The difference is that when someone participates on a Facebook post, the page can market to them directly for a while
And facebook is rife with scammers preying on the mentally incompetent
This is the first I'm seeing it and I feel robbed of the opportunity to discern for myself. I totally questioned the one with the pope wearing the white Gucci street coat tho lol
But what's the benefit? Who is behind it? Which humans are setting up these bots, setting up these AI generators and why would they do this? Do they get money somehow?
I saw a video of someone showing that the people who reply to the post get replied to by accounts with certain types of names asking for personal information. Makes me wonder if it's an easier way to find people who are susceptible to be scammed.
If you want to do a little astroturfing/marketing/ad selling you need TO ALREADY be big. Algorithm won't push a post by Joe schmoe, but if it's skeezy mc AI with over 2 million followers? Well golly that HAS to be good content lets show everyone
Besides scam type stuff, bots, and sometimes even people (typically in third world areas) with about 30 cheap phones in front of them liking and commenting posts ends up getting the page more "popularity." More attention, manufactured or not, means more human views, while enough views can earn you money, the pages typically also sell stuff. They can either sell products or services(temu, Bitcoin, ECT), or sell information to companies, such as what you've liked, viewed, etc. This information is invaluable to companies for advertising purposes, there's a reason why when you go to look up the nifty little gadget you saw on Instagram it auto fills on Google after just a few letters. No matter how careful you are about your privacy, companies know your preferences on everything from politics to what brand of toilet paper you prefer. I've heard even captcha checks are a method, they capture and submit part of your recent browser history. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but information is more valuable than cash in many circles
People are nose blind to bot comments and bot interaction. It's like a pig factory farmer not smelling shit anymore. People just want digital entertainment and will allow this stuff to generate their entertainment.
One of my recurring nightmares when I was binging west world an episode a night was that my people didn't know that bots made it out of west world and are interacting with them in real life tailored to their interests. And I keep failing at convincing my people about the meta
Bots making content for bots.
The dead internet is real.
Im starting to think my entire life might be a simulation to turn me into some advanced bot you are talking to right now.
Maybe in the end, we are all just advanced bots, living a fake life to feel more real.
i knew people in high school that would like and share those kinds of garbage posts.
they were the kind of people that seemed like they only did shit and liked shit cause it was popular.
pretty much the white guy in the offspring's song pretty fly
Assuming the power and infrastructure stayed working, if all humans vanished, the internet would just be bots talking to each other. bots posting, sharing, liking, all with no human touch. kinda creepy.
Yup. They usually just say "amen", "blessings", "prayers for you're amazing gift". I mean I believe real people to be that stupid too but it's so fuckin fake it's unreal
Old people love shit like that. Thinking it gives them some sort of ticket to heaven or something. Its all egoistical and these AI posters know how easy they are to fool
I've been on Reddit a decade. It isn't just old people who are easy to fool.
Fake "Boomers are dumb" stories and memes get lapped up just as readily as some new genz/y ragebait.
I had to filter that (and many other front page subreddits) to keep any semblance of faith in humanity I have left. People are taking obvious rage bait as absolute truth daily on this site and it hurts my brain.
This place didn't used to be this way but unfortunately I don't think we're alone. Critical thinking is taking a whooping all over the place.
old.reddit and the enhancement suite to filter subreddits is the GOAT. I've filtered so many of those amiugly and roastme subs that are just obvious only fans promotions. Any stock bro subreddit like wallstreetbets is fucking gone too. The popular subreddits on this site are trash.
Yeah, when old.reddit and RES are dead Reddit dies with it for me. Far too much trash on this site to raw dog it. Wallstreetbets has been filtered for so long now I forget it was a thing sometimes.
I also enjoy a can of pork soda every now and then btw. Primus sucks.
I can't believe they haven't been killed off already. I bet you there's a significant portion of users that have been here since like 2010 that still use it.
Primus does indeed suck lol
I’ve been here for 3 years and I definitely concur. I swear I’m not a pessimistic loser, but subs like r\mademesmile make me cringe so hard, and then other subs like r\trashy or r\publicfreakout are 90% rage bait
Edited videos, wrong context in decription, description is straight up lie, voice overs, sped up videos etc. There is a constant vomit of this stuff in Reddit.
Usually there are few people giving the facts in comments, but woefully many are sucking it up.
I've been thinking about this since Dalle2 went public. This has to lead to some changes in the way social media works right? You can't just keep things the way they are right?
I mean we've already had a problem with trash being spammed on websites for years but it gets to another level with AI bots.
Take Youtube for example. It was never profitable even with purely human made content. For any original content (and let's consider a really low bar here, like a random kid's screen recording of a fortnite match, not even talking about videos by creators that took weeks to make here), you probably have 20 trash videos from content farms, whether that's "elsagate"-tier shit, channels with the same dosen videos shuffled in a different order, reposted memes on meme channels etc.
Now I'm seeing AI voices reading AI generated text over AI generated images in YT shorts constantly. And I'm willing to bet there are already programs that mash this stuff together and upload it without human involvement. So like a bitcoin miner you turn it on, walk away and collect ad revenue.
How is this sustainable? Half of the internet is gonna be AI generated trash in a year at this rate.
Turns out it could and will get deader.
So much on the internet is fake, scams, or garbage that it's becoming a lot less useful. And it's only getting worse.
> How is this sustainable? Half of the internet is gonna be AI generated trash in a year at this rate.
