I just looked for ai slop on the internet and some videos are very realistic, so realistic it makes me doubt my ability to discern what’s real from what’s created to play with my emotions and generate money for the creator or advance an agenda.

I’m in my 40s. Video sites are full of what I assume overconfident people younger than me with comments like how boomers would believe any of these videos. I’m not that old myself yet but this stuff is scary. It can be used to denigrate a politician, to demonize or ridicule minorities, to share misinformation, to make porn using the face of somebody who rejected a disgruntled man…

It’s also very sad society actually wants this. It shows lots of people are actually very gullible and stupid.

A better question would be, how do I avoid being gullible with images and video so realistic? Because the more technology advances the worse it’s going to get.

  • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
    32·
    12 hours ago

    It’s getting harder and harder but some things still seem to work:

    • emotional emphasis on the wrong syllables
    • dissonance between facial expressions and vocal delivery
    • AI writing giveaways (it’s not A it’s B etc.)
    • dreamlike / “floaty” motion
    • unrealistic “depth of field” (objects don’t blur properly with distance)
    • unrealistic lighting / coloring / appears stylized despite the attempted hyperrealism
    • object permanence problems / subtle drift in sizes and proportions over time
    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      The last one is the big giveaway but it can be hard to spot. Look for things going out of frame or going behind other objects. Do they come back when they should? Have they changed?

      For example: there are three people in the background and a bus drives by, obscuring them completely. Are they still there when the bus moves on?

      I’ll add another one: multiple vanishing points. As models will pull different parts of images from different sources, perspective can be inconsistent across the image.