AI, public outrage, and you

[@EnnuiMachine]

Found out OpenAI used my artwork to train its models - without my consent. It took a lawyer and the threat of a lawsuit to get my data out of OpenAI. I HATE AI!

[@shershah9660]

As far as I understand you can't really make AI "forget" things once it has been trained on a particular data. Which makes it all the more insidious with AI companies putting "opt-out" options for people since it is completely meaningless.

[@leah___6627]

​@shershah9660 I've trained my own models, though nothing as big as OpenAI and not using stolen work, and you technically could. It just requires deleting /resetting to an older version of the model before you trained it on whatever data you want it to forget. DougDoug's Pajama Sam playthrough is a good demonstration of reseting models. It also requires the people behind the model to be willing to do that tho, and I unfortunately don't think any of these companies would be.

[@povgames]

sue everyone who's ever seen your artwork and then drew soemthing

[@ville-c4u]

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[@ville-c4u]

no

[@Angryoyster]

I’m so over this new version of ai. I love that my phone has learnt that I’m dyslexic so when I type things out it knows which words I struggle with. I don’t love every time I open creative apps ie Pinterest, Instagram etc. I am bombarded with useless, soulless ai images.

[@foxesofautumn]

I really appreciate my phone correcting my messy typing but my new iphone is sooo much worse at it than my IPhone 4. It’s AI is orders of magnitude dummer than it was 8 years ago. That’s… interesting.

[@analias1983]

but phones did that even before AI tbh... we don't need AI

[@Angryoyster]

@ that in of itself is ai tho (I believe anyway) as it’s machine learning. I could be entirely wrong however.

[@MegidolErin]

Yeah... The other day I literally just wanted to look at pictures of kittens on Google, and I'd say at least half of the images were AI slop. Incredibly dystopian.

[@drumman22]

@@analias1983 Machine learning and "AI" has been in tech for like almost 20+ years. Research into this field has been there since like the 50s-80s. Neural networks and research boomed especially in the 90's. It's just the public wasn't aware of it until large language models and stable diffusion were actualized and shoved into our faces. The mysterious "algorithm" uses machine learning and you could consider it AI. Generative subtitles, speech recognition, facial recognition, fraud detection, dynamic pricing, etc. Honestly AI is too vague of a term that could be pointing to a countless amount of technologies from relatively old to cutting edge. I mean the term "Machine Learning" was literally coined in the 1950's if that says anything for you.

[@FerraticaTheBard]

My favorite response to twitter's AI scraping crap is how many NSFW artists took it as a sign to increase their output. "You wanna use our content to train your art system? Go ahead, we dare you, teach the art theft robots kink." Obviously I'm in the 'AI bad, AI art theft even worse' camp, but I do so love it when people get stupid prizes for playing stupid games.

[@povgames]

@@FerraticaTheBard I’m confused by what you’re saying. I use ai art exclusively for porn.

[@LeftoverBeefcake]

Going forward, I'm hoping to discover more ways to fight AI with AI, so that the info that companies collect on us gets polluted with AI slop and is useless and unable to be sold to data brokers.

[@drewberriesandcream]

technically since companies aren’t people, companies can’t be bullied. they deserve nothing. ❤

[@ville-c4u]

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[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@goodbher9244]

Unfortunately in America they are people, That's why they have "free speech" to pay off politicians. But they're also immune from prosecution. And the majority of Americans are so dumb they literally elected the oligarchy. It's going to get a lot worse.

[@DarkGob]

Unfortunately corporations are legally people, at least in the United States. I still don't disagree with your overall sentiment though.

[@WastedBananas]

@@DarkGob thanks Citizens United

[@probablynotian]

“This is going to sound mean and I hope it does” is the energy we need to bring into 2025.

[@ville-c4u]

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[@ville-c4u]

Who asked + my content and server are better

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@CourtneyRC]

the only reply is a bot and that bugs me so... but yeah the energy of "i have zero fucks to give anymore" is the vibe

[@DarkGob]

mama mia

[@The_age_of_aquarius_]

I work at a library and we had to watch this webinar about AI and it was so awful. The lady was like “AI can take care of my day to day busy work so I can focus on the important stuff” and then went on to say she had AI write a grant proposal and create a presentation when she was trying to get funding for a new facility. And I was just thinking, damn…if you’re using AI for that, then what’s the important stuff??? And then someone asked a question about the ethics of AI and art, and instead of talking about the issue of plagiarism the presenter was just like “I think if I made the prompt then I get to say I made the art.” Meanwhile the PowerPoint they’re using has horrible quality and frankly frightening images. It really bugged me that they only praised AI and didn’t consider the negative aspects at all Edit* For some reason KZbin keeps deleting my response to the person who doesn't believe me, so I'll say it here. The webinar is called AI and Libraries: Enhancing Services and Engaging Communities and the exact quote is "I would say, like, I created it because I led it and I gave the prompts. I created those prompts." To be fair, he does go on to change his mind a couple times, and he ends by saying that he would at least credit the AI used. And while I do think that saying "This is an image I created using [AI name]" is more genuine that just saying "This is an image I created" I still don't think that simply making the prompts is enough to have any actual claim over the act of creation. That's just my opinion though.

[@kc3d777]

it seems like the "important stuff" is to make more time to use more AI. its dystopian.

[@thylionheart]

I had a similar occurrence where a career counselor at my uni did a presentation in one of my classes. He showed us his official resume and linked portfolio. All of the images in the portfolio were AI images of himself. He proudly declared them to be AI and when asked if he’s an artist, he laughed and said he can’t draw at all. Then he said that he thinks generative AI is amazing and important for “k-12” and “people on the spectrum” which was a big slap in the face to me as an autistic person. It was incredibly awkward.

[@luancosta199]

​@@thylionheart wait till he sees 70% of artists on twitter are acoustic

[@Fribee83]

I'm a freelance designer and I'm straight up included clauses in my contracts stating that no generative AI will be used by the client and if they do, they are to pay me the remainder of my contract without services rendered as a pentalty. Had a non-profit client where I handle almost EVERYTHING media-wise at a discount because I'm friends with the director. I got an email from a project manager saying "Can you post this to our website?" and it was a glitchy AI image for an event three months away. Emailed over all the password logins to accounts and said they broke the terms of the contract and sent an invoice for the remaining 50k contract and texted my friend that runs it that I quit. The manager had apparently lied to the director saying it was a stock image and not AI. I warned them that AI images is a fast way to get your audience against you, got paid, and left. A week later and the community is pissed at them for their AI images they've been posting without me.

