We salute you, Loretta.

M*A*S*H is a very good show, it’s aged (a little too) well and the jokes still land to this day. Highly recommended.

blocking you. you cant remove half my comment then try to gaslight me into believing i meant something other than what i said.

Okay well that’s not the group I’m talking about.

you responded to my comment (about that group)???

I’m not convinced that the group of people who are already skeptical of the veracity of the non-AI content they see on social media are going to suddenly start believing that short form videos are reflecting reality simply because an AI made it instead of a human. The current problem with misinformation isn’t that it’s “too poorly animated”.

EDIT: I should say if and when CNN starts generating realistic AI videos claiming they are reality, then we have a problem. But anyone skeptical of randomdude69’s Tweets is not going to start believing them “because AI”.

I don’t really get the concern. Anyone who cares about understanding reality isn’t looking to social media for it, and the people who don’t care about reality don’t need AI to believe whatever nonsense is convenient for them.

Are we doomed? Yes, but AI isn’t changing that.

Outside of computing costs, there is no limit to the length of video generated, but keeping the output coherent and contextual for more than a few seconds is a completely different puzzle to solve.

Same reason ChatGPT 3.0 could make realistic Reddit comments half a decade ago but the latest models still can’t generate more than a paragraph or two before losing the thread.

I think what Optional is getting at is that “running an initial wide search then checking the specific sources” is not an improvement on the current system.

Weird I literally see “free”:

404 does have paywalled articles but I’ve tried a few browsers/VPN and this doesn’t seem to be one of them.

Any inconveniences you’ve noticed with Graphene? For example I’ve heard tap to pay functionality doesn’t work.

Well said, I was thinking maybe the entire reason OPs charisma is -1 is because they’re out there trying to convince people to do something instead of just doing their own thing.

I agree, I really don’t think the concerns about “not being able to tell what’s real” will be a major issue (at least to those who care about knowing what’s real). Social media has been full of human-made slop for years and if someone is getting their sense of reality from social media posts, then that is the problem and AI isn’t going to dramatically change that.

Reports go to:

• Moderators of the community
• Admins of the community’s instance
• Admins of the reported user’s instance
• Admins of the reporting user’s instance

This is awesome thanks for sharing. I love that they include the option to download the ePub files.

I have a feeling if any of these video generators tried to make a “clip” longer than a couple of seconds they would rapidly become a lot less “real looking”

A Fedi instance requires a time commitment, there are some good suggestions in here but I recommend some alternative frontends.

When using the official Mastodon app (as suggested in the “guide”) “instances” are not a factor at all (unless the user specifically goes out of their way). A new user could have never even heard of the term “instance” and the above steps would work fine.

You don’t just download the app, create an account, and go.

Actually with Mastodon this is literally how it works.

EDIT: I should say this is how it works now, it didn’t always used to be this way. The official Mastodon app used to ask the user to pick an instance, but for a number of years now it defaults every new account to mastodon.social unless they opt out. There was a big brouhah about centralization but the Mastodon devs felt it made for easier on boarding.

Potentially unpopular protip: I’ve blocked most of the “prolific” posters. My entire feed was becoming repurposed memes from 2015.

I’m happy there are people out there dedicating time to keeping Lemmy “active” but that is not how I want to live my life.

I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.

TikTok → Reddit → Lemmy → …grass?