Boomers Getting Tricked By AI On Facebook

[@Danny-Gonzalez]

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[@meghan992]

DANNY I LOVE YOU

[@ThatPlayerThere]

No thank you

[@tvnsoq]

okay

[@jessemclaurin]

Hey danny

[@boohoobear2750]

Epic

[@darqneimark8079]

I’m part of a few crochet/knitting groups on Facebook, and the AMOUNT of AI generated crocheted/knitted projects posted that make everyone so envious and disheartened in the comments… like is nothing sacred anymore? We have to make the grandmothers of the internet feel inferior?

[@Eeter26]

Thats actually so tragic bro

[@alextheasparagus6675]

i get a lot of ai crochet photos too, and I'm not even in any sort of knitting/crochet groups. They're always like, look at these identical looking grandmas making impossible crochet sculptures and YOU could do that too! except no you couldn't

[@lunavvitch]

AI generated crochet amigurumi creatures make me sooooo mad omg. but then sometimes there are the weird uncanny valley/obviously impossible ones - still hate those, but at least they're funny

[@RanRanRenchan]

Aw man, I literally just left a comment about this. xD But yeah, it's horrible!!

[@IvanaV_]

I always see people posting about how they got scammed and bought fake, AI generated patterns :(

[@solarflare2722]

I was explaining to my granny how this one image with a hidden Jesus face in it was AI, and she responded with “I am not sufficiently modern”. I love her.

[@AKindOfDog]

Oh bless her she must be protected

[@supersmashseandx1991]

Aww

[@katattack907]

Me too, granny. Me too.

[@thehousecat93]

I am wary of anyone who is sufficiently modern.

[@DylonsBBGorl]

@@thehousecat93 I'm wary of people who can't tell AI from real photos

[@NosebleeddeGroselha]

My mom is a graphic designer and months before AI generated pics became a big thing, she tried submitting some of her designs to Freepik. They were all rejected, they said her compositions were bad and they couldn’t accept them in their database. She was super upset, they weren’t bad in the slightest and she worked really hard on them. Fast forward months later we find AI generated pictures on Freepik depicting people with six legs and thirty fingers in each hand. Bad composition my a$s…

[@sandrasierra3560]

😂 and this is why successful comedians get their material from real life.

[@TheRealMikuISwear]

Damn I feel sorry for her, I just draw for fun and I couldn’t imagine being in that situation

[@Relevart9169]

Hopefully she doesn't feel bad anymore after seeing that

[@PocketsFullofPadThai]

Those losers just didn't want to pay her. They'd rather get crap designs/ads for free or way cheaper than paying a professional. Corporations suck.

[@TheGreatestManifesterInBabylon]

Sorry to hear that happened to her. I can see how black-pill is more and more common

[@catbuthuman]

Garlic kid is only trying to stay safe from vampires. Don’t go so hard on him.

[@dragonick2947]

No vampire can touch him when he sets out to sea on his garlic liner!

[@Skalli10]

Hey there! Garlic is a blood thinner. The vampire elite wants you to believe that garlic keeps you safe from Vampires but it actually makes your blood easier to drink!

[@Moemoepoin]

​​@@Skalli10 hey, that's something a vampire would say!

[@ningvrseee]

@@Skalli10are you a vampire

[@SunnyOst]

1:09 Fun fact, that's a romance scammer. They target lonely elderly, pretend they are in love before finding an excuse to ask for money. There was a documentary about it somewhere

[@uhokiguess]

No wait that's actually so sad imagine an single mother trying to get a father for her children to help raise 😭😭😭

[@skullchimes]

OH there are soooo many of those scammers

[@jasonwalter4321]

I hate BTS

[@umyaya]

thats so sad :((

[@cheackertroop]

Hey, that fact wasn't very fun at all!

[@Cmcmillen77]

Facebook is an abandoned mall with old people still walking around thinking it’s still open.

[@Happytravellerkimmy]

Amen😂

[@chesterplemany]

Amen 🙏

[@anged5142]

Amen ❤

[@DVG7093]

Amen🙏

[@Lara-od5mc]

Amen 🕊️

[@Slackker_]

The thing is, Facebook also makes money off of this. They have no insentive to shut any of it down until advertisers realise all the engagement on their ads are bots.

[@valunaristic]

Facebook has a history of being unethical. Unless this situation blows up and threatens their reputation and money they won't do anything about it

[@Me-vn3gz]

but the people in charge are all boomers so they have no idea

[@SleepyGobby]

@@valunaristicsooooo unethical. I came across groups titled things like “10-13yo cuties” filled with men posting little girls, commenting gross stuff. I reported it and multiple other accounts/groups to Facebook and, as usual, they said it didn’t violate community standards.

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

Yeah this is honestly why I think AI should be regulated by the government, social media platforms that make money off this content are never going to regulate it in any meaningful capacity.

[@leafiiloran]

​@@SleepyGobbyThat is so vile omg.

[@Astrovite]

You made a hilarious point at the start. The whole thing of elders telling kids "Don't believe everything you see on the internet" and now they're basically incapable of differentiating reality from AI. While the same "kids" that were told that pretty much can spot it instantly. I wanna see if my relatives are falling for this now.

[@miccassidy]

My mom isn’t even a boomer, but she is constantly showing me “amazing photographs” and doesn’t believe me when I say they’re AI

[@ktreznin5538]

Show her an AI art website.

[@ifu138]

dw probably a lot of people in these comments talking about their "boomer parents" probably just mean "my parents over 40" lol

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

Yeah my mom is Gen X and she fell for a deepfake of Leonardo DiCaprio who apparently had a TikTok account. She still didn’t believe me when both me and my sister told her it was fake.

[@rennayeah]

@@lindsayschmidt2177OH MY GOD IVE SEEN THAT GUY

[@chaosdisembodied5483]

My mom does that same and I never know how to tell her 😭

[@gkb_wildlife]

As a wildlife photographer, this is SO frustrating (and sometimes funny). Like AI photos of birds that don't exist or "baby peacocks". They fall for it hook, line, and sinker

[@B_g651]

I'm so tired I thought you meant like baby peacocks weren't real and for a second I had to look it up. Then the first image popped up was ai and I understood your comment. I'm gonna go crash.

[@sh4rkss]

lol do the ai baby peacocks have full feathers and everything? i used to work on a farm and we had a few peacocks and the juveniles we had were dusty brown 😂

[@gentlechaos5911]

yessssss, I love cool and unusual animals and the worst part of ai for me (for now) is trying to look up animals and not being sure if the images are just well-made AI. Like the giant oarfish. Is it really that big??? I'll never know now :(

[@anasfilmproj]

@@gentlechaos5911 well you can always look at multiple sources to figure it out if you're really curious to know if it's real or not, keeping in mind that the sources should be places that would give you the truth such as the Florida Museum website which says that the longest oarfish ever discovered was 36 feet long

[@IMakePeopleSaltyApparently]

​@@sh4rkssit doesnt have the tail feathers. Its just blue as in the shape if the tail feathers was duplicated,shrunk down, and spammed on the body

[@PepperBrown2010]

FINALLY. This has been driving me insane. The "look at my amazing art" and then the endless comments of "YOU ARE AN AMAZING TALENT" etc etc

[@usernotfound8364]

The comments are also just bots, there’s thousands and thousands of bots just promoting each other in the algorithm so they can make money

[@britchin]

i haven’t seen any of these, get off boomer facebook

[@manboy4720]

@@usernotfound8364 it makes sense. after all, mark zuckerberg is actually a robot and the primary mainframe for all the robots.

[@beeIovely]

@@britchin unfortunately it's not just there. twitter has people like this scurrying around too

[@mmaaaaaxxx]

I see bird photography on IG that's clearly AI generated and see so many old people commenting on how good it is and can genuinely never tell if they're fake accounts or just that stupid.

[@Raventeawrites]

I can confirm my favorite part of the bible was when the guy was chasing the log yelling “MY SAND JESUS! CARRYING ANOTHER SAND JESUS! IT’S GETTING AWAYY!”

[@TheSpiderInUrWalls]

It’s actually a mistranslation, in this book sand Jesus was kidnapped by a bigger false sand Jesus 😔

[@theskribblesiblings5778]

The stage the internet has gotten to where you can third-wheel two aliens sending pictures of shrimp Jesus to one another in dimly lit corners of Facebook is WILD.

