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"The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension."
A completely AI generated video which has no basis in reality and was posted from Sri Lanka.
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This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 12:55 - May 15 with 2214 views
The algorithms are out of control. I liked a post about someone's autistic kid tying their shoelaces for the first time and now my feed is absolutely rammed with AI videos and clearly fake stories. God knows what you see if you like a Reform post or similar.
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This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 13:01 - May 15 with 2141 views
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 12:55 - May 15 by J2BLUE
The algorithms are out of control. I liked a post about someone's autistic kid tying their shoelaces for the first time and now my feed is absolutely rammed with AI videos and clearly fake stories. God knows what you see if you like a Reform post or similar.
Also the tooling for AI videos being unleashed onto the world with zero regard as to what impacts it will have.
I work with a local social enterprise whose remit is to help elderly and vulnerable people overcome digital poverty and feel safe when on the internet - many of them are very clever ex-professional people (but have never really used IT during their working careers) and even they believe a lot of the AI stuff online - we raelly do try to show them how to identify AI generated posts and videos - but when even supposedly reputable outlets are also doing (mostly wellmeaning) AI content as well, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between real and fake.
The aims of much of this disinfo are to make money, reduce morale, stoke fear and disdain for any sort of thoughtful discourse, create the environment for snake oil salesmen to flourish, and destabilise the country to make it less able to function in the real world - humans have been carrying this out for millenia, this is just the newest and most pernicious way of doing it.
You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 13:02 - May 15 by DanTheMan
Also the tooling for AI videos being unleashed onto the world with zero regard as to what impacts it will have.
Sickening and there's nothing we can do.
It's been inevitable for a long time (relatively) now that AI coupled with Moore's Law would undermine society through social media. There's no legislation and no technological barrier that can stop it when computing power is cheaper and cheaper and code propagates infinitely at zero cost.
What can make a difference though is us.
We can turn away from our addiction to 24/7 audio/video.
Maybe newspaper is the way forward?
Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 13:34 - May 15 by NthQldITFC
It's been inevitable for a long time (relatively) now that AI coupled with Moore's Law would undermine society through social media. There's no legislation and no technological barrier that can stop it when computing power is cheaper and cheaper and code propagates infinitely at zero cost.
What can make a difference though is us.
We can turn away from our addiction to 24/7 audio/video.
Maybe newspaper is the way forward?
Newspaper? Not when right-leaning outlets hold substantial dominance over traditional print and broadcast markets.
Need to go back further I think, to the days before newspapers were a thing.
Town cryers? Smoke signals? Cup and ring marks on rocks?
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 12:55 - May 15 by J2BLUE
The algorithms are out of control. I liked a post about someone's autistic kid tying their shoelaces for the first time and now my feed is absolutely rammed with AI videos and clearly fake stories. God knows what you see if you like a Reform post or similar.
And as someone who relies on social media for a publication I'm editor is and charity in Director of, it's absolutely destructive. Impossible to reach people, even an the thousands of people who have chosen to follow what we publish, it just doesn't get shown to them let alone anybody else.
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This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 15:52 - May 15 with 1579 views
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 13:09 - May 15 by Ewan_Oozami
I work with a local social enterprise whose remit is to help elderly and vulnerable people overcome digital poverty and feel safe when on the internet - many of them are very clever ex-professional people (but have never really used IT during their working careers) and even they believe a lot of the AI stuff online - we raelly do try to show them how to identify AI generated posts and videos - but when even supposedly reputable outlets are also doing (mostly wellmeaning) AI content as well, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between real and fake.
The aims of much of this disinfo are to make money, reduce morale, stoke fear and disdain for any sort of thoughtful discourse, create the environment for snake oil salesmen to flourish, and destabilise the country to make it less able to function in the real world - humans have been carrying this out for millenia, this is just the newest and most pernicious way of doing it.
