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Inspired by having to explain to my aunt that yes, the video of Chinese babies eating adult food is fake. She still doesn't really believe me.
Why can't boomers recognise AI-generated media?
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Another, more generous, factor is a lack of exposure to the new medium.
In the early 20th century, people were genuinely fooled by photographs that looked like this:
I don't mean in the "wow, cool, special effects" sort of way. I mean people were genuinely convinced these were legitimate photographs of fairies dancing in some girl's garden.
When you or I are as old as boomers are today, there will likely be extremely uncanny bits of media that we won't be able to distinguish from the real thing. It will have none of the hallmarks we have trained ourselves to look for and the younger generation will just intuitively "know" they're obvious fakes.
In the early 20th century, people were genuinely fooled by photographs that looked like this:
I don't mean in the "wow, cool, special effects" sort of way. I mean people were genuinely convinced these were legitimate photographs of fairies dancing in some girl's garden.
When you or I are as old as boomers are today, there will likely be extremely uncanny bits of media that we won't be able to distinguish from the real thing. It will have none of the hallmarks we have trained ourselves to look for and the younger generation will just intuitively "know" they're obvious fakes.
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One or a combination of the following reasons:
Poor eyesight
Brain damage from lead
Dementia
Born mentally retarded
Poor eyesight
Brain damage from lead
Dementia
Born mentally retarded
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Another, more generous, factor is a lack of exposure to the new medium.
In the early 20th century, people were genuinely fooled by photographs that looked like this:
I don't mean in the "wow, cool, special effects" sort of way. I mean people were genuinely convinced these were legitimate photographs of fairies dancing in some girl's garden.
When you or I are as old as boomers are today, there will likely be extremely uncanny bits of media that we won't be able to distinguish from the real thing. It will have none of the hallmarks we have trained ourselves to look for and the younger generation will just intuitively "know" they're obvious fakes.
In the early 20th century, people were genuinely fooled by photographs that looked like this:
I don't mean in the "wow, cool, special effects" sort of way. I mean people were genuinely convinced these were legitimate photographs of fairies dancing in some girl's garden.
When you or I are as old as boomers are today, there will likely be extremely uncanny bits of media that we won't be able to distinguish from the real thing. It will have none of the hallmarks we have trained ourselves to look for and the younger generation will just intuitively "know" they're obvious fakes.
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What you need to do is to compile the best AI generated content and show it to her. I believe once in Kiwifarms, as the video in the homepage, Null put AI Biden saying all kinds of slurs, and was fairly well done, 100% of certainty that any boomer will believe it (and even young people) if it wasn't for the fact that what he was saying was completely outrageous.
Do that, get the best, show it to her.
As for your question, in a lot of cases is actual poor eyesight + tech-illiteracy, that combined with their potential genuine cluelessness/innocence, the same type that indian scammers exploit to make your grandma pay so that they can get rid of a mysterious Microsoft virus that spawned because she opened ""Hotmail"".
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They're the first generation to really be hooked by TV and moving images. With AI media being a completely alien frontier to them, and the typical boomer's hubris and inability to learn, they just don't have the mindset to scrutinize the verasity of what they see.
If you want to help her understand, explain how AI generates individual images and then describe AI video as compiling a bunch of AI images in sequence. Explain it by comparing it to technology you know she knows, even if the connection is a bit wishy-washy.
If you want to help her understand, explain how AI generates individual images and then describe AI video as compiling a bunch of AI images in sequence. Explain it by comparing it to technology you know she knows, even if the connection is a bit wishy-washy.
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Maybe they were used to see B&W, grainy or somewhat else corrupt image in media on small screen or low quality print for the most of their lives and learned to compensate for the imperfections in their head? (Something like when people remember colours in an old black and white movie, or a game having much better graphics than it actually has.)
While those, who are used to see quality image in high resolution and accurate colours, can spot things like weird interior lighting right away.
While those, who are used to see quality image in high resolution and accurate colours, can spot things like weird interior lighting right away.