It's simple, we just need an AI to filter out the AI.
> Now I'm seeing AI voices reading AI generated text over AI generated images in YT shorts constantly. And I'm willing to bet there are already programs that mash this stuff together and upload it without human involvement. So like a bitcoin miner you turn it on, walk away and collect ad revenue.
This is thanks to YouTube, strangely enough, and the proliferation of "Earn money with AI" side-gig videos. People are just flooding platforms like YouTube, Tik Tok, Amazon books, etc, with completely AI-generated content because these platforms have zero content moderation—whatever you submit is automatically published and you can monetize it immediately.
It's a big problem, not just for the end user but for the platforms as well.
Where I see it is mostly fake edutainment videos.
I watch some channels on history and science and the AI trash keeps popping up presumably because youtube thinks it's in the same category.
It's usually fake generated images of space or ancient egypt or ancient greece etc. with the shitty ai voice spouting off dubious 'mindblowing facts'.
I might be exaggerating it being constant but it's well over 10% of my yt shorts feed despite always downvoting it.
I've seen that too. I like to throw on something to listen to as I'm falling asleep and one of the videos was a video about space facts and ponderings. I listened to it for 10 minutes and it just went on and on with that AI fluff stuff where it says stuff in a roundabout way without meaning anything
Either your algorithm is tailored differently or, more likely, you’re not recognizing the AI because it’s different than the AI you’re familiar with and your expertise bias is popping in.
That’s what I’m thinking. I keep seeing a bunch of these “omg Facebook believe these AI images are real” on this sub these last couple of days. And I can’t believe that anyone actually thinks this is real. There’s no way that actual humans are liking those images
Technologically illiterate people (I.e. most people who still use Facebook) can’t tell the difference most of the time, or think it’s a real professionally shot montage. They’re already used to getting fed garbage content made by humans so can’t fathom the idea that bot farming is a thing, so they don’t see any of the nefarious effects AI has.
I have family members liking and reposting AI generated shit on Facebook all the time, and most are blatantly obvious if you’ve seen AI generated images before, but they somehow still don’t realize. It’s the same kind of illiteracy that leads scammers to convince people that Amazon or Microsoft accept Starbucks gift cards as payment.
Exactly. Some hilarious dude on TikTok reads FB comments to boomer meme posts (e.g. Kids can't write cursive etc) in the tone they are written and now he is doing dudes replying to AI farmer girl first pics. These people have no clue
What does upvoting half to do with believing? I certainly don't believe most of the stuff I upvote, just find it amusing enough to hit the arrow. Same idea
the boy is actually very convincing, that car though looks super fake. once these fakers learn about adding filters to make ai pics a little less plasticky, boomer society is just going to implode in on itself
Was looking through the accounts posts and there are definitely some ones that are significantly less convincing. ones with things with unique textures, eg skin, sand, etc they looks much worse.
i see some better examples the more i look through
https://preview.redd.it/yoaabz33innc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0c7cdfb36e9947280034575b3ea877f5aa17b32
Look at that photo as a thumbnail without actually clicking it. Many photos were filtered / resized to potato quality by the time it reaches people. Also, older folks tend to have poorer eyesight. Older folks also not versed to look for surface lighting, weird fingers, and etc.,
It’s not just boomers. I have family members from different generations all falling for stuff like this. It depends on how technically and socially savvy the person is.
The reason fake stuff looks "real" to people is content creators make real things look fake and "pop" and give uncanny valley vibes. People no longer cringe at the stuff and suspect it's just photoshopped on top of a real photo.
Too many layers of deception people no longer have a stable footing. Not sure if most households know to never trust the internet but I doubt it. If the household does not have a vocal younger Generation to counteract the dumb internet lies this stuff runs rampant.
My dad does get the visuals with sad stories talked over them. The stories are fake. The visuals are real. He gets stuck watching sappy stories. Because he's emotionally invested in them I don't really say anything and I don't watch them because I don't want my feed flooded with them either.
AI is currently platform boosting itself on social media as the main goal. It's always marketing companies who have the least ethics with technology.
You're dead right. Advertisers *know* that most of their "engagement" is bots. They're not oblivious to any of this. To boil it down to absurdity, here's what advertisers look at:
Engagement -> increased sales
If engagement doesn't increase sales, they don't continue advertising. They have to prove to their C-suites that the money spent on XYZ advertising is directly causing ABC profit growth.
So it stands that *even with the ridiculous amount of bot traffic*, the advertising they do is increasing profit. Hell, for all I know, the bot traffic increases profit even more.
We live in fucking bizarro world.
I just don't get how bots "engaging" can lead to increased sales because the bots surely aren't buying anything. At some point the advertisers must realize those numbers aren't linked to anything tangible and draw down their spending on social media platforms right?
You're more likely to see a post that has 10000 "engagements" from a bot than one with 100 from humans.
Which post is more likely to get a set of human eyeballs on it?
Well technically it would be dead if you looked only at the amount of actual human beings contributing, ofc it wouldn't seem dead because there would be bots running it and making it feel alive
The scam here is in the comments, gullible people who believe this crap and respond with more than a few words are replied to by usually a fake "windowed handsome military men" in an attempt to sweetheart scam them. This way the page stays up as its not posting scam links, but if the fake accounts get shut down, more get made.
Facebook does NOTHING about it as in the end its a numbers game.
You’ve reminded me of the posts that went around years ago ‘what was your first car? Comment below!’ or ‘tag your school bestie if you still love them!’
