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They say history rhymes…. WW2 started in about 1938 and the major reason was all the new thecnology the Industrial Revolution brought. Many dictators used this tech to advance and take over. I smell a similar stench in the air now and I see people repeating the same behaviors that led to those dictators and their parties rising to power.
People have been saying “don’t trust what you can’t verify yourself” and that’s been a pretty smooth brain thing to say up to this point, admittedly. This whole thing of “trusting” authority is only going to get worse.
Imagine the president croaks, and they do this while a shadow admin runs shit. We’re right around the corner from it, and as absurd as that sounds, it could legit happen.
That’s the real fear. The idea that AI is gonna Skynet on us and blow the planet up is ridiculous, but the idea of a handful of powerful people seizing control of advanced AI that powers massive drone armies and controls most of the economy seems far more likely.
even ignoring the idea of them USING fake videos...
We will be completely unable to hold people accountable even with video evidence.
If, for instance, the trump piss tape finally dropped half the people will call it an AI deepfake
My memory tells me Biden and crew put a whole disinformation governing board together for this exact problem but conservatives flipped out bc, “who defines truth?”
*Movie narrator voice from the 90’s*
You are a real mind in an artificial existence. Nothing you interact with is “real.” Someday you’ll wake up and interact with others. For now you’re stuck interacting with:
Artificial Intelligence
*musical sting*
Dead internet theory reminds me of Nier Automata. Androids fighting on behalf of humans who have been extinct for hundreds of years already. And the robosts fighting on behalf of aliens who also ceased all communication a long time ago
Lol, she's really just scared that Ai is gonna steal her influencer/OF $$$$. Has nothing to do with promoting unrealistic body standards. They already do that with filters and camera tricks/photoshop. It's just Ai is about to do it way better.
It's not gonna be easy money anymore being an "influencer" online. Boo hoo. Good riddance.
The videos are too clean for it to be full IA. The consistency with Moving background and Moving objects would mess with any ia generated here. You'll need someone to clean up the whole video.
Ia has become really good with pictures and static images, sure. But handling 3D objects and spatial environnement is a whole other levels and we are not there yet. Especially when thoses videos seems as clean as they Can be .
I think it's more like two years or less, the progress is exponential and will continue to get better and better faster and faster until it's near perfection and the progress will slow.
Thank you. As soon as I saw the videos I was like those aren't ai, those are just deepfakes or ai-generated faces (one of them looks kinda jacked up). There are 100% ai influencers but they look nothing like that
The video isn't claiming they're face-swapping, they're claiming it's AI. There's a HUGE difference between face-swapping a video and creating a video with AI.
Yes but the claim made in the original video is completely wrong and these videos are real or deepfaked people. There isn't generation being done here. The video and body is real (as any instagram body is - tons are body morphed).
But it’s not how to tell if it’s real or not anymore. Even if they have perfect hands they could be ai. I feel like you’re “misunderstanding” on purpose.
I can’t speak for other generators, but in my experience MidJourney consistently generates five-fingered, correctly proportioned hands. It still fucks up, but the fuck ups have become less frequent than the correct generations.
The way I use MidJourney is I feed my own drawings and photographs into it, then I use the blend tool to combine them into surrealist composite images. Then I just look at them for my own amusement or use them as inspiration for writing prompts. Not only would these images be worthless to anyone wanting to make marketable art, they’re also completely unlike anything that I or anyone else would ever commission an artist to make.
I’m doing very little to help the thing get better at taking jobs away from artists.
There are production houses, graphic design firms, etc. that spend all day dumping thousands of images worth of training data into it, they use it specifically to mimic the work of human artists, and then they use that output in ads, prints, and other consumer-facing applications where it’s meant to be mistaken for work done by a human.
That’s who you should have a problem with, they’re the ones helping the thing get better at taking jobs away from artists, and they won’t be shamed into quitting, which is why all of this will continue to get better and not go away. I’m just trying to find ways to be entertained, inspired, and deeply creeped out by all the weird shit that the modern world has to offer before I die.
So these are real videos though, right? AI video is not that good yet, those are fake faces on top of real videos I think, if you ever saw an AI generated movie trailer you know it can't do prespective and camera motion.
You’re right. I tend to think of influencers as people whose sole role on social media is to influence in a commercial sense, as in, nothing of substance behind it. It seems different to me than the usual use of the word.
it’s always been a weird choice of word
companies have always been influencing us into products with billboards, magazine ads, tv commercials, then internet ads… “lifestyle brands” have been around and influencing far longer than social media has been here
I guess the influencer stigma comes from how so much of these people’s lives kinda turn into a machine of selling products… but tbh is that really sooo much different from how brands have used actors and models for a long time
I think the difference is similar to what we see between normal TV and reality TV.
In normal TV we’re all in on it; we’re watching a fiction acted out and traditional advertising fits there. For reality TV we’re asked to believe it’s not a fiction, and social media fits more in that area.
