Staring down a mountain of slop, Instagram thinks it might be more useful to label authentic content than flagging AI. (Picture: generated) While both AI and smartphone cameras are getting better at mimicking super polished productions, Mosseri says that this content left Instagram years ago.
The new currency is untouched, grainy, raw footage, he writes on Threads — because it is harder to fake and offers instant authenticity. But even this is vulnerable to AI.
Becoming more sceptical — Over time we are going to move from assuming what we see is real by default, to starting with skepticism when we see media, and paying much more attention to who is sharing something and why they might be sharing it, he writes.
Mass AI production with low effort has come to define slop. (Picture: generated)Regular readers of Teknotum will probably need no further introduction to the word of the year, from the very human editors of Merriam-Webster.
They define it as «digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence,» which fits the bill quite nicely.
— It’s such an illustrative word, said Greg Barlow, Merriam-Webster’s president, in an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the announcement. — It’s part of a transformative technology, AI, and it’s something that people have found fascinating, annoying and a little bit ridiculous.
The original word in the 1700s was intended to mean «soft mud,» writes the dictionary, and came to mean «food waste» in the 1800s, before settling on the modern meaning as «rubbish» or «a product of little or no value.»
But mass-produced videos of AI cats doing silly little things? A lot of people actually like those, and they are in everyone’s feeds right now.
For now, it’s just an AI picture of TaTa, tomorrow it could be «real» music, if the internet doesn’t blow back too hard. (Picture: Stage Zero)The legendary producer, having discovered and shaped artists like Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, and Justin Timberlake, is now launching a truly AI-based artist for the mass market.
He is entering an already crowded field of virtual influencers, Japanese Vocaloid artists, and a booming industry for AI celebrities in China.
Et flertall av amerikanere ønsker seg en verden uten konstant pingende smarttelefoner og sosiale medier. (Bilde: Marco Verch, CC BY 2.0) En ny meningsmåling i USA viser klart flertall over hele befolkningen for å skru tiden tilbake til før alle var «alltid på.»