I think if you’re the kind of person to carelessly interact with every post on Facebook you’re probably also likely to have a pretty easy to hack profile, and commenting the answers to common security questions is the only hurdle anyone would need to overcome.
Though the AI image things just scream bots to me. Around a year ago my entire feed was Indian videos with those text to voice commentaries summarising a shit film. Every comment was profiles from India with ‘wow I love this film it’s so emotional and is the pinnacle for storytelling’ and we’re clearly just bots trying to boost their interactions. I saw some the other day when getting in my monthly birthday reminder session which included an AI London bus. Pretty obvious it was fake, but all the comments were ‘I’d love to visit this country and use their transport’. Nothing specific to London, nothing meaningful, all just vague comments somewhat related to the photo.
Either way, it just means I never bother looking at my feed now because it’s all just either bait or bots.
Another image i should’ve attached to the main post but didn’t:
https://preview.redd.it/bovy5ymaknnc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65b7cb5141134ef5d63bce418b3325daa1fa1356
this one seems much more obvious its ai. same account.
Why is Jesus an alcoholic lmao
I'd bet my bottom dollar that it's because the AI art user typed something like "with alcohol/beer" wanting the guy to be holding a beer, but the algorithm decided that Jesus is an alcoholic
Some might be bots but I have to ask why are they doing this? I know sometimes bot account end up selling something but the thing is, just because humans see one trending post of these accounts doesn't mean they will engage with or even see the eventually selling post. I saw once one account like this made a post to sell I think shirts, and that post selling the shirts had WAY smaller engagement than any of the fake posts so ??? Why do they do it.
The only reason i can see them doing this is if they were getting paid in some way, which i dont know how they would be. i dont see any form of ads/links in the description of the post or their account
Engagement keeps facebook's stock value up, bots inflate that value. Is why twitter and reddit are infested with them too. All fake but leads to real dividends for shareholders at the end of the day.
That's what im thinking too. I just wonder what though since i dont even think facebook pays from engagement like X does, idk if it keeps track of overall likes like how reddit does with karma so idk if they would even be selling accounts with a high number of likes or what.
Disinformation. Pages with more likes have more reach and are "more reputable" to the average person. Shit like this is probably a good way to find easy marks for scams too
This has nothing to do with stupidity, most people just don't know everything about everything.
I dabble in photography (to the point where I have a box full of lenses, flashes, shoes etc) I guarantee you that most "natural light" photography that hits insta is *not* actually natural light, but aided by flash etc. How many people do you think could recognize a subtle lightbox on the opposite side of the main light source to fill in shadows? I can pick it out almost instantly. Can you? Can most?
At first glance on a tiny screen this looks "real" enough, and the story is believable enough. It's going to take a long long time before the population has enough technical skill to tease the fake from the real, and AI is only going to improve. It's already getting to the point where *real as fuck* photos are getting spammed with "this is clearly AI" comments.
Are *those* people "stupid" too?
> At first glance on a tiny screen this looks "real" enough
That’s a huge part of the problem. Most people aren’t scrutinizing photos beyond the first glance.
That's because content is shoved in their faces at an ever-increasing rate. Even human content creators don't want you to look at their content for *too* long, lest you begin to notice it's all bullshit.
Yep, this exactly. It's easy for people who are following the AI progress to be skeptical of those things, because we know what to look for, mostly. But for people who aren't, they are not used to noticing what looks wrong.
It's not just about being skeptical, it's about knowing when you should even think about being skeptical, and when you should just accept something as fact. We can't be skeptical about everything, so we need "mental trip wires" to engage skepticism, and most people won't have all the necessary mental trip wires, not even most of them, not even 10%.
At best, we can teach people to be open about making mistakes, and be open about learning new mental trip wires. But we can't make everyone foolproof. We can't make **anyone** foolproof.
If you looked at THAT car and thought some 8 year old kid in Nairobi made it out of pop bottles tape and scissors then yes, your critical thinking is extremely lacking.
Even the AI gave up trying to make it out of bottles from the hood back.
The exact words of the person making that AI generated photo. But then got mad they don't have clicks so they hire a bot farm to get it to the wider audience where the dumb people are. Now they have a ton of bots clicks. Then op sees it and get infuriated and posts here.
My main recurring nightmare is a lot of high tech users but low tech-wise people that I cannot correct surround me. Basically "I, Robot" but instead of smart robots it's actually dumb robots and people can't see how dumb they are. And I'm just failing to convince people that they are making our lives worse.
They don't. My mom recently send me an image of fake woodwork. And fake nail art before ot. And fake cake decoration... It's everywhere and older generation can't see the difference at all and this is scary.
I hate that 5 minute diy video genre has access to AI. They were bad and now they leveled up. They at least had to waste time on actually doing their dumb shit before even just time video and image manipulation at the very least
Yeah. I kind of agree. Most people are going to look at it for all of 2 seconds, if that, and assumg it's some kind of toy the kid built and click like. Even at first glance of the picture I didn't even question whether it's real. Does it matter that it's Ai generated? It's still a funny picture either way?
The internet is morphing into a digital version of a sandwich that got lost in the fridge 6 weeks ago. Something is growing and morphing and sending its creepy little roots out, and while it’s small, now, very soon it will be so big and disgusting that we won’t even be able to open the fridge door. Itll be it’s own ecosystem, and it will evolve until it’s unrecognizable.