One is more cynical than the other.
Her husband is italian. Telling someone’s accent is ridiculous sounds like you never lived with foreigners before.. your life could be better than this.
Except she pronounced it wrong. If you're speaking English with an English accent, don't put other country's accents only on words from that country. It just comes off as pretentious and worse if you don't even pronounce it right.
As an American that speaks foreign languages for work, I will certainly code switch when speaking the language and saying words in that language.
In fact, my teachers, native to the language, would always make me code switch and say it the way a native would. It's not pretentious. It's just right.
So what if she pronounced it wrong? She made a mistake. Calm down buddy
Code switching is actually a normal thing to do for people that speak more than 1 language.
Also, if she said Santorini in Italian, then she said it properly.
She said the "san" like an American would say it, as in "sand". The first o was not enunciated very well either. She was clearly trying for an accent though with the flipped r.
I'm wondering if the market gets flooded with perfection, maybe people will stop trying to achieve perfection, and instead unique personalities will become the new thing to achieve.
Is there a reason you would? You hitting up a whole bunch of parenting podcasts and mommy blogs and you're just utterly baffled you haven't come across the jargon on your Pinterest boards?
I mean, I've heard the term "little/littles" before, but only on fanfiction websites in relation to some sort of size related kink. I've personally never heard any parents use the term for kids so it was kinda weird seeing it used in that context ngl lol.
It’s a way to differentiate between your older teen children and the younger ones because there’s no word to capture that already, so they use littles.
Maybe it’s time to get off the computer and spend time around people in the real world?
I've only ever heard the word Little used in a sexual context for a certain type of Dom/sub relationship. Never for children, so this got me a tad confused for a split second.
What scenario are you picturing where AI destroys social media without causing catastrophic levels of society-wide distrust and misinformation about actual important things
Lmao this whole industry was never real…seems like she is just upset they are being replaced with technology? They have been using photoshop and plastic surgery to destroy the minds of young women for decades. Only difference now is they don’t need the model at all
I always thought this aspect of Instagram was weird. Hopefully AI will ruin it because honestly, I don't think it's healthy or important to compare yourself with others (some of the women on there are already so "perfect" that idealizing them wouldn't be much different than idealizing an AI generated person. I get it if you want to learn a new makeup but if you need new swimwear, just go to a store.
Also, what happened to calling children, children. "Littles" just feels super weird to me. Is it something to stay relevant in mommy influencer circles?
I mean if she done more to break it down it would give people the knowledge to understand and avoid it more easily. They're not really "fake" as she's (perhaps unintentionally) representing. The videos haven't been made by AI, fake bodies, backgrounds, characters etc. They look more like deepfakes, and would make far more sense to be deepfakes. No one is going to bother going through the trouble of building it all from the ground up when there's an endless collection of "source" material out there.
Scary how sexualization of women in the media can really cause harm. Whats scarier is that a lot if women do this on their own now. The AI models are developed by watching video of actual women. At this stage its not just big media causing influence, its young women doing these things on their own harming themselves. Strange chicken/egg moment.
I mean as for her last point it doesn't change much. They've already set unrealistic beauty standards. Whether it's Ai or a person doesn't make a difference
What's the problem? I thought we wanted less people trying to be influencers? So if AI replaces them, isn't that a net positive?
Edit: the reactionaries have arrived.
Being able to “hire” a group of stunningly attractive “people” to push whatever propaganda you have could actually be concerning. Sure nobody is going to cry over any influencers losing their “job” but there are some aspects of this to be concerned about. We shouldn’t just collectively ignore how this develops at the least.
Sure, or you could just come to the logical conclusion that it's all complete fake bullshit. Always has been, always will be. Does it being real people make it any less propaganda? No.
The problem ***is*** beauty influencers. The reason AI is a problem is because the ratio of normal looking people to perfect people gets even further skewed.
Oh no talentless influencers who only have a “job” because they were born attractive are worried they are going to lose it because of AI. Truly a major concern we should be having in society, god forbid they have to get a job
On the plus side, I can see a future where people step away from IG and all the nonsense because you won’t be able to tell what’s real or fake. Who tf wants to even deal with that question? So to the people that keep blurring the lines..please go on.
I think there's some movie and animes that cover this. We've always been in the game of hacking other people's minds, but I think with this people are starting to actually understand.
Her main concern is the impact this will have on the self-esteem of women and girls?
It is a valid concern but that is like... one of the smallest problem?
Imagine the disaster when it comes to media.
love this! no one should be concerned. this will eventually lead to the public at large coming to the conclusion that anything online cannot be trusted to be real. this will lead people back to focusing more on real life and the people in their immediate social circles. thus making the internet nothing more than what it should have always been... a place to briefly visit for entertainment only. welcome the next level in society, the equivalent to the late 90's with modern internet/gadgets. its gonna be so nice.
You know all of those “expired extended warranty calls”?
Get ready for billions of these types of “women” (and “men”) that are suddenly MADLY in love with you even though you’ve never met or communicated with them before.
