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This is so out of hand. There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. Th
by Animats 9mo ago
This is so out of hand.
There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. The image was purchased from Alamy Stock Photo. I recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive; the video had AI-generated images that looked wrong, despite GG-1 pictures being widely available.
YouTube is creating fake images as thumbnails for videos now, and for industrial subjects they're not even close to the right thing. There's a glut of how-to videos with AI-generated voice giving totally wrong advice.
Then newer LLM training sets will pick up this stuff.
"The memes will continue" - White House press secretary after posting an altered shot of someone crying.
- nxobject 9mo ago> recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive It wouldn’t happen to be a certain podcast about engineering disasters, now, would it?
- tovej 9mo agoWell there's your problem? That one always seemed very well researched to me.
- appointment 9mo agoNot a patron, so I haven't seen the whole video, but I don't think Rocz would use AI for a video about his beloved Pennsylvania Railroad.
- pjc50 9mo agoThe war on facts continues. Facts are hard, they require a careful chain of provenance. It's much cheaper to just make up whatever people want to hear, safe in the knowledge that there will never be any negative consequences for you. Only other people, who aren't real anyway.
- oytis 9mo agoYoutube has recently recommended me a video of Feynman allegedly explaining why we couldn't go to Mars and back. I am normally on Youtube for something specific and don't follow recommendations, but hey, it's Feynman and I haven't seen it before, so I had to watch. After a few seconds it has become very clear that the video is totally fake. Then I started digging, and it turned out that both voice and the text it says are fake too. According to the "authors" it was "based on Feynman's work", which is his whole physics course.
- nancyminusone 9mo agoYouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff. I clicked on one about Henry the 8th, which is a story Ive heard heard 100 times but whatever. It started out normal enough, then claimed he started carrying around a staff with a human skull on the top near the end. Made up artifacts and paintings. The most egregious has to be the "World War II mechanic fixes entire allied plane arsenal with piece of wire" category. I've come across a couple dozen of these. Completely fabricated events and people that never seem to have existed.
- PaulDavisThe1st 9mo ago> YouTube must be absolutely flooded with this stuff. I don't know what the current upload rate to YT is, but this seems unlikely. Despite the reckless and insane energy consumption associated with generative visual and audio art forms, there's no way there's enough power available for generative stuff to overwhelm the "actually recorded digital video" uploads. Are there some niches on YT where this is true? Seems possible. YT overall? Nah.
- nancyminusone 9mo agoIf my toilet overflows and starts leaking raw sewage into my bathroom, I don't tend to then go "well, at least the rest of my house is fine proportionally". Most of these kind of videos aren't fully SORA level AI anyway, they just use ChatGPT to make up a fake story and script they would otherwise have to make up themselves, which is much faster, and increases the chances one of them gets picked up by the algorithm and generates a few bucks in ad revenue.