[@jonathanperreault4503]

i really doubt someone used the phrase “I think if I made the prompt then I get to say I made the art.” , i just dont believe you on that

[@LPSRosyYT]

I hate AI, especially AI art. I know people who have been screwed over by AI art. One of them is an artist that I love and the problem is, they get yelled at because people think their arts AI. It is not the art style is similar to an art style. AI likes to use a semi realistic, cartoon art style. And when you look closely at their art, it’s really easy to tell. It’s not AI. I love their style and they charge way too low price for art because people just don’t commission them that much. Also, another thing is stores thinking it’s OK to use AI on products. I’ve seen it more and more nowadays some stores more than others and I hate it! Specifically Miniso, any product doesn’t have a licensed character on it, there’s a high likelihood the arts on it is AI. I noticed it recently and I hate it. I’ve also noticed that art has a high to copy certain artist or certain styles of art from certain brands!

[@justkiddingjames]

I recently got an ad for Progressive that had ai art. Absolutely disgusted that they are so stingy they couldn't pay an artist to create something better than an ugly caricature.

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@phoenixmorphix]

​@ilmuoui*farts cutely*

[@povgames]

@@justkiddingjames why would they pay someone if ai can do it for free?

[@ashkebora7262]

@@justkiddingjames That is absolutely NOT something progressives stand for. Absolutely throw shade at _that specific_ progressive, but if you think all progressives stand by artists losing their income, you are simply a fool being manipulated.

[@courtjunk7]

I literally just saw the “firefighters helping woodland animals” AI video that my aunt shared and what I’ve come to realize is that boomers can actually tell when something is AI, they just don’t care that it’s AI. It’s a cute video that gets a point across, so that’s all they need. Years ago it was photoshopped pictures that were obviously photoshopped. I’d say “this isn’t real” and their response was “so? I like it so I share it”

[@justkiddingjames]

Yesss I've seen this too. It's so frustrating. Like, who cares if you like it; see the bigger picture here. I explained to a family member recently that their christmas decorations had ai images and when they said "whatever, I like it", I explained that while they may think liking it is the end of it, this is my livelihood as an artist and they can keep liking ai art while I lose my job. There's just something about ai images that are so lifeless and hollow. I'll never understand how someone can see it and not feel the void of emotion within it.

[@rylieread1865]

My dad has literally shown me a video of a baby laughing on a beach and was like, "I know it's AI, but it's cute." Like you know there are videos of actual laughing babies, right?

[@nerdoftheatre]

I find it almost backwards in a sense. My parents and the adults around me always told me to "never believe everything you see online." But now? They either don't care that it's fake or they don't realize it is fake. It almost feels like I'm parenting older adults. Like? Did you forget or do you just not care?

[@asuartsu]

omg literally!! my family keep showing me obviously genAI images and i always say "it's AI" and they always say "i know" rather defeatedly. like yall know my stance on AI, stop expecting i won't notice or that i'll like it ????

[@jonathanperreault4503]

@@justkiddingjames they were right tough , you didnt actually lose your job to a.i , a.i isnt really affecting you in any way really but you are telling them what to like and are being really a pain telling them about poorly tought out moral standards , if they like it them it all thats important , previous generation of Christmas ornaments were also generic

[@coldhazzard]

Whenever I feel insane for being outraged by stuff like AI I take comfort in knowing even level headed people have the same opinion.

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@A.H._]

I think it’s very level headed to hate AI. ❤ It fucking sucks. ❤ And it can go to hell for all I care. ❤

[@analias1983]

YES we need more people to be outraged LOUDLY it makes me so pissed...

[@therealai777]

off topic but your pfp is very cute, did you draw it ? 😊

[@liliesstarlight]

​@@analias1983I'm so glad Ayo Edebiri (she's currently a growing actor just in case you're unfamiliar) shared infographics about how bad AI is last year and i noticed after that the conversation about the ethics of its usage increased :)

[@SolaireHighwind]

The thing about AI is that there's a difference between generative AI and AI in general. For example, the programming of creatures' behavior in video games is considered "AI", it's all constructed by a real person. Unfortunately, the buzzword these days usually means generative AI from stolen or spuriously obtained work.

[@venusrelic2897]

yeah i’m getting so tired of people saying All AI is terrible when they specifically mean generative AI, like we’ve had Artificial intelligence in video games since pong with a little stick going up and down as a “player”

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@cringecrunge1659]

exactly. Like, without ai i doubt this site would even function. But the excessive use of ai as a buzzword these past few years makes me wanna rip my hair out. Grammarly has functioned with ai since conception but it wasn't until this year that they started putting that info in every line of their ads. I think that people are just getting really sick of hearing about it, in conjunction with everything about generative ai.

[@saiyantwan]

Yep, generative is a major problem. Machine learning on the other hand is super helpful especially when trying to find patterns among tons of data sets like trying to find cures to diseases. Only time I hate it is when it comes to using it to track people without their express permission.