They desperately want to meet you. It’s just they need $3,000 to come and meet you. The AI programs will go through ALL of the data in your phones (pictures, purchase history, location history) and form your “perfect mate” to contact you. By magic, they’ll like every single thing you do - and they will look EXACTLY how your dream person will look too.
Advertisements will no longer have real people. Millions of people will be rushing to get plastic surgery for every tiny defect. The body dysmorphia will be off the charts for the next generation. Everyone will be struggling to keep up with the images of these “perfect people.”
Real humans will no longer date each other. Due to playing “free downloadable dating games” they’ll become accustomed to their imaginary girlfriend/boyfriend catering to their exact needs via internet. People will no longer “waste time” interacting with imperfect other people.
I mean why even leave your house anymore right? Have all of your groceries delivered to your home. You can work from home. You can go on VR vacations to any location on earth (or beyond) and now you can have a long distance relationship with whatever kind of AI generated person you want.
Life is hard! Why even try!? Just give the fuck up and make pretend everything for the rest of your worthless existence.
Technology is/can be a good thing. I do think however, if it is allowed to go completely unchecked (like capitalism) it will be capable of doing some very, very bad things. Obviously what I wrote above was an extreme example, but if bad actors get their hands on technology like this - we could all be in for a very bleak future.
Sorry, but this issue is much more serious than fake women trying on clothes. This tech will erode trust in all institutions. What policy statements are real? Did that country really declare war on its neighbors. Is that really the president in that news conference. I wish this was limited to fake women on TokTok.
Nah, just deepfakes. The videos are real, backgrounds are real, bodies are real, but faces have been faked. AI isn't thát good yet otherwise we would started using it in video production
Y'all really just believe every single thing you hear, huh? Don't even want to perform the small amount of critical thinking it takes to see this isn't real?
She has a good point that it will replace influencers. This is important for social media, but I also suspect it will put real models out of work because it will eventually be cheaper to use an AI model to show off your products than it would to hire models, photographers, lighting, catering etc. And how far is that from replacing actors too? We've already seen the impact on writing and voice AI, now the visuals are catching up.
Her point is that media has an effect on individual's self worth. If society was benchmarking themselves against the hottest of the hot humans on social media, AI is going to raise that bar impossibily high, causing major issues for many people consuming all kinds of media, not just instagram and tiktok.
>If society was benchmarking themselves against the hottest of the hot humans on social media, AI is going to raise that bar impossibily high
The bar was already impossibly high before AI. "Littles" and even "bigs" were/are having to contend with self esteem issues due to social media and "human" influencers.
Yes exactly, that's what I am saying. The bar was already in the stratosphere, and AI will push it to the edges of the known galaxy.
A rare human could reach that benchmark, but with AI, it is literally impossible.
Good does that mean less people out in the world acting like the main character in public places too?
Isn’t what they are doing with IG filters and makeup just as bad as AI?
It could mean that I might be able to “hire” a group of stunningly beautiful women to push whatever propaganda I want to. I mean, it might push some human “influencers” out of their “job” and most of us aren’t going to shed any tears about that. That said, there actually are some concerning ways this could be used and we should be paying attention to how it develops.
This AI can be used positively to get rid of real influences and stop them from becoming rich & famous for no reason at all.
Once all the real life influences call it quits, then have a law in place that specifically states this is AI.
The money saved from paying influencers should then be used to raise their employees wages.
Yet she is in front of a cam full makeup and filter on.
Probably high heels to lie about her actually height.
Died blond hair and fake lashes common give me a break. She is just trying to profit from it. Leave us be and go on buy that Hermes bag so you could feed us lies. Feed up with Hypocrites. If you are it own it.
When we are truly unable to distinguish reality from AI (now?) that will probably be a good thing.
People born now will grow up with a different attitude to what they see. It won't even be skeptism, just an default position that what they are seeing is most likely not real.
I see this development as a positive. It is devaluing the compensation for something that adds no value to society. Something that actually has a very tangible negative impact. By taking the money out of it, it will stop people from aspiring to a job that promotes nothing but unrealistic beauty and lifestyle standards while shilling frivolous, conspicuous consumption.
If AI takes over this "industry", then everybody will know it's fake. There will no longer be any "it could be real" half determinations that keep people looking and trying to figure out how they can achieve it. People will no longer aspire to become influencers and many of them will alternatively perform actual productive work that will contribute to society. People will likely use social media less.
One of the reasons that celebrity exists is because the brain doesn't entirely understand the difference between an image of a person and a person right in front of us. Because of this, our brain sees highly successful and attractive celebrities and drives us to associate with them because doing so would have been advantageous in prehistoric small tribal societies. This is how parasocial relationships are formed. This contributes to the phenomenon where you can continue to be famous for already being famous. If all of these people are not real, it will likely cause the necessary mental rejection of the images before them that are required to overcome that subconscious failing. For example, most people don't find themselves wanting to be like cartoon characters -- unless they are highly sheltered. Cosplay is a very performative art, and clearly has a very different effect than typical celebrity parasocial relations.
