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Next up on NYT: AI vs Basquiat - the new models are now sophisticated enough, they no longer have to scratch out their own work.

what the world needs right now is just one more board game. that will fix things.

HELP(2) The new collaborative album out now. All proceeds support War Child UK.

HELP (2) is really dope, I had a very good time listening to what is an astoundingly packed compilation album. Chances are, there's someone on there you love.

also, good cause etc. etc. give it a spin. warchildrecs.ffm.to/help2

No, you misunderstand. these are not "my" parties. I am not British.

my liberal parties?

that's the gag!

who could have predicted that labour was just tories in wigs?

editorial policy is such a useful tool, whether applied to editorial standards or just a way of being.

Honestly, why would anyone want to watch stories that, instead of flowing organically from lived experiences are doctored to fit the regime.

article on the guardian that is titled "Pixar chief says LGBTQ+ plot elements cut from Elio as company is 'not making therapy.'

NPI Chief says Efka elements are cut from the people who are gonna see Pixar movies.

There's a Gary Numan, Gary Oldman, Randy Newman but no Randy Oldman WTF??!

Tony, you've just done it again.

Tony is having a Moany.

It's called tone policing, and it's frowned upon.

You're not wrong. The issue is, people fall for this, and the comment section of their videos is ample evidence that real people think that they're watching real opinions.

the question isn't whether the person in the picture is AI - they cop to this. the question is their scripts, which they claim they write themselves

please Pablo, can you make the expansion box as big as those Lacerda games? it's what everybody wants.

I can attest to real people not realizing this is AI.

That's definitely not an issue, it's joyous to find likeness in other people! But it is important to explain what is happening here to expose the exploitation.

definitely a very calculated cynical play here

I feel the same way! It's a really disgust inducing feeling, listening to this.

It's sad, and in my opinion, very predatory. Don't blame the people being tricked. Blame the person who's doing the tricking.

They think that even if this is a robot voice or whatever, there's probably a real person behind it, with their thoughts and feelings, because what is being said is so pertinent in the zeitgeist. They don't understand that there is 0 thought and 0 feeling.

A couple of things are at play. People are confirmation bias seekers. They are out there looking to reaffirm their opinions. This is a purpose engineered system to deliver exactly that, in a hyper specific field.

Also, lack of education about what they are watching.

I think this kind of situation is highly disingenuous. Like, I said, I can't prove that this is true. But my opinion is that it is.

I hate giving the slop machine publicity. But a lot of people are falling for this. And I hate to see this happen. The only way to combat scams is scam awareness. 9/9

The opinions feel valid because they are opinions of real people. Your opinions. In this scenario, your thoughts and feelings have been put through the chipper and served back to you under a pretense that a board game loving couple is having a conversation. 8/x

So, how do they do this? Well, as someone pointed out on our Discord, one possibility for writing a video like this is to just feed comments from a kickstarter project into a slop machine, and ask it to write a video based on them. 7/x

I know people fall for this, because there's plenty of comments under their videos from real people that come away feeling like they are in agreement with the video. 6/x

At a glance, it seems that all their videos are single serving. They target whatever will sound appealing to a potential viewer and present that opinion. So you come away from the video thinking, ah yeah, that was how I felt! 5/x