The AI apocalypse is here

[@AWriterWandering]

The danger is not just in convincing people that something is real, but also in convincing them that nothing is real.

[@languagejones6784]

I agree. I will be sure to include that in the mis- and dis- info video I’m working on

[@alexanderwill2847]

"What is the cost of lies? It is not that we will mistake them for the truth. Rather, it is that when we hear enough lies, we no longer recognize the truth at all. And then what is left but to abandon even the hope of truth, and content ourselves instead... with stories." From the 2019 Chernobyl miniseries.

[@IkkezzUsedEmber]

Im afraid I cant do that, Dave

[@languagejones6784]

I was wondering if anyone would get that 😂

[@JemRochelle]

Oh crap, I got this, does that mean I'm old??? 😭

[@miguelferrazcosta]

@@languagejones6784, there are real people that don't get that?! :D

[@paulmeahan3667]

I stood up and applauded

[@amrojjeh]

@@JemRochelle I'm 21 and I got it. The scene is still well known to this day lol

[@Billy4321able]

This feels like the release of the internet 2.0. We're going through the "you can't believe everything you see online" phase again.

[@languagejones6784]

“On the Internet, nobody knows your a dog”

[@cahorowit]

It's the beginning of the phase you can't believe anything you see or hear or read. Drum machines got no soul...neither does AI

[@frugal10191]

There was a recent scam where an employee got confirmation from his CEO via a video call that the payment was authorised, and ended up transferring several million dollars. The video call from his CEO was of course a deep fake...

[@fantasypgatour]

Yeah we're screwed.

[@nyuh]

this vid is sponsored by an ai service. definitely taking at least 3 grains of salt

[@JemRochelle]

I recently got a similar ad on Instagram for that language learning app and it freaked me out, the AI avatar looked like a corpse that had been reanimated 😂😭

[@languagejones6784]

They're SO UNCANNY. I am really not sure what to do with these AI language "immersion hacking" people, since I can't quite figure out what the angle is. It's extremely strange to have fake testimonials from AI avatars. Are they just gathering a massive volume of speech data? Regardless, I trust them about as far as I can throw them.

[@JemRochelle]

@@languagejones6784 yeah I don't get it either! Also I just wanted to say that I love your channel so much! I've been watching you for a few months now, the topics you cover are so interesting and it is really helping me stay engaged with my language learning (intermediate French, beginner Arabic, and eyeing Czech for the future).

[@oldmanbanjo]

Yeah, I can hear it really clearly, but then I edit audio for a living. There's weird out of phase sounds, a lack of aspiration on vowels and way too much compression and saturation in order to hide the AI.

[@languagejones6784]

I'm glad there are people like you! I think listening on a phone, in a noisy environment, and without paying full attention, it's gonna deceive a LOT of people. The thing that really messes me up is that the AI voice takes a breath, and occasionally gets too close to the mic.

[@oldmanbanjo]

@@languagejones6784 The thing is not everyone is an audio engineer or voice actor who's life depends on their ears. And not everyone has $600 speakers. In the end AI will just win by sheer numbers.

[@hannat9597]

I havent heard it at all! I thought it was well rehearsed text. And I listen with earpieces in my ears. I can only spot the difference on the video.

[@sowercookie]

It didn't suggest "the shit's out of the horse" which is my fave, poor showing Gippity...

[@languagejones6784]

Oh wow. If that ain’t countrier than a mud fence

[@jakeaurod]

I read enough science fiction to have seen where this was going decades ago. I'm not sure what the earliest example was, but a machine intelligence teaches itself how to create a human voice and face and do impressions of other real humans in Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ that was published in 1966. I've thought about starting a youtube channel, and even 10 years ago I was planning on incorporating a confusing and random background with lights and reflections that would make it computationally difficult for an AI to replicate, just so that people would know my video was unedited and unaltered. Of course, that would require me to do everything in one take. But I'm OK with people seeing and hearing me pause and refer to notes as if I was public speaking.