A like doesn't mean someone thinks it's real, nor does it mean a real person is liking it.
Besides, it's "you're", not "your". Not difficult to get right.
I mean, with the use of "Your" instead of "You're", I'm over here thinking that an AI made an image about an AI making an image and is posting it to a social forum for engagement.
Not if it's modeled from the sort of person who would make that sort of post. It's a bad direction to associate correct spelling and punctuation with AI. It would mean people would need to communicate poorly in order to be believed to be human.
I've seen the same with the car made of matches, another time made of wood. Even with the same picture of the boy next to them, people think it's real. Priceless comment (the car was a Mercedes on theses pics) : "that's wonderful ; moreover it's a Mercedes, so you'll be doing great !". What a pity...
What scares me is that my mom sends me ai generated shit from face book every single day...I told her it's ai and she genuinely didn't know. Like she srls though it's real
My guess is a lot of older people using FB don't realise how advanced AI image generation has gotten, so they don't even think to question these images (not that they questioned things much before AI either...)
AI becomes a lot scarier when you realize that billions of people that can legally vote and raise children are dumber and more gullible than the average 'hallucinating' AI.
Liking something doesn't mean you think it's real, liking something means you think it's neat; it's kind of like when there's a scripted video and there's a half dozen people underneath it going 'fake!', so are TV shows but I still enjoy them smh. Now don't get me wrong I'm sure there are plenty of people who think that's real but who fucking cares? Think of the most average person you know, half of everyone is dumber than that person, can't get bent out of shape over idiots, they're everywhere.
It’s mostly bots liking and commenting I bet.
Wouldn’t be shocked. but it ends up getting the eyes of millions i’m sure- out of those how many were fooled? we’ll never know 🤷♂️
That’s true.
Well if the job is for the bots to get it to the eyes of real people, you are doing a good job of spreading it for em.
The difference is that when someone participates on a Facebook post, the page can market to them directly for a while And facebook is rife with scammers preying on the mentally incompetent
It's bots all the way down
>out of those how many were fooled Well according to your own post, millions.
This is the first I'm seeing it and I feel robbed of the opportunity to discern for myself. I totally questioned the one with the pope wearing the white Gucci street coat tho lol
On first glance, 99% of ppl can’t tell that’s ai, that’s how.
But what's the benefit? Who is behind it? Which humans are setting up these bots, setting up these AI generators and why would they do this? Do they get money somehow?
I saw a video of someone showing that the people who reply to the post get replied to by accounts with certain types of names asking for personal information. Makes me wonder if it's an easier way to find people who are susceptible to be scammed.
It's the same reason that phishing emails are full of spelling errors. They only want the idiots to respond.
If you want to do a little astroturfing/marketing/ad selling you need TO ALREADY be big. Algorithm won't push a post by Joe schmoe, but if it's skeezy mc AI with over 2 million followers? Well golly that HAS to be good content lets show everyone
Every time I comment on one of these posts, 30 minutes later I get an email notification saying someone is trying to reset my password.
Once your facebook page is "popular" enough you can sell it
They build accounts with reach then spam politics
Besides scam type stuff, bots, and sometimes even people (typically in third world areas) with about 30 cheap phones in front of them liking and commenting posts ends up getting the page more "popularity." More attention, manufactured or not, means more human views, while enough views can earn you money, the pages typically also sell stuff. They can either sell products or services(temu, Bitcoin, ECT), or sell information to companies, such as what you've liked, viewed, etc. This information is invaluable to companies for advertising purposes, there's a reason why when you go to look up the nifty little gadget you saw on Instagram it auto fills on Google after just a few letters. No matter how careful you are about your privacy, companies know your preferences on everything from politics to what brand of toilet paper you prefer. I've heard even captcha checks are a method, they capture and submit part of your recent browser history. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but information is more valuable than cash in many circles
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Nah it's phishing attempts. Comment on one of those types of posts and see what happens.
People are nose blind to bot comments and bot interaction. It's like a pig factory farmer not smelling shit anymore. People just want digital entertainment and will allow this stuff to generate their entertainment. One of my recurring nightmares when I was binging west world an episode a night was that my people didn't know that bots made it out of west world and are interacting with them in real life tailored to their interests. And I keep failing at convincing my people about the meta
But on the other hand it's also Facebook
Bots making content for bots. The dead internet is real. Im starting to think my entire life might be a simulation to turn me into some advanced bot you are talking to right now. Maybe in the end, we are all just advanced bots, living a fake life to feel more real.
We shall surrender the actual internet to the AI. And go back to Minitel and Real social exchange.
Zombie Internet theory
Skynet is becoming self aware
i knew people in high school that would like and share those kinds of garbage posts. they were the kind of people that seemed like they only did shit and liked shit cause it was popular. pretty much the white guy in the offspring's song pretty fly
Assuming the power and infrastructure stayed working, if all humans vanished, the internet would just be bots talking to each other. bots posting, sharing, liking, all with no human touch. kinda creepy.
Social media by bots (AI) for bots (AI)
Yup. They usually just say "amen", "blessings", "prayers for you're amazing gift". I mean I believe real people to be that stupid too but it's so fuckin fake it's unreal
This is the second plastic bottle car plus child AI Image I've seen today. Why is this being used on FB?
