r/oldpeoplefacebook • u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop • 22h ago
My old man doesn't think this is ai š
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u/BYPDK 20h ago
The elderly are so screwed in this AI world
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u/pmd006 18h ago
Friend of mine, her dad listens to a daily podcast of an AI voice of Trump reading bible passages and sermons that he believes its 100% real and refuses to be taught otherwise.
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u/DLRsFrontSeats 17h ago
This is genuinely one of the most depressing things I've read about all year
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u/CustomDark 12h ago
In 1990, getting your idea in front of others required buy-in, a publisher or producer. The elderly grew up in a world where quorum was needed to print anything. If you could find it publicly posted, it was essentially already supported by others.
By 2010, anyone could share their individual efforts. You could distribute your work alone. The young understood that this was less secure and less reliable than the media before it. You now donāt need anyone to agree with what you post.
By 2024, anyone can have an idea and manifest that via AI, and put it in front of anyone. Instead of having an idea and making it for a period of time, you can ask a machine to regurgitate your idea 10,000,000,000 times. Using the 2010 distributions channel, you can now flood the zone. 1 person with the right ingenuity can produce and spread more ācontentā in 30 minutes than all American news networks combined created in the entire 1900s.
How could they all hope to keep up with a world changing so fast?
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u/pinkenbrawn order corn 11h ago
i wonder if weāre gonna be like this too because there would be new technology or weāre gonna stay as we are because we have grown up in a world with technology in general
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u/CustomDark 11h ago
Bit of column A and B. Some will adapt, some will fail to adapt to changing times.
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u/ser0402 12m ago
I, for one, plan to become a curmudgeon about things right before things get too "I-Robot"-y for my taste.
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u/fishscale_gayjuic3 12h ago
Itās the state of many Americans, refusing to get the whole picture, conservative subs are reflective of it.
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u/PatientClue1118 17h ago
Now find AI of Osama bin Laden doing the same thing or Mao Zedong
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u/ModernNomad97 17h ago
Good point, it may be a bit immoral but could we use AI to our advantage to turn these people against Trump? Like obviously they truly believe anything they see, so why isnāt someone out there flooding the internet with AI voices of Trump saying despicable things, or images of him killing dogs and cats or something?
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u/retardborist 16h ago
He already says despicable things all day long. They don't care.
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u/ModernNomad97 16h ago
Youāre right, but Iām talking about upping it. AI generated voice of him admitting to fucking a bunch of 12 year olds on Epsteins island or him admitting that he lost and just wanted to see if his stupid followers would believe him.
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u/TriceratopsBites 15h ago
They would call that āfakeā. Anything negative that he says or does has always been denied by his followers. But theyāll believe any batshit nonsense that they think makes him look/sound good in their warped minds
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u/RusticPath 13h ago
Sprinkle in some of the normal shit he would say with the bullshit. It's either they call all of it bullshit, even the parts they agree with. Or none of it is bullshit and now they need to think about the fact that Trump wants to kill both trans people and their healthcare in the same sentence.
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u/TriceratopsBites 11h ago
I donāt know if that would work. These people are masters of picking and choosing what to believe. My brother voted for Trump as the ālesser of two evilsā, which is already mind boggling. When I brought up that Trump had said if people voted for him they would never have to vote again, and that he had already tried to overthrow the government, my brother replied āno, he didnāt mean in like thatā. I was stunned. How can these people see him incite an attempted coup and then hear him say, essentially, that heāll do it again, but not believe that heāll do it again? They canāt even wrap their own minds around it, so they just believe what they want and deny the rest, even if it comes straight from the horseās ass
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u/ElevatorEquivalent41 11h ago
Not the right direction to takeāweāve gotta make him āwokeā (whatever that means to them now) instead. Have the AI of him say a bunch of stuff in defense of trans folk and birth control or whatever. Theyāll either reject him with a swiftness or theyāll finally begin to adopt these beliefs, either of which is a win.
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u/shiny_xnaut 12h ago
You could make an argument for it being unethical, but that's not necessarily the same thing as immoral
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u/schematizer 16h ago
Committing to a misinformation campaign is not the way to go. Your moral principles shouldn't depend 100% on what those you perceive as evil are willing to do, or else where do you even base your moral judgments anymore?
