As a disclaimer, I’m not actually anti-AI, but tons of slop is made with it. It’s the same as those TTS Reddit reading videos from back in the day or any other shitty trend from the last 10 years.
I’m old enough to know to dismiss internet noise as vastly out of touch with the actual silent majority of internet users, so this moral panic over slop to me was just zoomers who grew up on reaction videos thinking that wasn’t slop to the folks who came before, but I was on a train, looking around, I saw like 4/5 people I could see were on their phones, watching clearly AI-generated content, on TikTok or something similar based on the UI elements, one of them even had it on speaker for some reason.
All of them seemed around my age in the mid-20s.
Thing is, I don’t really understand it, what’s the appeal? I’m not asking about being on your phone, but specifically short-form videos about nothing specific.
When I looked it up, lots of talk about addiction and dopamine loops, but I can’t relate to that, I assume this maybe has something to do with me having ADHD and the theory that my dopamine system doesn’t really work “normally”.
I tried watching TikTok before, but it definitely wasn’t stimulating for me, I got bored pretty quick. If I was on a train and really bored looking out the window listening to music, I’d whip out a Wikipedia page or read the comments on Lemmy or look up a random question on my mind.
Why? Well in my experience - text is a lot easier to consume you can consume more information faster, hence to me - it’s more stimulating. Works both ways too - It’s just easier to express yourself quickly and clearly in text than by speaking. Even typing on my phone feels a helluva lot less taxing and more stimulating than speaking/listening.
It’s not like I don’t watch videos, I do have videos on in the background sometimes when I’m tidying up or whatever, where I prefer long-form stuff so it just fades into the background and stays consistent and non-distracting. If I watch a movie it’s often something I kinda need to mentally work myself up for. I definitely wouldn’t be able to pay attention to a video playing on my phone.
So my question is - what’s so stimulating about this type of stuff in particular?
I want to hear about your experience so I can understand it better.
I’d like to understand it, because otherwise it feels like most people are weird aliens, driven by forces beyond my comprehension, and it’s not nice :(
Why would you assume it’s neurotypical specific? I’m neurodivergent and I like generating AI videos and images, as it allows me to visualise stuff that was in my mind.
Because I have ADHD and can’t relate, it’s in my post.
My gf who also has ADHD also cannot relate. We both tried TikTok, which showed the aforementioned slop, and we found it unstimulating as fuck and got bored very quickly. I
Your logic is flawed.
You have 2 samples of people with ADHD. And because of that you make the assumptions that all other people with ADHD react exactly the same. And all other neurodivergents, also those with something completely unrelated to ADHD, also react like that.
And then you also conclude that everyone without ADHD would react the complete opposite. As if there is 0 nuance to people without neurodivergence.
That is a lot of assumptions based on basically nothing.
It’s an observation, not a conclusion ya nitwit.
The absence of scientifically rigorous, high sample size experimentally proven, well substantiated, documented reproducible conclusions does not render the observation wrong in and of itself because they’re just not in the same category.
Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.
That would be valid if it was what you did. Except it wasn’t. You assumed the hypothesis to be true and asked us why it’s true. You should instead be asking whether or not it’s true.
Lmfao, you take your ADHD diagnosis too seriously.
Like half the planet has ADHD or undiagnosed ADHD, your not neuro atypical, you’re pretty normal.
Yeah most of those people aren’t on amphetamines that they require to do basic functions, are they?
The diagnosed ones generally are, the others are generally self medicating in a variety of other ways, from caffeine to alcohol to nicotine to marijuana to illicit amphetamines.