Websites Are for Humans
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·October 19, 2025Retr0id
tigroferoce
I believe that we will soon live in a future where the content will be fake by default and we will validate the authenticity by looking at the reputation of the source. Each time we will read, listen, or see a new content we will think "is this coming from a trustworthy source? otherwise I will not believe any single word of this".
In this context, the more fake news/content we see, the better it is, because it will only make the process of getting there fast.
karczex
We are there already
ticulatedspline
> What finally will break people's brains (and I extrapolate that from my brain) is the decision fatigue that is growing, that we now have to figure out if a funny cat video is real...
Nah. seems people forget social media has been fake for way longer than AI. sometimes Photoshop, or editing. Sometimes just deliberately miss-attributing a real photo for clicks. heck there's a whole "fake Asian videos" subreddit, funny videos that in another light are brilliant sketch comedy but always portray themselves as real. not to mention humans consume boatloads of knowingly-fake things -- movies, tv shows, cartoons, artwork etc.
oddly enough the rise of AI may flip one of the most annoying things in social media, all the fake stuff that people think is real. a small subset of people (like myself) are less annoyed by the fake content and more annoyed by the people falling for it. Like those "Fake Asian Videos" I've seen a few that were well written, well acted and even well filmed. If it were a comedy show on Netflix it would be hilarious, the distaste I have for them is that they portend to be real and people often believe them to be real.
In the short term this is going to be way worse as even discriminating people can't tell if something is fake, but the light at the end of the tunnel is when it hits such saturation that anything real is in the minority and everyone assumes that everything is fake and keeps on consuming.
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HardCodedBias
I agree, it is always good to be openly hostile to the new boss!
lynx97
How did this get on the front page? Are there genuine users that feel this rambling is interesting or adds anything useful to what has already been said?
isodev
Yes, in a way. The rampant exaggeration of the usefulness of LLMs and the fact that clearly not enough "people in tech" are saying no to their managers stuffing every single product with something "AI"-ish means we definitely need to talk about it.
lynx97
Ah, neat. Now it is the employees who are supposed to swim against the stream and jeopardize their jobs. I love naiv activism.
The "is this AI?" fatigue is very grating, but it seems inescapable even if you're not scrolling algorithmic feeds. It permeates group chats, DMs, and even personal blogs. I have no idea how we solve this!
Ironically, it seems that some of the more "anti-AI" people I know are more likely to re-share AI-generated content without realising it, because they aren't keeping up with what today's AI output looks like.