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If someone were to say to you “why did the chicken cross the road?” You wouldn’t demand that there is actually a chicken. You would accept it as a framework for a joke.

The same holds true for staged videos or AI or anything. Is the framework important to the point? A video claiming people can fly and using AI as proof… That’s problematic. A staged bit where it would still be funny if it was just told verbally by a standup comedian? Who cares how real it is, the realness was never the point, the concept of the situation was.

Almost all comedy movies are just long staged bits.

And “how funny would this be if a standup comedian told this as a joke” vs “the context of this potentially actually happening is very important to the underlying humor of it” is a variable line for people. And that’s ok. Unless someone is in danger (don’t let someone jump off a cliff because ai said they can fly), other people’s lines don’t really affect you

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hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s kind of a shame you’re getting down voted for this. It’s a perfectly reasonable perspective, and makes sense.

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rektdeckard@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When you sit down to watch a movie, you know it isn’t real. When you watch media coverage of current events, you should not have to guess if it is or isn’t.

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- bisby@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I agree. But that’s wrong because lying about current events is wrong. This is what I meant about framework. AI is a tool in that regard and not the problem. There is plenty of “real” journalism out there spreading lies too that I have problems with.
  
  I’m fortunate I guess that most of the AI slop I dismiss is things more akin to baby panda sneezing scares mom panda. Where it doesn’t REALLY matter if it’s real because there are no consequences. It’s either funny or it’s not.
  
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- IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  news has been lying to people long before AI
  
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  - rektdeckard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    So add fuel to the fire right?
    
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    IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    honestly…kinda seems like AI-slop is making things so bad that it’s pushing people away back into real life, so…kinda
    
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xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If all we were seeing is the prompt used to generate the video, then there wouldn’t be a problem. Human-written fiction is generally valuable.
Instead we’re getting single sentences masquerading as “a picture worth a 1000 words”, or worse with video. Only 1% of that is actually the valuable part (the prompt), the rest is filler words and hallucinated slop.
A video or picture of reality is inherently more informative than any AI generation.

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deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I feel like the photorealism is what makes it bad. When you notice it’s fake you feel lied to. If it’s a cartoon, or blatantly cartoonish, it doesn’t.

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