Big tech forcing us into "fake reality" now

[ChrisFL]

Today I learned from a fellow theme park enthusiast that X (formerly Twitter) is now auto-generating "photos" of you celebrating the new year on their AI tool named Grok, without any specific opt-in that they could use your photos to do this.

Other companies like Meta are doing so if you want to do it but apparently X/Grok decides to do the opt-in for you practically (Yes, there is a "Try It" button but it doesn't actually warn you what it's using)

I'm getting very weary of all of this fake crap being generated constantly. I still have friends on Facebook and sometimes I scroll through it, and this holiday season I found TONS of ads for "products" like mugs, blankets, etc. that were clearly AI generated and not photos of real products. I attempted to report these and received a response that no action would be taken, despite Meta CLAIMING that anything AI generated should be tagged as such. I did some investigating into the website domains the products are being sold at and found they have very low trust scores (aka Scams)

Big Tech should be working on tools to ensure AI generated images are being identifiable, instead they just push their own AI generated slop, and now it's happening with music and videos as well. Streaming services pushing to use music people publish to "train their AI generation" models to eventually replace actual artists.

Then Coca-Cola runs Christmas ads entirely generated by AI and expect people to just accept it as our new reality where any creative people are out of work, no need for those jobs anymore, and forget having ownership of your own likeness, that's out of the window also.

If it was up to me, everyone should stop using X/Twitter. I still have my account but it's locked, turned off any opt-in features and I don't post to it anymore....I won't delete it because I don't want someone else to take my account name and then act like they're me. I use BlueSky which seems safe from this for now.

What do we do when everything is made by computers and all creatives are out of work? Not to mention the insane amount of energy these AI tools need to operate. They don't like to mention that part, but it's exorbitant.

Sorry for venting had to get this off my chest.

 

[Mle8308]

Today I learned from a fellow theme park enthusiast that X (formerly Twitter) is now auto-generating "photos" of you celebrating the new year on their AI tool named Grok, without any specific opt-in that they could use your photos to do this.

Other companies like Meta are doing so if you want to do it but apparently X/Grok decides to do the opt-in for you practically (Yes, there is a "Try It" button but it doesn't actually warn you what it's using)

I'm getting very weary of all of this fake crap being generated constantly. I still have friends on Facebook and sometimes I scroll through it, and this holiday season I found TONS of ads for "products" like mugs, blankets, etc. that were clearly AI generated and not photos of real products. I attempted to report these and received a response that no action would be taken, despite Meta CLAIMING that anything AI generated should be tagged as such. I did some investigating into the website domains the products are being sold at and found they have very low trust scores (aka Scams)

Big Tech should be working on tools to ensure AI generated images are being identifiable, instead they just push their own AI generated slop, and now it's happening with music and videos as well. Streaming services pushing to use music people publish to "train their AI generation" models to eventually replace actual artists.

Then Coca-Cola runs Christmas ads entirely generated by AI and expect people to just accept it as our new reality where any creative people are out of work, no need for those jobs anymore, and forget having ownership of your own likeness, that's out of the window also.

If it was up to me, everyone should stop using X/Twitter. I still have my account but it's locked, turned off any opt-in features and I don't post to it anymore....I won't delete it because I don't want someone else to take my account name and then act like they're me. I use BlueSky which seems safe from this for now.

What do we do when everything is made by computers and all creatives are out of work? Not to mention the insane amount of energy these AI tools need to operate. They don't like to mention that part, but it's exorbitant.

Sorry for venting had to get this off my chest.

Today I learned from a fellow theme park enthusiast that X (formerly Twitter) is now auto-generating "photos" of you celebrating the new year on their AI tool named Grok, without any specific opt-in that they could use your photos to do this.

Other companies like Meta are doing so if you want to do it but apparently X/Grok decides to do the opt-in for you practically (Yes, there is a "Try It" button but it doesn't actually warn you what it's using)

I'm getting very weary of all of this fake crap being generated constantly. I still have friends on Facebook and sometimes I scroll through it, and this holiday season I found TONS of ads for "products" like mugs, blankets, etc. that were clearly AI generated and not photos of real products. I attempted to report these and received a response that no action would be taken, despite Meta CLAIMING that anything AI generated should be tagged as such. I did some investigating into the website domains the products are being sold at and found they have very low trust scores (aka Scams)

Big Tech should be working on tools to ensure AI generated images are being identifiable, instead they just push their own AI generated slop, and now it's happening with music and videos as well. Streaming services pushing to use music people publish to "train their AI generation" models to eventually replace actual artists.

Then Coca-Cola runs Christmas ads entirely generated by AI and expect people to just accept it as our new reality where any creative people are out of work, no need for those jobs anymore, and forget having ownership of your own likeness, that's out of the window also.

If it was up to me, everyone should stop using X/Twitter. I still have my account but it's locked, turned off any opt-in features and I don't post to it anymore....I won't delete it because I don't want someone else to take my account name and then act like they're me. I use BlueSky which seems safe from this for now.

What do we do when everything is made by computers and all creatives are out of work? Not to mention the insane amount of energy these AI tools need to operate. They don't like to mention that part, but it's exorbitant.

Sorry for venting had to get this off my chest.

The don't use X. Any time you post a photo of yourself on any social media site, that is the risk you take. Don't think you are any safer on BlueSky. AI is not the friend so many people tend to think it is.

 

[ChrisFL]

The don't use X. Any time you post a photo of yourself on any social media site, that is the risk you take. Don't think you are any safer on BlueSky. AI is not the friend so many people tend to think it is.

I just said I don't use X anymore

 

[Christine]

I no longer use X either and have my account locked. It's a cesspool and crazy--definitely very out there with being about the platform and not the user at this point. Because I haven't been on, I didn't realize about the automac AI stuff.

 

[_19disnA]

I think you are conflating two unrelated topics. Most people realize a TV ad for Coke showing a polar bear riding a toboggan is probably computer generated long before AI became the latest tech buzzword. No one is 'forcing you' to post personal pictures on social media. Far too many use it like some sort of online diary which has always seemed like a really bad idea to me.

 

[sam_gordon]

It's very possible the agreement you signed (or clicked that you accepted) when you joined whatever site gives them permission to use any posting of yours, whether photo, video, or text. And very possible it's "in perpetuity". So even if you leave the site, they can still use your images, videos, and posts.

 

[VandVsmama]

Twitter/X has always been stupid, in my opinion, which is why I don't use it.

 

[ChrisFL]

I think you are conflating two unrelated topics. Most people realize a TV ad for Coke showing a polar bear riding a toboggan is probably computer generated long before AI became the latest tech buzzword. No one is 'forcing you' to post personal pictures on social media. Far too many use it like some sort of online diary which has always seemed like a really bad idea to me.

Computer generated is way different than AI generated. One still uses the work and craft of actual CG artists, the other does not.

Edit: To clarify before someone jumps on this, yes AI also uses computers, obviously. But traditionally "computer generated" uses actual artists doing things with a computer, not a computer doing all of the work itself.