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[–] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I have a business idea:

Vintage social media.

Only media that verifiably exists on the internet before 2021 is allowed. That's still billions of cute animal photos and videos.


EDIT:

And a sister project: RAW-only social media. Only photo/video uploaded as raw sensor data (which even phones can take now) is allowed. Metadata is stripped, and they're post-processed by the site.

Why? RAWs are technically possible to fake, but difficult enough to deter lazy slop spam. As a bonus, they can't be heavily edited either; they're unprocessed, unglamourous slices of reality. And they can be served in HDR with modern compression, as a cherry on top.

...Now I just need a few billion dollars to host it, and about a trillion to survive anticompetive attacks.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly, I don't think your edit is crazy at all. I have a hunch that all the fake, filtered, AI-processed, vtuber'd social media is going to result in a sharp backlash soon. Kind of like how over-the-top, image-focused glam and heavy metal of the 80s spawned a backlash in the rawer, more "real" feel of grunge and stripped down alt-rock in the 90s.

    Maybe that desire for reality will be one of the triggers for the AI bubble bursting.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It’s still a fantasy though. People aren’t in control of their phones/feeds.

    Heck, we can’t even get the world to support JPEG-XL or HEIF or anything, much less take RAW pictures.

    And Twitter has convinced me there is absolutely no line these services can cross to get people to quit.

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