The scariest part is that their justifaction is usually just that they WANT it to be real

"I want it to be real" this mentality here is what's going to really fuck us up when AI gets more influential in the political realm.

And our last two presidents have been like 20 years older than any of these people

Old people thinking anything they don't like is ai and anything they like isn't ai really explains the politcal state of America right now, it's like a echo chamber but 1000x worse 😭

Theres so many people 50+ who one day just accepted the rectangle in their pocket just does magic, and they dont question what they see on it.

It's insane that that one lady said she thought the video of the old man in the hospital bed was real cause it was a news station report. We're cooked

What's scary to me is that these people don't take probability into account in the slightest. "What's the probability this overweight woman falls down and bounces on the grass like a ball?" Like you don't have to be an expert in physics to realize some of these things are just unlikely to happen at all.
Or even just plain old realistically possible. "Is it possible for a dog to explode into a water cannon?" is a very obvious answer, while maybe "Is it possible for a dog to pull out an outlet?" might be harder to deduce. You have to layer the skepticism from a lot of different perspectives.

my only complaint about videos like this is that I wish that the host would also sit down and explain the signs and have them run through an exercise each time like "what does the background look like?" is anything shifting or disappearing, etc.

Once about a year ago I went over to my 60+ mom's house to hang out for a bit on my day off. She saw me, I saw her. I told her I would make lunch for us. Not even 20 minutes later all of the sudden I hear her SCREAMING on the phone to somebody. I run upstairs and I realize she's on the phone with a scammer who had convinced her they had kidnapped me because they AI'd my voice. As I came up the stairs I heard her telling someone to put "me" back on the phone. They wanted to meet her at some sketchy location and to bring hundreds of dollars for my "release" and were describing all of the potential things they could do to me if she didn't comply. I really shudder to imagine what could've happened if I hadn't been in her literal house at the time.

The Mother on the left is the IRL mother of the actor for Lily from Modern Family (the little girl Cam and Mitch adopted). They have a podcast I remember stumbling upon a while ago

Mr. Neff, every man should know the tensile strength of a zip tie.

Ed definitely voted for Trump 3 times

Worst part is that it will only get harder to recognize as fake as technology improves

The I want it to be real mindset is one of the most disturbing of that whole thing.

To be fair I didn't know the Sikh thing either, but being scared of a baby is so funny

My completely unfounded but plausible theory is that 50% of the reason old people don't recognise AI is eyesight-related.

My grandmother is fully on the AI train and believes it's the future, she has gotten to the point where she uses AI to think for her. She asks it everything and takes its word for it because it has "sources" that are completely made up and she doesn't even check them.

My mom will send me AI videos and I have to point it out to her. I even have to point out when videos are staged.

I worry about our future.

“I want it to be real” man… this generation is going to run us to the ground

Though the british skepticism was a joke, I think looking at their previous answers whenever it’s not a visibly american white person, we can see that they find it slightly easier to be skeptic/have negative perception of it which is … interesting

These people vote... And drive.