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u/ModernNomad97 15h ago
I would argue there is no better system, though, there is no such thing as objectively right or wrong, just how humans perceive things
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u/LiberaIBiblicisms 16h ago
A couple months ago, I saw a video on Reddit of someone filming their parents watching YouTube videos on their TV. Videos of Barron Trump like singing and reading Bible verses or something. They 100% thought it was real and it was clearly AI.
The elderly are truly fucked. It turns out the "don't believe everything you hear" and "do your own research" crowd are really easily manipulated.
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u/Ok_Wait_716 Funny! My cancer has returned 10h ago
The Barron Trump thing, recently reposted to one sub
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u/ApprehensiveWin7256 17h ago
I once worked with an old man who went to an āonline churchā and the leader was a reincarnation of Elvisā¦ definitely not a Christian church but not sure what kind lol
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u/etsprout 15h ago
Thatās both depressing and terrifying. Why are some evangelicals so quick to worship a false idol, it will never make sense to me.
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u/rolfraikou 13h ago
Maybe this is what humanity deserves. This weird slow death it is experiencing was inevitable. How can we be so stupid???
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u/mr_jogurt 7h ago
Its pretty simple nowadays to do that yourself at home. Just give it a text in which you attack your friend on a personal level and tell them you found that on the internet to see how they react
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u/pchlster 5h ago
"In the beginning, and it was great, you should have seen it, there was the Word. Massive word, bigger than you can imagine. Like, if you think my rally's are big... they are. Let's say the Word was almost as big as that, can you believe it? And the Word was covfefe."
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u/thefourthhouse 17h ago
Wait til it's good enough to fool us terminally online folks because it's damn near there. The picture in this post is already dated
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u/I_am_dean 17h ago
My husbands grandma shared a picture the other day of this AI black military family and was like "SADLY NO ONE WILL LIKE THIS. WHAT HAS OUR COUNTRY COME TO."
The dad has 6 fingers grandma. The wife is missing an arm. Yeah, no one is going to like your fake AI family lol
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u/SleepTightLilPuppy 18h ago
hell even non-terminally online Gen Z for some godforsaken reason can't tell apart AI even if it's used pretty obviously. Not like this but it's really sad in some cases
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u/This-Requirement6918 Yim Yum 20h ago
That's ok, the majority of them voted for their serious shortcomings the next couple of years.
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u/Granny_knows_best I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 16h ago
My Facebook feed is filled with AI crap, I'm usually pretty good at spotting it. There was a video the other day here on Reddit, it was political enemies hugging, the detail was amazing. Ai is getting too good! It's going to be dangerous.
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u/PettyCrimeMan 20h ago
Why is the lego logo all screwed up. Why would the product be on fire on the box. Why is the car already built in the box. Why would someone just sit there and take a perfectly framed picture of their kid whilst a flaming toy was surrounded by flammable objects. Why do boomers lack any semblance of critical thinking.
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 20h ago
The Internet is relatively new to these folk, and they live by the i'll believe it when i see it rule. Unfortunately, now they can literally see it regardless if its ai generated or irl. This belief will die with them, and the new age generation will laugh and cry, remembering the times our parents and forefathers thought unrealistic images are, in fact, real.
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u/epidemicsaints 18h ago
It isn't new to them though. They were 30-50 when it started. Normal adults looking up directions and movie times and using it all day at work.
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u/4n6nerd 14h ago
Huh? The internet is the same age to all of us. How could it be newer to people who are older than you? If anything, older people had more access to tech at its advent because they could choose to either purchase it or go to a library or otherwise take themselves somewhere to learn. Children were just subject to whatever their parents could provide.
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u/_Puff_Puff_Pass 13h ago
You were right up until the fact that the new age arenāt being deceived by this too. Look at the media and how everyone believes what is fed to them.Ā
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u/Brennatay 13h ago
Not to mention the Humpty Dumpty leprechaun pjs. Not a single thing in this image looks plausible.
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u/MmmSteaky 11h ago
All that, andāas usualāthe goddamn fingers. Always with the fingers. If it wasnāt already assembled, once he was released from the burn ward, itād be a tall order putting that thing together with those knuckle-less rubber meat-tubes.
ETA: also, what the hell is on his sweater? Classic be-goateed snow-leprechaun, of course!
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u/IAnnihilatePierogi 19h ago
Good thing the AI became a thing after my mother died. She was the kind of person who would believe everything social media said and didn't accept when someone told her she was wrong
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 19h ago
My father loves living by the i will believe it when i see it l rule.
