And it'll happen to you, too!
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Good one :) It’s a perfect example of how quickly AI-generated images are becoming indistinguishable from reality. The bigger issue is not who falls for them—it’s that platforms still do too little to clearly label synthetic content.
I wonder, like others here, whether or not the same people posting the AI generated images aren't also posting responses to make it look as if the images are convincing people they are real... those "life-like" response posts can make the images themselves more convincing, to some people.
Oh you don't have to wonder. It is shilling and is just about as old as time.
100 likes, or even 1000 comments does not establish litterally anything about any demographic.
What the platforms know, but don't share very easily or at all, is how well established those accounts making the likes and comments are.
There was a time when the Facebook users count was starting to grow past the global human population...
Boomers think supernatural creatures control our fate. Why would we expect them to be capable of determining fiction from reality?
I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn't surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb "roleplaying", knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it's real or not.
Personally I don't get it, but whatever.
Yes but AI is taking jobs away from real live sex workers. Won't anyone think about them.
AI still can't replace hookers.
ok now this makes me feel bad about my ai use
Are we sure all these boomers leaving comments aren’t also bots on Facebook?
They might be there to get the thirst traps traction to get out on all the old creeper’s algorithms in the first place.
A trick Reddit was pioneering all the way back in the late '00s. Drive engagement by using bots to fake engagement.
AI/bots creating content. AI/bots leaving comments.
Wait I’ve heard about this… 😟
Facebook is bots ONLY. So none of this matters.
in a sense.. I know some people like this
Me too, more than one.
Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.
A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school....
Not even CEOs, you can see various (at some point failed due to low quality high expenses workforce, that can now be replaced with AI, you get the idea) entrepreneurs and non-techies on Facebook write long excited posts about Claude.
About a computer program and a dataset running completely outside their control and scrutiny. Like white colonizers selling rifles to natives, but not machinery to make those rifles. Or ammunition, but not machinery to produce it. Or colored glass, but not technical processes to make said colored glass.
CEOs are right to be excited, they might be able to afford the real thing - self-hosted and with the accompanying processes, like healthy datasets, experienced people, nuances of adjusting models, stuff like that.
But people who are being shown that they can be replaced sufficiently well by a machine, that has another little trait of being completely adjustable - that I can't understand.
Someone interested in humanitarian sciences and art being excited that there's a machine parroting them well enough to replace them, except that machine can also be made to produce those things to fascist ends, - I don't understand that.
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From what I understand, that stuff now has to be clearly labelled as AI in the EU. Hopefully that will help a bit to reduce the mess.
How the hell will this be enforced
A tiny back office with half a dozen industry plants will be told to produce one high profile case every six to twelve months.
Either by a government agency or by gunpoint
Or billions dollar fines
That has worked so well for the last 80 years...
HAHAHAHAHA
No, it won't
Fucking duh. They also can't tell they are being gaslit by bots on all their stupid conservative pages. Boomers are fucking stupid.
I'd like to believe that most of the dumb stuff you see posted online is by bots trying to draw suckers to their echo chambers.
Unfortunately, I've met too many of the idiots in real life, they're definitely not all bots.
Plenty of the young generation are dumb as fuck as well. Trump didn't win just by getting the boomer vote.
Plenty of morons out there from all walks of life.
No, only other groups are stupid, but not my group! /s
That's the Lead Poisioned and Proud of it! unit.
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They've been doing it long before AI images too. Most photoshops got them too.
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