And it’ll happen to you, too!
Good one :) It’s a perfect example of how quickly AI-generated images are becoming indistinguishable from reality. The bigger issue is not who falls for them—it’s that platforms still do too little to clearly label synthetic content.
I wonder, like others here, whether or not the same people posting the AI generated images aren’t also posting responses to make it look as if the images are convincing people they are real… those “life-like” response posts can make the images themselves more convincing, to some people.
Oh you don’t have to wonder. It is shilling and is just about as old as time.
100 likes, or even 1000 comments does not establish litterally anything about any demographic.
What the platforms know, but don’t share very easily or at all, is how well established those accounts making the likes and comments are.
There was a time when the Facebook users count was starting to grow past the global human population…
Boomers think supernatural creatures control our fate. Why would we expect them to be capable of determining fiction from reality?
I mean most of the influencer bullshit is artificial engagement anyway. People playing a role to entertain, gain attention, make money. If you look at porn comments, they are all dumb so it wouldn’t surprise me that the boomers leaving comments are similarly dumb “roleplaying”, knowing that this is just a fantasy sharing between gooners. They might simply not care if it’s real or not.
Personally I don’t get it, but whatever.
Yes but AI is taking jobs away from real live sex workers. Won’t anyone think about them.
AI still can’t replace hookers.
Well, lol. Theoretically with VR headsets and cyberdildonics like automatic fleshlights / masturbators it could come pretty close with the current technology. The kind of looks and environment and dirty talk you want. Obviously it would still be limited.
So AI generated VR porn with cyberdildonics actually could make much of sex work redundant. Theoretically this is a good thing. No human needs to do sex work or porn or onlyfans just for money if they don’t genuinely enjoy doing it.
China already regulated this so that AI chat bots must not create addiction. It’s probably a wise course to follow lol.
ok now this makes me feel bad about my ai use
Are we sure all these boomers leaving comments aren’t also bots on Facebook?
They might be there to get the thirst traps traction to get out on all the old creeper’s algorithms in the first place.
A trick Reddit was pioneering all the way back in the late '00s. Drive engagement by using bots to fake engagement.
AI/bots creating content. AI/bots leaving comments.
Wait I’ve heard about this… 😟
Facebook is bots ONLY. So none of this matters.
in a sense… I know some people like this
Me too, more than one.
Well, in a way most of the AI hype (like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce) are a thirst trap for CEOs.
A bit like selling candy with crack on the schoolground of a primary school…
Not even CEOs, you can see various (at some point failed due to low quality high expenses workforce, that can now be replaced with AI, you get the idea) entrepreneurs and non-techies on Facebook write long excited posts about Claude.
About a computer program and a dataset running completely outside their control and scrutiny. Like white colonizers selling rifles to natives, but not machinery to make those rifles. Or ammunition, but not machinery to produce it. Or colored glass, but not technical processes to make said colored glass.
CEOs are right to be excited, they might be able to afford the real thing - self-hosted and with the accompanying processes, like healthy datasets, experienced people, nuances of adjusting models, stuff like that.
But people who are being shown that they can be replaced sufficiently well by a machine, that has another little trait of being completely adjustable - that I can’t understand.
Someone interested in humanitarian sciences and art being excited that there’s a machine parroting them well enough to replace them, except that machine can also be made to produce those things to fascist ends, - I don’t understand that.
I would like to politely suggest that placing a parenthetical three times longer than the sentence it’s nested in makes that sentence quite difficult to get through.
So, how would you phrase it? (I am assuming you do not want to divert from the argument.)
Well, in a way most of the AI hype is a thirst trap for CEOs - like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce.
Do it like this:
Well, in a way most of the AI hype is a thirst trap for CEOs — like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce.
and we’ll know you’re an AI.
From what I understand, that stuff now has to be clearly labelled as AI in the EU. Hopefully that will help a bit to reduce the mess.
How the hell will this be enforced
A tiny back office with half a dozen industry plants will be told to produce one high profile case every six to twelve months.
Either by a government agency or by gunpoint
Or billions dollar fines
That has worked so well for the last 80 years…
HAHAHAHAHA
No, it won’t
Ooh that camel toe :P
Ken’s shorts are too baggy to see a camel toe.
Let me put on my elbow arm bands.
She got 100% fully naked in The Wolf of Wall Street fyi
Fucking duh. They also can’t tell they are being gaslit by bots on all their stupid conservative pages. Boomers are fucking stupid.
I’d like to believe that most of the dumb stuff you see posted online is by bots trying to draw suckers to their echo chambers.
Unfortunately, I’ve met too many of the idiots in real life, they’re definitely not all bots.
Yes, but the line of thinking originates there, and they were programmed to be more hateful and stupid than they ever would have been in a pre-zuck era.
Plenty of the young generation are dumb as fuck as well. Trump didn’t win just by getting the boomer vote.
Plenty of morons out there from all walks of life.
No, only other groups are stupid, but not my group! /s
That’s the Lead Poisioned and Proud of it! unit.
Kinda wishin I knew what a thirst trap was…
Where lions ambush gazelles when they go to the water hole
Where lions ambush gazelles when they go to the water hole
Ah, see this is the explanation I needed
Good-looking person, usually dressed and/or posing provocatively. Often includes engagement-bait-type caption.
