Comment by Cthulhu_

Thing is, people are on the lookout for obvious AI and I'm sure they have been successful a few times. But this is like confirmation bias, they will never know whether they saw / read something AI generated if they didn't clock it in the first place.

I'm on Reddit too much and a few times there were memes or whatever that were later on pointed out to be AI. And that's the ones that had tells, more and more (and as price goes down / effort/expenditure increases) it will become harder to impossible to tell.

And I have mixed feelings. I don't mind so much for memes, there's little difference between low-effort image editing and low-effort image generation IMO. There's the "advice" / "story" posts which for a long time now have been more of a creative writing effort than true stories, it's a race to the bottom already and AI will only try and accellerate it. But sometimes it's entertaining.

But "fake news" is the dangerous one, and I'm disappointed that combating this seemed to be a passing fad now that the big tech companies and their leaders / shareholders have bent the knee to regimes that are very interested in spreading disinformation/propaganda to push their agenda under people's skins subtly. I'm surprised it's not more egregious tbh, but maybe it's because my internet bubbles are aligned with my own opinions/morals/etc at the moment.