653: Warning Stories

Did you see that thing about the anacondas spawning? No. I did not. I'm sorry. What? My anaconda don't want. Unless you got never mind. So it's hard to know these days, you know, when you see something breeze by on Instagram, was that AI generated? Mhmm. Like, I fell for the the bunnies bouncing on the trampoline, like, I'm one of those Oh, Marco. I know. I mean, well, I when I first saw the bunnies, I was like, oh my god. That's amazing. And then, like, you know, a few posts later, I saw the same thing with, like, raccoons. I'm like, oh. Oh. When one of the bunnies did a flippant wink at you, you're like, wait a second. It wasn't that ridiculous. It was pretty ridiculous. But I guess and, like okay. You can kind of argue, okay. That is we're in this kind of hellscape of, you know, all this AI generated stuff being fed to us on social apps to keep us engaged. But also, like, is it that different from them algorithmically feeding us stuff that humans made that, you know, we're gonna breeze through and never see again, and it just, you know, tickling our fancy for a split second as we waste time, like It's a little bit different. Is it? Yeah. Because because if you believe that it's real, you know what I mean? I suppose, but like Because because then, like, you get the sort of the the excuse ever hold your ears because I know it'll be upset people. It's the Fox News effect, where if you're fed a constant diet of things that are not true and accept them as true, even if each one individually is harmless, you essentially acclimate to the idea that, you know, you're you're filling your brains with untruths but following them under truths. And so your whole world view gets really distorted because you're like, look at all these things. These are all things that happened. And you're like, actually, no. All 8,000 of those were b s. And you're like, that can't be true. Well, but, like, I wonder, you know, what what are we comparing it to? Like, how accurate was the pool of slop that was being fed to us before AI? Like, if it was just, you know, once you finish the handful of posts from your friends in Instagram and, you know, between all the thousand ads that you're seeing, you're mostly just seeing, like, you know, memes and screenshots of funny things from Twitter or, you know, copies of TikTok videos, you know, whatever. Like, you're just seeing mostly low trust, low, you know, low nutritional value content anyway. So now that if a bunch of that's gonna be AI generated, like, I don't actually think it's that much worse than it already was. The tip of the the specific kind of video you're talking about is the kind of, like, look at this amazing …