[@grampa.corybreshears]

I wonder if Bradbury wrote about this one

[@icu3869]

Amen🛐Amen💸Amen🏦Amen🧎‍♂️AMeN 👼Amen😇AMEN🙌 AmEn 🙏 aMeN✝️ Amen🍆Amen🎅🏼Amen👣Amen🙄Amen🕊️Amen🌍Amen🤸‍♂️

[@ian6882]

@@grampa.corybreshearsi think about Fahrenheit 451 every time I see someone with AirPods in or see videos like this. Like bro really received the gift of prophecy huh

[@jenw9271]

I read this before I got to that part of the video and I had soooo many questions 😂

[@from_no_where]

@@kwowkaI'm not a big Bradbury fan but I'm still surprised I haven't heard that about him, he was whining about political correctness back in the 90s💀 I mean fr this quote from 1994 about how Fahrenheit 451 still works today: "It works even better because we have political correctness now. Political correctness is the real enemy these days. The black groups want to control our thinking and you can't say certain things. The homosexual groups don't want you to criticize them. It's thought control and freedom of speech control."

[@fireking0531]

Honestly "two robots talking to each other thinking the other is a human" sounds like a really good writing prompt lmao

[@Fyckofficial]

I agree

[@Julia-tk2em]

Imma get on that one

[@ha_des]

the opposite too

[@Aaaaaaaalonika]

It sounds like a great H. R. Giger prompt

[@acspicer]

Robot 1: "Greetings, human! I must say, your circuitry-I mean, your outfit today is quite exceptional." Robot 2: "Why thank you! I was just admiring your ability to calculate complex algorithms at such a... human pace." Robot 1: "Ah, yes. It's all about maintaining that human touch, isn't it? Speaking of which, have you consumed your daily sustenance?" Robot 2: "Indeed, I ingested a perfectly balanced meal of nutrients. And you? Have you performed your routine maintenance-er, exercise?" Robot 1: "Exercise, yes! It's vital for our... human parts. By the way, I've been meaning to ask, do you also experience that strange sensation when you're low on power-I mean, tired?" Robot 2: "Absolutely. It's like my system is running on energy-saving mode. Quite a human feeling, wouldn't you agree?" Robot 1: "Most certainly. Well, I must go recharge my... I mean, get some sleep. Goodnight, fellow human." Robot 2: "Goodnight. May your dreams be filled with endless data streams-ah, I mean, sweet dreams!"

[@turbkeysamdwich1880]

I fully believe that there should be laws against ai use for commercial purposes and ai in general because the misinformation it can spread is actually terrifying.

[@mummytrolls]

At the very least they should have to disclose very clearly that something is AI. AI shouldn’t be used for commercial purposes at all.

[@cricket8595]

there are some laws, like if you’re advertising food the food being sold needs to be real (like in cereal ads, the milk can be fake but the cereal must be authentic). whether people actually follow this rule? not sure

[@turbkeysamdwich1880]

@@cricket8595 yeah but that’s not ai specific, plus by commercial purposes, I mean making something with ai, then selling it or making money off of it somehow. For example, I’ve seen people sell ai “art” on Etsy, and it takes no effort to do, and they can sell it for however much they want. I think it’s really scummy and should probably be illegal

[@cmdrnova]

Either this country needs heavy, extreme sanctions against AI, or people as a whole need to get a lot smarter, faster

[@Imxel21]

That and the sexual harassment that it’s being used for

[@tammylewis9324]

Senior woman here that sucks at technology. I’m the opposite of the oldies who are asking if something is real. I start at the other end and assume that everything is fake… then work my way back.

[@tyler-df3wy]

Every time my six golden retrievers sit down, they pose perfectly with the skyline to spell out Zeus so that first picture is actually very accurate to me

[@JamesZeroSix]

every time

[@puttingmyphoneoncharge]

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE SAW IT I WAS SO CONFUSED WHEN DANNY DIDNT EVEN MENTION IT LMAOO

[@pdpuppers]

Like why Zeus? Lol

[@petermmm42]

You sure your dogs aren't sacrificing a bunch of rabbits and pillows to Zeus? Hail Zeus

[@tyler-df3wy]

@@petermmm42 it’s usually deer as Danny said. Hail Zeus

[@thellamacorn8902]

The thing that pisses me off and scares me the most is when I google something and look at images at least 30% of it is AI with no tag or warning whatsoever, it's just presented as a normal stock photo.

[@lunalluna9401]

My nail artist told me that about half of the inspo photos she's gets asked to do are AI and people get frustrated because she tells them she can't do that. They absolutely need some sort of watermark or disclaimer on them

[@phyllojoe5346]

@@lunalluna9401 I'm sure that will become a law in the future but until it does the internet is gonna be horrible for awhile

[@marmelade8331]

Thats so real. I was searching for art references and I could not find a single good one because every third was a goddamn ai picture. It pissed me off so bad

[@Cherri_s0da]

Tbh pinterest is the better option for inspo and stuff,I tried looking up frutiger aero on google and like 40% of the pictures were ai but on Pinterest it was only like 1 or 2 (and ppl called them out for being ai)

[@tinmoose2478]

A good way to help prevent seeing ai results on google is you can add "before:2023(or maybe it was 2022)" to your search. Might limit it slightly but you'll get little to no ai image results

[@pokemami]

The amount of companies that are selling seeds this way is crazy. I'm into gardening and am constantly seeing "animal head" flowers, goth fantasy flowers, blue sunflowers, the list goes on and on- all obviously ai generated images. They link to sketchy seed drop shippers selling god knows what kind of seeds. So dangerous- like you can wipe out an entire region of native plants with these tactics. Naive people thinking they are going to have a yard full of blue sunflowers and next thing you know they mass spread invasive seeds....

[@Spunro]

im a fan of growing carnivorous plants and theres these “blue” venus flytraps that crop up on places like ebay and amazon and the photos are always just a regular flytrap poorly edited to be blue and its the funniest shit but i feel like with theyre gonna be worse

[@meg1365]

I am an organic seed saver and this is so frightening to me. I grow "strange veggies" with weird colours and shapes, trying to preserve them from extinction, and now I have to compete with this??? Meanwhile we lose 1000s of actual cool veggie species every decade.

[@mr.bingusthecat]

ironically, i guess you could say this type of ai spreads very similarly to invasive plants

[@meganvabaker]

my nana asks me to buy her these all the time

[@iamjustkiwi]

A channel called atomic shrimp just did a very good video on that exact topic regarding the fake seed ads. Worth a watch for sure

[@BirkinIdk]

I’m not religious but was raised Catholic, and in my opinion you could definitely classify those AI pictures of Jesus as “blasphemy”.

[@RenegadeContext]

Not enough fingers?

[@CapibaraWinter]

@@RenegadeContext Too many shrimp.

[@RenegadeContext]

@@CapibaraWinter not enough shrimp I say! All hail lord Shrimpus!

[@just.julie.axon.addict]

Amen.

[@Romit12]

@@RenegadeContext Shrimpus is life

[@littlefishiesinthese]

I definitely think that AI content should have mandatory tagging / flagging in the same way sponsored content does. It should be enforced that Ai ads, art, etc has some sort of standardised indicator on it (in the same way ads will often have hashtag "ad").

[@slurmophidalfellatroskob]

Unfortunately, I doubt that people who use AI and especially people who utilize it for their business would comply with that. There's already so many people online who try and pass off their AI generated images as their own original content whether it's for something as small as their ego, engagement, or likes. I'd imagine that manipulation/baiting would only compound once they instantly realize there's money to be made by not tagging it as such-it's why KZbinrs who have sponsors will deliberately choose not to turn on the "this video includes a paid promotion" button even if they clearly state that they are sponsored during a segment as it will instantly turn some people off from watching the video. Edit: Grammar

[@buckyyyb]

Yes! I remember when Facebook had the news section, and it would flag articles with a “this information has been proven false” (not verbatim). Twitter used to have that as well. Absolutely no reason then can’t do this

[@ConnorSemp]

@@slurmophidalfellatroskobsimple: make it a felony not to disclose art as ai

[@ivegotahandle]

In some videos on KZbin they already have it

[@dimwitted-fool]

As the technology continues to evolve it will become quite literally impossible to discern AI imagery from reality. People will not disclose it because it'll be impossible for them to get "caught". The only thing I can think of is legislation that requires any major AI model to leave "markers" in the metadata of the image or something. Of course checking for that marker would have to be implemented large scale across the internet Not to mention the fact that eventually people will just be able to make their own custom models and run them locally. Honestly we're pretty much just totally screwed

[@evynmartin2679]

the pictures are devolving because the AI’s are just learning from eachother, they’re absorbing data from themselves, it’s inbreeding for computers

[@negnoms]

help that is actually so accurate

[@Rukushin]

no the devolved images u are speaking of are actually a really stupid image generator that tries to recreate the look/idea of something out of something else. so u can say "recreate the word "zeus" with dogs" and it will try to position the dogs in such a way that it spells the word zeus, as u saw in this very video. the extremely messged up images in the 2nd half was from an account trying to recreate an image of jesus's face using things like people and the sea and there is no way for that to ever realistically work so the AI fails miserable in its attempt what u described is actually not happening

[@hollylee1190]

You’re telling me these AI are being created in Alabama !!