[@venusrelic2897]

@@cringecrunge1659 i especially agree with your last point. even if it’s been in these programs, people are tired of hearing about it at this point even if it’s not the same AI

[@alexhawthorn5137]

The ads (for anything. Cars. Jewelry. Anything.) drive me crazy. They all have the same music and then an AI voice comes in and tells you the name of whatever they're trying to sell you. It makes me so mad that they couldn't hire a person to just say the name of their thing they want me to buy

[@fleetwoodmak777]

while we’re talking about annoying ads, I find it annoying how they’ll switch the formatting of my phone screen to hotdog instead of hamburger when I’m trying to watch full-screen

[@Piddypng]

​@@fleetwoodmak777 YES this has been on my mind. I HATE vertical ads. They immediately feel cheap like the company couldn't pay to reformat their TikTok/ig ad for KZbin

[@liliesstarlight]

no fr 😭 I literally just got an AI ad from JobStreet and it looked so ugly. my country currently LOVES AI so much to the point our government uses AI in their infographics and posters. I feel like I'm going crazy because the ethics of its usage in my country hardly gets brought up because most people just ignore it when someone talks about it. I find it ironic too because the same people would talk about "sustainability" turns around and uses AI for other stuff like girl sustainable WHERE

[@plushdragonteddy]

i’m honestly so glad to hear someone say that, because the quality difference seems important to me as a voice actor, but sometimes i wonder if anyone else cares. then again, people even hate those tiktok AI voice filters, so i suppose i should’ve known i wasn’t alone in this fight lol

[@kkuudandere]

Most instances when a website insists that I should use AI to do something, it makes the process worse. I'm researching and putting together itineraries for a future trip and there's immediately a box asking if I want AI to ✨make an itinerary for me✨ and it... is not good. I just tested it out a few seconds ago and it gave me places that would be difficult to travel between, and one of them would be completely closed on that day lmao. I used the same travel planning website to find restaurants and it generated a list where half the list of restaurants suggested to me were not restaurants, just... random streets and other unrelated attractions?? Thanks AI generated list, that was ✨useless✨

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@liliesstarlight]

have you heard about people asking ChatGPT to make their grocery list? because like how the hell is an AI generated list gonna know what you want or need?? I don't think it knows that your detergent is almost empty and that you need milk. just useless junk i hate it

[@VanessaChats]

@@liliesstarlight when I ask chatgpt to make me a grocery list it is usually based upon me having given it a heap of date prior. Also, it 'memories' things these days if you have a subscription on chatgpt hence if you use it for recipes it might get to know you because you've given it the data as to what you like etc.

[@andjela3527]

The thing about Fable is that everything was so civil on the app, everyone was talking about what is bothering them and they were listening. And it really felt that they were listening... In a matter of couple of days they removed yearly wrap, reader summery, shelfie and even scout. And then in a week or so they had Jason write a little poem that they would put instead of the AI text in yearly wrap, they removed AI in shelfie so that you can write whatever you wanted to instead and the scout shows you the decription of the book instead of the lines AI wrote. It was great seeing the change happen in front of your eyes and it was because of us, speaking our minds and letting them know that AI was wrong and unnecessary. Tbh I don't believe something like this ever happened to me as a user of anything

[@Nadia1989]

What scares more of AI are those voice models. People, from radio personalities, small youtubers, to professional VAs or atlethes found their voices stolen and use to promote scams, Ponzi schemes, and cheap dropshipped products without their consent. Someone even had the gulls to use Lionel Messi's voice and parts of an interview for gambling ads.

[@yasaminwhy8212]

I'm a voice actor. The AI voices are awful. I can't tell you the hours of stress, anger and lost working time I've gone through this past year, just to keep my voice safe, my JOB safe. As safe as it can be when our stolen products are being used to compete with us. Two of my colleagues had their voices stolen and used for pornographic game mods (portraying graphic SA) without their consent. One of them was an SA survivor. She still hasn't returned to work. These companies have a special place in hell.

[@Anna-dd4rh]

⁠@@yasaminwhy8212 Jesus, I’m so sorry your friend went through that. Voice AI to me should be *transparently* so, not based on any human voice. Working in publishing, I’m always saddened when I hear people talking about just “generating” an audiobook version with AI. Congrats, the QA work probably just tripled!

[@scottietrademark]

Fun fact, I just lost my jon due to automation and AI at a supplemental health insurance company 🙃 love that companies want to cut corners to not pay people and to conduct layoffs!

[@Saridge17]

Eventually if these layoffs keep happening, and everything is going to be ai generated (bad idea since generative ai uses the whole internet and can reset due to how data inputs work)... I feel like it's going to backfire sooner than later, the protests are going to be more higher... and eventually the stocks will go lower.

[@PharaohBender27]

@Saridge17 Sadly, I think a big part of the problem is that the tech-bros and financiers a) aren't thinking that far ahead; and b) will have made enough money to ignore the reprecussions when they come.

[@mykaluvy]

I'm so annoyed of see AI on everything! It's everywhere and I don't want to see it I don't want to engage with it. I'm sure there are actual uses for it but chat bots aren't one of them.

[@katerrinah5442]

Same, I hate how I can go to yt shorts and it's AI after AI. Fuck off AI. I want to watch stuff made by humans

[@laurenloo]

worst part of my mom posting the AI woodland animals firefighter video is that she worked in a firehouse for like 30 years. girl...

[@bleuumscarlett7977]

14:07 or in note taking apps where it wants me to use AI to summarize my notes for me or straight take my notes for me. What's the point of even having notes if i'm not writing them myself? It's the work of writing them and then summarize them that makes someone understand and remember the thing they're trying to learn

[@therealai777]

it’s the fact that the more people use it the simpler they will become. if AI is even organizing our thoughts for us we’re done for.

[@liliesstarlight]

bro i saw a video by Drew Gooden recently where there's an AI to summarize your TEXTS 😭 we're really slowly losing human socialisation because if I'm giving you a huge paragraph i need you to read the whole thing because it's important, not to have a middle man tell you in summary that I'm pissed off about an incident.

[@madalynnmccarron4590]

the way my jaw was resting on the floor for those fable ai generated overviews, I already hate AI - the AI assistants, the AI art, people pressuring me to just use AI a "little bit" for my writing, but to go out of the way to basically shame me for my past time???????? SIR, you're out of your AI mind It only crossed my mind after I sat with the video's info for a lil bit, but I stopped using Snapchat because of the AI snapchat "friend" that they added to my friends list like a year ago, it made no sense why I needed a Chatbot friend, like this wasn't early AOL, ykno? The slow creep from that to this might be worth looking at

[@Anna-dd4rh]

Yes, god I hate the Snapchat AI “friend!” Which to Amanda’s point, you also can’t block 🙃 my partner loves snap, tho, so I stay on it

[@Olivia-gg8bt]

I work in IT and use AI at work. It's pretty handy for small amounts of programming/logic stuff, and I do appreciate that. But I hate seeing AI images everywhere and people using AI for creative stuff like writing/art. It just seems lazy. Personally, I want AI to replace the boring shit in my life, not the creative aspects. And I don't want to read what a machine has regurgitated, I want to read someones own thoughts/ideas.