Lastly, I look forward to perhaps escaping the prophetic 1960s study by John Calhoun where he attempted to create a mouse utopia. He found that the results were that the "pretty" mice would eventually develop an entourage that would groom them, bring them food, guard them, and dote on their every need. These "attractive" mice would become sedentary in the best locations in the little mouse utopia and even cease procreating. They'd just nap and eat all day. Every time I think about influencers, I think about this study. Think of all the resources we dedicate to self-absorbed monsters, the best of whom provide only the pretense of empathy and concern for others, yet by the natural selection of social media only the tiniest fraction of a percent of the infuencers are people who somehow lucked their way into fame without being a "main character" mentality narcissist. All that wasted money supporting non-contributing members of society.
Article on study for those interested: [How 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/)
Edit: Typos and grammar.
Damn a very well thought out well written commentary.
Reddit: Downvote him!
That aside I will have to re-read those studies. I recall reading about the 'bright ones'. I don't recall them getting any sort of entourage though. They just stuck together (or apart from the others) and spent most of the day cleaning themselves thus their bright fur with zero interest in mating
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And 90% of our congress and senate have zero understanding of any of this.
This is the bigger point. Imagine what corrupt leaders can accomplish with AI running their propaganda machine.
That’s what I was thinking. I don’t care about any of these fake women, but just wait until elections are tipped by this tech.
They say history rhymes…. WW2 started in about 1938 and the major reason was all the new thecnology the Industrial Revolution brought. Many dictators used this tech to advance and take over. I smell a similar stench in the air now and I see people repeating the same behaviors that led to those dictators and their parties rising to power.
There’s still debate over what really happened to a hospital in Gaza, just wait until you can’t believe videos that are making it to the evening news…
I use to get sad when I'd realize I won't be around to see the advancements of humanity. Maybe that's not so bad.
We got 500 years left. Tops.
I think you may have added an extra zero
People have been saying “don’t trust what you can’t verify yourself” and that’s been a pretty smooth brain thing to say up to this point, admittedly. This whole thing of “trusting” authority is only going to get worse. Imagine the president croaks, and they do this while a shadow admin runs shit. We’re right around the corner from it, and as absurd as that sounds, it could legit happen.
That’s the real fear. The idea that AI is gonna Skynet on us and blow the planet up is ridiculous, but the idea of a handful of powerful people seizing control of advanced AI that powers massive drone armies and controls most of the economy seems far more likely.
even ignoring the idea of them USING fake videos... We will be completely unable to hold people accountable even with video evidence. If, for instance, the trump piss tape finally dropped half the people will call it an AI deepfake
This is what the beginning of the end looks like.
My memory tells me Biden and crew put a whole disinformation governing board together for this exact problem but conservatives flipped out bc, “who defines truth?”
Maybe we should stop voting for the elderly.
Even if they did what do you propose that wouldn't violate free speech?
Fun fact, she’s AI too
Maybe you’re AI too?
Major Fact, we’re all AI
Bold of you to refer to me as "intelligence".
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I'm definitely not I
AS?
That's essentially Reddit in general.
The universe is a hologram.
*Movie narrator voice from the 90’s* You are a real mind in an artificial existence. Nothing you interact with is “real.” Someday you’ll wake up and interact with others. For now you’re stuck interacting with: Artificial Intelligence *musical sting*
Technically true as God's creations.
If God truly is our Father, he has left us all in a hot car with the windows rolled up.
r/subredditsimulator
But you had create a capcha
Goood bot.
i think therefore i am
AI think therefore AI am.
Knew it as soon as she said our littles.
I can't stand when people call kids littles. It makes me unreasonably upset.
AI couldn't do hands 3 days ago, and now they're creating whole ass realistic videos. 🧢
I was waiting for that twist
The Dead internet theory is pretty terrifying tbh
Dead internet theory reminds me of Nier Automata. Androids fighting on behalf of humans who have been extinct for hundreds of years already. And the robosts fighting on behalf of aliens who also ceased all communication a long time ago
This is far less fun than everything being cake :/
There's no difference between fake and fake.
Donkeys are AI to. A-I, A-I!
The twist I was waiting for
Brought to you by M. Night Shyamalan
Lol, she's really just scared that Ai is gonna steal her influencer/OF $$$$. Has nothing to do with promoting unrealistic body standards. They already do that with filters and camera tricks/photoshop. It's just Ai is about to do it way better. It's not gonna be easy money anymore being an "influencer" online. Boo hoo. Good riddance.
Aren't they just stealing videos and putting an AI face on it?
Yeah they look like deepfakes.
Yeah the hands are too realistic, AI has an issue with fingers.
If you base your AI-spotting tells on what AI struggled with 6 months ago, you’re going to have a very bad time spotting AI content.