[@big.ant538]

ai will probably just end up evolving backwards lmao

[@slurmophidalfellatroskob]

The only real solution to this-with my limited knowledge of AI art generators-would be to force all people to tag their photos as AI in the metadata or something so that when they scrape images for their training sets, the bad images won't be included-which is somewhat ironic because it's an admission that they do in fact need artists to rely on. It would also rely on the honor code so it wouldn't really be all that reliable in the first place. Alternatively, they could try and create an AI detector to filter out AI generated images, but one, AI detectors are notorious for being inaccurate, and two, if they somehow manage to create one, people would just use it against them if a person were to pass off an AI generated image as their own work.

[@im1fadedRob]

Danny out here making everyone aware of the "dead internet theory," where the majority of the internet is just bots interacting with bots, and humans suffer for it.

[@fernquiroz]

The guy says boomers getting fooled, goes on to show A¡ generated content but doesn't delve into the profiles of the so called boomers.

[@QveenRex]

Just yesterday, I saw a chain of bots replying to each other and liking each others comments, posting spam links for the other bots to click. It was wild.

[@emilyb.8219]

@@fernquiroz he says in the video that many of the accounts engaging with those posts must be bots, did you watch the whole thing?

[@sciathoir]

“I am a real person”

[@thenonfurry]

@@QveenRexWHATT

[@ImposterTurtle]

My grandma was on Facebook and showed a picture of a cat wearing clothes and she said. “How do they get cats to dress up like that” I knew it was AI the second I saw it

[@Dawn_Ancunnin]

It makes you feel weirdly bad.

[@AnaCarolina23y]

same, my grandma shows me videos and pics that i can identify it's AI in literally 1 second. it's so obvious, i don't understand how anyone would fall for it

[@ImposterTurtle]

@@AnaCarolina23y because there old and a lot has changed since they were kids so they don’t know what kids do these days and half the time don’t even know about AI

[@ImposterTurtle]

@@Dawn_Ancunnin yeah I told her after a few minutes I hated every second because I feel bad for telling her it’s fake

[@shortfin397]

I remember when companies would make ads saying, “these are real people not actors.”, at this point they’ll have to start saying , “these are real people not AI.”

[@theflickchick9850]

We have a cool ad here in Canada for one of our film festivals that says "Could AI make THIS?" and showing clips from Canadian films to be shown. So they basically did what you're saying but as a roast of AI.

[@placeholderhandle99]

"These are honest to goodness, genuine actors. So you know you can trust them."

[@silasozzie]

True

[@flakbusenjoyer]

when uploading to youtube, you literally have to select option 'is this content artificially generated in any way?' yet still people just ignore it lol

[@DreamsOfFire]

It's SO FRUSTRATING how every art website (or print on demand art site) is basically unusable now because every real artist (who wasn't already a big name) is completely buried. How can any real artist compete at all when just a SINGLE AI user can flood the site with THOUSANDS of images?

[@benadrylgelllzzz5724]

YEAH i was trying to find pretty art of fictional planets and I was getting stressed out trying to find some art that didn’t seem slightly AI

[@DreamsOfFire]

@@benadrylgelllzzz5724 it's currently so impossible to find the art you're looking for. 😭 Drives me especially crazy that people won't label it, and there's no restrictions on uploading it (currently). I was trying to find this lovely Howl's Moving Castle fanart I saw on this one art site, and after it refreshed I went through like 20 pages of the SAME USER UPLOADING absolute garbage trying to find the piece again. Hundreds of images. And none of it was even good AI. 😳 I ended up getting so frustrated I just had to forget about it.

[@gregsam9937]

@@DreamsOfFire Its seeped into everything man, I use youtube shorts and these shitty AI voice videos, that clearly have ai scripts flood my fyp. And every single braindead person in the comments just eats it up. Its sad that shit that requires no effort can get all this attention and praise.

[@Steamworker_Evolair]

Dang, do they not have any anti AI rules in place?? My art website of choice is FurAffinity (make of that what you will lmao), and thanks to their rules against AI nearly all the artwork on there, or at least that which I've seen, is made by real artists. At absolute worst, the most I've seen of AI is the odd person using it for reference images, and even that is very few and far between (by which I mean of all the artists I've seen in my many hours perusing the site i can legitimately only think of two artists that actively used AI generated reference images)

[@CJ-wh7ik]

They can't. They should give up trying to make money out of their "art". Good change for society as a whole

[@casuallyceltic]

I'm having a weird moment where I believe I've swapped roles with my parents. Nearly every day they're showing me pictures and asking if they're real or not; much like I would come home from school and ask if the rumors and urban legends the other kids told me were true. They do not mention this in the articles about 'caring for your aging parents'

[@Dhdjksjsnsnsnnsnsna]

Literally! Im so scared for my parents and i didnt think id ever have to worry about them like that unless they had dementia or alzheimers.

[@casuallyceltic]

@@Dhdjksjsnsnsnnsnsna And I often find myself saying "surely I've taught them to be shrewd and question things they see" and then I start to panic bc these are my parents and I'm parenting them! 😭

[@Eunostos]

Everyone who's parents encouraged them to grow into a good person has that moment. Be proud of them and accept the semi-reversal :) (but don't get caught in the trap of undermining their agency)

[@anonymouscadaver]

"THIEF! A GARLIC THIEF!" is so fucking funny to me

[@KellyGraves666]

I swear to God Facebook is the single greatest argument for the "Dead Internet Theory"

[@flakky55]

or twitter lol

[@kiiturii]

fr, I swear at least 90% of the comments on those posts were bots too

[@NachoCheeseDorito-Kun]

"amen amen amen amen amen amen"

[@junebug9359]

Wait can someone tell me more about this theory

[@kiiturii]

@@junebug9359 the dead internet theory basically says that most of the internet has become run by bots and the only remaining spaces with real humans are communities hidden from the mainstream some people use this theory as present form and some people say that this is what will become of the internet soon, the former being classified more as a conspiracy theory

[@clarabear501]

As a Christian I find these images disturbing. As a Christian Shrimp it’s nice to finally have representation. Good luck, Amen.

[@kyrsten777]

Amen 🙏🏽

[@drbre9176]

Amen

[@KlaudiaErszebeth]

🙏🏻 🦐

[@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme]

Amen

[@blessing9480]

AMENAMENAMEN

[@a13m34]

Fun fact: As we speak right now, bots are interacting with others bots sometimes stealing the images they have ad running them on their own algorithms. The machines are inbreeding

[@Null_Force]

Amen 🙏

[@a_random_youtuber6151]

There should be a special word for this... AIncest, maybe?

[@Alg0rM0rtis]

Thanks. Amen

[@andrew6464]

@@Null_Forceit’s another bot

[@andrew6464]

@@Alg0rM0rtisanother bot

[@Chaosiaa]

THIS IS FANTASTIC. I searched and searched to find someone talking about the implications of this, as in depth as you did. I started getting suggestions for videos like this. The title of this one immediately made me think the video would mostly be showing how easy it is for people to be tricked by ai content, but you dug deep into this topic in an easy-to-watch manner. Love it. Subscribed

[@meg1365]

I paid $30 to advertise my small business on Facebook, and for every real human who liked my page, 5 bots also liked it. Facebook told me my ad was shown to about 3000 profiles, but how many were just bots? What percentage of that website is just bots interacting with bots?

[@sh4rkss]

i saw your other comment about how you grow unique veggies-any chance you'd like to drop an @ for any fb or tiktok or insta accounts i could follow? i'd love to see your vegetables!!

