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Sredni:
We are living in interesting times. 🤔
IIRC Dave made a video about AI generated technology channels that posted videos about supposedly interesting innovative discoveries that were actually void of any meaning. The content was clearly made up using buzz words to capture the viewer attention, and the visuals were pieces of stolen or stock videos vaguely related to the topic.

AI has made all of this even easier to create:

https://youtu.be/X66MGRN364c?si=S_5U7EYsY9gZf0jz

I wonder when will we see electronics- based conspiracy videos...

Something like:
"Andrew Miller is a former NASA researcher that built a 1 GHz digital oscilloscope using old CRT television parts and beer cans. He was about to publish his research online, to allow everyone to be able to access top notch electronic instrumentation virtually for free, when a hitman hired by Big Tech teleported his brain on Mars, leaving him in a vegetative state".

Should be the next logical step, after the microwave transformer water pump and the evergreen over unity device.
tom66:
This is just a proof of concept kind of thing but it is a little terrifying...  The age of being able to trust a video is gone.
https://www.twitch.tv/trumporbiden2024

Trying to avoid turning this into a political debate but it's quite impressive how the AI has picked up on the nuances in the behaviour of the two candidates/presidents.  It is clearly marked as AI generated, but that's easy to remove.  The only oddities remain the occasional glitches as the characters go in between states, but I am sure that could be removed with a little more effort...
xrunner:
It's just the beginning of all this. Sure a country can try and regulate AI videos but other state actors will not. Soon (if not already) average people won't be able to tell what's true or false by viewing a video on TV or YT. The quality will only improve. Think of the ramifications on politics just for starters. I don't have any answers though ...  :(
LaserSteve:
I know an older Doctoral student who faced an accusation of cheating after an AI scanning an essay said he used AI for the paper.  He calmly asked to sit in a computer free office and write an essay on any reasonable topic. That scored as AI assisted on that one also.

There is a joke about passing the Turing Test in there  somewhere. However by day he is a high ranking campus official.  He is not happy about the situation.

I'm unemployed at the moment, recruiters use AI to process resumes, and I see five things:



1. AI overinflates my skill set, suggesting me for jobs I do not qualify for.

 2. AI is harshly critical on dates and overdependent on databases.  What I do, and what my degree says are TWO different things.

3. Many recruiters use it to generate H1B requests to lower costs. I get "fake" recruitng by the ton.  I've called potential employers to find no opening existed.

4. It strongly makes assumptions on  automotive travel as a factor in recruiting. Recruiters assume it is accurate it predicting if I will show up for work based solely on distance. Heaven help you if your  mailing address is different  from your working address.  The software will toss you if your commute is longer then twenty minutes by car.

5. Recruiters use AI to try to bid temp to hire candidates for  positions for full time job listings.  I get offered "22$ an hour  W2"   For those that don't know, W2 is a US end of fiscal year  tax document.  It's also a trick to avoid providing benefits.

No one in their right mind accepts a job based solely on the w2.

Steve



Nominal Animal:
Factually speaking, there never was a time when one could trust pictures, videos, or recordings as fact.
Even in the early times of these, a century ago, stuff could be faked, and frequently has.

The solution is not more control.  The only working solution is to teach people to rely on multiple sources and think for themselves, before believing in something.  Trust whoever you want, but verify.

Of course, that is not possible for a large fraction of the population, because they have neither the skills nor the inclination to think for themselves.  This is nothing new: "bread and circuses".
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