I downloaded tiktok today for the very first time out of curiosity and it’s all Sora. All of it. The default is AI spoonfed to you in a feed. I’m someone who is somewhat impartial when it comes to AI, and I don’t have any social media outside lemmy, so this was a huge shock to my system that so many videos with endless bot and user engagement are so easily accessible to the stupid masses.
I’ll laugh/cry pretty hard if it turns out the ultimate product, after 3 years and billionaires of dollars, turns out to be video memes.
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If it helps, those AI videos allegedly cost Sora 1$ per second of video to produce, and it takes quite a few tries to get it right. There’s no way to make it profitable in its current form.
That does help. Thanks.
Been that way for a while, and you can’t escape it even if you’ve never downloaded TikTok. My neighbor sits on her porch like 14 hours a day, blasting AI TikTok videos from her cell phone so loudly I can hear it from inside my house. On my lunch breaks at work, everyone around me has TikTok on continuously, once again blasting out of their cell phones (srsly wtf happened to Airpods?). Some of them come up and show me “cool” or “funny” videos that are straight AI slop and I just have to grin weakly and give a courtesy chuckle.
TikTok has completely enraptured everyone around me and I still don’t get the appeal of it.
Some of them come up and show me “cool” or “funny” videos that are straight AI slop and I just have to grin weakly and give a courtesy chuckle.
Don’t pretend you like it. As someone with a still-functioning brain, you have a responsibility to use it to educate people on how harmful this shit is, not just to themselves but to society.
I’m not saying launch into a full blown tirade about it unless the person is receptive and interested in why you feel that way, but you don’t have to pretend you see any value in it either, the only message you really have to convey is something like “I’m pretty sure that’s AI and I don’t like or watch AI videos if I can help it”. You can be a single voice of reason, one casual dismissal at a time. People are social animals, they often take even subtle cues from the people around them to heart. It’s one way to try to get them thinking again. Be comfortable to be seen as the person with no sense of humor if that’s how you think people will take it.
Even if all it does is make them a little more hesitant to freely share their lovely AI slop with other people, because they are worried the other people might react like you did, that’s a huge win. Help stop the spread of the slop: Be judgy and judge someone for it. It’s an activity that deserves to be judged.
You’re in a matrix, Neo.
Really explains why the Trump administration was so dead set on acquiring it.
This makes me think about what OpenAI sees in their own social media app focused only on AI slop. There’s enough AI slop in all other social media.
