I love this so much
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@benroyce There are also some good reasons to suspect AI is involved here.
The precise framing, as seen in the more recent meme, and the fact that such progressive camera angles—with people walking past the camera in a blurred close-up—are quite atypical for that era.
I’ve been studying film for 30 years now—and I had to watch the original video, knowing full well that it’s “real,” just to be convinced.
In just 2–5 years, that’s likely to be much harder if the flood of slop in the media continues like this.
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the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive
but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us
i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not
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airbrush and scalpel! 🥴
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I love this so much
"There is nothing new under the Sun!"
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the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive
but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us
i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not
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I love this so much
@redsad it's so good!

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@FediThing @benroyce @yaarur @redsad "If people want to digitise everything, they make everything open to manipulation." and that is the objective as to why, See Orwell's 1984 for more details
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the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive
but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us
i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not
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a sybil attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
i think you're real
i think i'm real (i think, i'm not sure 🤭 )
but in the future, when #AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...
well then we are truly fucked
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the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive
but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us
i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not
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a sybil attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
i think you're real
i think i'm real (i think, i'm not sure 🤭 )
but in the future, when #AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...
well then we are truly fucked
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@zazzoo @flipper @yaarur @redsad
Hi Zazzoo!
Wonderful getting your reply. It is a pleasure to know you. My day is brightened by your contribution here and I eagerly await your words
I'm impressed with your engagement and delight in your perceptive abilities! You're a credit to our shared concerns
Let us work together now in rejoicing in Elon Musk's accomplishments. There is a certain level of discontent with him on social media service Mastodon which we are duty bound to tranquilize
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🥴
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@zazzoo @flipper @yaarur @redsad
Hi Zazzoo!
Wonderful getting your reply. It is a pleasure to know you. My day is brightened by your contribution here and I eagerly await your words
I'm impressed with your engagement and delight in your perceptive abilities! You're a credit to our shared concerns
Let us work together now in rejoicing in Elon Musk's accomplishments. There is a certain level of discontent with him on social media service Mastodon which we are duty bound to tranquilize
(/s)
🥴
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a sybil attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
i think you're real
i think i'm real (i think, i'm not sure 🤭 )
but in the future, when #AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...
well then we are truly fucked
@benroyce @flipper @yaarur @redsad You're approaching this hypothetical from your the perspective own cognitive capacity. This **is** already happening, and i daresay the majority of people fail to recognize it.
Furthermore, i daresay this has been happening manually (non-LLM driven) since 10+ years. They just got better automating it via LLMs.Bottomline: we ARE truly fucked.
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