[@klaraklabel8846]

I 100% agree, you should only use them the same way you would use gramarly (or a native speaker friend) or stackexchange. If I felt like I had to cite them in an academic paper, I've done it wrong

[@businesszeus6864]

honestly, AI writing code is one of the only uses of Ai that doesn’t anger me. i mean, it makes total sense, and (imo) writing code is an infuriatingly long and tedious task that would absolutely benefit from automation

[@NoHiro-qc4dv]

I wouldn't trust and AI to code me a hello world function. Programming is just as much an art form as it is a technical field, and I have doubts that generic AI code is more efficient than something a skilled programmer could come up with. In fact I'm seeing more and more glitches in a lot of OSes and programs these days and I can't help but assume a lot of it is from AI programming shortcuts. More to the point: Know that the corporation you work for is likely right now trying to find ways to replace you as a coder with an AI, and every problem you have the AI solve for you is another bit of training you've given it to replace you.

[@Olivia-gg8bt]

@ Oh, our CEO has already told us he's just waiting for AI to improve more so he can fire people 😂 Luckily my job involves a lot of customer facing support, so I'm slightly more safe because of that.

[@Dr.PicklePh.D.]

The issue, to my mind, is how eager people are to use AI as a replacement rather than a tool. I will not and have never used AI to generate an essay, book, or artwork, because ethical issues aside, it will never do it the way I want it done to make the point I want to make. Recently, though, I've done audio transcriptions using automatic transcriptions by a service that has implemented some amount of generative AI (I know this because unlike a basic transcription service, it will occasionally hallucinate repeating blocks of text). Now, audio transcription is easier to automate than art, music, original writing, or even translation between languages, because most of the thing already exists, and the software has a lot to work with. Working with the genAI-augmented transcripts makes my job take about half as long as typing them from scratch (I'm a fairly average typist and don't have tons of experience). It still takes me hours, though, because every line must be audited by a human in order for it to be any good. It doesn't capture nuance with punctuation the way I want it to. It misinterprets words sometimes. Sometimes it hallucinates. Sometimes it skips things. As I understand it, it's similar to coding in that way, where the ability to generate such large chunks in such a short amount of time can speed along the process, but it's still too dependent on context and interpretation for genAI to ever be able to do anything without a person sitting there and getting everything it spits out. I think anyone who's worked with it knows this. The people in charge of hiring and firing, unfortunately, either don't know or don't care if their end product is garbage.

[@石井啓一kei]

I recently got a refurbished phone because i was tired of being in the apple ecosystem and to my absolute dismay, the z flip is marketed as an ai phone. All it does is take up large amounts of space in my phone and pop up without me wanting it to. Companies need to stop implimenting this in everyday tech, I DONT WANT ITTTT

[@abbyzoetewey538]

AI does have practical uses in Medicine as well. Not from a consumer side really though, from a researcher side. But it doesn’t really feel like it has any good uses in art or creative endeavors.

[@rebsb4706]

analytical ai is definitely different from generative ai fr. like that one that used to determine bread products in a bakery and now uses a similar process to detect cancer, or sift through data, sure, makes sense, worth the effort. but art???????

[@DarkGob]

You mean like the AI that learned to diagnose skin cancer from any image containing a ruler? Or the potential to regurgitate PHI in inappropriate situations? Yeah no thanks.

[@nexus_hue]

Taking the sparkle emoji from us was the last straw

[@businesszeus6864]

im so pissed. it was one of my favs, it was whimsical and sassy, it could be sweet or sarcastic… and now it’s just fake

[@CrystalFier]

They can pry my sparkle from my cold dead fabulous hands. ✨

[@A.H._]

Let’s ✨ take ✨ it ✨ back ✨

[@LanaDelRhoades]

The article talking about backlash over Generative AI having an AI summary at the top of the page sums the whole thing up pretty well honestly.

[@polygonvvitch]

Every time a company has a little box asking "Why do you not want the AI feature?" I write in no uncertain terms "Fuck off, I don't want any AI bullshit"

[@IsomerMashups]

That's just going to get your reply filtered out.

[@PharaohBender27]

I got a similar prompt from Google sometime in 2024, and I made the same reply with a few more words about *why* I wanted them to fuck off.

[@RudyClue]

Why not just provide an adequate response and hope things change? Bit wasteful.

[@wslaxmiddy]

Getting ads for like “AI powered laptops” and other bullshit is insane to me. The premise of the commercial is like “hey, do you wanna not do shit? AI will do your job for you don’t even worry about it” And that is fucking insane to me

[@regrah]

AI is so terrible. It takes away from being creative and it makes things so souless. Why am I spending more time trying to root out AI than actual Google searching (talking to you Gemini) or creating? It's getting out of hand, even more so while AI is being used in a lot of misinfo.

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@IsomerMashups]

​@@ville-c4uDamn, sucks to be you.

[@Suitelifeofjooj]

I use it as a tool 😅

[@lauravampire1276]

Just like the LA fires, so many people had the audacity to create AI photos of victims of hurricane Helene. As an NC resident that disgusted me and it’s insane how the older generation doesn’t even know what’s AI and what’s not

[@liliesstarlight]

I feel like this is also similar to people posting AI photos of Palestinians genocide. because there's already real photos out there, why are you generating fake images of these tragedies? also whenever i see them i always think that someone had to literally type in a detailed prompt to generate an image of such tragedy and it's just... for the lack of a better word, diabolical?

[@lauravampire1276]

@ yeah the internet can really show how gross and arrogant some people can be. They’re just excuses as “trolls”

[@panda.with.a.pencil]

@@liliesstarlight I was just about to reply with this. The genocide is already horrific, why do you need to try to give me inspiration porn with a kid and his 5 legged cat? Tell me stories of real people!

[@firelord84]

As a former AI researcher from the early 2000's (the focus of my graduate degree), i'm very sad that art was one of the first things to blow up because it grabs headlines. That was definitely not what we were thinking back then.