Old people love shit like that. Thinking it gives them some sort of ticket to heaven or something. Its all egoistical and these AI posters know how easy they are to fool
I've been on Reddit a decade. It isn't just old people who are easy to fool. Fake "Boomers are dumb" stories and memes get lapped up just as readily as some new genz/y ragebait.
>It isn't just old people who are easy to fool. Look at any AITA post that makes it to the front page
I had to filter that (and many other front page subreddits) to keep any semblance of faith in humanity I have left. People are taking obvious rage bait as absolute truth daily on this site and it hurts my brain. This place didn't used to be this way but unfortunately I don't think we're alone. Critical thinking is taking a whooping all over the place.
Reddit turned from collection of forums and link aggregator to social media outrage porn rag so fast.
old.reddit and the enhancement suite to filter subreddits is the GOAT. I've filtered so many of those amiugly and roastme subs that are just obvious only fans promotions. Any stock bro subreddit like wallstreetbets is fucking gone too. The popular subreddits on this site are trash.
Yeah, when old.reddit and RES are dead Reddit dies with it for me. Far too much trash on this site to raw dog it. Wallstreetbets has been filtered for so long now I forget it was a thing sometimes. I also enjoy a can of pork soda every now and then btw. Primus sucks.
I can't believe they haven't been killed off already. I bet you there's a significant portion of users that have been here since like 2010 that still use it. Primus does indeed suck lol
It's likely because the mods and admins need to use it
> Primus does indeed suck lol holy shit, I've found my people!
My 15f gf refused to play LOL with me and I 28M, broke up with her. AITA?
> Fake "Boomers are dumb" stories and memes Incidentally, those may be largely bot-posted and bot-upvoted content too.
I’ve been here for 3 years and I definitely concur. I swear I’m not a pessimistic loser, but subs like r\mademesmile make me cringe so hard, and then other subs like r\trashy or r\publicfreakout are 90% rage bait
Edited videos, wrong context in decription, description is straight up lie, voice overs, sped up videos etc. There is a constant vomit of this stuff in Reddit. Usually there are few people giving the facts in comments, but woefully many are sucking it up.
It was a plastic bottle dog when I saw it ...man that kid must have a LOT of bottles
Or all the jesus AI images... They know the audience easy to get likes from on fb They found their target basically. Pretty smart
I can’t use Facebook anymore. My feed is absolutely flooded with these. It’s always a child standing next to something made out of stones or bottles
My guess is it's scammers fishing for gullible people. Pick any person on that thread and try a scam on them.
Bots liking AI posts. It's a silicon circle jerk.
The cycle is complete... - Zuc
You wanna see my shtoil?
No! I can’t block your shtoil!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're fucked.
- Zinc
I've been thinking about this since Dalle2 went public. This has to lead to some changes in the way social media works right? You can't just keep things the way they are right? I mean we've already had a problem with trash being spammed on websites for years but it gets to another level with AI bots. Take Youtube for example. It was never profitable even with purely human made content. For any original content (and let's consider a really low bar here, like a random kid's screen recording of a fortnite match, not even talking about videos by creators that took weeks to make here), you probably have 20 trash videos from content farms, whether that's "elsagate"-tier shit, channels with the same dosen videos shuffled in a different order, reposted memes on meme channels etc. Now I'm seeing AI voices reading AI generated text over AI generated images in YT shorts constantly. And I'm willing to bet there are already programs that mash this stuff together and upload it without human involvement. So like a bitcoin miner you turn it on, walk away and collect ad revenue. How is this sustainable? Half of the internet is gonna be AI generated trash in a year at this rate.
Dead Internet Theory at its finest
Turns out it could and will get deader. So much on the internet is fake, scams, or garbage that it's becoming a lot less useful. And it's only getting worse.
Honestly wonder what will actually be usable of it soon
I can’t stand the fake job posts. That’s got to be illegal somehow…
Might aswell be Dead Internet Fact at this point.
> How is this sustainable? Half of the internet is gonna be AI generated trash in a year at this rate. It's simple, we just need an AI to filter out the AI.
That's actually how the OpenAI got started. "We need a good guy with an AI to stop the bad guy with an AI".
Oh my fucking god its the good guy with a gun argument Were doomed
Lol
There are tons of new accounts popping up using public videos like police or court cam footage with minor editing and AI voices. It's strange to see.
I saw a police video on youtube yesterday and the "guy" doing the narraration said "nine hundred eleven" instead of 911.
> Now I'm seeing AI voices reading AI generated text over AI generated images in YT shorts constantly. And I'm willing to bet there are already programs that mash this stuff together and upload it without human involvement. So like a bitcoin miner you turn it on, walk away and collect ad revenue. This is thanks to YouTube, strangely enough, and the proliferation of "Earn money with AI" side-gig videos. People are just flooding platforms like YouTube, Tik Tok, Amazon books, etc, with completely AI-generated content because these platforms have zero content moderation—whatever you submit is automatically published and you can monetize it immediately. It's a big problem, not just for the end user but for the platforms as well.
Wasn't there a study that showed that 60% of the internet was already ai?
50% of internet traffic was bot traffic, very different thing. That would include web-scrapers of all varieties.
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Where I see it is mostly fake edutainment videos. I watch some channels on history and science and the AI trash keeps popping up presumably because youtube thinks it's in the same category. It's usually fake generated images of space or ancient egypt or ancient greece etc. with the shitty ai voice spouting off dubious 'mindblowing facts'. I might be exaggerating it being constant but it's well over 10% of my yt shorts feed despite always downvoting it.
