I mean, it'd certainly be impressive if they manage to avoid all AI content and not respond to it. If that's really how careful your friends/family are, then props to them. I'm not trying to be combative.
> What kind of ai content do you think people are watching?
I can't think of a platform that isn't showering users with AI content no matter how much content blocking and history-disabling one does. It's at least half of everything that gets injected into feeds, especially on platforms like Instagram, and while there are many people who can recognize AI slop, enough of them continue engaging with it that it's clearly being incentivized. There are plenty of otherwise smart people I know who can't distinguish all of it from reality. Older people are especially susceptible. If you know any baby boomers who regularly use Facebook, they're almost certainly falling for AI slop all the time even if they think they're savvy enough to recognize all of it.
Don't take this the wrong way, but your phrasing of that question makes me wonder whether we're talking about two different things or if your experience with people's habits happens to be radically different from what I've seen as normative. I guess it's possible you wouldn't know what kind of AI content people tend to be watching if you've managed to distance yourself from it that much.
To answer your question now that I've rambled, tons of things are AI generated. Animal videos, dancing videos, tutorials, news, podcasts, music, etc.
Could I be wrong? Yeah, sure. My experience tells me the following:
- The vast majority of people claim to hate AI slop.
- Most people think they can reliably recognize AI slop.
- Almost everyone is getting fooled by AI in some form form at some frequency.
- AI slop almost can't be avoided without only following certain creators or content discovery, and even then it's not completely avoidable.
- I've been duped by AI slop occasionally, and I'm the guy who used to have to inform people all the time that viral videos were faking things with CGI (my family has a history in the entertainment business).
- At least half of people are more upset by the fact someone is breaking their belief in content being real than by the fact that the content intentionally fooled them.
- Most people aren't significantly changing their media consumption habits in response to AI slop.
That's why I am not particularly interested in what the average American thinks about AI. It's about as insightful as asking a woman about dating advice for men. If people overwhelmingly think AI is bad for society, then the answer would be for them to stop consuming it, yet they still do, and there's really no excuse for them to do so if they really think it's that bad.
> What kind of ai content do you think people are watching?
I can't think of a platform that isn't showering users with AI content no matter how much content blocking and history-disabling one does. It's at least half of everything that gets injected into feeds, especially on platforms like Instagram, and while there are many people who can recognize AI slop, enough of them continue engaging with it that it's clearly being incentivized. There are plenty of otherwise smart people I know who can't distinguish all of it from reality. Older people are especially susceptible. If you know any baby boomers who regularly use Facebook, they're almost certainly falling for AI slop all the time even if they think they're savvy enough to recognize all of it.
Don't take this the wrong way, but your phrasing of that question makes me wonder whether we're talking about two different things or if your experience with people's habits happens to be radically different from what I've seen as normative. I guess it's possible you wouldn't know what kind of AI content people tend to be watching if you've managed to distance yourself from it that much.
To answer your question now that I've rambled, tons of things are AI generated. Animal videos, dancing videos, tutorials, news, podcasts, music, etc.
Could I be wrong? Yeah, sure. My experience tells me the following:
- The vast majority of people claim to hate AI slop.
- Most people think they can reliably recognize AI slop.
- Almost everyone is getting fooled by AI in some form form at some frequency.
- AI slop almost can't be avoided without only following certain creators or content discovery, and even then it's not completely avoidable.
- I've been duped by AI slop occasionally, and I'm the guy who used to have to inform people all the time that viral videos were faking things with CGI (my family has a history in the entertainment business).
- At least half of people are more upset by the fact someone is breaking their belief in content being real than by the fact that the content intentionally fooled them.
- Most people aren't significantly changing their media consumption habits in response to AI slop.
That's why I am not particularly interested in what the average American thinks about AI. It's about as insightful as asking a woman about dating advice for men. If people overwhelmingly think AI is bad for society, then the answer would be for them to stop consuming it, yet they still do, and there's really no excuse for them to do so if they really think it's that bad.