Go outside and you won't have to ask.

Glad to be here, witnessing the death of the internet as we know it here together. I'm pretty sure most of you are real so let's enjoy the show together before we all go outside again!

As the internet lay dying I wondered if I should be crying A great gift to mankind is losing it's mind

Should we stay? Said the friends we made along the way

Who are we without web? But who, is the web without the we?

Even as we grieve and leave

Remember.

There is no web without the we And where we go the web will be

The genie is out of the bottle, but at some point, LLM/image-gen providers are going to have to raise prices for their services. While this won't do anything to stop self-hosters, it might cut down on the number of casual users just a tiny bit. At least I hope it will!

Pretty crazy there's no PKI in place to verify photos, videos, or text. We just need apps to verify signatures and tell users about the origin. Memes can remain unsigned, but veritable information should always be traceable to a source.

E.g. I'm more inclined to believe a video sourced by AP (sent to me by whomever) than one posted by the white house twitter without signature.

Just turn away from your phone screen and go outside. There is an entire non-AI world to explore and steward.

There was a brief window before this mess where we used to be unsure if things were cake or not, I long for those simpler times.

Is this AI?

Do you really think there’s a 50 foot tall transparent cow out there?

Oh it's gonna be

Wait till your phone start generating fake photos of your past to gaslight you

Hell, any digital journals you keep could be a fake one replaced by AI

one of the reasons for all the visual LLM garbage is because it's good enough to make you question, and by questioning they know it's causing an unnecessary stress. Eat the slop and enjoy it. Fighting it won't stop it.

It's insidious and makes us question everything now.

You know I used to think ai was pretty cool because I read a lot of sci-fi and in most sci-fi ai is a very useful tool but now that I've been living in reality for a good 2 years I've noticed that maybe this ai just isn't very nice. It's like that time I meet weird ai Yankovic and thought it was the real Weird Al but all he did was regurgitate edgy talking points and send me videos of giant boobed women dancing.

Needless to say, Bob Barker was pretty cool.

Can you feel it? You won't be able to tell soon and that means you'll just need to plug in like the Matrix. Then it won't matter right? Everything will be constructed. While the billionaires play in the real world. You'll be plugged in but you'll be a billionaire in your own world. You'll have the same thoughts, feelings, experiences except they will be "fake". You just better hope that no one turns your shit off, otherwise reality is hell.

We've been doing it for decades with photoshop.

This is why I accept everything as true.

You're saying that as if it was a long time...

There could be two major attacks.

First is pricing realism. Just like many pre-IPO products, it’s trying to gain interest. Someday, it has to make money, meaning everyone with a cheap/cheesy idea will need to pay for it.

The second is legislative attacks related to copyright infringement. I’d see it as a progressive legislator asking them for lists of permission from every image author they’ve grabbed from. Inevitably, they profess “We don’t have that!” And the model is blocked. Admittedly, that is not something I see happening soon, but it’s something to hope for.