Post AzZb9SmwoPImX6fj9c by benroyce@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AzZb9MweXPV4PTAORs by benroyce@mastodon.social
       2025-10-25T16:12:57Z
       
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       #AI is going to kill us, but not in the typical scifi way: robots with laserguns or controlling nuclear bombsThat's too flashy. It will be far more mundaneIt's going to kill us via the firehose of falsehoodThe tricky part:The problem is not making people believe liesThe problem is making us all so cynical, we disbelieve truthIn a world where nothing is trusted as true, only bias remains, and this will lead us down dark and familiar societal paths1/x
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZb9SmwoPImX6fj9c by benroyce@mastodon.social
       2025-10-25T16:19:22Z
       
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       Look at this pictureWhat do you see?Context:The picture blew up on social media because it depicts police outside the Louvre, which experienced a spectacular theft of Napoleonic jewels, which seems like a detail right out of Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes... and so... et voila... the frisson of this picture is remarkableIs the picture real? Or is it #AI?2/x
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZb9YV5Zia8FSMY9Q by benroyce@mastodon.social
       2025-10-25T16:25:01Z
       
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       Now here is the problemBecause #AI fakes have trained you about "too good to be true" scenes, you immediately distrust the picture above*That* is the problemWhere before a picture was a picture, now, for everyone, there is the bias of distrust. We, buried in cynicism now, distrust first, and discard evidence *on the bias of 'too good to be true'*Here is another picture from the same scene by the same photographer (Thibault Camus, a photographer for The Associated Press):3/x
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZbL6q6FCp5vxhRJ2 by skyfire747@aus.social
       2025-10-25T16:31:12Z
       
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       @benroyce I would say real. AI always has problems with faces and hands.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZbL803veO1X9MuTQ by ozzelot@mstdn.social
       2025-10-25T16:34:10Z
       
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       @skyfire747And background details (windows, lamps...)@benroyce