I have truly noticed a change in how I am engaging with content nowadays, I have become more reluctant on clicking on links to articles or videos that have been made in these last few years, and when I do I started by looking for clues if it has been generated by ai. if the voice is human or generated, if the pictures are of real events or slop. I mistrust everything. and it’s exhausting. earlier slop was easier to detect nowadays it’s becoming impossible.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    24·
    9 hours ago

    It’s so tiring, I agree.

    For stuff relating the monetization, I can see the financial motivation to cut corners or just pass off others work as your own. Tale as old as time.

    But for creative little indie things that you just share for no clout? Admittedly it’s rare, but I still see it here and there, like book covers for fanfic etc—that shit fuckin boggles me.

    Like if you aren’t doing this for money or clout, why aren’t you just sharing 100% your own creativity? Isn’t that the reason to share creative stuff, to share a part of your “soul” with others and hope to genuinely touch someone, across time and space?

    I can even understand someone who just likes ai generating stuff and thinks it’s fun and cool (I disagree, but I understand it). But then why not just say you made it with an LLM, and point out which parts are yours and which parts are generated? Why try to “trick” people into thinking they’ve made a genuine connection?

    • wattanao@fedia.io
      10·
      8 hours ago

      What really boggles me is when I open a game and the ui buttons are ai. Why? It must have taken you longer to have your engine generate those graphics than it would’ve to just grabbed some royalty free ones. I really don’t understand it. I’ve even seen what are clearly ai generated emojis as buttons.

      • BooBees@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        Things always become worse because there are incentives to make them worse. Probably a series of management decisions that demanded or encourages ai usage and that was the result so far.

  • wattanao@fedia.io
    8·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve been filtering my search results to not show anything after 2020 for a while now. The only annoying thing is that I have to do it every time I search, I’d love a way to set it as default.

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      a custom search string URL may be what you’re looking for

      for example, I use the following with the Fennec fork of Firefox Android to restrict the date to before the public launch of ChatGPT, while simultaneously disabling DuckDuckGo’s AI features:

      https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s&df=1979-01-01..2022-11-29

      here’s DDG’s guide on search URL parameters; most major search engines should have similar documentation

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 hours ago

      You could write a bash script to do it and perform searches from the terminal. It will open a new tab or window in your browser with the term you entered with the appropriate settings. Then set the bash script as an alias to make it easier to use. I found a similar script and modified it for ddg. doesn’t seem to work 100% though, per usual it works on my machine, as-is no warranty, you need to install jq first if you already haven’t.

      #!/bin/bash

# Check if a search term was provided
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <search_term>"
    exit 1
fi

# URL encode the search term (handles spaces and special characters)
encoded_search=$(printf '%s' "$1" | jq -sRr @uri)

# Construct the DuckDuckGo search URL with a date filter for content before Jan 1, 2020
duckduckgo_url="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%24encoded_search&ia=web&t=h_&df=on&dfdate=before-2020-01-01"

# Open the URL in a new browser tab (works with most common browsers)
xdg-open "$duckduckgo_url" 2>/dev/null || open "$duckduckgo_url"
  • silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk
    4·
    8 hours ago

    I wanted to watch some videos on the house centipede today (just wanted to see it move) and the first many videos where just AI edited with AI voice. Real video clips though.

    I recently found what looked like a good resource on semiconductors and it even had a sick feature where you could download parts (or all of it) in a pdf and it was really nicely typeset! I tried finding out if the name of the website was someone you could trust (like a professor) or if others had mentioned using the website but I didn’t find anything. I then got the awful suspicion that it’s all just fucking AI generated…

    These fucking clankers ruined the internet.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      6 hours ago

      A lot of content creators have started adding a few seconds of voice over to the beginning of videos because people will immediately stop watching a video if they are at all suspicious that it’s AI generated and the dead give away is the AI voice.