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Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus â¨15⊠â¨hours⊠agoIf someone tells me a entertaining story that connects with me emotionally, itâs not so much important if the story is true per se, itâs important that itâs told well. The storyteller might have invented the whole thing or based it on something similar and modified/exaggerated it, but that doesnât take away from the story. If i tell myself a story it wouldnât be satisfying either (if iâm not worldbuilding or an author, where the satisfaction has other sources).
Itâs an interesting thought and would explain why people react so intensely. I for my part was very quickly picking up on the fakeness of facebook - when i was riled up during the arabian spring in Libya, i realized that i get easily emotionally manipulated by the served content, which made me quit.
Nowadays i know much better how to verify information thatâs important to me; a dogs picture licking a cat which makes her purr will always emotionally positive for me, because a) it doesnât matter outside of my satisfaction, just like the well told story, and b) i canât check it for authenticity either way, so i do not care about authenticity.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨hours⊠ago
I agree. It honestly makes me mad that people get in such a huff over using generative models for fiction; theyâre just another generation of tools.
The issue is blurring fiction and reality.
This isnât just a problem with AI. See: influencers, tabloids, and ânewsâ that sell caricatures of reality.
But AI makes it too, too easy to distribute fakeness in spaces that are supposed to be real. And this is what it ended up being used for.
âŚI think Iâve used generative models enough to get desensitized to the âfeel goodâ bit. I guess I felt lie you once, but having peeked behind the curtain, the feeling has gone away.
But if they make you feel good, good. Thatâs what arts supposed to do.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus â¨9⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Like i said in another answer, maybe that loss of confidence in the authenticity of what we see online has a positive effect in the future where people start rejecting what they see on the web as the truth and start believing in what authoritative people say again; i hope they start listening to their doctors, teachers and scientists again instead of grifters and con-men. In that case anonymous social media will find itself dead in the water, with media using verified and authenticated profiles winning out.
It might cause the combined stupidity - that made things like qanon possible - to fall apart into the small splinter cells of town idiots they were before.