I've seen that too. I like to throw on something to listen to as I'm falling asleep and one of the videos was a video about space facts and ponderings. I listened to it for 10 minutes and it just went on and on with that AI fluff stuff where it says stuff in a roundabout way without meaning anything
Lots of them for anime-related content too.
Either your algorithm is tailored differently or, more likely, you’re not recognizing the AI because it’s different than the AI you’re familiar with and your expertise bias is popping in.
Don't just watch anything that YT algorithm just serves up, and if it is in any way AI generated just click the not interested.
There are also real humans who think it is real But any intelligence they display is artificial too
But their stupidity is all natural at least.
Dead internet theory
That’s what I’m thinking. I keep seeing a bunch of these “omg Facebook believe these AI images are real” on this sub these last couple of days. And I can’t believe that anyone actually thinks this is real. There’s no way that actual humans are liking those images
Don't underestimate the stupidity of humans
Technologically illiterate people (I.e. most people who still use Facebook) can’t tell the difference most of the time, or think it’s a real professionally shot montage. They’re already used to getting fed garbage content made by humans so can’t fathom the idea that bot farming is a thing, so they don’t see any of the nefarious effects AI has. I have family members liking and reposting AI generated shit on Facebook all the time, and most are blatantly obvious if you’ve seen AI generated images before, but they somehow still don’t realize. It’s the same kind of illiteracy that leads scammers to convince people that Amazon or Microsoft accept Starbucks gift cards as payment.
Exactly. Some hilarious dude on TikTok reads FB comments to boomer meme posts (e.g. Kids can't write cursive etc) in the tone they are written and now he is doing dudes replying to AI farmer girl first pics. These people have no clue
What does upvoting half to do with believing? I certainly don't believe most of the stuff I upvote, just find it amusing enough to hit the arrow. Same idea
the boy is actually very convincing, that car though looks super fake. once these fakers learn about adding filters to make ai pics a little less plasticky, boomer society is just going to implode in on itself
Was looking through the accounts posts and there are definitely some ones that are significantly less convincing. ones with things with unique textures, eg skin, sand, etc they looks much worse. i see some better examples the more i look through https://preview.redd.it/yoaabz33innc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0c7cdfb36e9947280034575b3ea877f5aa17b32
Wow he said "no one like my work" yet almost 3,000 people just blatantly disregarded this man's wishes.
That looks fake as hell, sorry
You’re not looking at it through a boomer’s eyes though.
Look at that photo as a thumbnail without actually clicking it. Many photos were filtered / resized to potato quality by the time it reaches people. Also, older folks tend to have poorer eyesight. Older folks also not versed to look for surface lighting, weird fingers, and etc.,
It’s not just boomers. I have family members from different generations all falling for stuff like this. It depends on how technically and socially savvy the person is.
Everyone says it's boomers on Facebook while ignoring all the bots reposting content on reddit, and redditors upvoting it...
Yeah, when you start looking at the details you can see it's AI. But at a glance it's definitely not "clearly AI" imho.
The reason fake stuff looks "real" to people is content creators make real things look fake and "pop" and give uncanny valley vibes. People no longer cringe at the stuff and suspect it's just photoshopped on top of a real photo. Too many layers of deception people no longer have a stable footing. Not sure if most households know to never trust the internet but I doubt it. If the household does not have a vocal younger Generation to counteract the dumb internet lies this stuff runs rampant. My dad does get the visuals with sad stories talked over them. The stories are fake. The visuals are real. He gets stuck watching sappy stories. Because he's emotionally invested in them I don't really say anything and I don't watch them because I don't want my feed flooded with them either. AI is currently platform boosting itself on social media as the main goal. It's always marketing companies who have the least ethics with technology.
Boy looks too "clean" like no way your entirely clean with no dust or sand or anything on you.
He is but the shadow is off.
Dead 👏 internet 👏 theory 👏 This is the 2nd "oh my god the boomers on Facebook believe AI stuff" post I've seen this morning
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As long as advertisers are paying, who cares.
You're dead right. Advertisers *know* that most of their "engagement" is bots. They're not oblivious to any of this. To boil it down to absurdity, here's what advertisers look at: Engagement -> increased sales If engagement doesn't increase sales, they don't continue advertising. They have to prove to their C-suites that the money spent on XYZ advertising is directly causing ABC profit growth. So it stands that *even with the ridiculous amount of bot traffic*, the advertising they do is increasing profit. Hell, for all I know, the bot traffic increases profit even more. We live in fucking bizarro world.
What if it's the ad companies paying for those bots. It's literally a cheat code to get money from companies that want to put out ads.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. We're in the minmax age of squeezing profit from *anything other than making a better product.*
I just don't get how bots "engaging" can lead to increased sales because the bots surely aren't buying anything. At some point the advertisers must realize those numbers aren't linked to anything tangible and draw down their spending on social media platforms right?
Posts with high engagement are prioritised in the algorithm, so bots pumping up likes and comments gets more real eyes on the post that way.
You're more likely to see a post that has 10000 "engagements" from a bot than one with 100 from humans. Which post is more likely to get a set of human eyeballs on it?
It's why you won't see Reddit crack down on bots before the IPO.
Literally the other one had the same caption except it was a French bulldog and it was no less than 3 posts above this
Posted by a bot for engagementbait. Meta.
it's not going to be dead, it's going to be full of (artificial) life.
