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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 106 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The average person in 20 years is going to be so mentally cooked.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It takes at least one generation for ground truth deprivation to render subjects effectively unmoored from reality

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Alright fam imma cut that ohio tumor out no cap. Lemme just ask chat gpt where I should make the first incision."

Is the last thing you hear before going under anesthesia

[–] eah@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Is the last thing you hear ~~before going under anesthesia~~

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 3 points 2 months ago

No thanks, I'm all better.

"You are?"

Yeah, I asked ChatGPT, and it said I'm free to leave, and put down the saw.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Been seeing these weird AI hairstyling videos that are such obvious bullshit and I just wonder "Why? WHYYYYYYY?"

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 92 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Idk, I think Weird Al would be alright at styling hair. He's got them curls.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw the photo first before I read the parent comment and was mightily confused at why there were Weird Al hairstyling videos. The priming effect at work.

Also, he should title his next album Weird AI

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and it should be EDM except an accordion choir. So, uh, AADM?

[–] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

how dare they call Weird Al slop?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 months ago

Ad revenue. If ads disappeared from the internet, so would most of big tech. The future i dream of.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup. This is, in part, why I leave some of my mistakes in my videos. That's the easiest way to prove to people that my content isn't AI without arguing about it.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You identify as a mistake in their videos?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shit I fucked up the comment

[–] starik@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s ok, don’t worry about it

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 32 points 2 months ago

This just in, more trash found at the garbage dump.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago

Tiktok is all slop. AI is irrelevant.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The ones that annoy me are “this is the 2027 Canyonero!” and it’s obviously an AI generated car. At this point I have a couple channels I can rely on and block or ignore the rest.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is a car rental company that has been pushing legitimately awful AI ads on YouTube. Congrats, I probably wasn’t going to rent a car from you. But now I will specifically avoid your company if I ever need to rent a car.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Name and shame. Is it a national brand or is it a local exotic type one?

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 months ago

THE NEW 2027 DODGE RAM 1500!!

shows picture of AI generated Toyota Tacoma with the wrong badges

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's good, I hope it gets to saturation so people learn how to play stop the AI bullshit.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 29 points 2 months ago

Sadly that's unlikely. People spending time on TikTok are already so deeply addicted to it that they don't even care whatever that trash is made by humans or machines.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wow.

It's that low?

Genuinely surprised by that.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's probably because the ai slop gets disproportionately promoted to the top, and once you accidentally watch one, that's it, the algorithm decides that's what you like now

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I used to get a lot of the same AI panic-buy these items now for the coming economic collapse vids. 47 different channels saying "when the shelves are empty these are the 9 items nobody thinks to get" and it's the same AI images of some dipshit in fatigues

[–] lemmelemmy@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do these people having such a hard time coming up with articles? YouTube ones? Like as in 20% of 60% TikTok slop is YouTube slop? Does 20% of 40% YouTube slop?

Ps. I know what they mean. They should have just said “while, YouTube is 20%” instead YouTube ones. punctuations. Makes a huge difference.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

60% of tiktok. Videos are slop. AI is YouTube, 21% is slop. One's AI is slop tube.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

This seems to imply that before genai TikTok had quality videos and not handcrafted slop?

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The internet is experiencing a sloppy death.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

That's a slippery slop argument /j

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that of newly uploaded content or overall? Because the latter is terrifying considering YouTube is 20+ years of content.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck AI. I'm buying all my shit from the meek from now on.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

for the meek shall inherit the reference bonuses

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On Youtube, there are a multitude of new "hosts" like C.S. Lewis (a dead author), sitting at a desk and spewing almost legible gibberish (in an AI voice resembling their own) vaguely referring to their favorite topic. Also psychologists, historians, and more. I've started to look more and more for videos over three years old if I want a decent history program.

Some are hours long. More and more, every day.

[–] postman@literature.cafe 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm using various front ends for YouTube on different devices. Are there any that filter out AI like they do ads?

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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What are they classifying as ai slop? Cause in YouTube there is a lot of low effort content that aren't slop, and there is also low effort content narrated by ai that I'd consider slop, and then there is actual ai slop

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything produced using any amount of generative AI is slop, without exception. Hope this clears up the confusion.

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