I saw an AI generated video the other day of security camera footage of a group of people attempting to rob a store, then running away after the owner shoots at them with a gun. The graininess and low framerate of the video made it a lot harder to tell that it was AI generated than the usual shiny, high res, oddly smooth AI look. There were only very subtle tells - non-reaction of bystanders in the background, and a physics mistake that was easy to miss in the commotion.
We're very close to nearly every video on the internet being worthless as a form of proof. This bothers me a lot more than text generation because typically video is admissible as evidence in the court of law, and especially in the court of public opinion.
Doing a project to migrate from one LMS to another, I put ChatGPT in the middle to fix various mistakes in the content, add alt text for images, transcribe audio, etc.
When importing the content back into Moodle, I come to find that one of the transcripts is 30k+ characters, and errored out on import.
For whatever reason, it got stuck in a loop that started like this:
"And since the dawn of time, wow time, its so important, time is so important. What is time, time is so important, theres not enough time, time is so important time"... repeat "time is so important" until token limit.
Deep fakes have always been horrible. The idea that someone - anyone - can take your image and represent you in ways that can ruin your reputation, is appalling. For example, revenge porn.
Having your likeness used to express an opinion that is the opposite of your own is nasty too. You can produce the kind of thing that has no courtesy, no grace, no kindness or care for the people around you.
The mass extraction and substitution of art has also caused a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead of AI enabling us to pursue creative work… it’s producing slop and making it harder for newbies to develop their craft. And making a lot of people anxious, fearful, and angry.
And finally of course astroturfing, phishing, that kind of thing has in principle become a lot more sophisticated.
It unnerves me that people can pull this capital lever against each other in ways that don’t obviously advance the common good.
I saw an AI generated video the other day of security camera footage of a group of people attempting to rob a store, then running away after the owner shoots at them with a gun. The graininess and low framerate of the video made it a lot harder to tell that it was AI generated than the usual shiny, high res, oddly smooth AI look. There were only very subtle tells - non-reaction of bystanders in the background, and a physics mistake that was easy to miss in the commotion.
We're very close to nearly every video on the internet being worthless as a form of proof. This bothers me a lot more than text generation because typically video is admissible as evidence in the court of law, and especially in the court of public opinion.
Doing a project to migrate from one LMS to another, I put ChatGPT in the middle to fix various mistakes in the content, add alt text for images, transcribe audio, etc.
When importing the content back into Moodle, I come to find that one of the transcripts is 30k+ characters, and errored out on import.
For whatever reason, it got stuck in a loop that started like this:
"And since the dawn of time, wow time, its so important, time is so important. What is time, time is so important, theres not enough time, time is so important time"... repeat "time is so important" until token limit.
This really gave me a bit of existential dread.
Try reducing temperature. The default of 1.0 is sometimes to "creative". Setting it to 0.5 or somesuch should reduce events like you described.
Was already running .1 or .2 because I didn't want it to deviate far from source content.
How much I've come to trust the answers, responses, and information it feeds me for my increasingly frequent queries.
I find myself occasionally wondering if 8.11 is in fact greater than 8.9
Deep fakes have always been horrible. The idea that someone - anyone - can take your image and represent you in ways that can ruin your reputation, is appalling. For example, revenge porn.
Having your likeness used to express an opinion that is the opposite of your own is nasty too. You can produce the kind of thing that has no courtesy, no grace, no kindness or care for the people around you.
The mass extraction and substitution of art has also caused a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead of AI enabling us to pursue creative work… it’s producing slop and making it harder for newbies to develop their craft. And making a lot of people anxious, fearful, and angry.
And finally of course astroturfing, phishing, that kind of thing has in principle become a lot more sophisticated.
It unnerves me that people can pull this capital lever against each other in ways that don’t obviously advance the common good.
Nothing is disturbing.
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