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It appears that AI is destroying the internet. It's becoming more and more difficult to access information online that is not generated by AI, and it's becoming difficult to find any quality information in the general search listings, other than what can still be found by word of mouth or by doing deep searches, buried on some fringe website, social media account, or obscure science journal.
Just do a standard Google search for medical advice, such as how to treat a wound, how to lose belly flab, etc., and you'll find it difficult to find information that is actually useful. You'll see a lot of duplicate generic content on multiple sites that does not match its title, with the only remedy being to find digitalized books in places like the internet archive that actually go into detail with solutions that actually help. That's where the real wealth is stored, in real books, written by real people.
I do surveys for extra money, and also my freelance work, both involve working with AI, for AI evaluation and quality control, and am able to evaluate AI generated videos that the public does not typically see, and it's very realistic. Of course, it has its flaws, but is amazing how the technology has advanced where an entire outdoor scene on a busy public street filled with people walking about in the background can be entirely AI generated. And I'm seeing so many new YouTube channels that appear to be using that same technology.
I like to watch skateboarding videos, and am noticing this growing trend of YouTube channels popping up showing people skateboarding across the country, but they are all very similar, I mean with different faces, but they have the same body movements and similar speech pattern and weird looking eyes. And it looks like AI.
I'm thinking a real person actually did ride their skateboard across the country and filmed it, and then sold the footage to be used for AI augmentation. Meaning they created a template of a real person skateboarding, traveling across the country, staying in hotels, shopping, interacting with people, which can be reused multiple times, with customization, each claiming it to be their own.
This can be done for all kinds of things, anything really, any action that can be used in a YouTube video. A person takes that original footage, is given a license which enables them to change the appearance of the person and the scenery, superimposing their own preferred images, body, face, voice, clothing, etc., and even the background can be customized to anywhere in the world.
I think that's what's happening. I don't have a problem with people doing that, but I do have a problem with them not being honest about it. It's like maybe people can be entertained by AI generated videos, and maybe it's possible for an AI generated video to become a successful hit, and more entertaining than watching real people, but it should say it's AI, and it shouldn't pretend to be otherwise.
The same thing is happening with commercials, it's almost all AI generated now, which means most actors are out of work, and I don't watch TV, but I watch YouTube, and I'm noticing a lot of new commercials being released lately that remind me of the weird commercials from the 80s, and like they copied all these old commercials, with new AI generated people, and give it a slightly new twist to sell whatever the new product of the day is, but it's really just an AI copied clone from the past.
I don't want to watch AI generated videos, or read AI generated text pretending to be real people. It doesn't mean there isn't any value from AI generated content, but the fact that it is being used without the added disclaimer that it is AI, and not a real person, is wrong, and the failure to do so, I believe, is destroying the internet as we know it.