I just looked for ai slop on the internet and some videos are very realistic, so realistic it makes me doubt my ability to discern what’s real from what’s created to play with my emotions and generate money for the creator or advance an agenda.
I’m in my 40s. Video sites are full of what I assume overconfident people younger than me with comments like how boomers would believe any of these videos. I’m not that old myself yet but this stuff is scary. It can be used to denigrate a politician, to demonize or ridicule minorities, to share misinformation, to make porn using the face of somebody who rejected a disgruntled man…
It’s also very sad society actually wants this. It shows lots of people are actually very gullible and stupid.
A better question would be, how do I avoid being gullible with images and video so realistic? Because the more technology advances the worse it’s going to get.
Was going to recommend the same thing, but you did it better (with links).
Something else I remember them pointing out is that a lot of the digital video generators can only generate around 10-15 seconds at a time, so videos that are that long are more suspect. Longer videos can be done, but they basically have to feed the second segment of video from the last frame of the first, but the AI doesn’t have context for what it is and that can cause things to drastically change what they are doing or how they act at around that 10-15 second mark. (like a ball that was previously bouncing is now just rolling like all the momentum was stolen by magic). It isn’t a magic bullet (there unfortunately isn’t one) and as the generators evolve it might disappear, but it has helped me in a few cases. And it feels like once you have one good piece of evidence that something is AI generated, you start to see others popping up all over.