tag > Media
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Online reviews of any kind (movies, products, places, etc.) are flooded with AI-generated spam these days. The effects of this info war on consumer behavior and culture is unpredictable, but it's bound to be profound.
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Prediction: AI-generated videos will soon revolutionize teleshopping channels, offering content hyper-personalized to their mostly elderly viewers. Engagement and sales will significantly rise, while production costs will plummet.
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Soft-Wireheading Simulacrum has been achieved internally
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Wrapping my head around TikTok is a ride: A "oddly satisfying" video split-screened with an angry stunt, all while ASMR plays in the background—it does weird things to the brain. It's a sneak peek at interaction design crafted by multimodal AI, trained on biosignals.
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The amount/depth entertainment/value/meaning we get from media does not scale linearly with the computation or energy needed to create it.
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Hyper-personalized media, generated just-in-time based on real-time data about one's current context & state, is the holy grail of generative AI. The key challenges lie in preventing society from splintering into filter bubbles and avoiding the nasty side effects of wireheading
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Social media feels increasingly unusable to me. The constant shouting about toxic issues from the group dominating the platform is drowning out everything else. It's hard to escape & becoming unbearable. Might be time to retreat to the Forest & enjoy my Forest Noise Amplifier instead.
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In many European countries, there's a mandatory annual "broadcasting fee" (around €350) that partially funds public legacy media (TV & Radio). It should be renamed the "psyops tax" to better reflect its true purpose.
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Many are feverishly working towards fully AI Generated audiovisual media. The more exciting opportunity that most are missing, is creating AI audiences that consume the endless synthetic content - so humans can go to the forest with friends and enjoy the peace.
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Generative AI decreases the time & skill it takes to create a media artefact & increases the amount of artefacts. It decreases the amount of time people spend with an artefact. Most just want people on the internet to look for 5 sec and say "cool". Hyper fast food culture.
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Hypothesis: Most people concerned about AI's impact on copyright & demand more extrem laws, are in reality concerned about their ability to make money. They don't realize that IP has little to do with their profit chances. Drowning in a noisy channel & the changing role of authorship are your challenges
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TikTok is working on using generative AI to create videos on-the-fly.
Based on your preferences, learned by their super addictive algorithms, they will generate videos for you, infinitely. they have the data, and they have the compute, but they're lacking talent (insider info from my sources). they plan to release a demo in Q3 24. source: trust me bro