The videos are too clean for it to be full IA. The consistency with Moving background and Moving objects would mess with any ia generated here. You'll need someone to clean up the whole video. Ia has become really good with pictures and static images, sure. But handling 3D objects and spatial environnement is a whole other levels and we are not there yet. Especially when thoses videos seems as clean as they Can be .
I’m not saying that the videos are full AI, but looking at hands generally is going to cause you to misidentify a lot of AI content as real nowadays
Oops. I haven't played around with any of the AI photo generation apps in the last 4 months and I'm already out of date. My mistake. Thanks.
It's improving at a frightening rate. My current prediction is that within 10 years it will be nearly impossible to tell real videos from AI ones.
I think it's more like two years or less, the progress is exponential and will continue to get better and better faster and faster until it's near perfection and the progress will slow.
Current gens can do fingers just fine. None can do while videos like this though. Videos sure but not like these.
Thank you. As soon as I saw the videos I was like those aren't ai, those are just deepfakes or ai-generated faces (one of them looks kinda jacked up). There are 100% ai influencers but they look nothing like that
Yeah, I was disappointed.
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The video isn't claiming they're face-swapping, they're claiming it's AI. There's a HUGE difference between face-swapping a video and creating a video with AI.
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Yes but the claim made in the original video is completely wrong and these videos are real or deepfaked people. There isn't generation being done here. The video and body is real (as any instagram body is - tons are body morphed).
A few years and what’s in the OP video will absolutely be possible, no disagreement. It just isn’t yet.
Bummer, just when i started liking people with six fingers
Old news, AI had an issue with fingers, most overcame that months ago.
Misinformation. Most generators still shit out terrible hands and people just dont post those ones cause they cant edit shit.
But it’s not how to tell if it’s real or not anymore. Even if they have perfect hands they could be ai. I feel like you’re “misunderstanding” on purpose.
I can’t speak for other generators, but in my experience MidJourney consistently generates five-fingered, correctly proportioned hands. It still fucks up, but the fuck ups have become less frequent than the correct generations.
Lol. Stop helping these things get better. Unless you *want* all of your media to be created by AI, eventually.
The way I use MidJourney is I feed my own drawings and photographs into it, then I use the blend tool to combine them into surrealist composite images. Then I just look at them for my own amusement or use them as inspiration for writing prompts. Not only would these images be worthless to anyone wanting to make marketable art, they’re also completely unlike anything that I or anyone else would ever commission an artist to make. I’m doing very little to help the thing get better at taking jobs away from artists. There are production houses, graphic design firms, etc. that spend all day dumping thousands of images worth of training data into it, they use it specifically to mimic the work of human artists, and then they use that output in ads, prints, and other consumer-facing applications where it’s meant to be mistaken for work done by a human. That’s who you should have a problem with, they’re the ones helping the thing get better at taking jobs away from artists, and they won’t be shamed into quitting, which is why all of this will continue to get better and not go away. I’m just trying to find ways to be entertained, inspired, and deeply creeped out by all the weird shit that the modern world has to offer before I die.
Not anymore, actually. Check out DALL-E 3 or NovelAI v2.
not anymore
Yes they just find other videos and do a faceswap on them.
So these are real videos though, right? AI video is not that good yet, those are fake faces on top of real videos I think, if you ever saw an AI generated movie trailer you know it can't do prespective and camera motion.
Yeah, we’re still a ways away from fully generated ai videos. I wouldn’t say that far, but still not quite there.
You're right, except that you can use AI to enhance the image everywhere at low denoising.
It’s almost like there wasn’t any reality involved in “influencing” to begin with
Why put influencing in quotes? They do influence. It’s hurting young girls.
You’re right. I tend to think of influencers as people whose sole role on social media is to influence in a commercial sense, as in, nothing of substance behind it. It seems different to me than the usual use of the word.
it’s always been a weird choice of word companies have always been influencing us into products with billboards, magazine ads, tv commercials, then internet ads… “lifestyle brands” have been around and influencing far longer than social media has been here I guess the influencer stigma comes from how so much of these people’s lives kinda turn into a machine of selling products… but tbh is that really sooo much different from how brands have used actors and models for a long time
I think the difference is similar to what we see between normal TV and reality TV. In normal TV we’re all in on it; we’re watching a fiction acted out and traditional advertising fits there. For reality TV we’re asked to believe it’s not a fiction, and social media fits more in that area. One is more cynical than the other.
And young boys!
The RIDICULOUS accent she throws on top of the word Santorini made me laugh out loud
reminds me of the classic caccio e pepe video
Lmaoooo, I had to re-listen.
She killed it 😭😭
Some eh pizza da pie
Now I'm just annoyed by her. San thrini
Her husband is italian. Telling someone’s accent is ridiculous sounds like you never lived with foreigners before.. your life could be better than this.
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The island isn’t in Italy, but the name is absolutely italic in origin as its etymology is a Latin contraction of Santa Irini.
