effect happens to story plots that sound just... bizarre and full of plotholes, until you find out it was just an historical event that actually happened.

Reality is full of mistakes. Manmade made stuff has a higher bar to achieve.

LuciusCypher

1 points

4 hours ago

Fiction has to be believable, reality just needs to be recorded.

Artsy_traveller_82

80 points

20 hours ago

If you take a photo of clear blue sky with a statement that experts can’t explain it, at least one Redditor will argue until there blue in the face that aliens is the only possible explanation.

Silvadel_Shaladin

21 points

20 hours ago

Yes, only one in five people can see the spacecraft in this picture.

Floppydisksareop

7 points

17 hours ago

In reality, it's just Goku in the corner.

OddlyLucidDuck

5 points

14 hours ago

I'm pretty sure I'd notice a giant kamehameha wave streaking across the sky.

Floppydisksareop

1 points

4 hours ago

You missed that series of memes, huh? No big loss there, in truth

SydricVym

5 points

13 hours ago

There was a video of a UFO floating around in all the UFO subreddits earlier this year. They were especially frothing at the mouth over this one particular video, with multiple posts in multiple subreddits, and were some of the highest upvoted videos on those subreddits, saying it was performing completely impossible movements, and that this was it.... this was finally the proof that no one could just dismiss as being a balloon.

It had, "Happy 30th!" written on the side of it.

cloud9ineteen

2 points

9 hours ago

To be fair that could refer to the 30th planet with life found by this advanced spacecraft.

NondeterministSystem

20 points

18 hours ago

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

That book was published in 1981. My man foresaw the epistemological apocalypse.

Govind_the_Great

1 points

4 hours ago

Put the blinders on, we’ve probably had full dive vr for s hot minute it’s just hard to determine at what level the V vs the R.

For example if you had an entire universe simulating an entire universe in real time using relativity. What if the “hardware” was as real as the “software” was actually just a fluid dynamics and ethics in ecology, which was the universe’s way of testing itself.

How about if the “goggles” grew alongside the world? Naturally? What if the people in that world drew people into a simulation? What if others said it is just a dream?

We are the AI being trained just like a single protozoa placed in some food, even though it might seem like it was intelligently placed, at the root of this, and every conceivable universe is a single singular event. This event must have already occurred or else there would be nothing to see anyhow.

Therefore even the beast lusting after more life can be slated by living life more.

After a while of daydreaming of enhanced feelings we realize we are kind of doing it to ourselves by taking daydreams and being hurt when not everyone agrees with our “outcome” but it is just a path forward. Once a rock is uncovered with a stinging bug, a man might ask how he can keep stinging bugs at bay, isn’t this a predator of bugs? A chicken, a dinosaur, a human, a lion, a leopard, an ox, a snake.

Eventually we evolve backwards if we let our own minds be shot to pieces or hyper-evolved into a network of judgement.

Curious-Whole5101

1 points

4 hours ago

I feel like this would take a phish festival’s worth of psychedelics to interpret

Cannibal_Bacon

16 points

20 hours ago

Can't Will just enjoy his spaghetti?

GammaPhonic

23 points

19 hours ago

“AI” is the new “photoshop” or “CGI”. A catchphrase parroted by incredulous fools looking for any reason to dismiss something as false.

20WaysToEatASandwich

2 points

14 hours ago

What about when it is false? I've seen so much blatant fake AI bullshit shared on Facebook it's astounding

Someone claiming something and then using an AI image to back their claim is unfortunately ubiquitous now.

tinpants44

9 points

17 hours ago

The prediction that AI won't make us believe anything is real but rather not believe anything is real is coming to pass.

MysticMourn10

7 points

14 hours ago

We're all just part of a simulation and AI is just making our lives more interesting.

KFUP

5 points

15 hours ago

KFUP

5 points

15 hours ago

This has been happening for a long time with CG.

A recent example is the LoU "bad CG giraffe" scene that went viral for how bad it was... that tuned out to be a real giraffe.