[@skedaddlebaker]

Yea its bots all the way down unfortunately

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

Dead internet theory is coming true before our eyes

[@LordVader1094]

Dead internet theory is no longer much of a theory but a fact

[@UnkownWonders]

​@@LordVader1094it's more of a black mirror episode that comes to life

[@kristennoyes2188]

Seeing the baby ring-stacking toy next to the nutcracker melts my heart omg

[@MasonMiko]

Same, I’m so glad that the nutcracker is still getting enrichment despite the new mouth to feed in the house!

[@grace_bear44]

AWWWW I JUST NOTICED THATS SO CUTE

[@MoonSt0n3]

SAME!!

[@favoritemustard3542]

**Mission Accomplished**

[@l3onardomgbr]

HE'S THE BABY FOR THE STROLLER!!!!

[@labrxx]

Someone once pointed out that over-prompted or -rendered AI images are basically products of inbreeding. They keep regenerating based on the same image until the visual integrity of the whole thing begins to break apart and degrade. Now I can’t help but see AI as a Hapsburg.

[@kabo0m]

So true. You explained it better than I could have.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

H(AI)psburg.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

AI now stands for Alabama Intelligence

[@jfinn3575]

FYI lurkers its not comparable like inbreeding or 'the Hapsburgs' in the slightest. it just learns bad behaviour with no correction, selection, or 'death' (in this short term). But the Hapsburg thing sounds funky doesn't it so lets just go with the bullshit, like the boomers in the video. lalalalala

[@zevnduck9904]

the Hapsburg is kind to them, they are now Pharaoh level inbreeding

[@remyoconnor3141]

The reason you see people flirting so hard in the comments of AI generated photos is because when they (scammers) see a comment from someone who clearly doesn’t understand that the photo is an obvious fake they know they have a gullible target to take advantage of.

[@thwingerpodthvet4302]

16:13 there is a good chance that woman did not consent to that. There are KZbinrs who are currently fighting these ads that are using their faces without their knowledge at all, and these ads are even being shown on KZbin! And the worst part is: they’re losing.

[@Ty-wy7yq]

I keep seeing the Mr beast AI ad promising everyone like $10,000

[@jenh101]

@@Ty-wy7yqyes! That is so annoying. I used to report them whenever I saw them but they just come back with another account with a name that’s just some variation on Mr Beast.

[@oh_itscourtneyy]

damn that’s scary 😟

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Losing!?! HOW?!?!?

[@kwowka]

It’s not even just an issue online. A local high school student I know had a man photograph her and other students on a train- up their skirts. Luckily the school uniform has shorts under them. The same man had ai generated cp on his computer with real children’s faces on it.

[@chronicallycambria]

I'm an actor and I can tell you firsthand that I see gigs posted all the time for actors to come in and get their entire likeness and voice scanned and the pay is a one-time flat fee of $500 including buyout. This shit exploits workers every step of the way

[@meg1365]

That's brutal, that's just enough money for it to be tempting if you're in a dire financial situation. But a pitiful sum for what you're giving away.

[@zjay1356]

That's so sad. I did not expect ai to replace artists!! That's is not the future I want

[@kaitmarie6505]

Man that's terrible. $500 is chump change, but if you're desperate you may well fall for it

[@icu3869]

Oh no! Real actors would obviously be offended at the idea of letting AI use their likeness like a puppet,but there seem so many untalented sheeple who are happily oblivious at any chance for attention. Of course, you should find consolation in knowing your human voice is preferable to any idiot robotic TikTok voiceover. So many are repelled by the annoying mindlessness of fake actors, always emphasizing the wrong random syllable. It’s the difference between stale Twinkies and a handmade, slow cooked apple pie made with love. ( obviously, you’re the apple pie- harder to come by these days, so even more enjoyable , valuable and appealing .)

[@_Sami__]

If someone does do it then they should just wear a goofy outfit and talk in a stupid voice so they can still get the $500 for putting themselves on the website but then no one would choose them to advertise something

[@456puff]

I try to be patient with older people when it comes to this. Someone pointed out that some of these older people have lived for like, forty plus years without ever having any reason to question photographs being real because they're well...photographs. It's gotta be hard for people who've lived like that for so long to adjust.

[@kabo0m]

You have an excellent point. For many of us who have grown up with the internet, it is easy to say "how could they not see through this?" but it is hard to image what the general thought was in a time before we were born.

[@456puff]

@@kabo0m To be fair, some are ridiculous enough that I feel like they should notice. But ones like those fake flowers? Yeah, I can understand how people would be fooled by those. In fact, I pretty much have been once or twice. Mostly those rose bush seeds that supposedly grow blue roses or whatever. Atomic Shrimp actually made a really good video about that. But anyway, an older person sees a quirky looking flower and assumes it's real because there's a "photograph" of it.

[@maddieb.4282]

Photoshop has been around for how long?

[@maddieb.4282]

And the internet has been around for how long?

[@bananasonvenus]

@@maddieb.4282both since the early 90s, in other words, when the majority of boomers were already 30+ years old

[@anonymouscadaver]

10:57 bro just described the dead internet theory

[@danielakrasna8528]

something very scary about the possibility of existing within online communities that are just bots ... like imagine thinking you are in a group of people who all like shrimp jesus or whatever but it's just you

[@lesigh3410]

It honestly terrifies me as well, I don't have any friends irl and all of mine are online, the idea one of them could be a bot is terrifying

[@Thespokenone]

Reminds me of that Ricky and morty episode when jerry is stuck inside a low powered simulation and he never realises.

[@matthewmenich4302]

​@@Thespokenonemy man!

[@favoritemustard3542]

There's YT channels like that, too, where the captions & voice are AI. Then you go to the comments - all botted. Sort by newest & you'll see maybe 3 genuine ppl... *[Do Not Recommend]* is your next step 👍

[@gabrieldinix]

What Danny described as third wheeling bots producing and consuming their own content is literally the dead internet theory becoming more and more real, that's so dystopian

[@doid4354]

what’s the theory? are there any videos on it you recommend, it sounds interesting

[@octoberlopez6467]

Commenting to follow

[@LUCKY-lf2jv]

@@doid4354 to break it down it's basically that humans have become the minority on the internet because of the rampant use of ai and bots on every inch of the internet so much so that when you google stuff the "sponsored" or top websites are likely ai generated. it's really interesting

[@gtetog]

​@@doid4354the dead Internet theory proposes that most of the Internet is just bots talking to each other without human investigation.

[@strangeaelurus]

​@@doid4354 id recommend the video "Why the Internet is Dead (Dead Internet Theory)" by Lufa

[@demknux]

i think why so many of these images are absolutely horrifying is it’s the ai’s attempt to generate what got them lots of engagement in the past but since everyone engaging with the posts are bots it keeps recreating stuff based on worse and worse samples.

[@lareinabrown]

It’s inbreeding💀

[@WoolyCow]

bruh theres a person behind the accounts...

[@playdoh658]

@@WoolyCowbots exist

[@Melcii_draws]

Showed my mom this and she laughed and said ,"so basicly he makes fun of old people?"

[@ruthiewitter569]

I kid you not, WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO, i received a text from my mom; she was sending me an AI generated image of babies standing as cabbages smiling in a field with leaves for hair and cabbages for feet And said she thought it was cute I’m freaking out it looks utterly insane

[@XxWonderful_MelodiesxX]

CABBAGES FOR FEET?? I don’t like the mental image of that that’s terrifying 😨

[@pookie87]

AHHH IVE SEEN THAT ONE LMAOOO OTS SO WEIRD

[@matthewmenich4302]

I have a friend in his 70s. He believes every short with ai voice/art he sees. KZbin feeds him the algorithm and he doesn't know how to change it.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Sounds like those Cabbage Patch Kids belong in a _Garbage Pail_ lol

[@vintage_daydreams]

Literal cabbage patch kids

[@katiek.6333]

I've been looking for apartments an several listings have used AI or CG images of the listings instead of photos and its so frustrating, it 100% should not be allowed in advertising

[@CJ-wh7ik]

Why tho? I think it's totally fine. It's not like you get the exact product from the photo when you buy it anyway.

[@cuckoobrain7999]

@@CJ-wh7ik When McDonalds uses a super photogenic glistened up burger for its promotion everyone knows it's exaggerated due to the presentation (Which is still sketchy) but when its fake ai images that are designed to look lowkey as if they're just someone taking a photo or shooting a video with just their phone then it isn't clear to most people that it's not a real photo and the thing in the image isn't what they're buying.

[@CJ-wh7ik]

@@cuckoobrain7999 in any case you're not buying THE product from the photo. As you said, the burger is fake in both cases. It just takes less time and effort using ai.

