Comment by simonw
14 hours ago
How many of the people who answer polls like that also have the ability to look at a poster and instantly clock that it was AI-generated?
14 hours ago
How many of the people who answer polls like that also have the ability to look at a poster and instantly clock that it was AI-generated?
I agree with others saying that this doesn't disqualify complaints.
In fact, it can be precisely because they can't tell the difference that they would be concerned about consuming AI outputs when they don't know they are. If someone wants to take a stand and only read human text and human art then we may need regulation to add notices when text and images are LLM outputs.
What's the argument here? People don't like spit in their food, how many people can tell their food got spat in? Does that mean they're somehow wrong or to be belittled for not liking spit in their food?
It's not an argument, it's an open question: do people who express a dislike of AI know when they see a poster that was generated with assistance from AI?
I meant to ask what the point of the question is basically. What would change, what would it matter for, if the answer was yes or no?
Besides it being so general a question to really be useless as anything but an insinuation IMO, which is why I'm trying to tease that insinuation out. E.g. are people who use Apple left-handed? Are they gay? The answer is "yes, some of them, of course, but also many aren't... why are you asking?"
There is no thing as "just a question, nothing in mind really". That does not exist. The mind that can ask a question cannot arrive at it in a vacuum.
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Almost none, sadly. Most of the population just doesn't have that skill, which is why places like Facebook are just reams of AI Jesus upvoted to the Moon.
I saw this menu online the other day, and it's not even discernable from the photo what the food products are; it even sets off trypophobia:
https://imgur.com/a/YvyRjts
But people are still ordering it.
I agree. For most people I've talked to, when this topic comes up, they'll tell me they don't like AI, but then cannot really identify it. Especially the elderly folks in my neighborhood. You look at their facebook feeds and it's 100% slop. No joke. Every. Single. Post. Is. AI. Slop. And for the most part they can't tell.
The problem is in 2026 I work in this space and it's getting to the point where I can no longer tell sometimes. By next year we're probably all cooked. My first go-to now on an image is TinEye.. if it first appeared before AI then I know it's safe.
I suspect it is a fair representation of the food you would receive - looks kinda like real food, but actually isn't.
Here is a picture of the food you actually get along with the poster.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1uv0xcq/...
They don't care, because it's only tangentially about the concrete output. It's about the hollowing of human communication and creativity.