Sooner or later it’ll be good enough to make the alternate ending of Big.
Oh, I didn’t mean a literal tag; more like “[Digital artwork created using AI.]” Posts by this account, for example:
This one doesn’t bother to tag images; it’s only on their user page.
They really should say “virtually all”, though.
Saw a great one tonight.
I know her!
Her name is Stormy.
Disturbing. I can see the issues you mentioned because I know it’s AI, but I wouldn’t think to look for them normally. Only if the video was of some weird scenario that didn’t make sense would I think to check.
But it’s only when the scene cuts, it could easily have been different brushes. The only “off” thing about the video was the way the barnacles were shooting off. Nothing else seemed weird to me, definitely not the water.
I was just about to point this out. Different ships would have different brushes and setups, and I am not seeing any indication that all these shots were from the same ship.
It’s certainly got realistic-ish aspects to it. The barnacles coming off in a big flurry was an obvious tell for me too, but also the machinery itself doesn’t make sense - there’s one scene where there’s a person riding on the brush arm, which didn’t seem realistic; there’s one scene where the arm seems to originate from two different places and the details of the machinery itself - it’s covered with superfluous greebles.
Also, the subject matter of the video was suspicious; barnacles are just a normal thing for those species of whale than host them - there is no particular reason for there to be a boat patrolling the open sea and removing barnacles from whales; ‘wait, why the hell is this thing happening?’ is frequently a thematic ‘tell’ for AI videos.
But as I say, if the actual events are the key tell then that’s not much comfort. In itself it would imply:
- AI videos can fool us about more mundane events
- We might erroneously think a true video is fake because it is depicting a very strange or unlikely event
True - those are both genuine and increasing risks as this technology improves.
This other one fooled my wife, but I checked a few things and realized just then that it was fake:
No wind moving tail, or the fur; really, the racoon would hold for dear life or would had fallen already. Then after a few days, there was no reliable source coming up with it, So it remained an unsourced TikTok video.
That’s true but I think it’s largely because there’s no risk involved in accepting it so the energy involved in debunking it, or even worrying about it, feels wasted.
It’s like an April Fools gag of telling someone that your Aunt Sally dropped a carton of eggs yesterday. I say “Wow, that sucks” and you reply “HA! Got you! I don’t even HAVE an Aunt Sally!” I never actually cared enough to worry about the details and it’s no harm to me that you “Got me” aside from a wasted moment in my life. Likewise, mundane AI videos or images may “Get me” but I only really give a shit if they matter. Even a video of cleaning whales makes me go “Huh, neat” at most and whether it’s true or not has no impact on me so there’s normally no value in worrying about its validity.
There’s also “How do you train a whale in the wild what this ship is wanting to do”?
Maybe “mundane” wasn’t the right choice of words.
What I mean is, say, a video of a woman lying beaten on the ground is, sadly, quite believable; not a preposterous even to, in itself, make us think it is AI. But it may have the power to cause anger.
In fact, I don’t know why I’m even ranting about this, because AI videos already have fooled many people and influenced hearts and minds. I just didn’t expect it to happen to me so soon. The key thing, as always, is to check everything and find reliable sources. But it’s going to be like phishing; we have to be vigilant at all times.
Sure, and if you’re going to act on it then you’d want to know that it’s legitimate. But that’s no different from a faked Tiktok video or other staged video aside from it being harder for most people to fake a whale cleaning boat.
If I was going to send $100 to Whale Cleaners International or contact my senators about whale cleaning then I have more invested in knowing that the video is legitimate and giving it a keener eye. If it’s just part of the ocean of internet social media flotsam, then it’s no more worrying than staged videos about a girlfriend discovering that her man is cheating at Taco Bell. It’s a dumb waste of time but not uniquely concerning due to AI.
However, the ease of staging something is clearly different. But sure, if you think this isn’t a concern for you, then fine.
I think it concerned me just because I am quite a skeptic in general. When someone tells me a fact, it goes through a layer of “how surprising is this” “what evidence would be needed to support this claim” etc. And when I tell people facts that I’ve known, maybe stuff I was told years ago…part of me reevaluates the claim as I’m saying it.
I’m not a rube. But yeah for a moment I was taken in by this.
My point was more simply “People are easy to fool about things that don’t matter”.
Well, lots of fish go to “cleaning stations” where they float passively while cleaner wrasse and similar fish remove parasites from them. It is not ridiculously unbelievable that whales might have a similar instinct, although one might wonder what natural creatures would be capable of removing barnacles from whales.
Except they “know” the tiny fish are there to do their duty.
There’s nothing in the whales’ experience about what the ship and big whirring thing are for.