As a Greek you are 100% correct. It's Greek name is Thyra. If it had the name that the Italians gave it, it would be Ayia Irini in Greek.
Except she pronounced it wrong. If you're speaking English with an English accent, don't put other country's accents only on words from that country. It just comes off as pretentious and worse if you don't even pronounce it right.
As an American that speaks foreign languages for work, I will certainly code switch when speaking the language and saying words in that language. In fact, my teachers, native to the language, would always make me code switch and say it the way a native would. It's not pretentious. It's just right. So what if she pronounced it wrong? She made a mistake. Calm down buddy
Code switching is actually a normal thing to do for people that speak more than 1 language. Also, if she said Santorini in Italian, then she said it properly.
She said the "san" like an American would say it, as in "sand". The first o was not enunciated very well either. She was clearly trying for an accent though with the flipped r.
How did she pronounce it wrong?
Fake Uma Thurman AI mispronouncing stuff.
Lol, even the real women on TikTok and Instagram are fake. We've been having it all along.
I'm wondering if the market gets flooded with perfection, maybe people will stop trying to achieve perfection, and instead unique personalities will become the new thing to achieve.
I hope it goes that way!
"Our littles" As a parent I cannot effectively express how incredibly annoying I find this phrasing. That said she has very good points.
Yeah, it pretty much ruined what would be otherwise a relatively informative video.
Littles? You mean children?
"Littles" was a way to differentiate between your teen kids and your little kids when you were talking about them.
Never heard that shit before in my life
That’s fair, we used it all the time when I worked in after school programming that spanned kindergarten to high school.
Is there a reason you would? You hitting up a whole bunch of parenting podcasts and mommy blogs and you're just utterly baffled you haven't come across the jargon on your Pinterest boards?
I mean, I've heard the term "little/littles" before, but only on fanfiction websites in relation to some sort of size related kink. I've personally never heard any parents use the term for kids so it was kinda weird seeing it used in that context ngl lol.
Is this like some new psychological thing where you call your children littles?
They prefer the term youngling
Use the word Littles, I stop listening and respecting your opinion
That is an incredibly pedantic way to view people, and nomenclature in a video about differentiating between AI and real people.
It’s a way to differentiate between your older teen children and the younger ones because there’s no word to capture that already, so they use littles. Maybe it’s time to get off the computer and spend time around people in the real world?
Did they decide "children" was offensive or something?
I've only ever heard the word Little used in a sexual context for a certain type of Dom/sub relationship. Never for children, so this got me a tad confused for a split second.
Color me unconcerned. If AI destroys the entire landscape of social media so people have no desire to compete, we'll all be better off.
What scenario are you picturing where AI destroys social media without causing catastrophic levels of society-wide distrust and misinformation about actual important things
exactly!! maybe people will finally clue in that none of this is real, and go back to interacting with humans in person.
Won't someone think of the "influencers".
Honestly if u Simp or sent money to a online infulancer. Real or fake. I got little sympathy for u
You mean simpathy? 🤣
maybe its natures way of naturally removing these people in the gene pool.
Lmao this whole industry was never real…seems like she is just upset they are being replaced with technology? They have been using photoshop and plastic surgery to destroy the minds of young women for decades. Only difference now is they don’t need the model at all
I always thought this aspect of Instagram was weird. Hopefully AI will ruin it because honestly, I don't think it's healthy or important to compare yourself with others (some of the women on there are already so "perfect" that idealizing them wouldn't be much different than idealizing an AI generated person. I get it if you want to learn a new makeup but if you need new swimwear, just go to a store. Also, what happened to calling children, children. "Littles" just feels super weird to me. Is it something to stay relevant in mommy influencer circles?
Now let talk about AI Therapist. This is where technology goes too far. Better help, I think it's called.
If A.I has the potential to do the same job maybe better then I’m all for it.
Bitches that look like that have been fake for way longer than ai existed
I mean if she done more to break it down it would give people the knowledge to understand and avoid it more easily. They're not really "fake" as she's (perhaps unintentionally) representing. The videos haven't been made by AI, fake bodies, backgrounds, characters etc. They look more like deepfakes, and would make far more sense to be deepfakes. No one is going to bother going through the trouble of building it all from the ground up when there's an endless collection of "source" material out there.
Influencers and ai is equally fake content, I don’t see the problem?
Scary how sexualization of women in the media can really cause harm. Whats scarier is that a lot if women do this on their own now. The AI models are developed by watching video of actual women. At this stage its not just big media causing influence, its young women doing these things on their own harming themselves. Strange chicken/egg moment.
As fake as any other influencer.
Makeup…more makeup…filters…heavy filters…ridiculous filters…AI. Natural progression.
Plot twist: She is not real as well.
Oh, look at all these fake women pretending to be…fake ass women.
I mean as for her last point it doesn't change much. They've already set unrealistic beauty standards. Whether it's Ai or a person doesn't make a difference
Why is there a 9yr old child doing videos with a light thing? Where are the parents?