[@languagejones6784]

That's kind of brilliant. I think you should do it.

[@GilTheDragon]

Oh this has an air of Dogme 95

[@rowboat10]

I'm sorry, but stories being in science fiction does not make them more plausible

[@mattperry9048]

@@rowboat10 Though times like this, it makes *some* of them more useful. (And others more misleading, naturally.)

[@DrSpooglemon]

Literally everything that was said about receiving content critically is relevant to non-AI generated content too. The important thing, no matter the nature of the content, is to consider all possible interpretations including that it is entirely false. Whether it is an actual human talking into a camera or an obvious bot voice over some stock footage. If it relates to politics and global affairs you have to ask yourself what is the bias of the source. And that includes from official news outlets. Everything is biased in to some extent and even when what you are hearing is literally true it can be presented in a way that makes you more likely to form a particular opinion of it. It's true of weird AI generated content on KZbin and it's true of the most mainstream news outlets.

[@languagejones6784]

I agree completely. I'm also aware of people's biases, so if I present critical media engagement as a way of defending against a popular bogeyman, it might make it through to some people in a way that it wouldn't if I just presented critical media literacy on its own. Or, heaven forbid, pointed out someone else's uncritical acceptance of biased media.

[@reo.incognito]

So, you are saying that KZbin (AI) polyglots will finally be able to fluently speak 50 languages? Nice!

[@languagejones6784]

I think it depends on the automatic translation engine, but someday, someone’s avatar could speak 112

[@georgekomarov4140]

But can they shock natives?

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

​@@georgekomarov4140Will they be irresistible to every woman, and man, on the planet?

[@MsTranthihai71]

KZbin Music will completely replace Google Podcasts from June 13, 2024. KZbin Music is much more convenient than KZbin as screen-off mode is available and listeners can opt to do other things either on the phone or not. Could you please make your channel available on KZbin Music as well? Thanks 💖

[@nuansd]

Screen off mode is available on normal KZbin as well. ​@@MsTranthihai71

[@3lmodfz]

Just to say that I do actually watch people's teeth/mouths because I find prolonged eye contact very uncomfortable and I've found that more often than not no one notices. Plus it helps me follow what they are saying a bit more, less easily distracted by what else is going on around. So I would definitely notice anything odd going on with your teeth 😂

[@AdaAnytime]

As a language learning nerd, I’m excited about how GenAI helps language learners. At the same time, I'm troubled by the use of deep fakes for misinformation. I appreciate this video for its common sense approach. The media literacy checklist is helpful for any media we consume, not only video content that may be artificial.

[@TheTraderGuy]

We need to have robust detection software, thereby eliminating the use of 90 percent of AI.

[@languagejones6784]

Agreed

[@FunkmasterRick]

The Mk.1 Eyeball comes with this capability, it just needs training. It's time to pump the arms race between biology and cybertech! =p

[@redoktopus3047]

This is, unfortunately, not likely to be a solution. Many machine learning algorithms are trained using "adversarial" training. Where the performance of the algorithm is based on how well it can beat another machine detecting artificial output. So whatever system is created to detect machine learning output can just be used to train better generative algorithms.

[@rushyscoper1651]

​@@redoktopus3047detecting will always have advantage over producing. This is a logically proven thing in AI since producing require detecting and other steps.

[@Phylaetra]

Is such 'detection software' possible? As with any kind of system - there is going to be an arms race between detection and evading detection. While it is (barely) possible to detect the difference if you are diligent and paying attention, will that be true in 5 years? In one? Similarly, the curve is on the deepfake side, and detection software is playing catchup - by the time it can detect things that exist now, the AI fakes will be a couple of years more advanced. On the other hand - we can still use logic and reason to evaluate what we are presented with; look to multiple sources and also to see if there are other events happening that would be consequences of, or necessary for the claims to be true.

