Probably not everyone's favorite TV personality here, but this segment feels on topic for the rebirth of the ~AI territory...
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206 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 3h
So the real problem with slop is that there are too many stupid people?
This is a thing that bothers me about the conversation: it's that the regulators and politicians claim ai tools are dangerous because there are lots of people who are too stupid to tell the difference.
John Oliver isn't duped by AI slop. It's obvious to him and his erudite audience, but the dumb schmucks on Facebook don't get it. They are going to be misled.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 1h
No. That's irrelevant. AI advances at breakneck speed - soon it will be good enough to dupe everyone. Yes, including you and me too.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 1h
I agree. I was trying to point out a glaring problem in Oliver's approach. However, the current criticisms about ai slop in particular seem to be
- it's annoying
- it isn't genuine
- it dupes many people
Interestingly, I don't think the people falling for it is as relevant on SN. Stackers seem to have more issue with the tone and disingenuousness of ai slop than they do with the actual veracity of the content itself.
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 2h
Yeah, that's an issue if it becomes about "we need to intervene to protect the pleb against their stupidity, we know better what's good for them".
Thanks for pointing out this angle, I barely notice it anymore, consuming a lot of erudite/elitist media. That's quite Oliver's schtick when you pay attention to it—the mocking of perceived stupidity.
(the em dash above was just suggested to me by Grammarly's browser extension~~)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 2h
Everyone is already afraid of em dashes making them look like ai.
The ai users will learn to scrub the em dashes and use whatever new thing the people think signify human-ness.
The send state is either judge things solely at face value...
Or (more likely, I think) we circle the wagons into our trusted groups and eventually everything we watch/listen to/read is signed by keys known to belong to trusted sources.
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80 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko 4h
What John Oliver fails to mention is that this is basically just a return to how things used to be.
In the 90s cameras did exist but few people carried them around every day. This void was filled by urban legend stories. Not unlike the stories mentioned here.
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 4h
E.g. the story he mentioned in the beginning of "Karoline Leavitt vs Judge" and then arguing if the same story did happen but actually it was with Pam Bondi ...
It sounds uncannily exactly like urban legends from back in the day
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 2h
Good point. Hadn't thought of it this way.
Just thought of the allegedly most notorious urban legend in the medical field that my sister told me about. Guess we'll just see new turns on old legends show up now, more believable than ever~~
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @noknees 5h
rewind party
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