"we raelly do try to show them how to identify AI generated posts and videos"
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 15:52 - May 15 by Ryorry
"we raelly do try to show them how to identify AI generated posts and videos"
Could you give me some pointers pretty please? :)
There's loads of platforms and example that we use, many of which we have to remove the tech jargon and use more meaningful wording, here's a very basic list that we go through with them when doing exercises comparing real and fake videos:
How to Tell if a Video Might Be Fake
Modern computers can now create very convincing fake videos of real people, making them appear to say or do things they never did. Here's what to watch out for: Look closely at the face
The edges of the hair or face may look blurry or wobbly The skin might look unusually smooth, almost like a wax figure The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless Teeth can look smudged or strange when the person is talking Glasses, earrings, or other accessories may look distorted
Watch how the person moves
Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said Parts of the background near the person may appear to shimmer or warp
Listen carefully
The voice may sound slightly robotic or unnatural The lips and the words might be ever so slightly out of sync — like a badly dubbed foreign film
Ask yourself some common-sense questions
Is this video only appearing on one obscure website, with no coverage anywhere else? Who is posting this video, is somethng they's normally post? Is a well-known person saying something shocking or completely out of character? Can you find any other footage of this moment from a different camera angle?
Use a search engine to check
Copy the web address of the video and search for it online — you may find the original, unaltered version Search the person's name along with what they supposedly said, to see if any trusted news sources are reporting it
The most important thing to remember is that if a video seems shocking or too surprising to believe, it's always worth pausing and checking before believing it or sharing it with others. When in doubt, look it up on a well-known news website.
You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
X accidentally revealed the locations of accounts a few months back. Less than 20% MAGA supporting accounts are from the US.
Fewer and fewer people bother to apply critical thinking to anything anymore and AI is making it easier to appear convincing and the tech companies don't care at all. Free speech innit? That's all that matters apparently.
The US needs to change the law they wrote in the 90s about how tech companies aren't responsible for the content others put on their platform. When that law was written there were chat rooms and news groups, not billions of users being goverend by an algorithm and nothing but fakes.
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This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 17:36 - May 15 with 1313 views
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 16:22 - May 15 by Ewan_Oozami
There's loads of platforms and example that we use, many of which we have to remove the tech jargon and use more meaningful wording, here's a very basic list that we go through with them when doing exercises comparing real and fake videos:
How to Tell if a Video Might Be Fake
Modern computers can now create very convincing fake videos of real people, making them appear to say or do things they never did. Here's what to watch out for: Look closely at the face
The edges of the hair or face may look blurry or wobbly The skin might look unusually smooth, almost like a wax figure The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless Teeth can look smudged or strange when the person is talking Glasses, earrings, or other accessories may look distorted
Watch how the person moves
Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said Parts of the background near the person may appear to shimmer or warp
Listen carefully
The voice may sound slightly robotic or unnatural The lips and the words might be ever so slightly out of sync — like a badly dubbed foreign film
Ask yourself some common-sense questions
Is this video only appearing on one obscure website, with no coverage anywhere else? Who is posting this video, is somethng they's normally post? Is a well-known person saying something shocking or completely out of character? Can you find any other footage of this moment from a different camera angle?
Use a search engine to check
Copy the web address of the video and search for it online — you may find the original, unaltered version Search the person's name along with what they supposedly said, to see if any trusted news sources are reporting it
The most important thing to remember is that if a video seems shocking or too surprising to believe, it's always worth pausing and checking before believing it or sharing it with others. When in doubt, look it up on a well-known news website.
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 16:22 - May 15 by Ewan_Oozami
There's loads of platforms and example that we use, many of which we have to remove the tech jargon and use more meaningful wording, here's a very basic list that we go through with them when doing exercises comparing real and fake videos:
How to Tell if a Video Might Be Fake
Modern computers can now create very convincing fake videos of real people, making them appear to say or do things they never did. Here's what to watch out for: Look closely at the face
The edges of the hair or face may look blurry or wobbly The skin might look unusually smooth, almost like a wax figure The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless Teeth can look smudged or strange when the person is talking Glasses, earrings, or other accessories may look distorted
Watch how the person moves
Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said Parts of the background near the person may appear to shimmer or warp
Listen carefully
The voice may sound slightly robotic or unnatural The lips and the words might be ever so slightly out of sync — like a badly dubbed foreign film
Ask yourself some common-sense questions
Is this video only appearing on one obscure website, with no coverage anywhere else? Who is posting this video, is somethng they's normally post? Is a well-known person saying something shocking or completely out of character? Can you find any other footage of this moment from a different camera angle?
Use a search engine to check
Copy the web address of the video and search for it online — you may find the original, unaltered version Search the person's name along with what they supposedly said, to see if any trusted news sources are reporting it
The most important thing to remember is that if a video seems shocking or too surprising to believe, it's always worth pausing and checking before believing it or sharing it with others. When in doubt, look it up on a well-known news website.