[@JR-rf9sq]

This video seriously creeped me out

[@alexdamman6805]

For what it's worth, I trust nothing any longer. Addressed to the REAL Language Jones: keep doing what you are doing.

[@SingYourStory]

Excellent-so much useful information. Thanks for adding your humor to a terrifying subject.

[@languagejones6784]

Thank you!

[@RosanneLoriMalowany]

You have amazing patience to dredge through all this stuff. Thanks for your precise investigation.

[@languagejones6784]

Thank you!

[@brick6347]

I live in Poland, right on the border with Ukraine. When the Ukraine war started we had thousands of refugees come into town. From Ukraine, obviously.... but a lot of people from all over the world too. Students, migrant workers, tourists caught up etc. Things like Google translate were amazing, because I live in a small town. I'm sure in NYC or London you can find a person who speaks Turkish, Arabic, Mandarin etc. fairly easily, but here... English, Ukrainian, Russian, & German and that's about it. Maybe a bit of remedial French (I hang my head in shame); honestly, it was a life saver. Literally. Without this technology I don't know what we would have done. So I have a lot of respect for the potential of AI. I quite like the idea of those universal translators from Star Trek actually, as much as I enjoy languages. But really, if we all could talk to each other maybe a few of the world's problems would go away (not all... or most. But a few is better than none).

[@danielbriggs991]

"We gotta make sure not to let them replace our use of search engines." This reminds me of when I realized I gotta make sure to support my local Wal-Mart.

[@davidintokyo]

Inversely, there was recently a contest for the best AI-generated photograph. The image that the judges awarded the best was later disqualified because it was discovered (drum roll) that the image itself was just a normal photograph. (Could be apochraphal, of course.). But the important point is that the underlying technology can't "understand" language, can't relate linquistic statements to actual things in the real world, can't do any reasoning whatsoever. It's a statistical word guessing game based solely on word patterns and frequencies. As a 1970s/1980s generation AI person, I'm aghast at the stupidity of the current underlying technologies...

[@anidnmeno]

I love it when people use "myriad" properly :3

[@ernestcline2868]

Sadly, there are 10,000 reasons people rarely do.

[@foogod4237]

Me too, though "properly" is a matter of some debate, actually. To quote Merriam Webster's own summary (which is prominently displayed if you look up the word in their online dictionary): _Recent criticism of the use of_ myriad _as a noun, both in the plural form_ myriads _and in the phrase_ a myriad of, _seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun_ myriad _has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural_ myriads) _and Thoreau_ (a myriad of), _and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it._ (but I still do really like it every time I hear somebody actually use the adjective form anyway)

[@jakobbauz]

@@foogod4237 In German we have it only as a noun. 😑 Very sad.

[@thecrispymaster]

I use AI frequently at work. It's definitely a very useful tool for pinpointing syntax errors or for creating an outline as a jumping off point for a small coding project. The voice cloning is a bit scary, though. Scammers have already started using it in phone scams to impersonate a target's relatives, and they're only going to get more sophisticated. As if there weren't enough reasons to not want to answer the phone 😅

[@pohlpiano]

Well, we Slavic speakers have problems with all articles, definite or indefinite, and in any language (actually, less in German, where they are declining along with the nouns, so there is some familiar pattern that makes us focus on them more, I guess)

[@rogercarl3969]

Dave, Dave, it that you Dave?

[@economicist2011]

Sounds like everything has changed, and yet nothing has changed. It's been crucial to follow those 13 guidelines you gave us since long before generative AI came along. The dangers of AI are very similar to those of BS, and we'll all sometimes fall for the former just as we occasionally get duped by the latter.

[@th1rtyf0ur]

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." XD

[@leroybrown2610]

Double U Duh-Dubba Double U

[@DrSpooglemon]

You had better start believing in [cyberpunk dystopias], you're in one!

[@BrianSheppard]

Wars will be fought over AI generated videos. Mark my words.