[@kidawesomeness123]

I would love to read your graduate thesis from the early 2000s im so curious about just how much has changed

[@powersquirrel8156]

The whole purpose of social media is to connect with OTHER HUMANS. I'd use social media more there was less fake information, more control over what content I see, and the ability to screen who is shown my content.

[@abbyzoetewey538]

Something I worry about with gen AI is like people who rely on like copy writing jobs. This is the type of thing that I could see being badly affected by gen AI. Seems like something that an MBA could think that would be able to be done by ChatGPT.

[@CoreHope1331]

Yes, those industries of 'boring' work that can be done from home are SO important for disabled workers of all kinds!

[@JohnUnit]

the frustrating thing about the environmental effect (basically just greenhouse gas) of AI is that if we used renewables more it would be a non-issue. But the US is still using coal and stuff. crazy.

[@MAH-ZEE]

I'm so done with AI. The moment I heard that they could use your selfies to put your face on ads (very creepy btw), I now refuse to post my selfies online.

[@kurkenfruit]

Being able to deploy several AI accounts as a feature of the site is a scammer’s wet dream

[@Rea13434O]

9:28… I was focusing on my food while you were reading the summary, so my jaw literally dropped

[@Rea13434O]

12:03 it just keeps getting worse…

[@SunniDae333]

My jaw SLAMMED to the floor when you showed the Fable summary. That's INSANE

[@sweetness371]

AI bots on Instagram and other social media aps need to be disclosed in an EASY to see manner (not just in the description that no one reads). For one thing, we already have too many unrealistic beauty standards for people to think these perfect looking bots are real.

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

My issue with AI is specifically with generative AI and the AI’s that are becoming the default on social media platforms, search engines, and “assistant” AI’s that are shoved down our throats and impossible to opt out of. I don’t want an AI on my phone or laptop, I don’t want AI reading my emails and summarizing them, I don’t want to see your generated AI image (it’s not art), I’m tired of companies making record breaking profits and then generating AI slop commercials and packaging. I think AI has extremely beneficial uses in research, scientific, and medical fields where processing data or the like would take a human many lifetimes. I know it’s used in video games and in the agriculture industry in really beneficial and necessary ways, that is not my beef with AI, that’s a very different branch of AI. I do not want AI replacing jobs, making people fear for their livelihoods, or being forced on people to use against their will in their work and social life but that’s exactly where it seems like we are heading. Our world is all about squeezing every last drop of productivity and profit out of everything and AI is allowing that to happen on an even larger scale. I just can’t shake the feeling that this overwhelming public adoption and advertisement of AI by every major brand I can think of is really pushing us a lot closer to a dystopian future where it gets to do the things that truly make us human like connections and creativity while we struggle to get by.

[@heatheryoung9338]

One of the scariest things to me is the increase in AI in healthcare. You hear amazing things about AI being able to diagnose cancer with greater accuracy and things like that, but what they DON’T tell you is that more and more healthcare professionals are using AI instead of their critical thinking skills that they went to college and through internships to hone and license. There are whole AI softwares designed to listen to your doctors visit in real time and chart for them, including summaries of what is discussed placed directly into your medical chart. There are websites that purport to do a primary evidence review and answer medical questions, and they’ll give drastically different results to two different people with the same word for word prompt. I had a physician send me an order for a medication with their entire rationale for treatment from an (incorrect mind you) AI summary from a website. And I hear more and more medical professionals with post grad degrees fawn over these “resources” with little to no oversight or forethought into what liabilities there are and the actual patient harm that could be caused.

[@PharaohBender27]

Christ on a hot tin roof. That honestly sounds like something that could lead to a lawsuit one day.

[@Nadia1989]

Can we talk about KZbin's AI dubbing? It has been slowly been deployed to many channels I watch and IT'S TRASH. Either the voices are trash, the translations are trash, or both are so bad to the point it's hilarious. Like, Dankpods with a disembodied female voice in Spanish level of hilarious.

[@beaniebaby485]

I hate AI summaries. I hate AI making search engines worse. I hate AI “art”. I hate AI “writing” books. I hate it all. I want it to go away.

[@Krusher115]

Those Fable summaries are WILD. OH my God.

[@ilmuoui]

If it had called out lack of black authors y'all would have said it's based

[@mr.bingusthecat]

@ilmuoui personally, i think it’s the fact that it’s ai commenting on race that i find weird. like if a person told me i should diversify what i read, i would be a lot more willing to hear them out compared to ai. there’s a reason minorities are actively advocating for it. there’s real life significance behind why people bring it up. ai doesn’t have a real reason. there’s no personal motivation behind ai. it doesn’t feel things, it doesn’t experience things. i’m trying really hard to put my thoughts into words so i hope i’m making sense lmao

[@littlepaperjellyfish]

​@ilmuoui There is a significant diversity gap in publishing/authorship. I guarantee you that there would have been a fuck ton of people who only consumed content from white authors. But you don't see the AI commenting on that, do you? It considers white authors (and for that matter, able-bodied, straight, etc. as suggested by other summaries) to be the default. Suggesting black authors to someone who reads predominantly white authors is an attempt at levelling the playing field, and promoting a diversity of perspectives, considering the historical racism and imbalance. Suggesting white authors to someone who reads predominantly black authors is not similar.

[@GhostBirds]

justice for the sparkle emoji!! she deserves so much better✨ i hate how AI invades anything. Even storygraph has AI and i *know* you can 'turn it off' and all that but i just dont feel its necessary for anyone at any given time. and the way i've seen writers and artists enter college using this stuff is going to make me end up on the news i swear to god.... i am so upset that genAI and GPT have taken over the general "AI" terminology. I like AI as in robots and androids and videogame NPCs, and not this.

[@BirdPeopleArentReal]

The only grace I give for using ai is when (good) scientists use it. We’ve already seen so many breakthroughs due to science being used in tandem with machine learning to find new discoveries and it’s wonderful to see us learning more about the world around us.

[@povgames]

I use it for porn like everybody else

[@404maxnotfound]

Lol gotta love how meta take zero accountability for removing the block button. The only way that a button like that can go missing on certain accounts is they have a "disable block" boolean feature in their user database which the app checks for and hides the button if found. No way thats a bug.