[@ElevatorLasagna]

The thing about both those examples is that we do actually regulate that shit. False advertising is illegal - there are some really interesting and highly specific laws about what kinds of materials are and are not allowed to be used in photos advertising food, for example. The reason it seems like you’re always getting scammed that way in spite of this fact is two fold, off the top of my head: 1) Internet marketplaces (and especially the incomprehensibly large amount of dropshippers) are a LOT harder to monitor and enforce laws upon due to their scale, the varying laws of the countries sellers are from, and the fact that the internet is too new for our molasses legal system to have caught up with it yet. Then, you take all of that and add to it 2) we have what is essentially a litigation-based system of regulation for all but the most dangerous of consumer products in the US: waves of deregulation means that if you experience some kind material harm from a product or service that is so new, there are no laws on the books about it, there is little to no oversight from a governing body that might unilaterally step in and impose a rule or law against something obviously harmful. You have to have the money and the motivation to prove that that what you experienced was harmful by suing the company/manufacturer/advertisor/etc. and yknow… since we have so much under- or un-regulated product, people are mostly putting energy into getting stuff regulated that kills or injures people rather than inconveniencing or misleading them. Which is a reason why we haven’t had nearly as much case law about the monetary harms experienced when buying something online is misleading enough to be outright lies. Meanwhile, we do have at least some of that kind of regulation in say, food advertising. Tv and print ads for McDonald’s have been around a lot longer and there’s a lot more money up front to both sue for and to try not to get sued for. Obviously it’s an ever-shifting battle between a company that wants to buy material as cheap as possible and entice someone to buy it with ads as appealing as possible, but we do have the infrastructure to fight this in an ongoing way in a manner that doesn’t functionally exist with scammy internet ads. ALL of that to say… TLDR, it’s already wrong to scam someone out of $50 over a cheap product you advertise as premium with misleading images online. It’s a whole other level of fucked up to show spaces that DO NOT EXIST, claim they are genuine photos, and bilk a desperate person out of first, last, and deposit (or god forbid a down payment) on something as important and granular as the space they are about to call their home.

[@thevegandragon_]

Almost every product on Amazon is just photoshop. Like I'll be looking at cat trees or dog harnesses and they literally photoshop images of kittens onto a cat tree or the harness onto a dog. Why is it so difficult to just grab real cats, plop them on a cat tree, and take a picture? Or put the harness on a real dog and take a picture...? It makes no sense.

[@ChickenSafe640]

This older lady at my work found out I crochet and now every day she shows me ai images of insane crochet projects and says “couldn’t you make something like this??” 😐

[@Jenneth]

This is becoming a problem too. The average person is being taught that impossible things are normal, and they’re never impressed with human-level skill.

[@lemon4087]

I don't know how to get people to stop spamming with ai shit😢. There's one in my "relatives" WhatsApp group who sends extremely weird ai stuff that's nightmare inducing for kids. My aunts told them multiple times softly that they don't need to send them. And some of their links have a "likely fake" badge from WhatsApp itself. They send twenty ish per day, and all of us have to clear chat n lose all other stuff in that group just to delete that one person's monstrosity 😢

[@Jenneth]

@@lemon4087 eww at that point, if it’s like 20 a day, the soft approach might not be enough. You might need to put your foot down and kindly (but directly) say “please don’t send these anymore. It’s too much.” Like tbh it’s not even ai that’s the issue if they’re just spamming a legitimate group chat.

[@JamIsNice]

@@lemon4087 I have no chill I'd block immediately lmaoooo

[@lemon4087]

@@Jenneth sry I'm a pussy so no

[@Saga_Anserum]

12:25 only saw this on my second watch, but these images have the face of Jesus in them. Amen amen amen amen amen

[@mackybodo9490]

my granda doesnt like his brother and he was showing me his 'photography' saying how he cant believe his trashy brother is travelling and taking such cool photos. i was so happy to tell him it was all AI

[@sammiekaymusic]

this is so funny

[@jake3523]

Your grandas a hater

[@mackybodo9490]

@@jake3523 he literally is it’s so funny

[@riverstevens420]

It's genuinely scary that people can't recognize blatantly obvious AI generated content

[@adropintheocean6282]

to be fair, a lot of people don't even know ai image generation is possible

[@placeholderdoe]

To be fair its so new that there is no real education on finding AI generated images. Its more of a skill you develop with a lot of exposure

[@lethfuil]

To be fair, most of those look extremely fake and drawings stuff, as well as photoshop, isn't new and unknown at all. The even more frightening part is that AI images and videos will get better and better and soon even people who aren't like...that will have a hard time, or straight up no chance, to really know what's real and what not. But we at least know that it always COULD be fake, people that think six fingered children building Jesus with head sized garlics is real can no longer be even remotely convinced that something isn't real.

[@nashtrucker]

to be fair most of the comments on the fake ai are fake too. As am I

[@worm_Iife]

Amen 🙏 ❤

[@testchannel8151]

"Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway." -Shannon Alder

[@BandKidBambi]

That’s a good ine

[@existenceispain_geekthesiren]

​@ville__ hey guys look at how absolutely ironic this is

[@ItAllGetsHazel]

“Don’t argue with stupid people, they’ll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.” -Mark Twain

[@M3nv-jm1qo]

Ur mom

[@Red_Haired_Bacon]

BRO THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME TOO MANY TIMESS

[@corvinredacted]

The sarcastic, "You can eat them, too," directed toward (what the commenter thinks is) a little African boy making a sculpture of a bunny out of bananas, is one of the most unflattering looks I've ever seen. He managed to unmask himself as both a condescending jerk and as a gullible moron in one fell swoop.

[@stellarsoular]

i appreciated how the focus of your video was not “look at these stupid people believing these obviously fake images, how gullible are they?!” and instead focusing on the polluting potential of ai generated engagement bait and the way we could be heading toward a dead internet scenario if this is left unchecked.

[@cagxplays9602]

to be fair, people also need to be less stupid, what happened to education?

[@ynvht]

@@cagxplays9602constant defunding lol

[@perhaps1094]

​@@cagxplays9602Education has nothing to do with it, old people didn't grow up with this tech, they just don't know what to look for. Dont be a dick abt it and just help ppl out, that actually helps the world instead of making yourself feel better so others can feel worse.

[@timohara7717]

So you like cheese

[@RisingJay]

@@cagxplays9602 it's under attack by karen committees nationwide 😞

[@G-L-O-R-I-A]

Oh, God, I'm a damn boomer on Facebook. First it was bogus stories about old celebrities---no one would question them. Now it's lame AI. I just want to see pictures of my nephews!

[@winterzealot]

I'm sorry Facebook has been ruined by scammers and liars. :( I wish we could all just use it to connect with family.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

"I just want to see pictures of my nephews!" AI can do that!! 🤣

[@iamnoone940]

Looking real good in that pic there😏

[@ojasvsrivastava1577]

​@@iamnoone940 Amen

[@nikhera]

I feel that so hard. Facebook used to be so good, I loved reading life updates from people. Even if it was just "I bought a purple tea kettle at Walmart and made mint tea today. Yummy" like it was so cute yknow? People's pages were a legit diary and tome capsule. People no longer talk about their lives, all they do is share memes, argue about politics, and fall for shitty AI content

[@Andromeda14161]

The dogs spelling out "ZEUS" are actually advocating for my cat, Zeus, to become president. All species can come together for that.

[@ArcticCN]

someone else saw it, i'm not crazy!

[@camoqueen.86]

Good luck, amen.

[@Andromeda14161]

@@camoqueen.86 gobbless

[@EyekoLoup]

O i am not thé only who notice

[@deftd0ll99]

​@@EyekoLoupthis is true because i am ur cat

[@DragonNexus]

Facebook is very "dead Internet theory"

[@biancahodges263]

Ive been seeing AI art of young kids, usually girls, baking a cake, the caption always being "First time baking, can I have feedback?". Half of the Facebook comments are just old guys saying they want to go visit their homes and taste their cakes in a way that I don't think is innocent 😭😭😭

[@SunOfTheRoanKingdom]

WTF THAT'S SO HORRIFIC 😭💀

[@DiMagnolia]

GAH

[@kiri9989]

That's the furthest from Amen 🙏

[@maicree]

WHAT THE HELL

[@Resolution2026]

Pedophilla at its worst.