[@languagejones6784]

Current conflicts are absolutely already being shaped by the manipulation of public opinion using AI and deepfake technology. I have seen people I know and respect fall for what should be obvious fakes. But confirmation bias is STRONG

[@BrianSheppard]

@@languagejones6784 I believe it! I'm an advocate of AI and this kind of thing keeps me up at night.

[@artugert]

@@languagejones6784 I'd be interested in hearing some examples of fakes that you know people have fallen for.

[@daylelight1971]

I think there was a somewhat viral story last year of a bomb going off near the Pentagon that was kicked off by an A.I. generated image. Obviously people figured out that it was fake pretty quick, though.

[@slicksalmon6948]

Fascinating. Thank you. I am not a clone.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

I am afraid for older people. Already this past few weeks I've saved 3 friends in their 80's and 90's from being sucked in by BS AI. Thankfully, I warned them a year ago that this was going to happen and to feel free to ask me to check the veracity. But sadly, I cannot anticipate every possibility they may encounter and that scares the crap out of me :(

[@ZipplyZane]

I'm sure it's an example of only noticing when it's wrong, but the prosody seems off in most of the AI stuff that I detect. It's not exactly robotic, but it just feels off, like it's applying some rote rule rather than sounding like a person would.

[@sazji]

The horse has left the barn.

[@languagejones6784]

It was raced past the barn 😂

[@wrmsnicket]

Terrifying stuff! The idea of being ever-vigilant about what were passively consume is a good one, but not overly realistic. The very idea of it being passive is that we’re consuming it because we don’t want to think too much. But I definitely agree that this should be scrutinized more if it’s an overt political sentiment.

[@redoktopus3047]

LLMs are Broca's Areas

[@languagejones6784]

This needs to be on a shirt…

[@soundslike8454]

Uncanny valley effect is real for me. I pay less attention to small details and more to my gut. I can just tell cause even if it sounds right, it just sounds or looks vaguely unsettling to me and makes me have a strong reaction like "this is not real, i have no evidence yet but i know its not" followed by frustration or anger at the source. If I overthink I'll get it wrong but that first gut pang is always bang on

[@TadTadjao88887]

Our best interest? One would have to have been blind and deaf their whole life to believe it is in OUR BEST INTEREST. Or only have to be inhuman unfair unjust with a heart that only beats for money but you still have to be on the receiving end which is not our end

[@josiahjohnson3963]

Have you or can you do a video of your thoughts on the “language share” method of learning?

[@BrentHurst13]

Hello! I work at a public school. Would it be alright with you if we showed this to admins and/or faculty and/or students? (Full disclosure: I'm in the South, so we probably won't be allowed to show it to students since you cursed at one point and because "Joe Rogan says wacky things" would technically be the school taking a side on a few political issues, but I could see us showing it among admins and possibly all the faculty.)

[@languagejones6784]

That would be amazing, please feel free to share. I lived in the south for a while, so I know the cultural norms around what is considered cursing are a bit more stringent -- I honestly don't recall what it would have been! I'm planning on making a primer on mis- and dis-information in the next month or so, so I'll be sure to not use spicy language (I'll save it all for upcoming videos on slurs and taboo words). I think you're probably ok on the Rogan front, since he's a standup comedian who would agree he sometimes says wacky things. Without getting into specifics of which things I personally think are wacky, it's not really taking a position on any issue. But I do get the desire to play it safe. (For instance, it could be that I think saying "jiu jitsu is the truest martial art" is wacky).

[@ZipplyZane]

Could you cut those parts out?

[@RobespierreThePoof]

Jonesy, bro ... Actually i really think i would use just a little bit of AI to polish my little verbal tiks in my recorded lectures for students. I've been pushed into doing online courses which is tons of work and i would love to not have to spend quite as much time recording, and editing out little verbal mistakes. Maybe i could even spin all that work into an art history channel and make proper pay for once

[@petiteflower5259]

Also channelling Max Hedroom a little there at the end!

