People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown.
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@CiaraNi Humans get blind sighted when spoilt. Too much streaming choice or online goodies and we stop caring about who provides. That transfers to the rest of life to a degree.
When very wealthy, everyone seems to be serving you so you likewise give up thanking and just take take take. And you stop having a clue about those who struggle every day.
@NicelyManifest Agreed. On all counts.
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People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown. It's AI, but people share it in good faith, believing it’s an amazing photo by a human of a real bird in a real moment of time. Meanwhile, humans who have taken amazing photos of real birds captured in real moments of time, like a hummingbird in ballet with a butterfly, get questioned in good faith by people who are tired of being cheated by AI-deceit. The way AI has broken social trust is distressing.
@CiaraNi @Szescstopni "The way AI has broken social trust is distressing."
Thanks for posting this. The more I've been exposed to artificial images the more uneasy I've become - for me. I'd not quite made the leap to the bigger picture you paint here. (Sounds a bit punny, sorry).
(Got online in 1997 and within weeks honestly thought we were entering a golden age of easy information sharing, you know, facts at *everyone's* fingertips).
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@bosquebill @CiaraNi Indeed.
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@CiaraNi @Szescstopni "The way AI has broken social trust is distressing."
Thanks for posting this. The more I've been exposed to artificial images the more uneasy I've become - for me. I'd not quite made the leap to the bigger picture you paint here. (Sounds a bit punny, sorry).
(Got online in 1997 and within weeks honestly thought we were entering a golden age of easy information sharing, you know, facts at *everyone's* fingertips).
@bazbt3 @Szescstopni All of this resonates. I keep thinking back, especially to the early 2000s, and thinking how good and promising it all was then. If only we'd realised what was ahead.
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@bazbt3 @Szescstopni All of this resonates. I keep thinking back, especially to the early 2000s, and thinking how good and promising it all was then. If only we'd realised what was ahead.
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@bazbt3 @Szescstopni All of this resonates. I keep thinking back, especially to the early 2000s, and thinking how good and promising it all was then. If only we'd realised what was ahead.
@CiaraNi @Szescstopni I wonder if anyone ever looked at all the web portals, search engines and bulletin boards and thought misinformation would be *normal* in this future. This post-truth and fake news era…
And how bitter they might be that people like me didn't believe it.
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@Szescstopni @CiaraNi So, all the signs *were* there 30 years ago. Friends eh.
I'm so sorry though, I cant fight the urge to say "it's a small world" - which it was back then, at least in terms of reach.
And then Microsoft plopped Windows 95 on us and made it *relatively* easy to get online.
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I saw that bird with drop of water picture and knew instantly, as anyone who is familiar with birds and rain and nature would know, that it was machine generated. The drop is way too big and the bird would have flinched in that split second. Birds react fast!
Machine slop will probably have an insidious, long-term effect of decreasing people's appreciation of nature because everything will be thought to be fake. In fact, nature is replete with incredible beauty that you won't know about if you spend all day slop-scrolling
@Mikal @CiaraNi The other aspect that bugs me about it is that those who do point out that it's generated are usually met with an overly harsh response. I've seen threads get really heated. It goes beyond whether or not the photo is real; anyone who mentions that it's AI is immediately labeled as a toxic troll.
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People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown. It's AI, but people share it in good faith, believing it’s an amazing photo by a human of a real bird in a real moment of time. Meanwhile, humans who have taken amazing photos of real birds captured in real moments of time, like a hummingbird in ballet with a butterfly, get questioned in good faith by people who are tired of being cheated by AI-deceit. The way AI has broken social trust is distressing.
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@Mikal @CiaraNi The other aspect that bugs me about it is that those who do point out that it's generated are usually met with an overly harsh response. I've seen threads get really heated. It goes beyond whether or not the photo is real; anyone who mentions that it's AI is immediately labeled as a toxic troll.
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