My mom keeps sending me AI videos of animals doing silly things. I tell her it’s AI every time.

Her latest response: “Oh everything’s AI with you” and now she’s mad at me. We’re cooked.

God I wish this were true. People will so rarely give something up if they’re used to it. My guess is that this person evangelizes privacy and technical literacy to their mom, due to their bsky handle.

Didn't see this coming... /s

One of the main reasons that there is an “AI gold rush” is that tech CEOs, billionaires, and oligarchs see the possibilities it creates for inventing reality and coercing large populations. I’ve long been concerned with not just how social media influences reality, but how people treat the entire digital experience as reality. Too much significance is ascribed to what amounts to flittering colors on a screen. Information drives action; garbage in, garbage out.

“Boomers” are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a lack of social media literacy. In developing countries where social media means the only path to Internet access, commerce, or external support, media literacy is at best a non-sequiter and at worst non-existent:

Abstract: Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Scholars, reporters, and United Nations investigators agree that the social media giant played a role in an explosion of ethnic conflict in 2017 that led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims in Northern Myanmar

https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-how-facebook-contributed-to-genocide-in-myanmar-and-why-it-will-not-be-held-accountable/

Web 3.0 crashed hard, and the Internet monoliths have gone all in on AI as the next frontier of the Internet. And like the frontier of space, there is a massive wall of killer junk blocking the path and it seems like the only way forward is to launch more junk up there. I just hope we hit saturation before we’re all killed by falling debris.

Lemmy's refusal to accept AI content will become our greatest strength if we hold to it.

The olds are alright.

I wish this was my mother's thinking. On the contrary, she and other relatives her age keep sending me slop they consider hilarious or interesting. You guessed, it's neither.

This is a problem for all social media. Eventually every social media site that allows users to post anything will be bombarded to a degree that it will be impossible to find humans. It will be functionally impossible to moderate. And outside of that there will be whole ecosystems of fake AI generated websites will pop up with scams and propaganda. The internet will become a trash fire and people will have no choice but to eat the burning trash or touch grass.

People who were comfortable never leaving their house other than for work will either become schizophrenic zombies or will get cabin fever and desperately seek connection offline.

EDIT: And I say this as someone who doesn't intrinsically hate AI.

I subscribe to the dead internet theory

Because 99.99% of people won't even consider doing that?

Hell a good portion of modern society would legitimately go into withdrawals if they had to delete social media.

My mom never thinks about reality in any self-aware context and legitimately believes she has a hard-line directly to Stevie Nicks and megachurch preachers.

I quit trying.

Facebook especially forgot that old people who feel confused by something just ignore it...

It's a normal part of aging, we try to hide the mental decline from ourselves, so if we're not able to do something we enjoy, we just stop doing it without even really realizing it.

Some will conciously quit like this old lady, but loads more will just stop checking the app/website without even really noticing they stopped. When they think about using it, their subconscious will convince them not to just to avoid the frustration.

Especially for this age group who were almost 60 when they started using the Internet. They never really had a firm grasp on it, and everyday more and more won't be able to keep up with it

That was why Faux News was so successful. It required zero effort. People would turn it on when they woke up and let it play all day.

Modern internet propaganda hinges on the target being addicted and incapable of stopping themselves for that level of coverage. But they're gonna lose their oldest and most reliable voting demographic

They have considered people trying to leave. I remember it being a dick trying to delete my Facebook account.

Planning to and actually doing it are two very different things.

Social media companies forget the Important Thing. People only use social media to connect to people. Once they don't feel like they are getting that, they won't stick around just for the distraction.

They've thought of it. Her market-worth was deemed insufficient so they’ll take the hit and shrug it off. The 18-28 crowd however, should they do anything so bold, they’d jump.

Spoiler: they won’t.

They've thought about it. They don't care. They have enough of your data to replace you with an AI agent that pretends to be you. Your friends and family will never know the difference. You probably already agreed to it in the Terms of Service.

she should delete it, youtube reddit is heading that way.

Fakebook

said noones granny ever

Time to teach her about AI vs human talent

Getting more family finally trying to connect on email and phone this last few months then ever before. Dont use social networks and transfer any photos you want off to places like google drive or one drive.