[@timseguine2]

I notice the teeth thing a lot, because the AI videos seem to have trouble keeping them the same size and shape between frames.

[@th1rtyf0ur]

"In the process, I fooled my own mother on the phone. I also fooled a lot of you, because I used voice clone generated audio in part of my script" -- was the voice clone's audio. It sounds lifeless, & has a different sound profile than your actual miked voice (much less brightness in the higher frequencies).

[@Wolfboy607]

While I did notice the grandma bit was slightly stilted, even given the topic of the video, I wouldn't have realized it was AI voice cloning until you specifically mentioned it. That's wild enough for me. Had you not pointed it out, I would have quickly forgotten any abnormality.

[@petiteflower5259]

I thought you sounded like a voice clone for the whole voiceover section. You normally speak in a much more animated way - the variation in tone you mentioned.

[@MeowImages]

Very good primer, showing hands-on what's already possible now. Everyone should share that with less tech-savvy relatives! Personally I find it hard to learn languages (don't we all!) so I'm excited about the new possibilities, but I'm also scared about the social implications of near-perfect deep fakes. Many people are scared that AI will eventually kill us... I think our society will tear itself apart way before that happens, unless AI gets heavily regulated somehow. As you say... people are not ready

[@StormSliding]

Thanks for sharing. Listening to you and trying to figure out when it was and wasn’t you was not easy, if possible for me.

[@43seconds]

Love your ideas. Here's a glass-half-full approach: misinformation has been around since there was information. Now we're just democratising it so that the average person can join in on the fun, rather than just russian billionaires and brexiteers.

[@Goddybag4Lee]

It is going to be used so much when Romance scammers want to trick people who want new partners. And this time I'm actually scared. Because you can't help your mom or dad not being scammed.

[@christophiluslovingchristb5441]

The danger in allowing tech to think for us is that we may forget how to think for ourselves. There is value is struggling to find an answer to seemingly insurmountable dilemas. When we are forced to think about problems, ... this is how human engenuity, and creativity increase

[@jbejaran]

Great video! It's important to understand the new level of media literacy we need to adopt. We've been adopting new forms of media literacy since at least the invention of the printing press, so while this is new, it's not really new. As for stopping AI? Governments (ours and/or others) trying to stop AI will be wee children standing on coastal bluffs trying to stop the West Wind with little plastic baggies. Stay smart.

[@galion1991]

The "click my link" plug at the end of the ad (around 2:40) is a voice clone I think, but I only figured it out once I got to the end and you say there's one instance of the sentence that's fake. Something about the pace when "you" say click my link doesn't match your lips 100%

[@languagejones6784]

I was so lazy. I literally just read the line normally, and generated fake voice *after* and just dropped the audio and plopped the fake on top. If I really wanted to do it right, I'd re-film and lip sync

[@CaioCodes]

I noticed only when I read your comment. Damn.

[@vladimir520]

A giveaway to real/AI voice here is whether there's surrounding mic noise. But damn scary stuff!

[@MikeVoltz]

Someone should make AI vids of Rogan supporting vaccines to really mess with his fans.

[@itsameamarioyaplumber3981]

Yeah, let's perpetuate falsehoods.

[@MikeVoltz]

@@itsameamarioyaplumber3981 y'rogan fan b?

[@itsameamarioyaplumber3981]

@user-lr2en2cq9q even if I was your idea would still be bad.

[@itsameamarioyaplumber3981]

@@MikeVoltz even if I was your idea would still be bad.

[@jakobbauz]

The funny thing is that everyone thinks to themselves: It is not going to be me. While it has already been them more than once. That is heart-warmingly human, this utterly illusory denial.

[@jeffsykes4589]

I noticed a couple of times where you kept talking and the image froze. Don't know what to make of that. Also, your head had a weird shadow the entire time. I think it was the cap you wear associated with your faith. There seems to be multiple words for it, and I don't know what it's actually called. The entire time, you kinda looked like you had been green screened in over an image of an office/room.

