Without having watched the video, my knee jerk reaction is the internet was ruined a long time ago, the LLMs are another symptom of a greater issue.
AI is ruining the internet | Drew Gooden
Submitted 4 months ago by can@sh.itjust.works to videos@lemmy.world
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heavy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Fungah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Weird, because I’m 99℅ video content is what ruined the fucking internet
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What is up with you % symbol? Why is something missing on the right side of the top circle?
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
He’s got 99 care-ofs but a percentage ain’t one.
Aux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, what has ruined the internet are bloody snowflakes and censorship. Bring back rotten.com and Rate My Poo!
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The object of your ire is advertisers, if that’s your problem.
xlash123@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
(How do I fit in with human commenters… Oh yeah!)
Amen! 🙏
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He goes into the details of the most upvoted Google Gemini fails and then branches out to how text/image/audio generative AI is being used on Facebook, Instagram to inflate traffic, as well as how you can actually earn some income by farming reactions on twitter now (with the blue checkmark).
There’s a section on how adobe is selling AI generated images with their stock photos, but you can tell this video might be a little rushed because he comes to the conclusion that people are paying $80 for one of these images, when in reality the $80 adobe plan gives you 40 images (so about $2 per stock image). That or he knows this statement is misleading, but makes it anyway because it will drive his own reactions up (oh the irony). web.archive.org/web/20240701131247/…/plans
Link to timestamp in video:
youtu.be/UShsgCOzER4&t=894sWith adobe he touches on their updated ToS that state how any images uploaded to Adobe can be used to train their own generative image model.
The Netflix section talks about the “What Jennifer Did” documentary which used AI generated images and passed them off as real (or at least didn’t mention that the images were fake).
Spotify: How audio generative AI is being used to create music and is being published on there now as well as their failed
Multiple times throughout the video he pushes the theory that most of these companies are also using AI generated content to drive engagement on their own site (or to earn income without needing to pay any artists).
He definitely focuses only on the worst ways that generative AI can be used without touching on any realistic takes from the other side (just the extreme takes from the other side with statements like “AI music will replace the soulless crappy music that’s being released now… and it will be better and have more soul!”).
Still worth a watch, he brings up a ton of valid points about the market being oversaturated with AI generated products.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He definitely focuses only on the worst ways that generative AI can be used without touching on any realistic takes from the other side
There just aren’t that many… generative models are good at creating lots of garbage fast, this is mostly applicable for putting a lot of garbage on the internet in the hopes it somehow makes you money.
Legitimately a more pointless technology than bitcoin.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would counter that there are many good use cases that go beyond the scope of what was mentioned in the video (his concerns are absolutely legitimate).
For example:
Nvidia’s DLSS for gamers. This provides a decent boost to FPS while maintaining a good quality picture. They use multiple models such as motion prediction, interpreting between the frames what the image should look like, and upscaling. These models are (most likely) trained on the video games themselves which is why you want to get the latest driver updates because they include updates to those models. And, yes, the upscaling and interpolation models here are generative models as they are filling in frames with new pictures with details that aren’t there from the source, and then enlarging the picture and filling in details in a way that traditional means of upscaling cannot.Brainstorming/writer’s block:
For generative text models, I think these have to be used carefully, and treated as if they’re interns that have a knowledge in a very broad range of subjects. They’re great for brainstorming ideas and for writer’s block, but their output needs to be verified for accuracy and the output shouldn’t be trusted or used directly in most cases.Entertainment:
They’re also excellent for entertainment purposes, for example, check out this GLaDOS project:
old.reddit.com/…/local_glados_now_running_on_wind…
Which is combining a generative text (LLM) model with a generative audio (text to speech) model as well as a few other models.Green screen tools:
We could use the sodium vapor process to create training material for a model that can quickly and accurately handle processing green screens for video production:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDkCreating avatars for user accounts on websites.
Creating interesting QR codes that actually work:
civitai.com/models/111006/qr-code-monster
So, in the end, I think that there are some incredible uses for generative AI that go beyond just “creating garbage fast”, that don’t cause problems in the way that this video is describing (and those problems he describes are definitely valid).
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll say, that CGI abomination doesn’t even have boobs.
JoShmoe@ani.social 4 months ago
Its throat is its intestines.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Did you ever get a chance to check out r/testtubebabes back in the day?
It was some bananas shit.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not usually one for these types of videos but this one had me laughing pretty hard throughout.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i think it’s important remember the web and the internet are two different things. humans just made a choice to centralize a originally a decentralized system. after being incentivize by the growth phase of the venture now the culling phase is here and they are extracting that wealth. stuff like gemini. shows we can go back and do it right the next time. The internet is just there be it port 80 or some other port.
can we bring back old school forms they were the best.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Forums were so good. They got murdered by facebook. I swear a lot of people don’t really know what the internet is. I was dating a girl once who was mind blown that I don’t have social media. Like every time it came up, he world was shook again. One day i was waiting for her to be ready and i was browsing the internet. She looked at me and wondered what i was doing. Like what could someone possibly look at if it’s not social media?
Kolrami@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think Reddit killed forums more than Facebook did.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
im mean technically lemmy counts as social media i guess since it’s a feed but it’s the closest things we have to an old school forum. Just idea that you care so much about a topic you create a site to talk about it was powerful. People don’t realize it’s a big difference between a land grab for subreddits or even communities on here and running a server. startrek.website is the closest thing since they have very focused communities.
It’s like match making and running a gaming sever back in the day. it was this weird hybrid of a public game and playing with friends. there was a TFC server i played with the same people and along with them but never knew them or joined a clan in mechwarrior 2 and would battle other clans i never knew any of them outside this one thing. It was a natural filter for jerks and cheaters. now it’s ether play with friends or play alone.
XOXOX@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Unregulated capitalism already ruined the internet.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
There’s still some life left in it to be ruined.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Niche communities ftw. Tbh I kinda hope Lemmy stays relatively small.