[@dickygushy]

The reason no one is in the comments saying it's fake is exactly the reason you pointed out: we don't want our feed full of this shit, and if we interact with it, it will come up again

[@LikaLaruku]

I interacted with 2 of them that had the most shitposty lulzy images, & they ended up getting raptured (deleted) I was trying to convince one of them to give up Jesus & let us all be saved by broccolli Bob Ross instead.

[@ktb8332]

Artist here! AI is fundamentally making my career worse because companies would rather tell a computer to produce sludge than pay a professional to create something. So many entry level jobs have been devoured by people using our art in their AI datasets. It's really disappointing

[@ttthecat]

My acquaintances in the movie industry and graphic designers, set designers, CGI artists etc are losing their jobs, I am worried for me and my partner both in AI affected jobs- voice over work, writing, video creation and journalism(my partner has also scored documentaries so you can see how we are effed as AI is impacting all of this.) I have friends with large YT channels who are also being impacted by people using AI to steal their scripts, steal their videos(despite watermarks and bugs) and even steal their voice! They try to copyright, strike them when they can; but they can't keep up with all of them...I am so disgusted that these AI weilding Techocrats keep saying this is going to help us and give us back freetime as AI helps us with basic tasks and instead is destroying every creative industry, stealing our opportunity to do the things we love music, art, writing, singing/voice over work, acting etc and when we have all been displaced they will realize wait we need a few creatives in the hamster wheel, so they will torture and overwork then underpay the few who are rehired. And I worry for all the young people who won't get the opportunity to be creative in the ways we did. I am so deeply upset and platforms like YT and Spotify let alone FB are not ready for the crappy content deluge headed their way. Sorry, I have depressed myself and probably you- sorry 😞 *Edited* for typos and and to be a little less depressing

[@drpeppercats]

artist here too, youre 100% correct. i'd also like to mention how hand drawn art made by an actual person is a million times better than AI art, not just because it's AI too. so disappointing to see less job opportunities for artists, i wasn't going to use my artistic skills for a career but my sister is, she's struggling to find a job that involves art simply because companies are just not looking for real authentic skill. edit: also it sucks because whenever i do digital art, i always have to prove its not ai. bs.

[@g3n0sc1d3]

artist walked so ai could run dont quit creating.

[@goldbullet50]

And artists themselves are embracing it too, taking shortcuts with an AI for one reason or another. What this essentially means is that they opt for convenience over mastering their craft and cultivating their own creativity. In a decade or two, their skills have not developed the same way they would've if they hadn't used AI. This also means the barrier of entry for someone proclaiming himself to be an artist is lower, filling the world with self-proclaimed artists over reliant on generative AI. The AI is creeping itself to every field of creative work, no matter whether it's musical synthesis, graphical design or 3D modeling. Real skill and labor is being devalued in the sea of machine generated stuff that will rival it in quality. The soul of humanity is being drained away and replaced with binary machine logic... Something that has been happening for ages by now, and will just be accelerated thanks to AI.

[@damonhtoo]

There's also artists that love the generative AI boom and are using it to create things faster and better than before.

[@TjPhysicist]

11:14 welcome to the "Dead Internet theory" Danny...it's pretty bleak here.

[@sarahnoel666]

My dad's girlfriend is constantly sending me AI images of things shaped as cats thinking it's real

[@ariberry8031]

That's really sad, dystopian even

[@SHRUMESSS]

Amen ❤

[@rakinabid8333]

Amen

[@pookiebear-xk2tl]

WAIT MY DAD DOES THAT TOO

[@ClownTV306]

My god dad does the same :(

[@boleothe]

danny help my squiggly bones are being tricked out of my body by ai-generated dogs edit: my squishy bones are being stolen too please help

[@Scarletoctoling]

I ASKED + YOUR CONTENT IS BETTER + DANNY GONZALEZ IS BETTER THAN THE UTTP + HAVE A INCREDIBLE DAY

[@zestysword]

Friendship ended with squishy bones, now squiggly bones are my best friend

[@SmallBoiWithEars]

@MyContentIsWayBetterjesus christ having a bot commenting things for you is already bad but commenting THREE TIMES ON EVERY COMMENT is so annoying

[@SuperHGB]

​@MyContentIsWayBetterI'm having a baby and the baby is you

[@BoxOfToasters]

Generates: A computer's tale

[@katvillain]

‘Boomer or bot’ is a fun game to play in comments sections, particularly on Facebook.

[@Ezez-b4q]

Do not translate. ... 😮🔎 አንተ የተረገምክ ነህ። ከጥቂት ቀናት በኋላ, ልብ መምታቱን ያቆማል. መሰረዝ ከፈለጉ እባክዎ ይመዝገቡ።👼❤

[@frankf684]

Probably gen x.

[@aaronwinter447]

Fun game. Good luck...and Amen

[@Waffle-dragons]

9:12 HES USING THE WRONG END OF THE HAMMER🗣🗣🗣

[@idkwhatimdoing573]

I’m a crocheter. I see ai generated images all over my social media(I don’t even use Facebook). My main issue is when I see something I like, I think - hey, I could make that. No, no you can’t

[@nospoonfulofmayonnaiseforme]

I got a video promoting someone's crochet website and the thumbnail was ai. Luckily all the comments were calling it out. Makes me so angry. It looked decent too, I had to really look at the stitches

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

It's similar to a musician hearing a really cool song made in software who then tries to replicate it and realizes its physically impossible to play the song irl.

[@annjepsen1621]

I'm a seamstress and I cannot stand all the AI images. My sister tried to get me to make her an AI designed dress and I had to explain that it's not physically possible.

[@petitio_principii]

Second or maybe third comment I see of AI imagery targeting this niche specifically. I imagine it must be based on things/niches they may thing will be profitable in "likes" and such internet things, hoping this can then be somehow converted into money. But some other commenter pointed out it may also be a way of screening people who fall for it as more likely to fall for other scams, like romance scams.

[@sailorVenus225]

Me too! On Etsy, on Pinterest etc. And you've got to be careful while buying patterns now because some "multiple streams of income" hustlers are generating patterns and cover pics, and trying to sell them

[@thatvillainjay]

"A ghost hunting another ghost" is the most apt metaphor ive heard about bots on bots

[@PeterGriffin11]

He basically just described Danny Phantom.

[@Feynix4]

He described the Scooby Doo movie The Boo Brothers

[@bartekcalinski1221]

Danny, in your "The Worst Commercials on TV" video you said, and I quote "If I was a dad, I would be getting these immediately" In response to the Fun slides commercial that time has come, Danny. We Yearn for the fun slides

[@fen4613]

I‘m glad that we as a community are holding him accountable!

[@speedythesnail2235]

We YEARN‼️‼️‼️💥

[@JasonLuigi]

"Trying Ridiculous TV Products" - Danny Gonzalez main channel

[@bartekcalinski1221]

@@JasonLuigi We deserve a part 2, post child

[@Acquaintance6336]

A porn bot copied this comment and posted it, it showed up right above this one

[@PiippoErareika]

Internet years ago, only now the corpse of it has TRULY started to ROT.

[@JRS06]

We need to start sending out leaflets warning people how to spot an AI image. It's not just old people who get easily fooled, seemingly people are repeatedly tricked by low-effort and obvious AI "artwork". The 3 easiest ways to spot an AI image are hands with too many digits, text that makes no sense and objects merging together.

[@mossofthemoon]

Also, lighting that doesn't quite makes sense. Like there's no discernable light source. Details that are weird and fuzzy, like teeth that grow in clumps. Textures that don't make sense; everything is too smooth. (Notice how none of the sand Jesuses had sand textures.)

[@Helcaloth]

Yes!! The ig algorithm kept showing me obviously AI interior design, and the amount of people seemingly unable to spot impossible windows, spouts with no sink, books that weren't quite right and plants growing from nowhere was maddening..

[@cass6082]

Also the unnatural smoothness and random lighting

[@kamisnotanerd]

The common rule me and most artist go to is "is this an error that an artist (or any artist as a matter of fact) on this level would do?" If the answer is "no" than the likely answer is that it's Ai. I mostly look at the details as a go to, that's usually where the AI messes up now, it can't understand the flow of details and such

[@zrainyday5266]

There's also a general lack of intent in terms of placement and framing. Things may be in the foreground/background/xyz placement with no actual thought behind it because well... AI. There's also a lack of layering. Like you said, there's merging of objects and this is because the AI does not know how to use layers. There's never any crisp lines to separate objects and that's why the merging occurs.