[@GilTheDragon]

Far be it from me to criticize that which one must do to survive in capitalism but given the dangers of AI... Isnt it quite immoral to advocate for/encourage its use? Like slowing /limiting adoption alongside (possibly) mass rejection, plus vigilance & growing literacy would give us better chances no? Technologies neednt always be developed to their fulledt. We can, as a society, try to pump the brakes

[@languagejones6784]

I think it’s like the printing press or television. There’s no turning back the clock, and there’s a lot of legitimate uses. It’s just that because it’s a new frontier, we have to develop an entirely new set of skills around responsible use

[@paulmeahan3667]

No turning back the clock, eh? You gots the GPT answering comments for you now, Jones! 😂

[@rbynam9055]

Important topic but i was expecting something about how apparently AI was used in someway to specifically improve our knowledge of Zapoteco language, i wouldn't be surprised if it was used to quickly upload the couple new indigenous languages onto google translate. Considering some of the issues of AI i find this information immediately concerning. But i haven't really investigated myself.

[@th1rtyf0ur]

The @smashingpumpkins just released a promo video w/ Billy using a similar tool to talk about their new album in 8 different languages. A LOT of people actually believed he suddenly became fluent in another language (even thought he literally says "speaking to you through the magic of AI" -- but of course you can't pick up on that if you don't know the target language & haven't seen the original English version). The lip syncing lined up pretty well, & it was overall fairly convincingly done (certainly looked a lot more realistic than the clips in THIS video), and could (and did!) absolutely fool people who weren't fluent in the language shown (I noticed only one of apparently several small "tells" in the German version, and some pretty gaping flaws in the Japanese one, but couldn't have pointed much out in the others, aside from some unusual pronunciations of their own names & the album title). www.youtube.com/@smashingpumpkins/shorts

[@renoftheshadows]

The other bad thing that people often don't consider is they're are incredibly bad for the environment. Incredible energy and water use. It's unethical from that standpoint.

[@languagejones6784]

I learned about that after making this video, and was horrified

[@travcollier]

The AI media apocalypse won't be some particular misinformation or such... That is happening of course, but what will destroy our ability to get reliable info will be the sheer qualtity of automatic generated stuff. It's pretty depressing, because as long as we have views/engagement = money, there's really nothing we can do to avoid it.

[@KellieEatsCrayons]

dubble-you-da-dubba-dubble-you 🤣

[@irgendwieanders2121]

Rage bait is my bane...

[@hebozhe]

Yeah, error-correction lessons! That'll get people fluent... Amazing that they get this technology and then forego using it to first research effective SLA methods when building the next flashy nothing burger!

[@languagejones6784]

It’s like the sign language gloves 😂

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

The solution is to not believe or care about anything you see online.

[@JaredTheStrange]

It's very scary. My parents have been fooled by deep-faked political videos where the resolution was low (and their eyesight isn't 100%). I used to work on a government hotline and sometimes we had to refuse service to customers because their friends and family would impersonate them so often to get money and there was no way to reliably verify them. And that was before AI voice cloning! What happens when someone deep-fakes your teenage child in some nefarious video and it goes viral? So difficult to deal with.

[@sjm42]

What's your take on the advantages of AI versus it's (allegedly) apocalyptic climate impact?

[@HlumeloMatiwane]

That FD thumbnail

[@goat7844]

Basic. Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.

[@theJellyjoker]

Al an Organic Large Language Model, I am hopeful we all are able to coexist, Organic and Digital Large Language Models.

[@NeonBeeCat]

Anytime i image search something the results are all ai generated

[@micahhlopez7678]

Time to head for the hills. Uncle Ted was right.

[@AvanaVana]

5:50 that isn’t strictly true. Perhaps it is now, but incorporating gesture with speech is just another few parameters of a vector that can be tokenized along with words to create a stream of pure semantic content that spans both gesture and speech as language.