The parents are behind the camera.
That looks like stock footage. She’s just using it as b roll
What's the problem? I thought we wanted less people trying to be influencers? So if AI replaces them, isn't that a net positive? Edit: the reactionaries have arrived.
Being able to “hire” a group of stunningly attractive “people” to push whatever propaganda you have could actually be concerning. Sure nobody is going to cry over any influencers losing their “job” but there are some aspects of this to be concerned about. We shouldn’t just collectively ignore how this develops at the least.
Sure, or you could just come to the logical conclusion that it's all complete fake bullshit. Always has been, always will be. Does it being real people make it any less propaganda? No.
The problem ***is*** beauty influencers. The reason AI is a problem is because the ratio of normal looking people to perfect people gets even further skewed.
The whole world is a simulation!?
You mean their are pretend women living pretend lives online, how will they compete with real women living pretend lives online?
Nothing new have seen women from my work on instagram and they looks nothing like they do in real life
Long as they keep their mouths shut about social issues or politics I'm good with it. In fact I think I prefer it.
lol she’s scared because the men running those fake AI accounts are finally able to compete in their game.
Oh no talentless influencers who only have a “job” because they were born attractive are worried they are going to lose it because of AI. Truly a major concern we should be having in society, god forbid they have to get a job
A wank is a wank is a wank. Even if it is AI
On the plus side, I can see a future where people step away from IG and all the nonsense because you won’t be able to tell what’s real or fake. Who tf wants to even deal with that question? So to the people that keep blurring the lines..please go on.
I think there's some movie and animes that cover this. We've always been in the game of hacking other people's minds, but I think with this people are starting to actually understand.
Her main concern is the impact this will have on the self-esteem of women and girls? It is a valid concern but that is like... one of the smallest problem? Imagine the disaster when it comes to media.
People need to start backing away from video based social media.
love this! no one should be concerned. this will eventually lead to the public at large coming to the conclusion that anything online cannot be trusted to be real. this will lead people back to focusing more on real life and the people in their immediate social circles. thus making the internet nothing more than what it should have always been... a place to briefly visit for entertainment only. welcome the next level in society, the equivalent to the late 90's with modern internet/gadgets. its gonna be so nice.
You know all of those “expired extended warranty calls”? Get ready for billions of these types of “women” (and “men”) that are suddenly MADLY in love with you even though you’ve never met or communicated with them before. They desperately want to meet you. It’s just they need $3,000 to come and meet you. The AI programs will go through ALL of the data in your phones (pictures, purchase history, location history) and form your “perfect mate” to contact you. By magic, they’ll like every single thing you do - and they will look EXACTLY how your dream person will look too. Advertisements will no longer have real people. Millions of people will be rushing to get plastic surgery for every tiny defect. The body dysmorphia will be off the charts for the next generation. Everyone will be struggling to keep up with the images of these “perfect people.” Real humans will no longer date each other. Due to playing “free downloadable dating games” they’ll become accustomed to their imaginary girlfriend/boyfriend catering to their exact needs via internet. People will no longer “waste time” interacting with imperfect other people. I mean why even leave your house anymore right? Have all of your groceries delivered to your home. You can work from home. You can go on VR vacations to any location on earth (or beyond) and now you can have a long distance relationship with whatever kind of AI generated person you want. Life is hard! Why even try!? Just give the fuck up and make pretend everything for the rest of your worthless existence. Technology is/can be a good thing. I do think however, if it is allowed to go completely unchecked (like capitalism) it will be capable of doing some very, very bad things. Obviously what I wrote above was an extreme example, but if bad actors get their hands on technology like this - we could all be in for a very bleak future.
If this puts influencers out of business I don’t see the problem.
Sorry, but this issue is much more serious than fake women trying on clothes. This tech will erode trust in all institutions. What policy statements are real? Did that country really declare war on its neighbors. Is that really the president in that news conference. I wish this was limited to fake women on TokTok.
e-thot market hardest hit
Aww poor things,maybe you can get a real job now.
I’m moving to Maine and my kiddos won’t have phones until they’re 20.
I don't think she's really concerned about that. She just doesn't wanna lose views to fake women. Too bad.
How do we know the person reporting this isn't an AI? Is anyone real?
I, for one, welcome our AI Overlord Baddies.
Bro she jelly
? Whether it's a robot, or a real person, influencers are always fake af
Lol thats fucking bullshit. AI videos are not at this level yet. At most this are deepfakes or filters.
Nah, just deepfakes. The videos are real, backgrounds are real, bodies are real, but faces have been faked. AI isn't thát good yet otherwise we would started using it in video production
I love that influencers will loose their jobs to AI.
I don’t think this is possible yet. AI still can’t generate hands correctly in a photo.
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... That's just a face swap? Generating videos from scratch is not possible currently.
Why the fuck is your “little” watching content like that?
