As someone who’s been on the internet since a very young age, as well as having been raised by someone who specializes in Cyber Security, I personally have never really fell for any Internet scams or hoaxes. In general, I’m also just a skeptical person. The rise in Generative AI over the past few years has made me come a bit close, but more so I’ve ended up explaining how certain things are AI to my mother more than anything. Most notably was an AI generated video of some kind of salamander that doesn’t exist. We ended up searching for a few minutes to find the original video that was posted (as of course, it was posted on Instagram, then stolen and reposted to TikTok, then Facebook, and so on and so forth) to confirm our hunch. But more than anything it’s made me sad that my mother who loves animals and biology with her whole heart was still fooled, albeit temporarily, by some video online.
Personally, I don’t think it was created to do anything outside of create a sensation, it was a weird looking salamander and wanted to gain views and clout from posting something weird and unusual. The main thing I’d recommend to people who want to be sure if something is real or fake, is to check the movement of it if it’s a video. Sometimes AI will have very realistic visuals, but the movement of the creature is just slightly out of the norm. In the case of the salamander video, that is what ticked me off and why my mother and I went to go find its source. Outside of that, images that look “Airbrushed” are often AI, but at this point, AI is getting so good that I’m not sure if that’s a good metric to get focused on.
The new NanaBanana Pro AI image generator looks insane!! I’ve already been fooled once with AI content, and I might have to completely withdrawal from social media if they don’t get better AI tagging….
I hadn’t heard about that one at all! Honestly the lack of AI-tagging is something that I really wish more sites would catch up on fixing
AI generated content is continuing to improve and will make identifying fakes harder and harder and will likely lead to people becoming skeptical of any content they find online.
Honestly at this point I already feel skeptical, especially when it comes to the commercials coming out now.
AI has really gotten out of hand- I used to think I could detect AI content, but I’ve been finding myself getting fooled easier and easier lately. I fear the future of AI if it continues to evolve the rate that it has been. I’ve half considered dropping a lot of social media platforms over this honestly. :’)
Same here! It’s so disappointing when I see something that looks real like an outfit or those videos of bunnies jumping on a trampoline and its fake.
The amount of AI software that I’ve seen around is baffling. I don’t really understand why people believe that it can replace things like music or art. The music that I’ve heard from people posting clips on it online are awful and bland. There’s no sense of rhythm or harmony at all. And then art made by these software programs always have something wrong with it. Whether it’s the hands or the backgrounds, the software just manages to mess up the overall picture. Which most actual artists don’t do. Even less experienced artists have a better understanding of anatomy and proportions. I can’t see it ever replacing things like that. But honestly it’s getting harder and harder to spot the difference between AI and an actual human made work. It’s scary.
Truly! Music and art are so important to me and it’s a bit baffling how much people seem to act like AI will be able to replicate those same feelings, no matter how close to realistic it gets.