[@johnridout6540]

Text alone isn't sufficient, but we could annotate it as a musical score is annotated. "allegro"

[@artugert]

That jumpspeak ad at 12:07 is so obviously fake, it's hilarious!

[@noobtracker]

11:38 me after watching too much contrapoints

[@vettekaas]

Let’s not forget about the environmental impact of AI as well. It requires a lot of energy and metals, and it’s not great that these costs are not part of the general conversation.

[@paolostrada93]

Is it just me or does that Adam voice sound just like Mark Hamill?

[@matt92hun]

Can confirm, I'm not real.

[@trevorlambert4226]

"they produce realistic and lifelike AI avatars..." Uh, no, they don't.

[@ronaldevans4457]

The real radicalization is happening in the comment section. The top comment is different depending on the viewer watching the video. The comment section usually agrees with me.

[@fariesz6786]

the summary in the "Deepfake" chapter has vibes of being written by ChatGPT and definitely sounds like performed by a voice clone. that being said.. i bet you just intentionally read it all with a flat intonation to fool us all

[@pjperdue1293]

Another great critical-thinking video. As a graphic designer of 40+ years I've tried using AI to generate illustrations but it gets things horrifically wrong. A happy family with many teeth missing and seven fingers on every hand. A breakfast table where the fried egg is tilted at a 90 degree angle to the table. A Santa who looks like a serial killer, snarling and waiting for his next victim. But they're going to get better to the point where we won't know they're fake. As a Canadian I'm worried about the deep-fake videos of Biden currently being shared in your country.

[@Phylaetra]

Oh - and I could not tell at all which parts were you or AI you. I _could_ tell the AI character more - but... I am not sure that will stay the case for long. I think the only reason I could was the voice sounded too familiar from things I knew were AI. Make that voice slightly less AI-standard (a little deeper, change the accent slightly), and I probably wouldn't have been able to tell at all.

[@languagejones6784]

You *can* tune the voice parameters too, so what you and I recognize are the “off the shelf” voices, but make some tweaks and I’m sure I might be fooled too

[@sebastianschmetterling4767]

Negatives 💯 outweigh any benefits

[@ericwhite9189]

3:52 this is the start of one of the deepfakes lol. Super monotone. Very little tonal variety

[@dorianlamb8824]

disagree that it's a good thing. AI as we have it now is far more environmentally devastating than most forms of publicly accessible technology, and it is NOT a good thing that under already bad economic conditions for many people (especially in America), AI is being used to replace human jobs and careers. AI is not art, is not a dependable translator, and is being used to "study" things as important as medical knowledge. do you want your doctor to have skirted by their education on ChatGPT? i sure don't! creatives do not deserve to have our hard work stolen by lazy tech bros and repurposed by regular people who don't know better, and we as a general human populace do not deserve public good workers (medical, government, law, etc.) who defer to something even less dependable than google for their knowledge. and guess what? even with videos like this outlining helpful steps to viewing media critically, many people will have a hard time doing so! the damage AI can do (and is doing) cannot be understated. if anyone is interested in sources for any of my claims, feel free to reply to this asking about a specific point!

[@Anna-bh2vm]

I completely agree I really despise most ai uses but unfortunately fighting it seems to be no use. If ai ever takes over the world, I think I will live on a homestead and be as self sufficient as possible or if worst comes to worst I will run away and live in the woods.

[@syntacticalcrab]

You know, it's pretty ethically dubious to do an episode on AI and the break in information integrity in our time and have it be sponsored by an AI service using technology with mounting humanitarian, environmental, intellectual property, and privacy allegations against it.

[@Hawaiian_Shirt_guy]

Jumpspeak? Are you talking about Jumpspeak?

[@languagejones6784]

Fun fact: the word in nearly every European language for a bear is actually a euphemism or taboo deformation, since saying the original name might inadvertently summon one. I’m just talking about things I see on the internet without naming anything in particular

[@packrat-y7j]

Is the AI Gen audio started at :53?