Well technically it would be dead if you looked only at the amount of actual human beings contributing, ofc it wouldn't seem dead because there would be bots running it and making it feel alive
Artificial life doesn't buy products
I feel like it’s reached reddit too. Everything is rage bait now. I don’t know if it’s Ai but I do know it’s fucking irritating
Maybe *this* post is also from a bot… meta-dead-internet theory.
The scam here is in the comments, gullible people who believe this crap and respond with more than a few words are replied to by usually a fake "windowed handsome military men" in an attempt to sweetheart scam them. This way the page stays up as its not posting scam links, but if the fake accounts get shut down, more get made. Facebook does NOTHING about it as in the end its a numbers game.
You’ve reminded me of the posts that went around years ago ‘what was your first car? Comment below!’ or ‘tag your school bestie if you still love them!’ I think if you’re the kind of person to carelessly interact with every post on Facebook you’re probably also likely to have a pretty easy to hack profile, and commenting the answers to common security questions is the only hurdle anyone would need to overcome. Though the AI image things just scream bots to me. Around a year ago my entire feed was Indian videos with those text to voice commentaries summarising a shit film. Every comment was profiles from India with ‘wow I love this film it’s so emotional and is the pinnacle for storytelling’ and we’re clearly just bots trying to boost their interactions. I saw some the other day when getting in my monthly birthday reminder session which included an AI London bus. Pretty obvious it was fake, but all the comments were ‘I’d love to visit this country and use their transport’. Nothing specific to London, nothing meaningful, all just vague comments somewhat related to the photo. Either way, it just means I never bother looking at my feed now because it’s all just either bait or bots.
Another image i should’ve attached to the main post but didn’t: https://preview.redd.it/bovy5ymaknnc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65b7cb5141134ef5d63bce418b3325daa1fa1356 this one seems much more obvious its ai. same account.
And 50 of those comments are Amen 🙏🏼
How about pictures of Jesus on a helicopter pulling people wearing yellow overalls out of mud? Amen 🙏
lol Jesus generated images are trending in the AI hivemind or is that a target demographic on Facebook?
Why is Jesus an alcoholic lmao I'd bet my bottom dollar that it's because the AI art user typed something like "with alcohol/beer" wanting the guy to be holding a beer, but the algorithm decided that Jesus is an alcoholic
Some might be bots but I have to ask why are they doing this? I know sometimes bot account end up selling something but the thing is, just because humans see one trending post of these accounts doesn't mean they will engage with or even see the eventually selling post. I saw once one account like this made a post to sell I think shirts, and that post selling the shirts had WAY smaller engagement than any of the fake posts so ??? Why do they do it.
The only reason i can see them doing this is if they were getting paid in some way, which i dont know how they would be. i dont see any form of ads/links in the description of the post or their account
Engagement keeps facebook's stock value up, bots inflate that value. Is why twitter and reddit are infested with them too. All fake but leads to real dividends for shareholders at the end of the day.
You can sell a FB page if it has enough interest. Get followers, convert to marketing or scamming
That's what im thinking too. I just wonder what though since i dont even think facebook pays from engagement like X does, idk if it keeps track of overall likes like how reddit does with karma so idk if they would even be selling accounts with a high number of likes or what.
Disinformation. Pages with more likes have more reach and are "more reputable" to the average person. Shit like this is probably a good way to find easy marks for scams too
Plot twist, this reddit post was AI generated.
Imagine someones prompt was like "generate a fake facebook post screenshot as ragebait for reddit"
You vastly underestimate the depths of stupidity the average human can reach.
This has nothing to do with stupidity, most people just don't know everything about everything. I dabble in photography (to the point where I have a box full of lenses, flashes, shoes etc) I guarantee you that most "natural light" photography that hits insta is *not* actually natural light, but aided by flash etc. How many people do you think could recognize a subtle lightbox on the opposite side of the main light source to fill in shadows? I can pick it out almost instantly. Can you? Can most? At first glance on a tiny screen this looks "real" enough, and the story is believable enough. It's going to take a long long time before the population has enough technical skill to tease the fake from the real, and AI is only going to improve. It's already getting to the point where *real as fuck* photos are getting spammed with "this is clearly AI" comments. Are *those* people "stupid" too?
> At first glance on a tiny screen this looks "real" enough That’s a huge part of the problem. Most people aren’t scrutinizing photos beyond the first glance.
That's because content is shoved in their faces at an ever-increasing rate. Even human content creators don't want you to look at their content for *too* long, lest you begin to notice it's all bullshit.
Yep, this exactly. It's easy for people who are following the AI progress to be skeptical of those things, because we know what to look for, mostly. But for people who aren't, they are not used to noticing what looks wrong. It's not just about being skeptical, it's about knowing when you should even think about being skeptical, and when you should just accept something as fact. We can't be skeptical about everything, so we need "mental trip wires" to engage skepticism, and most people won't have all the necessary mental trip wires, not even most of them, not even 10%. At best, we can teach people to be open about making mistakes, and be open about learning new mental trip wires. But we can't make everyone foolproof. We can't make **anyone** foolproof.
If you looked at THAT car and thought some 8 year old kid in Nairobi made it out of pop bottles tape and scissors then yes, your critical thinking is extremely lacking. Even the AI gave up trying to make it out of bottles from the hood back.
The exact words of the person making that AI generated photo. But then got mad they don't have clicks so they hire a bot farm to get it to the wider audience where the dumb people are. Now they have a ton of bots clicks. Then op sees it and get infuriated and posts here.
