Gregory's ServerHalf formed thought; The “OMG it looks so real!” posts on openai videos are the end result of humans that have been fed too much AI output and now have corrupted visual recognition systems. The videos look like the fever dreams I had after I ate that 7 year old jar of mayo in one sitting.
NanoRaptor
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C.S.Strowbridge
I don't know about his mayo story, but I have several similar stories that start with, "Sniff, sniff. ... Hmm, bacon smells funny. I better eat it all before it goes bad."
jsj
@NanoRaptor Big same. We’ve spent decades now watching VFX breach various levels of uncanny valleys. The “oh that’s obviously AI” gap will be hard to beat.  
Nini
@NanoRaptor It's a talking dog situation, people are just amazed at the dog talking even if it's doing it poorly. 
sanfierro
@nini @NanoRaptor Yeah, it's this
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen
@NanoRaptor It's interesting that at one point the economy involved will definitely dictate that further results are best achieved by altering the observer rather than the observed.
aetios
@NanoRaptor Only the one with the crowned pigeon looked real enough to me (but kinda looks overtrained) the rest are so werid like . what. The movement of the ships in the coffee cup was completely unrealistic.
Nixie
@NanoRaptor I remember when after Avengers endgame, I was talking with gf and friend, and they didn't see that Proxima Midnight was really bad CGI. They were convinced it was an actress with prosthetics. And I was like...what? 
snep
@NanoRaptor i'm not convinced the accounts leaving those comments aren't themselves just dead internet bots feeding what they have computed is an algorithmic trend.
NanoRaptor
@SnepperStepper I did not think of that. My account has been empty for almost a year and it still gains 50+ followers a week - but barely changes in total follower account. I suspect bot stuffing at twitter, possibly by twitter, to make it seem like it’s not dying. Or forced follows from idle accounts. (I should check who I follow there in case it’s made me do the same to others)
snep
@NanoRaptor honestly i've noticed a massive uptick in what basically amounts to spam by pointing out the obvious or making dumb and/or generic statements on every platform that has historically been host to those "buy x large number of followers" schemes. Those work by using a bunch if bot accounts to all follow the customer. Those bot accounts have to have some regular user type activity so the platform doesn't autoban them, and i really wonder if this is that.
Paula Maddox
@NanoRaptor I agree, also they've been fed a diet of "perfect" from Hollywood for so long they don't know "real" any longer. 
Nafeon :verified_solarpunk:
@NanoRaptor I always have to remember the experiment of a man who raised a chimpanzee together with his child. The goal was to make have the chimpanzee mimick human behavior and therefore develop like a human. In the end his own human child mimicked parts of the behavior of the ape and fell behind in their development. The Human was the better monkey. Humans are so good in adapting to situations that we just adapt to bad ML being the normal reality instead of trying to adapt the ML to humans. 
Ben Ramsey
@NanoRaptor @lisamelton Even if the mayo was fresh, I think eating a whole jar in one sitting would still give me a fever dream. |
@NanoRaptor please tell me the mayo anecdote was made up tho