[@IsomerMashups]

Unless the UI for bot accounts is genuinely just different from the one for human accounts.

[@4ndreaShiro]

In the 2010s Zucchini (yeah, him) didn't allow roleplaying accounts, fake accounts and whatever on Facebook. They would routinely delete any account deemed as such. I saw many disappear (yes I roleplayed on Facebook lol). It's very ironic that they are creating them on purpose now because their websites are dying out 🤦

[@ElodineCodes]

Even as an educator in the tech and AI space, I can recognize that we need a regulatory body for emerging technology. Due to the way AI works none of these groups have to be transparent with you outside of a lawsuit, so good luck digging up information. That is 90% of the point for them. The groups don't care about public outrage unless it suits their internal motivations. They're playing a long game but the return on investment is there. Nothing we've done so far outweighs that return on investment potential but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

[@clogan2367]

As a former Rev contractor, I hate to be the bearer of bad news... but they use AI to generate an initial draft of the transcript and then have a human edit it for 15 cents per audio minute. They don't do this for ALL transcripts, but it was at least 50% of them in 2021. :(

[@Greenteabook]

The U-Haul guy told me about the AI nonsense when I was returning my truck. I hadn't even seen any AI pictures or videos of the fires, but I got Watch Duty immediately and have been glued to any new notifications for my area. I had moved away from LA several years ago, but I just moved back to help with family. This isn't even the worst welcome the environment has had for me on a new move 😞

[@katir208]

One of the most painful parts of the ai tech de-evolution is the sparkle emoji appropriation. I can’t believe they’ve done to our girl 😑

[@breesjr97]

Seeing Fable in your thumbnail made my heart drop 😭 It’s the only reading tracker app I’ve enjoyed so far and diving into your video hurtssss 😭 Those AI reading summaries are diabolical and should not have seen the light of day 💀 I personally only use Fable to track my reviews without the “I-am-better-than-you-because-I-do-not-enjoy-trash-books” vibes I get with Goodreads as well as tracking what type of books I’ve read so far (and the book club feature too!!). So I am so happy that public outrage worked 😭 I really do love Fable and I’m glad they’re actively listening 😭

[@awefawn7793]

imagine how much water was used when chappell asked her little fansies to make AI images for her……….. just because she was bored………. the first celebrity i’ve seen openly encouraging her fans to download and use genAI, and for what? so maybe they can get a crumb of her attention? it makes me feel so icky………

[@yasaminwhy8212]

Chappell Roan? Really? Ew. Glad I didn't buy her album. Shall delete her music forthwith ❤️

[@SHADEdonatesGOODvibes]

Chappell? Which Chappell 😥

[@doukzu]

I hate all of this unnecessary use of AI but some of those wraps were hilarious. "With Aang's adventures and WWII tales, things got explosive" is crazy lmao

[@rachelhansen2417]

My husband is studying computer science, and does a decent amount of stuff with AI. Even he hates the way most companies are using it. Meanwhile, he had an internship that used AI to interpret and digitize old handwritten documents in various languages-preserving knowledge. I wish more of the AI out there was actually useful like this.

[@gingerkingfisher]

Using AI for captions might be good for accessibility, but it put translators and captioners out of a job. Can it be used in a pinch? Sure. But the problem is multi million companies deciding not to hire someone because "ai can do it" and it doesn't even always do it right, or doesn't account for culture differences on something like Anime where there may be something only someone raised in that culture would be familiar with and the translator needs to write a work around that relates to the language/culture they're translating to. Generative AI is a plague that saps color out of people's lives. I want AI to do my dishes and identify cancer cells, not make art for me to make a profit.

[@CattyHomesteader79]

Glad you're safe. From southern Oregon here, we had a massive wildfire in my area back in July 2021, it's not something you forget.

[@astraynaught9343]

This video is super interesting to me, because your opinion changed so drastically once you felt the effects of it, and we get to see that happen in almost real time, like a conversation. This isn't a dig or a read, just observing how the human mind (which isn't meant to experience things on this scale, isn't meant to feel responsible for the universe) gives passes and allowance to things that we don't perceive as "ours," (like, "idk why I don't like this, I just don't" or "oh, it's just a tool, it isn't evil" type phrases) but once something is considered part of our own area of existence, once it actually touches us, the feeling of wrongness becomes a lot clearer in our minds, and we can pinpoint the reasons it gives a person all those negative feelings. Like, we can't actually see things until they actually enter our PERSONAL space. (This is just my opinion btw, just me mumbling some psychology theory in a youtube video's comment section 💖)

[@ville-c4u]

Today is my bday but i have no followers...😥😥😢

[@Fribee83]

Yup. That's how it goes. A lot of people generally don't care about GenAi's impacts as long as it doesn't impact them. The whole video, Swell was "It has its uses", "It's just a little oversatured" and then the moment she directly sees the harm to her, then "Fuck all AI". The annoying part is these people aren't actually against AI, just AI impacting them. If these companies rolled it back just a little, then most people would be okay so whatever mass backlash we're seeing is likely only temporary until OpenAI, Meta, whoever dials it back just enough to appease enough people.

[@cookingwithsilence]

They replaced the power off button on my phone with an ai button.... Now if I want to turn off my phone I have to go into my settings...

[@anniee5487]

what model phone?

[@cookingwithsilence]

​@@anniee5487oh that's to much information about me to disclose on the internet. You could read that comment and then triangulate me to the landmarks of the body of water featured in all my videos and I couldn't even stop you from tracking me... Unless I went into my settings but that's probably been replaced with an AI backup button.

[@laurenpaulin7421]

as a graphic designer, i've had to use photoshop's generative fill to extend backgrounds received from clients for specific sizes, which uses ai generation but i only do when it's absolutely necessary and other than that, i really stay away from it. the company i work for wants us to get comfortable with using chatgpt to generate copy ideas and adobe ai features for artwork but i refuse. i don't want any of my work to be reliant on the use of that shit

[@bruisedparmesan46]

if people realize they’ve shared AI posts thinking they’re real, they genuinely should apologize, delete the post, and then take a full month long break from social media/anything online.