“The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless… Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd… Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said”
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 07:15 - May 16 by Swansea_Blue
“The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless… Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd… Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said”
[Post edited 16 May 7:19]
Trippin'
Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 16:22 - May 15 by Ewan_Oozami
There's loads of platforms and example that we use, many of which we have to remove the tech jargon and use more meaningful wording, here's a very basic list that we go through with them when doing exercises comparing real and fake videos:
How to Tell if a Video Might Be Fake
Modern computers can now create very convincing fake videos of real people, making them appear to say or do things they never did. Here's what to watch out for: Look closely at the face
The edges of the hair or face may look blurry or wobbly The skin might look unusually smooth, almost like a wax figure The eyes may not blink naturally, or may look glassy and lifeless Teeth can look smudged or strange when the person is talking Glasses, earrings, or other accessories may look distorted
Watch how the person moves
Head movements may look stiff or slightly odd Facial expressions might not quite match what's being said Parts of the background near the person may appear to shimmer or warp
Listen carefully
The voice may sound slightly robotic or unnatural The lips and the words might be ever so slightly out of sync — like a badly dubbed foreign film
Ask yourself some common-sense questions
Is this video only appearing on one obscure website, with no coverage anywhere else? Who is posting this video, is somethng they's normally post? Is a well-known person saying something shocking or completely out of character? Can you find any other footage of this moment from a different camera angle?
Use a search engine to check
Copy the web address of the video and search for it online — you may find the original, unaltered version Search the person's name along with what they supposedly said, to see if any trusted news sources are reporting it
The most important thing to remember is that if a video seems shocking or too surprising to believe, it's always worth pausing and checking before believing it or sharing it with others. When in doubt, look it up on a well-known news website.
All good advice, but perhaps the more important thing for people to get their heads around is that the technology (and consequently the degree of difference from a real video) is moving very, very, quickly and that this specific advice - particularly the first half of it, the specific audio/visual things - may not have any validity (or indeed provide false reassurance) very soon.
The last paragraph is the key bit.
Good work by Philogene...... GREAT WORK BY PHILOGENE!!!
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 07:38 - May 16 by NthQldITFC
All good advice, but perhaps the more important thing for people to get their heads around is that the technology (and consequently the degree of difference from a real video) is moving very, very, quickly and that this specific advice - particularly the first half of it, the specific audio/visual things - may not have any validity (or indeed provide false reassurance) very soon.
The last paragraph is the key bit.
Indeed, we are almost there - even that last paragraph loses impact if the storytelling gets to the point of nudging or inferring situations in a more subtle way than the current "OMG, look at this!" approach.
I asked some of them why they watch those type of vids on their social media feeds and they said those short snippets were much easier to take in than longer form articles on say, the BBC. So one thing I showed them how to do was to switch off the autoplay and recommendation functions on their apps, so at least they have to make an effort to watch videos!
You are the obsolete SRN4 to my Fairey Rotodyne....
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 11:39 - May 16 by Ewan_Oozami
Indeed, we are almost there - even that last paragraph loses impact if the storytelling gets to the point of nudging or inferring situations in a more subtle way than the current "OMG, look at this!" approach.
I asked some of them why they watch those type of vids on their social media feeds and they said those short snippets were much easier to take in than longer form articles on say, the BBC. So one thing I showed them how to do was to switch off the autoplay and recommendation functions on their apps, so at least they have to make an effort to watch videos!
But this logic of "get the soundbyte version" is endemic across all culture and society now - to the point that every time I open a book or academic text into Adobe Acrobat for research purposes I get a popup that says pretty much "this seems like a long text, do you want me to summarise it?". No, oddly enough, i opened up this weird academic text so I could actually study...
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This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 14:54 - May 16 with 471 views
This is not a great read and a bad sign of the way things are heading on 12:12 - May 16 by urbanpenguin
But this logic of "get the soundbyte version" is endemic across all culture and society now - to the point that every time I open a book or academic text into Adobe Acrobat for research purposes I get a popup that says pretty much "this seems like a long text, do you want me to summarise it?". No, oddly enough, i opened up this weird academic text so I could actually study...
It isn’t just sound bites. Same applies to the written word, on social media, if you have to scroll down to get to the end many don’t bother.
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