on 29-04-2025 07:13 PM
Have you heard or seen AI stuff being used around you, to you, on you?
If you suspect you’ve spotted AI material in action, or know you have, post it here.
I’d like to kick things off by mentioning the new Bankwest TV ad. That voice-over is sending AI vibes to me. Has anyone here noticed the same thing?
on 01-05-2025 09:27 PM
"Some are going to be scammed - some are going to be hacked - simply because - well - just hit on cheap le creuset for example."
We all want to get the best deal we can get. Some people with a lesser intelligence and experience also have limited money. They are the main people who criminals target and it's much worse, in part, because of AI. These vulnerable people don't have the nous to recognise a scam and it's not necessarily because they wanted something cheap. It is also because they are influenced by e.g. AI lookalike celebrities who endorse the product. I too worry about these potential victims who need to be protected. Just how we do that is a challenge.
02-05-2025 08:33 AM - edited 02-05-2025 08:34 AM
I don't know how many of you are on Facebook, but it is getting very annoying on there.
As well as posts that friends might make, there are a lot of other posts that come up in the feed. Videos and so on.
They are often quite realistic looking but totally false. The ones I see often involve animals. For instance, one I saw recently showed a giant squid (as in massive) being scrubbed down and washed in a ship. A1.
It is those types of things I find hard to understand as in why? Why try to pass it off as genuine, unless it is for the clicks or sponsorship. It is not as if they are trying to sell anything so it can only be to get a viewer count up.
There are also a lot of so-called stories/problems that I strongly suspect were never written by any human, too over the top.
on 16-06-2025 05:37 PM
Did anyone watch the Channel 7 Spotlight Documentary last night ?
The Disturbing Truth About How AI Is Really Created
Data labellers - very poor people in Kenya.
One task involved uploading pictures of children, including one of a child having their nappy changed.
Another task involved cannibalism. She was asked to explain the taste of human flesh.
Other tasks included pornography.
The full episode of Slaves to AI can be seen on 7Plus or Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_01q3boQ6c
on 16-06-2025 06:46 PM
I haven’t seen it, but will do so.
More AI on YouTube… Content creators are complaining that their content is being lifted, with their commentary scrubbed, and re uploaded on a proliferation of new YouTube channels created by AI (or more exactly by people using AI to create lots of channels). The original commentary is either regenerated with AI voices … or summarised / rearranged / reworded with AI which is turned into AI voiceovers included on the new uploads. This is IP theft. The new channels quickly gather enough subscribers to gain sponsorship and advertising revenue.
The original content creators have taken to putting watermarks on their videos but that’s obviously affecting the satisfaction of viewers… and creating more work for the content creators. AI will probably be able to scrub static watermarks in the near future.
Those stupid “Dog doesn’t think pats are an act of love” ads - AI! AI all the way! Offensive, stupid, wrong, and the stupid song is AI-generated from start to finish, from the words and melody to the actual so-called “performance” and the so-called “singer”.
The so-called medical experts whose mouth movements don’t quite match every word supposedly spoken by them, peddling their ridiculous scripts about this miraculous cure, that miraculous cure, just take this product, etc… “Scientists don’t want you to know about this” - ha. Lies upon lies… People have already died as a result of these deceptive ads, and others (those behind those ads) are raking in money through other people’s vulnerabilities.
Sometimes I’m disgusted by the human race: not all of it, but that portion who don’t live the creed of “No man is an island” and “Love thy neighbour as thyself”. But it’s a self-feeding hamster wheel; if we don’t ensure that the social environment and social influences teach the valuing of others, our social environment and social influences will degrade. AI is just the automatic face of this.
on 18-06-2025 10:36 AM
on 14-07-2025 12:54 AM
Just read the next big thing in AI is connecting all " smart " devices to a central AI thingy for improved device management.
on 14-07-2025 01:14 AM
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on 15-07-2025 01:16 PM