[@TheNwr1]

That’s ridiculous. Plenty of wools spread misinformation without needing ai to do so lol either hold everyone to that standard or don’t.

[@leah3801]

I'm obsessed with the earrings in this video. Not a valuable contribution to the conversation, but it still needed to be said. Okay bai

[@mumenRhyder]

Ai explaining the dead internet theory is both horrifying and kinda beautiful. Rip the internet.

[@galgalliel]

AI is a major headache when your work is under or partially under NDA, especially where its being implemented into existing things. If you start using a program, and its an industry standard for 10+ years, and now its full of AI, what tf are we supposed to do? Everything being 'AI' when things could be analytics is taking years off my life. Assistive AI, I don't have too many issues when its actively maintained. Programs that actually solve a problem or bridge a gap? Yeah alright. Generative? GTFO. The people who used chatgpt to do their research for a legal case made fools of themselves, but I'm honestly worried about the possibility of some person using it at work, the AI puts something unnoticed into engineering drawings somewhere and actively causes harm.

[@sammehtehdestroyah]

I just hate how pessimistic AI has made me. Now whenever I see some cool art or whatever on the internet I just sit there like "ok is this even real?" Used to like checking out videos from super small creators that showed up on my KZbin home page, don't really do that anymore cuz 75% of the small channels that pop up are just AI slop channels now. Feels like you can't just appreciate random art anymore.

[@MrBaconandlegs]

Bullying companies should mean bullying advertisers

[@DarkGob]

I don't know how to tell you this but advertisers are companies, so it does in fact mean that.

[@MrBaconandlegs]

@DarkGob I don't know how to tell you this either But KZbinrs are advertisers. So bullying KZbinrs is the answer.

[@MrBaconandlegs]

@DarkGob KZbinrs are advertisers

[@iphisnextdoor]

Those summaries are like… uh what data sets did they train on because… those summaries sound kind of like right-wing trollers… like…

[@greenteai6029]

My ART school a very prestigious one mind you, pushes its students and teachers to use ai, it’s on their app, website and I currently have an assignment that forces me to use it! It’s incredibly frustrating for me as well as my peers to essentially be forced to utilize something that parasitizes us!!!

[@CloudsAndDays]

The Hollywood sign didn’t burn down? My mom had told me that it had and that she had seen a news clip of it on TikTok. I had kinda forgotten about it before I bothered to google it. Older people who are less familiar with technology are terribly at risk of misinformation and scamming. They are not trained to recognize when something is ai… It’s truly troubling…

[@ironmountain7907]

I totally understand your hatred for AI, but I had to self represent in a custody battle for my son and it was so stressful I couldn’t think and didn’t even know what I had to file with the courts and CHAT GPT saved me. I would ask it to pull up the local laws - boom it was done, I would ask it to compose and opening statements with several key details- DONE, it 100% helped me have access and custody of my son and so I’ll be forever grateful for it.

[@ColeClawson]

I get promoted national park/outdoor content on Facebook a lot and it’s really endearing to see the amount of people posting in comments their real photos and giving stories about visiting and saying how horrible the AI looks😂its been oddly reassuring in a way, like even though AI and tech seem to control our every move we can still get out and do those things before they’re most likely gone

[@Gigi44_Bookworm]

I'm glad to hear you are safe! Currently typing this from southern Oregon near the coast! Also I really hope California makes some serious changes to their forest management practices as they are falling their residents especially with such high taxes. Specifically the lack of clearing brush in the LA area.

[@TAddy-wq3hg]

As an educator: The USA's education system is toast. Our kids don't know how to tell the difference and neither do adults. It's terrifying to watch laziness and selfishness run rampant due to AI overuse and overconsumption. No critical thought. No capability to overcome the slightest inconvenience. It's not everyone, but it's quickly growing to be the majority and that's terrifying. There's a reason I went into the HUMANITIES. Anyway, please use your brain and don't become one of the 48% of illiterate American adults.

[@ronoc9]

This is the problem; these companies so badly want AI to be a set-it-and-forget-it feature, and it just doesn't work that way, because ultimately, at some point, it's going to randomly say a slur for no reason and you'll have no one to blame, no one to fire, and no one to make an example of because you wanted no one left. And that's not hyperbolic; we already have AI telling people to end themselves, or eat poisonous mushrooms, or to drink bleach. Yes, the tech can be impressive, but it's a bit like inventing the A Bomb and immediately selling it as back-up generator. It just doesn't work that way. And that's not even going into the copyright landmine field dead ahead.

[@valbrown3352]

The recap at 12:00 is WILD. Sounds like something someone who hosts a conservative radio show would say.

[@dhrachth1]

I keep doing Google searches and the AI answers don't sound right and there's no easy way to find where it got the answer from, or if it's just hallucinating.

[@foxesofautumn]

I hate how hard it is to opt-out of AI! I also agree that, as a term, it’s overused. Even if it’s just a misnamed algorithm I don’t want to see it. I’m an artist. It’s a trigger-word to be.

[@povgames]

But now you can focus on other things!!

[@lisahoshowsky4251]

As a longtime Facebook and Instagram user, you know what would increase my engagement? Showing me the things I chose to follow!! Controversial I know! Instagram I’m at about a 1 in 4 posts ratio of actually seeing someone I followed vs an ad, sponsored or you might like type post and Facebook has a really bad habit of just not showing me groups I’m in in my feed. They only show like the same maybe 10 groups posts despite me being in dozens. I only really go on Facebook for my groups and I usually now just type them in but I miss scrolling and seeing a recipe or a new art post or someone’s awesome plant organically because its all just ads, click bait, sponsored, and rage bait.

