I remember when our biggest worry was knowing if something was cake.

internet feels like a mall with 4, dilapidated shops left and half of the customers are trying desperately, by any means necessary to scam you

1950  - we will have flying cars in the 2000s
2026 - Will smith eating spagetti

This uncertainty (about true/fake) slowly but surely puts me away of doom scrolling so I guess it's not completely bad...

AI may take away our content creators but it can never take away our clinical depression

Feeling nostalgic for less than year ago lol

I am so old, I remember "plastic" being the equivalent of AI.
- Look at my new cassette deck!
- It looks so plastic, mate.

You know what would really be Shayamalan style plot twist?
Eric was AI this whole time!
That's right - there is no Eric, there never was!

Why are people gleefully encouraging internet scamming 😭

Bro was so giddy about the meme coin pump and dump. I’m scared

going back to face to face interactions is the only way forward now.

How in the hell did they not think he was AI with that thick long ass neck?

Erik blink if you're not AI!

I predict that everything will get so oversaturated that people will just start going permanently offline

6:42 "and it's completely legal" you can tell he thinks he deserves to live

Not consuming short form content has helped me avoid 99% of AI based nonsense.

Simple tips for spotting AI:

1)Is anyone actually talking in the scene? If not, why not? Why are there people but no-one is talking?
2)If they are talking, do they sound robotic, stilted? Is the lip sync off? Do they all sound generic, the same? Is the script cringey and generic?
3)When looking at AI, ask yourself if what you're seeing is even remotely plausible (physically, politically etc). Look at the context, too. If the answer is no, then it's AI.

I think the pushback is going to be a gigantic renaissance in live art whether it be music, stage, painting.... all of it. Humans doing amazing things with no digital enhancement. Imagine that.

There are already projects moving in this direction. Kagi, for example, is building its “Small Web” around human-authored independent websites, while other projects are working on proof-of-human systems and human-only online spaces. Maybe the next step could be a dedicated part of the internet designed specifically for authentic human content, where bots and AI-generated content are clearly excluded or separated. As AI content becomes harder to distinguish from reality, I think genuinely human content could become increasingly valuable.

Reality check:  the internet has been very very short on stock in the realness section for decades.

The existential crisis for contemporarily online people is the realization that what they project as realness about themselves could potentially be as transparently fake as the new fakeness that we can all conjure with ease.

There was a time when being fake online was a glamorous and rewarding pastime.  Now it has been democratized and people feel less special.

The upside to endless sea of slop:

Forcing people to be critical of the content that they consume to rise above the common denominator crap that they were consuming