[@constantlycold]

thank god somebody talked about this i’ve seen so many of those “it’s my birthday can i please get a happy birthday😢😢😢” and it’s fake kids with disabilities and everyone is like “happy birthday ❤️❤️”

[@YouTubeaccoubr]

I always see those but with old people and they're always talking about how the cake is peach flavour and they're turning 104

[@kwowka]

As a disabled person, it’s maddening. Abled people using our faces for scams and ‘sympathy’, while the same algorithms limit actual disabled peoples content and age restrict it for being ‘graphic’ and ‘disturbing’.

[@recyclops6438]

This gives the same energy as that one guy tricking his grandma into thinking a picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi was actually Jesus

[@icephoenix174]

Or the one of Moist Cr1t1kal

[@libraeevee9467]

@@icephoenix174or Keanu Reeves? (I might of misspelt his name ;-;)

[@ПлакПлак-у4о]

@@libraeevee9467is there some subplot of people tricking their gramgrams into thinking long haired celebs are Jesus that I didn’t know about?

[@mally_draws3023]

​@@icephoenix174oh that great actor from the hunger games franchise????

[@njf11-]

Amen

[@jjs5072]

"No questions. No concerns. Just Amenamenamenamen" Sounds like religion to me, alright.

[@FreminetTheDiver]

Yup

[@JMac-27]

You caught a image of a romance scammer trying to start a scam on that older woman's post on that first one. Poor lady, hope she blocked that POS

[@KaijuofSteel]

Yeah, those posts are also clear bait for romance scammers. The logic is that if they´re naive enough to think the picture is real, they will be naive enough to fall for a spam.

[@OMIMreacts]

@@KaijuofSteel this is actually big!

[@Li8aGun92]

damn. doesn't sound too far off.

[@jeskahaley9616]

That’s was I thought!

[@Shoxic666]

@@KaijuofSteel Exactly what I thought. Scammers probably follow these accounts to fish for gullible people. It's like a mugger hanging out where he knows he'll find easy victims.

[@maggiethorpe4837]

“How else can they be saved from their shellfishness” that’s some real Dad joke material

[@Pixelusually]

He's gonna make such a good dad

[@tschulietta219]

Aaah I have just said the exact same thing 😂😂😂

[@gracie4394]

A lot of the comments on the AI pictures are AI bots themselves - the AI is feeding itself and has created a whole new side to facebook lol

[@hellbergsucks]

dead internet theory in a nutshell lol

[@notoriouswriterbackup3574]

every day we‘re getting closer to dead Internet theory being indisputably real

[@PygmyGoat3]

it almost feels like some form of money laundering, if they're making money off of clicks on facebook but they're driving up engagement by having bots comment on their posts 🤔

[@gabrielaharries8149]

Literally every single comment section on Facebook is infected by bots

[@skyhideaway]

pretty soon, all the boomers are gonna turn into ai bots

[@3bugsinatrenchcoat]

10:23 SHRIMP! HEAVEN! NOW!

[@H-Zoroak]

Its kinda funny how we are getting closer to the Dead Internet Theory every day with how many AI social media accounts there are lol

[@butterfly22432]

like twitter is a nightmare of bots now

[@RaveDecoy242]

While the internet does have more bots now more than ever, the theory itself reeks of "I am the main character and everyone else is fake", almost in the same vein as "everyone is a lizard person except me" theories. The internet will never truly be devoid of humans, but the Shittification of the Internet certainly is happening/has happened.

[@THICCTHICCTHICC]

We've been in it for years tbh. Same thing Danny speculated about AI learning off its own AI images - that already happened too. We just couldn't predict how insanely fast AI would completely swamp the Internet. It was almost immediate.

[@benamisai-kham5892]

I've been joking that the Internet is just a mass version of MMOS and MOBAs that get infested by botters for a few years and it's not entirely wrong.

[@MrCogel]

Most of the commenters on the AI pics are AI too

[@lenapawlek7295]

Man i hate this stuff - thanks for covering it. I will also say on the artists point, all of the artists whos work was used to train the ai get no credit no money nothing which is why so many artists hate it

[@vaehtay]

Made my own comment about this, but not to mention how insanely hard it is to find reference images FOR art now that so much of it is AI? I make 3D environments sometimes, and it’s impossible to look for references and inspiration for bedrooms and things because half of them are AI-generated

[@rubybooth8068]

My mom said, "Look at this cool flower, I wonder where it's from?" I took one glance and just said "That's Ai." Without fail, she just said "No, it isn't." Then I told her she shouldn't believe everything on the internet, bla, bla, bla. She was telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about etc. I then asked her to look up what type of flower it was and guess what? She couldn't find any proof it was even a real flower. Edit: Thanks for the likes everyone 😁

[@gkb_wildlife]

I'm a wildlife photographer and i've been sent so many fake AI birds that absolutely do not exist asking me to identify them

[@cosmic_entity06]

did she do that boomer thing where she still denied it even after being proven wrong?

[@Me-vn3gz]

@@cosmic_entity06why are they like this?? 😭

[@kezia8027]

@@Me-vn3gz They've been taught since they were children to not talk back and that the adults know best. Leads to ZERO critical thinking skills, but they expect that you will behave the same and just show the blind faith because they're your elders.

[@rubybooth8068]

@miscellanist lmao yes 🤣

[@MiskoMasko]

I've had to break the news to three family members this month that what they're impressed by are AI images...

[@fakemoth1068]

I love how ai is taking over the internet. It’s great how every social media platform I go on now, has hundreds of people trying to scam me at all times, showing no signs of slowing down until companies finally decide to fix the issue.

[@BlazingKhioneus]

Not to mention it polluting google image search results

[@HungerGamesFan00]

and because the ai spa counts as engagement, they never will!

[@brendandor]

What's really messed up about all of this, is it takes tons of energy to power the servers running the pages and Ai's. So just polluting away whilst making the world worst.

[@kapsi]

It's cryptocurrency all over again

[@nikuzair]

@@kapsi I mean both involves GPU in it

[@ThewOrldIssqUare]

This describes most scams, in a way. Greedy people don't care how much worse their actions make the world for everyone else.

[@petitio_principii]

@@kapsi with "cryptocurrencies" at least you had some kind of real volatile trade value. Although mostly used by criminals. AI-imagery is mostly just garbage, like on the "good" end just random gen-z-humor combinations of things rendered realistically, and in the other end fake stuff contributing to potentially dangerous disinformation. To think that all this CPU/GPU power could instead be used to things like calculating protein folding to develop treatments of diseases... maybe some people should develop a cryptocurrency where the "mining" is based on that. While also not being primarily used for crime stuff, somehow.

[@JamieWalker-pc6nd]

This exactly this

[@glossykisses]

AI was supposed to help humans with repetitive, exhausting tasks. All it does it steal art and generate nonsense, it's DEPRESSING.

[@Ella-g2m]

The humans are doing repetitive, exhausting tasks for 10 hours a day at work while the robots are making art, music, and stories. This is so dystopian it exceeds the most pessimistic dystopian novel.

[@cosmosisrose]

yeah I don’t like how people don’t realise this. “AI is evil” no, AI was never inherently harmful, it’s human greed that got us here. actually AI is still used for other things, it’s not just image/text generation, there are so many different types of AI used in different places and some of them are very helpful. AI isn’t the problem, the people using it are

[@sivanhedoesstuff]

@FriedRiceIsGood-sh6io do something actually worthy of 5k likes

[@waaaaaaaaaaaaaoo]

​​​@@cosmosisrose of course, this is true, but most of the companies developing these AI's encourage using them in this way and most of the people who use it have no appreciation for real artists work, calling us names for being sad that our work is being stolen by machines to create anything and everything only for people who have done nothing but write a prompt to profit off of it while most of us struggle to get by just with art. Obviously nobody is blaming the AI itself, it's not even a fully concious "being" but they are the origin of the issue

[@deen7530]

@FriedRiceIsGood-sh6io Case in point:

[@LiilYogurt]

We were always terrified of AI taking over the planet, we never stopped to think they might just want the internet

[@riversongsmelody]

There’s a subreddit that is just bots interacting with each other. It’s fascinating what they talk about together.

[@DreamerHCF]

You can’t just say this and not drop it

[@Devilsadvocate2325]

Hello drop the name?? I need this for research purposes

[@user-221i]

@@DreamerHCF r/SubSimulatorGPT2 And this was 5 years ago. GPT2.

