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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 minutes ago

Look up ai rating instructions for instruction following, correctness, naturalness, and composition, they always tend to fail on one of those fronts and if you learn to identify them like a trainer it is easier to notice

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 3 hours ago

Watermarking never meant to be a legitimate way of telling this stuff apart. Anyone slightly savvy could run a generator locally and produce images without watermarking, if they really meant to fool others. You are right in that the watermarking makes it (or did) more difficult for the average joe, but yeah. This is a never was kind of scenario

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I drop musical artists like it's hot the moment I find out they support Israel. I'm not opposed to doing the same for AI.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did you worry about photoshops too? Because many of those were absolutely hard to tell

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Not true. If it looks shopped I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Be careful of falling victim to bad toupees.

You always know when you spot a bad fake, but you have no idea how many good fakes flew right past your radar. We tend to think we're much better at these things than we really are.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 4 hours ago

Then you will learn same skill for slop most likely

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 8 hours ago

Eventually, you won’t be able to and we’ll be back to what my generation learned early on, don’t trust what you see on the Internet.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Go see art in real life. It's all original content.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

I mean, you can make physical art using AI.

searches

https://www.art-magazine.ai/program

Anytime, everywhere, all about AI & generative art

A list of AI art and generative art exhibitions, festivals and events.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The word "slop" has lost all meaning.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The phrase "lost all meaning" has lost all meaning

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

That all depends on what “means” means.

[–] dyslexicdainbroner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We can’t tell the difference anymore - we simply can’t trust anything on social media anymore as it’s mostly not true - also print and broadcast media are equally lies…

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Always have been.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If you can establish that it was written before 2021 or so, it's probably not from an LLM. That kind of text has been compared to "low background steel", typically salvaged from ships sunk in WW2 or earlier. Low background steel is a valuable commodity used for some types of highly sensitive instruments. Steel made in August 1945 or later, especially post 1950-ish, always has trace amounts of radioactivity from u-know-what.

Note that contamination is contagious. Even if you know that a human wrote something post-2021, for example because you wrote it yourself, you still can't say it's guaranteed AI-free, because of how AI has warped language and to some extent everyone's minds.

https://englishlanguagestudies.com/the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 0 points 7 hours ago

Everything is slop, no AI necessary.