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  1. From the article 

    OpenAI released the Sora app on Tuesday, just days after Meta released a similar product as part of its Meta AI platform. NPR took an early look and found that OpenAI’s app could easily generate very realistic videos, including of real individuals (with their permission). The early results are both wowing and worrying researchers

  2. I still have my actual flesh-and-blood friends I like to talk to. The worse my feed gets, the more time I spend talking to people directly. My feeds were already garbage, especially on Facebook, which showed me promoted pages I never asked to see.

  3. Because of shit like I this i stopped using social media and have been trying to fill my time with real tangible hobbies and ways to kill time.

  4. ohyeathatsright on

    Let’s ramp up the enshittification, time to put the manipulation tools into the hands of the users to turn on each other and drive influence stats devoid of relation to reality.

  5. creaturefeature16 on

    I’m truly glad this is happening. Nothing was going to slow or kill social media apparently, but removing the *”social”* element and converting *everything* to an ad, will most assuredly be the death knell.

    And these CEOs are so disconnected from the average individual and blinded by greed, they don’t even see how this is going to be their undoing. Bright days are ahead!

  6. I’m not worried. Here’s the thing, social media is about following your close circle of friends. Anything beyond that shouldn’t matter and you’d know your friends and family. It’s a also a good reason for social media detoxing.

    This is good because it will help self aware users of social media use it for connecting to people they know and not celebs and influencers.

  7. Oh boy. Just when we were mopping the floor after the latest AI slop flood, a tsunami of empty uncanny content is looming in the horizon and will inevitably be crashing on us… Can you imagine how many megabytes of data, how much GPU power is wasted in generating lobster jesus and fruits made of glass being cut by a knife.

  8. hyperactivator on

    Why would I care about what the fake people are pretending to do and say?

    Social media works because humans are social creatures. Fake people just aren’t as interesting.

    It only works until you know it’s fake and then you’re repulsed by the deception.

  9. TheGruenTransfer on

    No, this isn’t “kiss reality good bye.” This is “kiss the internet providing any value whatsoever good bye.” The internet will be so saturated with A.I. slop that we’re all going to have to return to living in reality. A.I. will cause the Internet to become a snake that eats it’s own tail.

  10. It’s all just bots talking to other bots. As long as the advertising dollars keep coming in who cares?

  11. LimeGreenTangerine97 on

    Fuck this. Been practicing my flute, writing in a paper journal, reading books. Don’t let this shit rot your brain

  12. Been seeing it for a while and every time it reminds me that I’m wasting time on social media and I should get off and go do pretty much anything else. So in a round about way it’s actually pretty useful at reducing my social media time.

  13. odin_the_wiggler on

    Flush the entire Internet down the toilet, asafp.

    Nothing good can come from this. It’s purely an exponential acceleration of propaganda and other evil shit.

  14. ‘Reality’, at best ‘social’ media show a pretty damn narrow part of the ‘reality’ of someone so to be honest, the difference isn’t really that big between just plain AI bullcrap and a very, very selective window. Especially not when it comes to an ‘influencer’. The very high levels of fake bullshitting just become easier and more accessible, no need to en-scene whatever, just AI-crap the stuff together. Some wiseguy will call it ‘democratisation’ while pulling a very serious face.

  15. EMP_Jeffrey_Dahmer on

    The ai slop hasn’t really arrive yet but when it does I wouldn’t interact with it.

  16. The worst part is people wanting to share stuff with you but not realizing its AI slop. Can we require a huge “AI” watermark on this stuff cuz im getting fatigued

  17. TraditionalBackspace on

    Maybe this will be the final nail in Social Media’s coffin. It’s destroying people.

  18. woodenmetalman on

    Done with social media (obviously outside of whatever Reddit is). Although I’m seriously reconsidering my use of Reddit as well. Really trying to pare it down to tangible interests.

  19. You give people the ability to generate a video of literally anything and they produce the most brain dead stupid slop possible.

    These people think the reason they haven’t been able to create anything interesting in their life is because they lacked the technical artistic skill, but that’s wrong. It’s because they don’t have a single creative bone in their body.

    Give people with nothing interesting to say the power to create anything and they still won’t create anything interesting because they weren’t interesting to begin with.

  20. Uncle_Hephaestus on

    I feel like social media stopped being real about when meta decided to sell out to the highest political bidder.