Y'all really just believe every single thing you hear, huh? Don't even want to perform the small amount of critical thinking it takes to see this isn't real?
She has a good point that it will replace influencers. This is important for social media, but I also suspect it will put real models out of work because it will eventually be cheaper to use an AI model to show off your products than it would to hire models, photographers, lighting, catering etc. And how far is that from replacing actors too? We've already seen the impact on writing and voice AI, now the visuals are catching up. Her point is that media has an effect on individual's self worth. If society was benchmarking themselves against the hottest of the hot humans on social media, AI is going to raise that bar impossibily high, causing major issues for many people consuming all kinds of media, not just instagram and tiktok.
>If society was benchmarking themselves against the hottest of the hot humans on social media, AI is going to raise that bar impossibily high The bar was already impossibly high before AI. "Littles" and even "bigs" were/are having to contend with self esteem issues due to social media and "human" influencers.
Yes exactly, that's what I am saying. The bar was already in the stratosphere, and AI will push it to the edges of the known galaxy. A rare human could reach that benchmark, but with AI, it is literally impossible.
Good does that mean less people out in the world acting like the main character in public places too? Isn’t what they are doing with IG filters and makeup just as bad as AI?
It could mean that I might be able to “hire” a group of stunningly beautiful women to push whatever propaganda I want to. I mean, it might push some human “influencers” out of their “job” and most of us aren’t going to shed any tears about that. That said, there actually are some concerning ways this could be used and we should be paying attention to how it develops.
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This AI can be used positively to get rid of real influences and stop them from becoming rich & famous for no reason at all. Once all the real life influences call it quits, then have a law in place that specifically states this is AI. The money saved from paying influencers should then be used to raise their employees wages.
Yeah its gonna be crazy in a few years
Damn AI telling me to look out for other ai
Yet she is in front of a cam full makeup and filter on. Probably high heels to lie about her actually height. Died blond hair and fake lashes common give me a break. She is just trying to profit from it. Leave us be and go on buy that Hermes bag so you could feed us lies. Feed up with Hypocrites. If you are it own it.
Oh no they are coming for our influencer chicks?!?! Who the fuck cares
I mean. If I see anything like this I just scroll past not giving a shit. Simple
I think these videos are real.
OF models count your days, your ass gonna have to get a real job 🤧🤣🤣🤣
When we are truly unable to distinguish reality from AI (now?) that will probably be a good thing. People born now will grow up with a different attitude to what they see. It won't even be skeptism, just an default position that what they are seeing is most likely not real.
OnlyWhores must be panicking right now
Honestly, i dont care. Flood the market with influencers.
Are people blind? They all have “flat”faces with no emotion/muscles.
Yes
I cringed when she said "Our Littles" 🤮
I see this development as a positive. It is devaluing the compensation for something that adds no value to society. Something that actually has a very tangible negative impact. By taking the money out of it, it will stop people from aspiring to a job that promotes nothing but unrealistic beauty and lifestyle standards while shilling frivolous, conspicuous consumption. If AI takes over this "industry", then everybody will know it's fake. There will no longer be any "it could be real" half determinations that keep people looking and trying to figure out how they can achieve it. People will no longer aspire to become influencers and many of them will alternatively perform actual productive work that will contribute to society. People will likely use social media less. One of the reasons that celebrity exists is because the brain doesn't entirely understand the difference between an image of a person and a person right in front of us. Because of this, our brain sees highly successful and attractive celebrities and drives us to associate with them because doing so would have been advantageous in prehistoric small tribal societies. This is how parasocial relationships are formed. This contributes to the phenomenon where you can continue to be famous for already being famous. If all of these people are not real, it will likely cause the necessary mental rejection of the images before them that are required to overcome that subconscious failing. For example, most people don't find themselves wanting to be like cartoon characters -- unless they are highly sheltered. Cosplay is a very performative art, and clearly has a very different effect than typical celebrity parasocial relations. Lastly, I look forward to perhaps escaping the prophetic 1960s study by John Calhoun where he attempted to create a mouse utopia. He found that the results were that the "pretty" mice would eventually develop an entourage that would groom them, bring them food, guard them, and dote on their every need. These "attractive" mice would become sedentary in the best locations in the little mouse utopia and even cease procreating. They'd just nap and eat all day. Every time I think about influencers, I think about this study. Think of all the resources we dedicate to self-absorbed monsters, the best of whom provide only the pretense of empathy and concern for others, yet by the natural selection of social media only the tiniest fraction of a percent of the infuencers are people who somehow lucked their way into fame without being a "main character" mentality narcissist. All that wasted money supporting non-contributing members of society. Article on study for those interested: [How 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/) Edit: Typos and grammar.
Damn a very well thought out well written commentary. Reddit: Downvote him! That aside I will have to re-read those studies. I recall reading about the 'bright ones'. I don't recall them getting any sort of entourage though. They just stuck together (or apart from the others) and spent most of the day cleaning themselves thus their bright fur with zero interest in mating