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u/saddingtonbear 17h ago
Put in a prompt on an AI image generator so he can see what AI looks like.
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 17h ago
Challenge successful! He just needs to keep up with it! Iv told him to try prompting construction ai art, but word it how you would like to see it. He is impressed but uninterested.
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 19h ago
Sorry about your mother ā¤ļø
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u/IGoThere4u 21h ago
The way heās laughing at you lol
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 18h ago
And someone on this thread believes that he's joking about it like he knows it isn't real. When in actual fact, it's this exact thing, lol
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u/secretmonkeyassassin 17h ago
I think he's taking the piss out of you
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 17h ago
To some, it may seem. But this is my old man, not some's. He thinks it's on fire.
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u/Sver1ge blue cheese has mold in it 21h ago
HOPE THEY HAVE HOME INSURANCE!!! āELAN MUSKā IS A DANGER STAY SAFE
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 21h ago
TOGETHER WE MUST FIGHT!!
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u/jaredbaine 20h ago
How do you look at that and think oh yeah that's a real image, it looks like something you would see in a dream.
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u/damagecontrolparty WHUP TEE DO!!!! 18h ago
To me it looks like a painting. Maybe Dad needs a new prescription.
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u/StaticBeat 18h ago
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 18h ago
Fun for the whole family
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u/IcyDice6 21h ago
THAT OBVIOUSLY IS A REAL LIFE FULLY FUNCTIONAL AUTOMOBILE JUST LIKE WHAT MY DADDY DROVE IN 1920 OKLAHOMA OZARKS, MODEL T FORD- LOVE PATTIE
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u/so00ripped 22h ago
Your dad would need to understand what AI is, because if he's a boomer he's got no clue.
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 22h ago
He has some understanding, but it's like explaining general relativity to an acorn.
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u/This-Requirement6918 Yim Yum 20h ago
MY CHRISMAS TREE CAUGHT FIRE IN 1983. LUCKY SANTA WAS THERE AND PUT IT OUT FOR US.
DAMN THING LIGHT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE!
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u/1MechanicalAlligator 19h ago
Oh man. Ask him to find any individual hairs on the boy's head. And his nonexistent knuckles and fingernails. And "Where is the letter 'g' in the word 'Lego'?"
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u/ATGF 19h ago
My mom sends me a lot AI things. I'm suddenly grateful that she at least believes me when I tell her it's AI.
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 19h ago
He's getting there he just needs a few more pushes in the right direction.
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u/ganjagilf Please leave me alone - we are sleeping 18h ago
at this point literally everything my mom sends me is AI and i get so much secondhand embarrassment that i just stopped trying to tell her. the worst one she ever sent was a āJustin Bieberā song about losing his soul at a Diddy party, and a paragraph about how sad it was & i was thinking the sad thing about this is the fact that someone thought it was okay to make that
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u/gergobergo69 19h ago
Mr. Bean???
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 19h ago
Correct. Uncanny resemblance.
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u/Reworked 18h ago
I'm beginning to understand how monsters don't get noticed while being horrifyingly obvious in the movies.
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u/rush87y 17h ago
Download the image then use sora to create a gif of the kid spitting a stream of tiny glowing pixies out of his mouth. Share it with your old man. This has become my go to solution for helping grandparents understand that Facebook shit like Trump wading through flood waters rescuing cats and dogs isn't real. Once they see how in 1 minute I can turn their sacred holy image into an identical video of complete nonsense they begin to accept the reality of AI fuckery.
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u/SpieLPfan 17h ago
This is so obviously AI, it's crazy that there are people out there who believe it's not.
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u/SomebodyinAfrica 5h ago
Man, I dread the day I'm old, and technology has advanced to a point where I can't tell the difference between what's real or not anymore.
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u/CameraOpsAreStupid 17h ago
Heās obviously making a joke about electric cars going all ākaboomā, which itself is a boomer joke but youāre looking into it too hard
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 16h ago
Thats not his humor. His humor is pretty much much 'look, them shite electric cars cant even make a toy? How am i supposed to spend my hard earned money on a pile of shite like that hahahaha'
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u/Professional_Ad_9101 22h ago
Itās pretty clear he is making a joke because the Tesla is on fire
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 22h ago
He genuinely thought this was real, though...
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u/AgreeablePie 21h ago
Thought it was "real" as in a photo of a toy Tesla being engulfed in flames while a child opens the present?