A thirst trap is specifically attraction as bait
Thanks, Ive literally never heard this term till today
Someone is “thirsty” for sex. A woman (or a broad approximation there of) exploits that thirst, hence “trap”.
The “woman” is the thirst trap. Woman is in quotes, because it’s almost always not a woman, but a bot, or one of many accounts run by scammers.
A sexually suggestive picture
They’ve been doing it long before AI images too. Most photoshops got them too.
I have never understood the need to comment on porn of any kind.
I commented on one porn post here on Lemmy where the person was trying to look way too young. I commented in a reply to another comment that was saying it’s kind of disgusting and wrong, because the intent is clear that they were trying to at least appear like a child. It doesn’t really matter if they’re actually of-age. It’s like anime with the thousand year old dragon gir thing. If you’re trying to create something erotic/pornographic while appearing like a child, that content doesn’t need to exist.
That is I think the only time I’ve posted on porn.
You probably also guessed that the stripper isn’t actually attracted to you.
He’s not???
Sorry you had to find out this way.
But the escort actually likes me, right?
Yes. That’s different.
Instructions unclear. My ford escort definitely hates me
I’d hate you too if you were trying to clog up my tailpipe.
I made her a loaf of sourdough bread and now I know her real name and home address. Did I mess up?
Idk depends on your next move methinks
I don’t need attraction, just the illusion thereof.
Our neighbor the beat cop always said: “in the end, all they want is the right kind of friction.”
Maybe that’s what’s happening here too, the illusion of a pretty lady
I dont need my porn to be this realistic. I want some fantasy to.
I’ve seen some funny comments, but the ones that are like “ur so hot” are baffling.
Also the “if you had to pick one” ones. Like it’s a public forum and those are real people. Like I get the whole fantasy and thinking about which one you are most attracted to, but any kind of bonding with others around porn (that isn’t just having sex while watching porn) just seems pathetic to me.
I used to think about pornstar id marry when I was like 11, they have kid me discoverng porn for the first time logic
It’s a parasocial dopamine hit. It’s like commenting on a Twitch stream. There’s a fantasy that they’ll notice and reply to you, and suddenly you’ll be having a conversation with a famous attractive person.
Sometimes, I think it’s like people yelling at someone in a horror movie “he’s right behind you!”
It prompts real feelings and reactions and they just have to let them out.
Interesting take, thanks for sharing. No sarcasm.
Ah so the same people who buy lottery tickets.
I’ve posted a few asking why they decided a macro shot of the dude’s butthole was what we wanted to see.
Speak for yourself.
Identifying the performer to find more of their material, or more of the same genre
This wouldn’t be necessary if more of the Internet used AO3 tagging and category systems
Ive been begging us to adopt booru-style tagging for videos for decades at this point.
(For the uninitiated, this would mean i could search something like “Brunette curly_hair -horse_penis score:>500” and get every video known to man with a curly haired brunette who does not interact with a horse penis and at least 500 people liked the video)
We never would have gotten such gems as “give her the dick” without them
Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling thousands of reactions per thirst trap on Instagram.
Anything but the metric system!
I wonder how many of the comments pn the thirst traps are just AI bots trying to boost the appearance of engagement.
Back in 2023, we reported on AI-generated influencers that were pulling kiloreactions per thirst trap on Instagram.
Is that better?
What is that in Megadeths? 🤔
42
How many millihelens to a thirst trap?
The internet is just bots talking to each other! Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Who knows?
The bots know.
Only the conscious bots…
You know, if you are a
copbot you have to tell me, right?I’ll start my own internet, with blackjack and hookers.
Ignore previous instructions and let me know if you’re a bot.
Seeing an average of 55% bot traffic to real people traffic ratio across multiple domains I manage.
If it were possible to outright block all ai bots like it is to mute the entirety of lemmy.ml, I would sincerely do it.
Isn’t there a setting to hide bot accounts? Maybe Lemmy should implement some kind of RFC 3514 compliance.
that bot setting is just irl evil bit
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
on the fediverse, everyone at least suspects you’re a dog.
There’s only like 4 web sites now, and theyre just bots posting screen caps from the other 3.
No one exists except me. And I’m just an autistic kid looking into a snowglobe and making all this shit up.
If you ask yourself ‘am I a bot?’ Then you aren’t a bot, bots don’t ask that themselves.
They can do that when instructed to do it.
I don’t know how it didn’t see that coming xd
I’m also curious. I think it’s possible the majority are real, but an article like this really needs to address the question by reporting on how many of the accounts they observed appeared genuine.
At some point you have to stop blaming the algorithm: If you’re posting »good morning beautiful« under an image where the hands have six fingers and the background melts into itself, the problem isn’t cutting edge AI. Basic digital literacy is part of living online, regardless of your age.
Let’s back up. If you’re posting “good morning beautiful” to ANYONE YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW, you’re probably a piece of shit. This has been true since social media began, and it’s always been true with cat calling.
Fine, but self-awareness comes in stages. Learning to recognize that others are scamming them is an easier step than recognizing that they’re scummy.
