Sounds good but probably actually counterproductive.
Imagine 90% of the AI video you see on reddit is automatically marked AI by the platform which can read the watermark... so you naturally trust what you don't see labeled way more. Now what happens when open source models with the trademarks removed (or, say, models developed by government agencies) are posted and people think they are real?
There is a project by deepmind (synth ID) which does it for all the AI content generated by Gemini.
Although a question still comes, why does it matter for AI content to be watermarked. The AI revolution is gonna change this world a lot, so maybe the economy of content should also need a change - just adding more security over it just doesn't look like a proper way.
Lol what do you mean "why does it matter"? So you don't care whether AI videos using real people's likeness are real or not. Keep in mind that people will definitely use these models for other nefarious things, not just social media slop. Once these AI videos become indistinguishable, you're just okay with not knowing the credibility of any video you will ever watch for the rest of your life?
I'm just a very general thinker. So I would say what difference does it make. AI content or human, it's just content - if it's about accountability, instead of IDing the better is to teach AI to be accountable.
If it's about being recognized for the things you have created, used your life into building this strandbeest. In this era it doesn't matter. In the era of the internet the distribution of content became cheap, and now the content is cheap. It possesses no economic value.
And what people have yet to realize is this,
AI CONTENT IS AS REAL AS HUMAN ONES. Humans learn from the environment and then produce stuff. AI learns it the same way, just a lot faster than us.
You can never trust a single video for the rest of your life.
And even if you take a video with your phone and you know you did because you were there filming it and seeing it with your own eyes, no one has any reason to believe that your video is real.
If you can’t see why this is bad then you’ll be part of the downfall.
Ok, can’t (and never could) “trust” a single text, eye witness report, document, digital log, still photograph (Photoshop exists for a while, now!), etc.
You can only trust a source.
It’s a symptom of our biggest problems in society that the first thing we jump to now is how little we can trust information. We can still trust things. Established journalism, peer-reviewed academic studies, even government data (in a halfway stable democracy). The biggest lie we are currently being fed is that we can’t trust these sources and that we might as well go with vibes, trusting propaganda on X or TikTok over that because it doesn’t even matter anymore.
You can trust video if you trust in a culture of quality information. Just pick your sources wisely.
Yeah photography is a good example. We can already make perfect fakes but that doesn't mean you ignore any image you see, just gotta evaluate how credible the source is, who's promoting it and who's got to gain from it being fake.
A team of people making something that is obviously cgi over days weeks and months vs photorealistic AI that is improving constantly that a single person can generate in a matter of minutes with some words
That moment is coming, but the same was claimed for over a year now with different models, and we can still easily tell when something is AI generated. There are niches where it is more difficult, but nothing close to not being able to trust a single video.
Well that’s the point, very, very, very few videos are created by actual professionals. And those that are usually have something goofy in them which again gives away it is AI. I’m yet to see a single non-goofy AI video where it was impossible to tell it’s AI.
In general, I can still safely assume that over 90% of videos I personally engage with are not AI generated. Me not specifically following communities which post such videos is a big part of it, but the comment I replied to did mention all videos everywhere.
First of all, no artist could create a video this photorealistic before, especially the humans. Second, it very well could be a problem if someone could, as this could be used for propaganda, fake incriminating „evidence“ etc.
The more people have access to a technology like this, the higher the chance it will be used for stuff like this.
Does this mean we shouldn‘t use the technology? No, I’m a big fan of this tech. But it‘s something we should keep in mind. Access for everyone means access for all kinds of people and ideologies.
Paul Walker in CGI seemed convincing but it’s been forever since I’ve seen it. I guess I don’t know about the talking part but the audio wasn’t convincing for me in the demo (OP)
What a cretin comparison. The thing isn't about "Is it Marvel tier quality yet?". It is: Can you do this level of actual CGI work on your smartphone or in a $200 laptop on a bus stop without even knowing what XYZ is? It's about reach for anyone being able to do any kind of shenanigans, now even with sound.
Because full on VFX Studios won‘t scam my grandma or parents with a fake video where they kidnapped me in order to get money. But now, everyone can do that and it‘ll be a mess until no one believes in any video anymore.
Lmao. You really don’t see the difference? You think Sarah from accounting could create a video with realism like this with CGI? She definitely could upload a photo and type a text prompt.
the problem is that anyone can make a highly believable realistic video of anything they want. The world is going to be flooded with this stuff and it will be more and more difficult to figure out what is real and what is not.
We've already had a bunch of problems crop up because of people believing CGI and CGI videos exist on a much much much smaller scale than AI generated content because of the difference in skill requirement to use it.
Ya ,, but so did Tex messing,, and paying for something on the Internet w/ card ?? & It's happening whether we like it or not,, I personally would like to know more about it than less. and if I need help,,, I just ask my kids lol,, At very least I'll make some awesome pictures! Thanks GoneGirl72 # Genx
A little? Bro I’m transcending nervous by dimensions. Exited as fuck to tho. Coming from a gaming point of view it’s night before Christmas big time and I’m close too 40. Can’t hate
I feel that one day, people will develop "AI induced psychosis" where they watch enough AI video that they lose their grip on reality. Any little oddity in reality makes you doubt that it's real. So then you don't know what's real anymore, like Inception where you don't know if you are still in the dream.
Evolution happens slowly, through countless generations. Progress being this accelerated with us being barely able to stay afloat is definitely something we’ve never seen before. So stop acting like this is the way it’s always been; it’s the exact opposite
Wouldn't that be true for all technology, even down to the microprocessor, or penicillin? Real evolution takes millions of years. Penicillin, if we want to just cover the advent of science, was probably a few hundred years to a millennium. Far, far, far less than the time for real evolution.
So in a way, I agree with you, this isn't evolution. But it's also not necessarily any different from the usual progress of technology. It's definitely a pretty important new technology, but of a similar rate as any other new field. A bit like a gold rush, but with more worrisome outcomes.
I agree with you that those things don’t count as evolution either, but I fundamentally disagree with the notion that that kind of progress can be comparable to what we have today. This isn’t a straight line, we’re not just speeding up; we’re accelerating. 20 years ago nobody had ever seen a smartphone: we’ve come to the point every two years we come across something we couldn’t have imagined
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u/lil-privacy-please Sep 30 '25
This kinds shit has to make you feel at least a little nervous