AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.
At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.
Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.
This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.
Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.
To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?
EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There’s actually a term for what I’m describing: “The Dead Internet Theory”
I think I largely did. I watch Youtube with an adblocker and Lemmy is my only social media. Everything else is corporate. 95% of the internet could be gone tomorrow and I wouldn’t notice.
Then you’ve noticed a lot of fake videos, too.
Fake product reviews (fake script, fake voice, fake video footage). Videos with AI hosts (that you wouldn’t even realize is AI). Low effort video production that’s been handed off to an app to do all the work. Scripted content based on AI generated text (Youtube now offers creators AI generated ideas and scripts, btw).
You can sift through some of it now, but what will you do when you can’t tell the difference? Will you invest time watching fake content?
I have channels that I watch. Real people (who I’ve met), and others who are verifiably real. But those creators will be few and far between in the near future.
I only view the channels I’m following, and never click on anything else there. So as long as Youtube doesn’t inject te AI shit in those channels, I’m good.
This is the way… for now.
Makes discovering new content difficult, though, especially if you’re looking up informational videos, product reviews, etc.