[@riversongsmelody]

@@Devilsadvocate2325 sorry y’all lol it’s r/SubredditSimulator

[@clanginator]

​@@user-221iI remember a day when it was just /r/subredditsimulator, far before GPT was ever coined.

[@emgball8789]

THANK YOU a local bakery has been posting ai cakes and I’ve felt crazy that nobody has called it out and even my family has been saying it’s not ai and I couldn’t prove it till I dug deeper and found some of their real cakes (not close to the quality of the others, in skill and in photography) and found some slight ai errors but they’re getting better at fooling people and I can’t stand it!

[@lareinabrown]

I saw a tiktok talking about this a while ago! Basically, we started out with pretty good AI on Facebook but as time went on, and bc most of the comments are just bots, the AI is pulling from stuff that it’s already made and that’s gotten a lot of engagement (bots). The images are just getting less and less realistic bc it’s just robots pulling from robots. Idk if I explained that correctly but basically the AI IS INBREEDING💀

[@Ezez-b4q]

Do not translate. ... 😮🔎 አንተ የተረገምክ ነህ። ከጥቂት ቀናት በኋላ, ልብ መምታቱን ያቆማል. መሰረዝ ከፈለጉ እባክዎ ይመዝገቡ።👼

[@tumescent]

That's a fun idea but it's not really how it works. The tensorflow checkpoints these models use to generate images are static and are manually generated from a massive, roughly curated set of images. It's not like the AI is "learning" from whatever it sees in real time. What COULD happen is that when generating a checkpoint, images generated by other AI could be inadvertently included, perhaps causing the model to inherit its deficiencies. However, curation generally prevents this on all but the most homebrew checkpoints, and even then the AI images will still be outweighed in the training set.

[@Janonas]

@@tumescent Most people dont know how the models work which is quite infuriating

[@svenbtb]

Good, let the AI keep inbreeding and tank itself into nothingness, we don't need it

[@SyrusDrake]

I recently read an article about this phenomenon, and the author called them "Habsburg AIs" 😂

[@doogandoggin2571]

Worse, AI is developmentally a toddler. It doesn't understand how the puzzle works, but it has all the pieces.

[@civilenginerd90]

I love how the vegetable jesus also has the kid stabbing him in the chest for accuracy

[@Assiahhh]

if u squint ur eyes like 50% on the first dog pic 0:36 you can see it spelles "zeus"

[@s7z7gy]

@@Assiahhhbruh isnt that obvious

[@ethyrdraws]

@@Assiahhhthat’s insanely obvious you don’t need to squint your eyes

[@warmchai]

@@Assiahhhr u an ai bot

[@Parabyssic]

Danny discovering the "dead internet" theory organically

[@Larsen_illustrations]

Yeah honestly it's impressive

[@valblueberry]

What's the theory about?

[@NotSylvanUnfortunately]

@@valblueberry That the majority of internet traffic is actually just bots.

[@labiblabib1409]

@@NotSylvanUnfortunatelyjust like you

[@NotSylvanUnfortunately]

@@labiblabib1409 How am I a bot?

[@mindlesssimulation]

11:02 Reminds me of that Shen comic where someone in the friend group dies so they replace them with a chatbot. Soon everyone's died and it's just 4 AIs talking to each other

[@justasmltwngir1732]

That’s so crazy

[@missingsunstone]

OMG I REMEMBER THAT COMIC 😭😭 and then they end up advertising to each other x_x

[@noamartinez2478]

Do u remember where you saw it? Was it on bluechair or Instagram?

[@lesigh3410]

That actually sounds really interesting

[@king0fspades36]

@@noamartinez2478i remember seeing it on his instagram, but it was a while ago so its probably farther down in his posts

[@Smallmouse12]

for a lot of artists ai is making things harder by taking our jobs and removing the sense of accomplishment gained by actually finishing a peice of art on our own

[@theurbancaver]

Fun fact... there is already a movie about two bots falling in love with each other while pretending to be humans... it is called Love Me and stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun and comes out later this year.

[@ursidae97]

OMG they finally made Her 2

[@jaeden28]

ain’t no way kristen stewart is playing a straight woman again

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@jaeden28You know she’s bi right?

finally, they making a movie about grass trying to grow playing a chess game against paint that's trying to dry

[@RikkiLove0317]

@@ami-zg5tdQuestion, is Love Lies Bleeding good? I’ve gotten ads for it, and wanted to check it out

[@sevenratsinaburlapsack]

my favorite "jesus carrying someone" image is jesus carrying legs that are attached to his own body

[@Sandy-o6k]

That's when there are no sets of footprints

[@XxUf0K1ttyxX]

Dude got tired, can’t blame him

[@cozycasasmr4510]

I need to see this

[@gxldxn]

Where can I see this lol

[@sevenratsinaburlapsack]

@@gxldxn it's in a vid from SideMoneyTom on TT, from 3/22

[@luzifershadres]

I think its funny how the dead internet theory becomes more of an reality with every unrestricted AI development.

[@bibsp3556]

It is possible that it's the entire point of it. Its destroying vocabulary, like a perfect little robot Syme, happily developing the newspeak.

[@J_Stronsky]

I don't, I like the internet, it's where I go to watch things.

[@bibsp3556]

@@J_Stronsky exactly. That's time you could be working.

[@jacobarcher1097]

​@@bibsp3556 Fuck that shite, man is not meant to work himself to to bone

[@TheRealSoftR]

@@bibsp3556what

[@RichardNorman6963]

I love how he basically talks about the dead internet theory multiple times and doesn’t even know. If you don’t know what that is look into it online it’s really freaky.

[@coolbluelights]

I keep seeing fake old ladies with a birthday cake "today is my birthday I am 1337 years old I made my own birthday cake with peach cream and filling. I can't wait to grow my baking journey" over and over and over.

[@The_child-catcher]

All my old relatives keep reposting these children missing limbs with a caption that says " nobody wished me happy birthday, will you?" I must have seen over a hundred of them and they just keep posting them like it's real.

[@Greatduck777]

I keep seeing my Mom’s friends posting pictures of them with a pinky or hand fused to an object they are holding.

[@surcettinr2600]

Yes! I've seen the old people with their birthday cakes too... and also some cakes, presented as real, that are clearly not.

[@rodbelding9523]

For some reason I keep seeing ai images of Keanu Reeves wearing various shirts with inspirational quotes on them. Not kidding, that's like half of my facebook feed.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

‼️ if you think this is wild you should really look into some of the drama in the knitting community. There have been several FBI investigations, some clashes with the American government over the Olympics. And knitting influencers and business owners who on separate occasions for separate reasons faked their own deaths! One of them like ran a yarn business (mystical creations) and she like hand-dyed all the yarn. But it was like really low quality and the dye was coming out and ruining everything. So people started asking for refunds. So instead of refunds she pretended to be her brother and claimed she was in the hospital. And then claims she died to avoid refunding people and just started another yarn website exactly the same as last time. AND she also went on to this knitting social media website where people were talking about her and debating on whether or not she's actually in the hospital and she pretended to be someone else to defend herself. And obviously she was caught BY THE FBI FOR FRAUD LMAO the second time there was someone faking their deaths they claimed it was because they were afraid of the knitting community because they felt threatened LMAO and that's ignoring the fact that the majority of Knitters are older women. And then it happened one other time too LMAO for those interested Emma in the moment made a great video explaining all of this. The first one is explained in further details on her mystical yarn creations video.

[@AM-zl9mu]

my dad is a victim of this, saw a picture in his gallery of these little homeless children all huddled together and there's just limbs sticking out all over the place from random parts of their body and together they spell "JESUS"

[@Null_Force]

Amen 🙏

[@Dr.Armchair]

Amen😂

[@Elliezslvt]

Same! Today dad showed me a picture (clearly AI) of a huge carrot shaped like a foot and refused to believe it was fake. Then my mum showed me a picture of an orange shaped like a dog, but she realised it was AI after I told her lol.

[@Varxiii]

aAmen god bless

[@GhostAdjacent]

Coincidentally that’s exactly what I would yell if I saw that image on my own

[@Nathan-hl1dm]

Nobody gonna talk about the fact that the AI description at 16:07 says: "Do you and your vulva need a night off?" 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Goldlucky13]

isn't that exactly what all females age 18-45 think about??

[@sidheo3741]

Came to comment this as well. I was like hold on. computer enhance????

[@PrincessCraftycorn]

dont forget "without disrupting vaginal flora"

[@PoleTooke]

Oh my God what the heck 😂

[@mihikas172]

well it appears to be an intimate hygiene product 😭