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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"

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd just have to ignore most "user-generated" content.

Dead Internet hypothesis is only applicable to user-generated content platforms.

AI will affect far more than just social media shit posts, though.

All news (local, national, global). Educational sites. Medical information. Historical data. Almanacs/encyclopedias. Political information. Information about local services (i.e. outages). Interviews. Documentaries.

I mean, all of these can be easily manipulated now in any medium. It's only a matter of how quickly AI saturates these spaces.

Trustworthy sources will few and far between, drowned out by content that can be generated thousands of times faster than real humans can.

What then?

I even worry about things like printed encyclopedias being manipulated, too. We stand to lose real human knowledge if AI content continues to accelerate.

There really aren't viable alternatives to those things, unless they are created (again), like before the internet was used for everything.

The Only Solution is to support the How To Basic Youtube Channel, the last base of the resistance.

TranscriptHi my name is Michael Stevens.

You may know me as the creator and host of the VSauce 1 on YouTube on December 8, 2011 I created the how to basic YouTube channel. I created it as what I believe to be Step 1 in an important human revolution. As I looked around at what technology was doing to u, I realized that we were offloading information and skills to machines. You no longer have to know how to, fix a dented car, how to make an apple pie, you could just... "Google It". The human mind was being replaced by machines, and once that replacement is finished... Humanity's gone. I thought warning people would be enough, but then I realized... it was too late... Only a revolution that tore down the infrastructure of technology in our world would be sufficient. And I could only do that from the inside. I needed to upload DIY informational and educational content full of misinformation and absurdist comedy. That way, the system would fall apart. People wouldn't trust machines, and we would all have to trust ourselves.

/jk Of couse this is just a joke. OR IS IT?

~Join~ ~The~ ~Revolution!!!~