This is also my thesis. The internet is going to be saturated with AI slop indiscernible from real content. Once it reaches a tipping point, there will no longer be much of a reason to consume the content at all. I think social networks that can authenticate video/photo/text content as human-created will be a major trend in a few years.

I have no clue if the reactions are real, but there are some videos online of people showing their grandparents gameplay from Grand Theft Auto games trying to convince them that it is real footage. The point of the videos is to laugh at their reactions where they question if it really happened, etc.

Maybe this will result in something similar, but it can affect more people who aren’t as wary.

Right now with kids, the current trend is to prank their parents using Gemini into thinking they let a homeless guy in their house

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/ai-homeless-people-in-my-hou...

Heh, fast forward a few years and nobody’s surprised anymore when someone falls for a video which is the result of two sentences long instruction.

Depending on which internet you do mean, cause meta & insta are NOT THE Internet.

there will be billions of people consuming the content

But then you’re creating an incentive for the AI slop to become so realistic it is indistinguishable from actual video.

Unless there some fundamental, technical way to distinguish the two, I wonder who would win?

I regularly get AI movie recaps on my shorts and I just eat it up.

The very fact that I (or billions of others) waste time on shorts is an issue. I don't even play games anymore, it's just shorts. That is a concerning rewiring of the brain :/

Guess what I`m trying to say is that, there is a market out there. It's not pretty, but there certainly is.

Will keep trying to not watch these damn shorts...

there would need to be cameras that can cryptographically sign videos with trusted vendor keys, or perhaps there is some other solution.

This is what https://c2pa.org/ is for. I think some camera vendors already have support.

Yes, I wonder if the content distribution networks that call themselves "social networks" can even survive something like this.

Of course, the ones focusing on the content can always editorialize the spam out. And in real social networks you ask your friends to stop making that much slop. But this can be finally the end of Facebook-like stuff.