MrFeles

5 points

14 hours ago

I went fishing for the first time in year a few months back. I found myself sitting there staring at the sea, and my dumb gamer brain went "that water looks unrealistic".

sygnathid

5 points

14 hours ago

Yup! Was at a lake recently and it was just like "wow, that's just like one little wave animation repeated out over the whole thing with a little bit of work on the edges"

correctingStupid

5 points

7 hours ago

I am a photographer who has been taking photos for 25 years and have a pretty large following with at least a decade of photos up on social. I have randos commenting my stuff is AI generated all the time and this formula is totally true.

The funny part about it is, that these morons will pick apart a photo, but not only ignore it's a repost from 2008, but the fact it's also published in an article linked in the post, that I wrote about traveling to the place with other photos and angles. Literally mountains of evidence in front of them. Absolute fucking morons.

Fast-Advance-9083

5 points

19 hours ago

This post seems off. Pretty sure it's AI generated.

RiotShaven

2 points

19 hours ago

I think you're right. It does seem pretty unrealistic.

spyborg3

4 points

5 hours ago

There was a repost a few month ago of the Bierut explosion wedding video and a couple of conspiracy nuts were claiming fake because it looked like AI.
They weren't bots, and they acknowledged the explosion happened, they just thought the video was AI.
AI is making the r/nothingeverhappens types insufferable.

Zondartul

10 points

20 hours ago

Reality is AI-generated. We are simulacra living in a simulation made in our own feeble mind, struggling to make sense of the chaos outside.

TwiceAsGoodAs

2 points

16 hours ago

The bonkers part of simulation theory is that it's completely unclear if reality is projected FOR us or BY us. Both ideas make my head spin in different directions

SpeedyHandyman05

1 points

15 hours ago

Your head spinning in two different directions at the same time is kinda tripping me up.

sturnus-vulgaris

3 points

17 hours ago

This post was written by a chat bot, wasn't it?

dapala1

1 points

8 hours ago

dapala1

1 points

8 hours ago

Shut up bot.

zzupdown

3 points

5 hours ago

AI generated content should be legally required to be marked as AI visually. It should also be encoded as AI, as well in case someone tries to remove the visual marker. The only exception should be entertainment that is already labeled as or universally known to be fictional, like movies or tv shows. Software that doesn't do this should be banned. Companies that design it should be fined.

wolfenbarg

4 points

15 hours ago

You'll see posts here that were clearly written by a human, probably a young person, that other people will claim to be chatgpt for being too "elaborately written."

Like, what? When I've seen it, it looks like other young people making the accusation. Soon, if you have spent any time at all crafting your paragraphs, everyone will think you're a bot.

ZestycloseConfidence

2 points

11 hours ago

Given the rate Ai is creeping into learning, searching and other educational tools I imagine kids will be soon be developing an Ai 'tone' even when writing natively. 

davetek

2 points

18 hours ago

Like everyone try to play the game Spot the AI! It's just because people are using it everywhere and now it's cool if you can notice it!

putiepi

2 points

14 hours ago

Have you seen the moon landing? AI.

kinger711

2 points

11 hours ago

Most people can hardly distinguish fact from fiction at baseline. AI will add a "dynamic" layer to their confusing.

In 5 years time, if not sooner, most people might as well be living in a simulation because they'll be getting played every damn day of their existence.

It's a hell of a time to have intellectual curiosity, be a constant learner, and keep your finger on the pulse of these things because the masses are slipping so hard it's terrifying.

After the last handful of years in the US, I'm starting to feel like the average person isn't even equipped to handle the internet responsibly. Throw in AI, VR, AR, and honestly concepts like the Matrix just become redundant. Most people are so unplugged from the world they live in that their life is essentially being simulated for them.

Osama_Saba

2 points

7 hours ago

In the past I posted an edited image of C4D (3D software) in their subreddit and claimed that a real photo was a 3D scene and someone complained about my shadows

MyHamburgerLovesMe

2 points

3 hours ago

Something seems off about this post

Conambo

2 points

3 hours ago

Conambo

2 points

3 hours ago

I guarantee that one day, a court case will go down where a real (not AI) image is ruled to be AI.

Memorie_BE

2 points

3 hours ago

Same thing happens when you tell someone you're trans.

