Realistic AI videos and kids

[Lamb]

Do you think that the new realistic Artificial Intelligence videos will harm kids who believe they're real? I'm a little worried.

 

[tango]

Never mind kids, AI deepfakes could cause all sorts of issues.

I saw one years ago (back when Obama was still president) that showed Obama giving a speech that sounded more or less like a regular Obama speech, except that part way through he suddenly made some comment about "all you m*f*s"" (obviously I've starred out the word he used here) and then started talking about how the whole video was a fake and it wasn't really him.

It's no great surprise that it turned out to be a fake, but it was incredibly realistic. You'd have been forgiven for wondering if he had actually said that for real, just to make a point about fakes.

 

[Lamb]

A lot of the older folks on Facebook are sharing some photos that are obviously AI, but it's fooled them into thinking they were real. That's a shame really. I used to count the fingers because AI couldn't get them right, but it's improved and now it's getting hard to distinguish.

 

[Frankj]

Just something to think about: The majority of information input to your brain (mind) is visual and there is so much of it that almost all is processed unconsciously without conscious thought involved.

The unconscious mind doesn't discriminate between real and not real, it just stores the information your conscious mind will call on the next time it encounters a situation and decides how to deal with it in terms of what was the closest situation to it in the past.

All video should be approached cautiously because of this, don't put ideas in your mind that you will think of as originating within yourself when, in reality, they were -sometimes deliberately- placed there by outside sources.

Just my opinion, ignore it if you don't find it useful.