[@lefton4ya]

You need to adjust audio louder and less compressed for the “editor Amanda” segments

[@Claw.00]

If y’all need advice or help with audio, I’d love to chat. A couple tweaks to ur set up/work flow and I’m sure it’ll sound so much better. Love ur videos Swell but that is the one thing that I think needs improvement

[@ilmuoui]

​@@Claw.00Please share your tweaks so I can train my editor AI on it

[@ryanhorton607]

1:40 I just thought of it .. why can't *I* make a fortune off my data? Lol I'm dying here

[@birdec765]

I think Tech suffers from recurring (more than a lot of things) hype cycles (web, cloud) and AI is the latest. It will have its uses but not anywhere near the amount being spent on it. Watching tech for the last 30+ years there are a sort of people that throw tech words around that have learned the usage via context and you can can have a room full of "tech types" that if you listen carefully don't really know what they're talking about. I pity the actual engineers and rather cynically am waiting for human silliness to kick in, it will take a few years but until then I'll pick my stocks and timing carefully🙂

[@VanessaChats]

There's already AI Influencers. They've been around for awhile now and they're getting brand deals. There's a book I wish everyone in this modern era would have as mandatory reading/listening: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat (Author) It really gives you an insight into what is happening (and has happened since it's now sadly starting to become outdated due to being a book). Yet Mo knows what he's speaking about and how we can survive this AI world.

[@Emmuzka]

AI doesn't have to be generative. Companies can use it for example gathering and analyzing information in a volume that couldn't be done othervise. And gathering data by itself has no moral. For example, to get genuine sustainability information about a product (how it's resourcing, production, transport, storage, use and end-of-life affect environment, water use, ethical work, animal welfare, circular economy, climate change...) require so much data that it couldn't be do just using sustainability specialists. "I hate all AI!" is like saying "I hate internet!" or "I hate television!". It means nothing. What you do with it, or do against doing evil with it, matters.

[@Kazooples]

It feels like they’re actively trying to deter people from reading Edit: by they I don’t mean fable, just AI bros

[@mitchellmooso7658]

Look at me watching swell videos at work 1 minute after the video drops

[@al_chem_i_cal]

I unfortunately took on an AI training job after being out of work for months. It is the most mind-numbing, soul crushing work you can imagine.

[@vodkalatke]

Do you mind saying what the job is? What does the work involve? Thank you, I'm interested in your opinion

[@littleleafykins]

As a graphic designer, the only reason I want to hear 'I made this in AI' is if you made it in Adobe Illustrator-and even then, Adobe is its own mess.

[@Thevlogboy1]

Any company that uses AI in this way, makes obvious AI ads or videos, or anything else of that sort is an IMMEDIATE delete from me.

[@evilnudibranch]

Fun fact- my walking aid uses ai and its pretty sweet.

[@Keychaine]

My latest grievance with AI comes from every app's incessant need to shove AI options into all of my apps. Meta has stuck little AI buttons by their search and chat bars so you'll at the very least hit it on accident at some point. So annoying

[@iaredoge1971]

I run a very small business and a majority of my marketing is done through Instagram. During covid I had to temporarily shut down my operations which left me without content to post severely impacting how the algorithm selected my content to be shown to my followers. It's been almost 5 years and I have yet to be able to regain anything near my original engagement rates and sales. I'm a little concerned about how not just flooding people's feeds with AI generated content but also making it so that I am unable to gauge at first glance whether the people viewing my post are actually people or not is going to affect my business. 😒

[@AlKohaiMusic]

As a user of LLMs a few years back was that was that it felt like research to see if this numerical indexing of words and the probable next indices to reach numerical representation of the subject you prompted and follow through. It was novel, it was showing patterns in language can be used to Mashup ideas in a way that can often be inspiring or a diamond in the rough conceptually. And God dammit were there so many disclaimers and communications that these modules will lie, they are trained on inperfect data they are not a repetior of facts. But like circa 2021 2022 it felt like all those guard rails and disclaimers and explicit acknowledgement that these AI arent meaningfully cognizant . They aren't general AI, they are programs that whittle down and itterate noise into its best guess what the user wants to see or hear or read by comparing its noise to the desired reference. Reference we all know is being scraped without permission from everywhere. Not just the Guttenburg library

[@noxrim]

Yessss dude the way companies are trying to present AI as this magic little box that has all the knowledge in the universe and can be the solution to anything is sooo irresponsible. It’s a calculator spitting out words, it does not think about what it’s saying or have concepts of morality or truthiness, it’s just spitting out patterns of words it found on the internet. It may be good at summarizing or aggregating information but that is just a side effect of the sheer amount of human-generated data they pumped through it, sourced from anywhere they could scrape data from without being caught

[@EavandersCavern]

No, no, no. Amanda, you should be doing this video on those new Tesla AI robots and the video of the guy marketing them saying "we can make it look like *whoever* you want" 🤢🤢 -- this stuff has gone beyond AI art and deep fakes 😣 I'm seriously scared for our future

[@xrnxz555]

what happened to getting banned or blocked on instagram for having bots and now they are implementing AI bots for “engagement”??

[@avalithgow541]

Hey Amanda, I bought something using one of your affiliate codes from a certain watch and jewelry brand you worked with. I usually trust you since you’re so transparent about the kind of brands you work with. However this brand was a total ripoff. Turns out they resell cheap watches made in China you can find on sites like temu at an insane markup. Cost me a lot and cost even more to return, thoughts?

[@VVVU2x]

Y'know how teachers tell you not to use Wikipedia for your research paper? AI should be treated the same way, but it's like the big companies don't get the memo

[@Samantha_76]

The ad read was an old school videos in front of the door flashback!

[@sergeantSanjipants]

I hate that I must interact with AI but the thing I hate more is that it is using up all the water and power. I find it phenomenal that humans must pay for water and electricity but (for example) chatGPT can just use as much basically for free (I’m sure most users use the free version) - it is so dystopian I can’t respond with anything besides anger.

[@KingOfGaymes]

AI should never be used for creative things, only for difficult jobs and such. AI should make life easier so we can INDULGE in our hobbies and creativity, not have AI do those for us

[@thylionheart]

It’s invading fandom spaces, too, and I loathe it. I’m currently hyperfixating on Stranger Things and the amount of fake AI “scenes” or “fanart” that I’ve seen is appalling. If anyone else has seen that _awful_ fake wedding AI image where Eleven is fully bald, looks like a child, and has a veil basically glued to her scalp, then you know what I’m talking about.

[@DGMbeats]

Honestly, nice to see that other people are just as annoyed and tired of this ai oversaturation