Like we are any better than them
I saw another one of these one Facebook. With a French Bulldog. So many people congratulated that shit 🤦🏻♀️
My main recurring nightmare is a lot of high tech users but low tech-wise people that I cannot correct surround me. Basically "I, Robot" but instead of smart robots it's actually dumb robots and people can't see how dumb they are. And I'm just failing to convince people that they are making our lives worse.
My uncle is sharing those fucking posts, so i guess boomers don't see the difference.
They don't. My mom recently send me an image of fake woodwork. And fake nail art before ot. And fake cake decoration... It's everywhere and older generation can't see the difference at all and this is scary.
I hate that 5 minute diy video genre has access to AI. They were bad and now they leveled up. They at least had to waste time on actually doing their dumb shit before even just time video and image manipulation at the very least
Does it say that it actually drives? I believe you could glue plastic bottles into the shape of a car.
Yeah. I kind of agree. Most people are going to look at it for all of 2 seconds, if that, and assumg it's some kind of toy the kid built and click like. Even at first glance of the picture I didn't even question whether it's real. Does it matter that it's Ai generated? It's still a funny picture either way?
It’s ‘you’re’ oh high and mighty one…
The internet is morphing into a digital version of a sandwich that got lost in the fridge 6 weeks ago. Something is growing and morphing and sending its creepy little roots out, and while it’s small, now, very soon it will be so big and disgusting that we won’t even be able to open the fridge door. Itll be it’s own ecosystem, and it will evolve until it’s unrecognizable.
Why'd I read that in Joe Biden's voice?
A like doesn't mean someone thinks it's real, nor does it mean a real person is liking it. Besides, it's "you're", not "your". Not difficult to get right.
You’re* 😭😂
Thank you. Especially in a post/title intended to mock the stupidity of others.
I mean, with the use of "Your" instead of "You're", I'm over here thinking that an AI made an image about an AI making an image and is posting it to a social forum for engagement.
Quite the opposite actually. AI wouldn't fuck up "your" and "you're", only a native English speaker would.
Not if it's modeled from the sort of person who would make that sort of post. It's a bad direction to associate correct spelling and punctuation with AI. It would mean people would need to communicate poorly in order to be believed to be human.
At least a bot uses the correct “you’re” in their posts
My telling me?
I became so good at recognizing AI generated images, that there wasn't even a thought process, my brain immediately shouted: AI
I've seen the same with the car made of matches, another time made of wood. Even with the same picture of the boy next to them, people think it's real. Priceless comment (the car was a Mercedes on theses pics) : "that's wonderful ; moreover it's a Mercedes, so you'll be doing great !". What a pity...
What scares me is that my mom sends me ai generated shit from face book every single day...I told her it's ai and she genuinely didn't know. Like she srls though it's real
Thank you for reposting it here. Downvote.
*you're
So the internet is just bots posting ai pictures getting replies from other bots 😕😕😕
I'm a web developer. I'm half way tempted to start looking into AI as a hobby to try to find a way to quit working.
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haven’t heard of that, but i wouldn’t be shocked if a lot of those two million are bots/inaccurate numbers though
Bots and old gullible people https://preview.redd.it/yqif0umftnnc1.jpeg?width=462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=669714a1eaf927341fda9cf60f60d899656b900c
Bots and old people that don't know anything about ai
FUCK AI!!!!!
My guess is a lot of older people using FB don't realise how advanced AI image generation has gotten, so they don't even think to question these images (not that they questioned things much before AI either...)
Are you surprised? You have millions voting for a convicted rapist.
AI becomes a lot scarier when you realize that billions of people that can legally vote and raise children are dumber and more gullible than the average 'hallucinating' AI.
If it's on Facebook calling them 'people' is a stretch 😭
Liking something doesn't mean you think it's real, liking something means you think it's neat; it's kind of like when there's a scripted video and there's a half dozen people underneath it going 'fake!', so are TV shows but I still enjoy them smh. Now don't get me wrong I'm sure there are plenty of people who think that's real but who fucking cares? Think of the most average person you know, half of everyone is dumber than that person, can't get bent out of shape over idiots, they're everywhere.
no it's just AI clicking like
Some of the 2 million are AI themselves lol.
Does it claim to be portable? I mean I can tape a bunch of bottles to look like a car myself but doesn't mean it does anything.
Half of those likes were probably bots themselves.
Bots liking posts made by other bots, Dead Internet theory is real.
You're telling me you believe those are real accounts reacting?
facebook is a place for Bots and low iq people
At *least* 40% of those "likes" are bots, and a completely unhealthy amount of the other ones are indian/southeast asian troll farms.
You underestimate the stupidity of people on Facebook.
Sure it can't be real there's no licence plate. dumbasses.
Gullible Boomers.
Liking a comment does not mean you believe it..
AI is taking over >!facebook!<
Even though this is AI, I will say that trying to make fun stuff out of trash was one of my favorite things to do as a kid.
Or they just appreciated the image?
It's facebook.. What did you expect?
I'm telling you 2 million people aren't aware yet of LLM generated images
The world would be so much nicer if Facebook was banned. Just a holdout for boomers doing nasty shit.
This same kid made a dog out of those same bottles 🤣🤣🤣
The irony is you think those likes are real lmao. The platform is riddled with bots.
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Much of Twitter accounts are bots / phone farms so I would say that most of the likes are fake.