AI generated content, which now includes incredibly convincing videos of people, will grow exponentially over the next weeks, months, and years.
At some point, the majority of the content you see will be fake, and any usefulness or connection to humans will be lost.
Even information that you might have previously been able to confirm from a trusted source can (and will) be manipulated in some way, making verification impossible.
This lack of verification, along with the speed at which fake content can now be generated, will make it impossible to defend against.
Even the world of art and communication has been tainted, serving no connection to real people through this digital hellscape.
To that end, when will the internet be so untrustworthy, “soulless”, and useless to you that it crosses the tipping point?
EDIT: Ok, holy fuck. There’s actually a term for what I’m describing: “The Dead Internet Theory”
Maybe (?) that’s controversial but “human connection” is not the first thing that comes to my mind when I consider what I’m consuming online.
So losing the humanity of the internet sucks but I can find way to work around it.
What I mean by that is when you looked back at content from 5+ years ago, you know that a real person wrote, drew, recorded, thought of, put effort into it.
We had interconnectedness, and as human beings, we really should do what it takes to not lose that.
There will be no more looking at photography, artwork, music, or movies as a marvel of human effort, skill, and talent. To me, that’s a huge loss.
When you read a blog years ago, you were reading another person’s experience, and that had value.
Information from a resource was researched and had input from an expert human being, and/or a team of them. That had value.
Online? If so, how long do you think you can sustain it? If the majority of the internet or digital content you see becomes AI generated, with no way of knowing, what then? Will you invest time to use a future Lemmy where your interactions are probably all with bots?
I’ve been consuming content from a detached rehashed business position long before AI were a thing.
I’ve never felt the “human touch” in, say, a Marvel movie.
And when I mentioned workarounds I meant offline, as one does.