[@paulwalther5237]

I hate it when I see a video and the voiceover isn’t a real person. I assume it’s because the video author isn’t a native English speaker but I tend to just click the video off when I notice. But I don’t I probably don’t always notice.

[@ingvarmayer8947]

Respect for supporting Ukraine from your Ukrainian viewers!

[@mintakamothkind]

AI is simply an all around negative in my eyes. Thanks to AI we're in an era where I constantly have to be scrutinizing things to see whether they are real or made by a real person. And it's unequivocally going to be used by corporations to screw people out of jobs, be they actors, artists, or writers. The only people who benefit from AI right now are companies looking to cut costs. I hope that someday soon there will be regulations making it more expensive and risky to use AI than to just hire real people to do the job.

[@Armistice023]

Does anyone else get those obviously AI KZbin adds with how to be better in bed? They’re so obviously fake

[@zevelgamer.]

How's your Hebrew been going Jones? Have you been practicing ?

[@languagejones6784]

Still studying! No live stream this Sunday, but I’ll be back on them next Sunday and after

[@noelleggett5368]

Did I just spend 13 minutes staring at your cute bunny teeth? 😅

[@five-toedslothbear4051]

Great video as always. I think we need to reason critically about the inputs we consume, whether they're AI generated or not...because humans can come up with all kinds of persuasive rhetoric on their own. I just watched you on the big screen...the really big screen. That screen being a window the size of an 84" television floating over my kitchen table while I did the dishes, put there by my Apple Vision Pro. I can see every detail. But I'm convinced that the whole video was fake you. The frame rate seems low and stutters, and the background is composited, no? (in one of your videos, I think all the titles on the books were mirrored). There are sudden jumps; are you removing pauses or using an automatic editing program to do so? In the end, I could convince myself that you are Max Headroom. But I think it's just an artifact of editing and KZbin video compression. But there's one thing. Are you reading from a teleprompter? Because I think I can see your eyes moving as you do. The fake person's eyes move, but the saccades aren't as abrupt or deliberate looking. That's probably another thing to look for; I think most legit KZbinrs are reading scripts off a prompter. You also look away sometimes; that's another real person thing; I read it as "accessing something." I do a lot of work with large language models, and I agree, they can be used to generate some dangerous propaganda. Or to do great good or be of great use. I think people are wary, but like any tool, it's the human wielding it that determines the outcome. One interesting deepfake-related positive outcome is that Softbank in Japan is developing something called SoftVoice that does "emotion cancelling" on angry callers to company call centers, so the agents can focus on fixing the problem without having to be yelled at. I for one am glad that I lived long enough to see the rise of generative AI, because it's something I've wanted to see since I was a child, and we went "ooh" over simple early symbolic AI programs like ELIZA.

[@dr.seesaw8894]

3:52 i feel like this whole deepfake segment is ai generated. I only realised halfway through that a lot of the sentences seemed logical and reasonable but if you put literally any thought into what was being said you realise all the points are extremely vague and very surface level (e.g. the points about "undermining public trust and damage reputations" are specifically correct, but there's an incredible lack of substance beyond that). There's also a weird out of place register being used there that I'm not quite sure how to describe beyond saying "it's feels very corporate/stilted". I think it's noticeable because for a topic as radical as "ai threatens the foundations of society" there's a weird lack of passion in what's being said: it lists some problems and some solutions but in a very nonchalant (in a way not even "formal and detached academic" writing does) way which makes it noticeable it's ai generated

[@Cadcare]

The message here is problematic. (June 20, 2024).

[@languagejones6784]

Elaborate!

[@Cadcare]

@@languagejones6784 I'm in agreement with the message about vigilance but the point that I made in my initial comment is that the tech is, as you made clear, improving very quickly. Hence the date stamp.

[@lilyzheng2322]

not 4th