It isn't just spaceflight content on Youtube. It's happening on every platform on just about every topic. It's making all these platforms untrustworthy even if you think you know who the content provider is.
Quote from: Eric Hedman on 09/24/2025 06:16 amIt isn't just spaceflight content on Youtube. It's happening on every platform on just about every topic. It's making all these platforms untrustworthy even if you think you know who the content provider is.And that goes both ways. I’ve seen disgusting comments on channels saying that voices on videos are AI-generated, forcing the content creators to come out and defend themselves. Just because you're reading a script that you created yourself doesn’t mean that the use of "no voice" editing to speed up the video makes your voice appear to be AI-generated or interpreted. I think making a small box at one corner with you speaking will help, but many don't due to gender, handicap, or other biases.
Indeed very worrisome.On top of that I read an article by a Danish psychologist who had interacted with AI engines while pretending to suffer from various psychological illnesses. He said that the conversations with AI would surely exacerbate illnesses people might suffer from, because the AI constantly encouraged him and egged him on, even when he displayed severely sociopathic behaviour.We're right now repeating all the errors we made fixteen years ago with social media. But repeating those errors with a much more potent technology. It will have huge societal impact.
The CEO of a company that’s pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much about having AI slop shoved down their throats.Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright told the Hollywood Reporter that “people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites.”
Besides pumping out thousands of AI podcasts, Inception Point also aims to turn AI-generated personalities into influencers on social media, a tactic vaguely reminiscent of Meta’s ill-fated attempts to launch AI chatbots based on real-world celebrities and load its platforms with AI-powered characters.For its podcasts, the Inception’s AI chooses topics based on Google data and social media trends, according to the Reporter. It then launches five different versions of each show to see if any of them stick. To double down on search engine optimization, some of the podcasts’ titles are extremely basic, such as “Whales,” a show about whales.Wright defends those appalling practices, saying it’s all a numbers game.“We might make a pollen podcast that maybe only 50 people listen to, but I’m already at unit profitability on that, and so then maybe I can make 500 pollen report podcasts,” she told the Reporter.
But what happens when AI allows us to easily whip up machines custom-designed for particular tasks. At that point it could be just as easy to create machines tailored for particular tasks, as compared to relying on general-purpose machines.That's when we could have the machine version of spam. Instead of just text spam & audio-visual spam, we could have a spam-of-machines, or spam-of-things. We could be up to our eyeballs in custom-made one-offs created to do some particular thing, simply because it was effortless enough to make them that way.
It is a bit harsh to Blame AI for the proliferation of junk.
Quote from: John-H on 10/03/2025 12:13 amIt is a bit harsh to Blame AI for the proliferation of junk. Two recent examples.