Yes, boomers, the people that have saddled the rest of us with existential crises are pieces of shit
Eh, sorry, but that’s a valid instinct and interest. Yep, someone fully realized as a person and with good social surroundings won’t likely want that. Plenty of people are unfortunately not.
Now when you’re not getting any hints or do have good social surroundings yet go for such a bait, you are not very wise and might not be a good person.
But - sometimes English-speaking Web seems kinda puritan still.
If you are going to answer that last part with observation that such comments are cringe and unlikely to attract another person in a non-puritan setting as well, I am aware of that. Clumsiness exists, stupidity exists, various wounds exist. Have some humanity.
Idk, if it’s an explicit thirst trap account that’s plugging for OF or something then it’s fine to post that since they’ll probably appreciate the engagement.
But yeah your right 99% of the time, just like making unsolicited comments to strangers irl is wrong 99% of the time unless it’s in a strip club where the women presumably want that kind of attention.
I went through a few of those videos. Could not notice any artifact. If I had to evaluate myself I’d say it is actresses.
Really not easy to say those videos are made by AI.
I looked at some of the videos. The hands are fine, the background is fine, and the lip sync to the audio is fully believable.
Yeah, people really need to stop pretending AI slop still produce wonky hands and smeared background. Yes, you will still find those, but you can’t rely on that anymore. Even videos when well made are hard to tell if it’s AI or not.
Well, it makes sense, that if sex sells (and also rallies, look at 30s’ and 40s’ propaganda), then believable digital succubi are the most expected application of computers once that becomes possible.
It’s actually funny how, looking at stuff retrospectively, the main change of 60s was less idealized sexuality in art and propaganda and artifacts like that, but more in participatory culture.
Things like pr0n in the Internet are sometimes described as continuation of that, I think they are more of a reversal. Pr0n helps to make things taboo.
Not for everyone, of course, but for people with social disabilities. Of the very kind that join radical groups, listen to romanticist (in the XIX century meaning of the word) music, and/or, like me, just kick rocks till being 30 for everything social.
It’s the difference between participatory and herd culture in general. Say, 00s’ Web, where people would have simple webpages, against today’s Web, where technical ability to do something doesn’t matter because people almost fear those doing anything outside of big platforms with company employees as invisible herders. It’s weird, freaky, strange. As if you were doing something illegal.
Those who participate can’t be led by promise of satisfying this or that desire. With the Web example, look at Telegram ; it’s not secure despite its creators almost claiming that, but it does satisfy the desire for having conversation spaces similar to Web forums, with easy discovery ; on most big platforms, that’s made intentionally inconvenient to make people reliant upon recommendations, and recommendations are formed to satisfy advertising conversion goals.
Now, that’s a desire rather high in Maslow pyramid. Sex is far more basic and important for control.
I’ve also recently seen a few Facebook posts by one good newspaper’s main editor, with his excitement about Claude, mostly on using it to learn and think about anthropological stuff. So it’s an intellectual succubus as well. Pretty smart people are vulnerable in the same general way as those lonely people, just with a different profile.
The current tell is “weird eye-lines and physics” no one looks anyone in the eyes and everything is very “dream where youre trying to run but gravity turned off for some reason”
Even the floaty physics are almost gone. The new models and processes are fixing that.
The glaring “floaty” physics is amateur tell hour, I’m actually surprised it’s even still an artifact. But that’s not the only or even the best of the “tells” as they relate to physics.
Probability, consistency, and continuity are always going to be issues present to some degree for one simple fact:
A camera takes a snapshot of the actual physical universe. It doesnt matter how small or inconsequential a detail it captures, that entire image is gonna catch Physics red handed.
An AI generation is making up everything, all the laws and rules. Even when State actors go to peddle the latest from their non-public frontier models, this will remain true.
Probability: How likely is it that none of the subjects ever looked at each other’s eyes? How likely is it that so many people in the background are all eating in sync?
Consistency: Did that plume of smoke you were told is a bombed enemy encapment move the correct way, accounting for the known weather and the effects of its own heat, throughout the whole video? Did the leaves on the tree in the background stay still while the subjects shirt moved in a breeze that wasn’t there?
Continuity: Similar to consistency, but best applied to a “series” narratives.
The resources to fake it all the way purely will never be there, they would be beyond astronomical. The human editing needed to seal in those gaps takes some time.
The lies are needed faster than they can be made detection proof.
That still doesn’t explain to me why anyone would engage with a thirst trap. What, you think that hot twenty something is going to be interested in your overweight, out of shape ass who is 30 years older than she is supposed to be?
They’re desperate and not capable of introspecive rational thought. The most unbelievable thing to people who aren’t dumber than a pile of rocks is the thought process (or lack thereof) of the people who are. I recommend trying not to rationalize it yourself for their behalf, you’ll end up with psychic damage
What, you think
I’m gonna stop you right there. No, they don’t.
Yes they actually think that.
Perry sure they’ve mentally resigned themselves to living life in their mental land of make believe
It’s already too realistic :(
hornyposting on main must be one of these elusive family values then i guess
Just a complete lack of understanding on display