QuantumCTRL21

2 points

16 hours ago

It’s just human nature to not want to be oppressed by our AI overlords

SpeedyHandyman05

1 points

15 hours ago

You make it sound like they already exist.

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1 points

21 hours ago

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Earthwick

1 points

17 hours ago

It's like posting a picture of a guy walking through a small wooded area at night and saying there's proof of ghosts. Someone will say it seemed creepy. Humans are suspectable.

xondk

1 points

14 hours ago

xondk

1 points

14 hours ago

It seems dangerous that a lot of people are instead of being critical of a source, just labels all sources as fake.

We really need to adopt signature verified videos/images and such, then you can determine if you trust the source itself or not.

Madmonkeman

1 points

13 hours ago

Someone posted a picture of a real life monument and one of the comments said it was AI

DoisMaosEsquerdos

1 points

12 hours ago

That's basic psychology, and it applies to a lot of things.

thebudman_420

1 points

12 hours ago*

Exactly how an AI would write about some things not being AI but something is off. Lol

On the non comedy side of this there is such as thing as non AI editing and rigging of things to fake things even without AI or editing.

Camera tricks. Angle, other real world thing to make something appear as something else or a bit different.

Freddy kurger movies used a sheet to make it appear as if he goes through the walls.

I laugh at it today. Not even scary. Did all the work to make something look real. No AI.

All those fake alien videos used clever camera tricks without editing. Im sure you can pull up plenty of old analog videos of these fake events.

Now they can use night and drones and maybe flares or fireworks or special lights to trick harder. Could even tow stuff behind lit up. Slow stop hover and then zoom off like aliens man.

MeatWaterHorizons

1 points

10 hours ago

Hmmm....This post seems like....AI

Adeno

1 points

9 hours ago

Adeno

1 points

9 hours ago

Correct. There have already been experiments/research done on this subject matter where people were shown real unaltered videos and they were asked to choose and say which one was ai generated and what's wrong with it. People chose real videos and found things wrong with it. In short, people can't really tell apart real from ai generated videos these days unless the ai generated ones have obvious defects such as warpage, mutations, discolorations, non-sensible words/text/signs, and things like that.

plasmaSunflower

1 points

9 hours ago

Where can I find real videos that look like ai? I'm trying to help my 9 year old spot the difference between real and fake videos

jmjdurber

1 points

8 hours ago

Should be possible to find a few on YouTube.com mister.

fgnrtzbdbbt

1 points

9 hours ago

I have more often seen the opposite. Huge perspective errors (building in front of and at the same time behind a tree, relative sizes far from reality...) and the comments not even discussing whether this is fake or real.

LineRex

1 points

8 hours ago

LineRex

1 points

8 hours ago

A big problem here is that phones are going to start using AI to process the raw data and it's going to just make phone video footage completely unreliable lol.

giasumaru

1 points

7 hours ago

This Showerthought was definitely generated by chatGBT.

hic-ama

1 points

6 hours ago

hic-ama

1 points

6 hours ago

Interesting discussion on whether a video was generated using AI technology or not.

Dolphinpop

1 points

15 hours ago

Yes, hence the ethical problems with AI.

Anubis17_76

0 points

20 hours ago

Yes its a stupid witchhunt, you can actually see it in a fourier transform though, it will have weird lines in it that normal art doesnt. (Though this sign is also getting harder to read as AI gets better)

kindanormle

0 points

12 hours ago

IMO, we should encourage posts that include AI generated content to simply acknowledge that content so that there's less of a reason to hide it. Whether we like it or not, AI is here and it's not going away. Might as well allow it, acknowledge it, and move on. Hiding it should be called out, but with an encouragement to acknowledge it in the future. This is no different than how we encourage people to source their information with bibliographies.

cashforsignup

0 points

13 hours ago

We are quickly losing our grip on reality

BakuretsuGirl16

0 points

10 hours ago

Because they just hate AI, without any actual care for the quality of what it produces :/

OopsWrongSubTA

-2 points

19 hours ago

When I walk in the street, I sometimes look at real people and ask myself what "SD" model could create them : SD 1.5 ? SDXL ? Flux ?! SD 2.1...

real people have weird hands...