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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by forgotoldacc on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:48PM (#45872529)
> but I think overall society grew less substantially less gullible over time.

Absolutely not. All that happened is most people became aware that "Nigerians offering you money are scammers." But they still fall for other get rich quick schemes so long as it diverges a little bit from that known pattern, and they'll confidently walk into the scam despite being warned and saying, "It's not a scam, dumbass. It's not like that Nigerian price stuff." If anything, people seem to be becoming more confident that they're in on some secret knowledge and everyone else is being scammed.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by autoexec on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:56PM (#45872569)
I'm inclined to disagree just because photoshop has had a measurable effect on the population being skeptical of photos which at one point were practically treated as the gold standard of evidence. It's still easy to find people who have fallen for photoshopped images, but it's also easy to find people expressing doubts and insisting they can "tell by the pixels". Sometimes even legitimate photos get accused of being photoshopped which seems healthy.
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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by komali2 on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:46AM (#45872827)
The other side of this is that ai tools are being treat like magic to the point that people are denying well documented events happened at all, such as the shooting of Charlie Kirk - conspiracies abound!

Also bizarrely a subsection of the population seems to be really into blatantly ai generated images, just hop onto Facebook and see for yourself. I wonder if it has something to do with whatever monkey brain things makes people download apps with a thumbnail of a guy shouting or watch videos that have a thumbnail of a face with its mouth open, since ai generated photos seem very centralized around a single face making a strange expression.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by somenameforme on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:10AM (#45873630)
People of a profound initial bias will, in general, believe anything that supports that bias, and reject anything that challenges it, in both cases without any real consideration or thought whatsoever. So I don't think examples of individuals being "misled" by e.g. AI generated images or video, to extremes, is entirely realistic. Rather they were already at those extremes and will just eat up anything that appeals to those extremes.

To take a less politically charged example, imagine there is fake content 'proving' that the Moon landing is faked. Is that going to meaningfully sway people who don't have a major opinion one way or the other? Probably not, certainly not in meaningful numbers. And in general I think the truth does come out on most things. And when people find they have been misled, particularly if it was somebody they thought they could trust, it tends to result in a major rubber-banding in the opposite direction.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by muzani on Monday November 10, 2025 @01:47AM (#45873128)
I call it the antibody effect. My favorite example is clickbait headlines like, "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

AI is starting to show this effect - people stay away from em-dashes. There's that yellowish tinge and that composition which people avoid on art. Some of this is bad, but we can probably live without it.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by munificent on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:34AM (#45876399)
> "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

Try opening YouTube in an incognito window sometime. Scrolling through a few, I see:

* Banned Amazon Products you NEED to See to Believe!

* This has NEVER Happened Before... (Severe Weather Channel)

* Our Dog got Married and had PUPPIES! THE MOVIE Emotional

* I WENT TO GHOST TOWN AND SOMETHING HEARTBREAKING...

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by estimator7292 on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:54PM (#45878635)
Absolutely. I block at least three channels a week because YouTube keeps recommending clickbait titles and 'tuber face thumbnails.

Bonus points if said 'tuber is pointing at something with their hand and also a red arrow and/or circle which id also blurred out.

Intolerable.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by munificent on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @01:35PM (#45891058)
Instead of blocking channels, trying going through your watch history and deleting anything you've watched in the past that's similar to those. YouTube heavily leans on your history for recommendations, so if it's recommending those, it's because you've watched related stuff.

My YouTube feed never recommends any of that garbage.

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Re:Open source has a growing problem with LLM generated issues by muzani on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:26AM (#45885234)
Okay, maybe YT is the exception, but some of them claim it's because the algorithm punishes otherwise.
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