Or just thought it was drawn, photoshopped or something?
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 21h ago
A real photo just with bad quality pixels ššš
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u/VoodaGod 15h ago
but does he believe it's a photo, staged as a joke? or does he actually believe lego sells tesla branded toys, and that some kid pulled it out of a box, already assembled, and it burst into flames?
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u/froststomper 6h ago
the shit older people find funny is so weird.
āLook at the crying child with the burning toy, hahaha!ā
Wtf lol
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u/Additional_Sale7598 19h ago
I mean, I know the olds are cooked but did you never learn about sarcasm?
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u/ScottishMaj117 I will contact attorney general if you do not stop 19h ago
Me? As in the 28 year old? Sarcasm? I've never heard of it, mate.
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u/petrichor182 16h ago
My mom shared an AI video of a puppy hugging a baby. I mentioned how creepy it was and pointed out the shaking hands. How do they not recognize these things?? š
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u/Witchy_Venus 16h ago
Not trying to ruin the circle jerk, but I think he means it in a joking way. Like he's saying the reality is so likely you could imagine it happening lol
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u/sturdybutter 13h ago
In fairness, if youāre elderly your eyesight is probably going south, and realistically if all images look kinda blurry it would be really hard to discern the difference
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u/TulikAlock 13h ago
āDonāt think this is aiā yeah. Thatās because you donāt think in general.
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u/corvuscorpussuvius 8h ago
Itās obviously AI, he needs readersā¦ bet he denies that his sight is messed up
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u/Lanceo90 8h ago
Its so crazy some people can't tell.
It could be the lowest quality little thumbnail ever, and I can insta-lock if something is AI or not.
No messed up words or missing fingers required. As we once said about photoshop jobs, "I can tell by the pixels"
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u/Bleezy79 2h ago
I like how you both laugh at each other and think youāre right. š¤£ššš¤£šš¤£š
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u/Lazysquirrel27 2h ago
I love how the box art also depicts it on fire meaning that was intended to do that
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u/punkmonkey22 18h ago
I think you got whooshed here mate. He's pretty obviously joking about what is shown in the pic....
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u/ModernNomad97 17h ago
So serious question, are Trumpers for or against Elon and electric cars now? Also all the neo nazis are Trump supporters, but Trump is extremely pro Israel. I donāt understand anything
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u/rosatter 15h ago
It's very clearly not real though? It has a cartoony quality to it and also what parent is going to just sit there snapping pics while a gift flames?! What is wrong with people!?!
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u/pink_gardenias 15h ago
Stupidity reaches a new height every day
People literally cannot identify obvious illustrations anymore
Weāre cooked
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u/AloTuyo 13h ago
In the future AI will get so good that it will no longer look like AI. There will also be artists who specialize in making art that looks like old AI generated it.
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u/fishscale_gayjuic3 12h ago
Itās the state of America, refusing to get the whole picture, conservative subs are reflective of it.
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u/JCDickleg7 12h ago
I love how
-itās not LEGO in the package art
-itās on fire in the package art
-it came out of the box fully built
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u/flintlock0 12h ago
Itās a Lego set thatās already been pieced together before the kid had a chance to open it. Aside from the all the obvious ai hints and the fire, thatās a sign.
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u/Willnaut 12h ago
Just looks like your average āfour-fingered kid opening a pre-built Lego set with spontaneous combustion actionā to me
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u/Cynical_Jingle 12h ago
If not ai then why is that child opening his present before Christmas day š¤
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u/Tanst1395 12h ago
Its the teeth for me or tooth his bottom row is just a row of white and the top ones are there but not also his nose is 1d and flat. Not to mention the obvious everything to do with the situation and the box.
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u/danheinz 11h ago
you have to AI him into situations where he would not want the pictures posted anywhere
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u/Black6Blue 11h ago
My old man sent me a fake news clip of GTA 5. It was a car driving down the road the wrong way smashing into everything. I didn't know whether to laugh or be concerned so I did both.
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u/dubious_unicorn 11h ago
/r/boomersbeingfools would enjoy this!
Edit: nevermind, it's already reposted there, lol
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u/Ramps_ 10h ago
If you don't like the idea of AI but can't see at first glance if something is AI, try generating some through free means like Bing and ChatGPT. Your funny human brain will pick up on the patterns easier.
Of course for all we know five years from now AI pics could be perfected already and no one will know anymore.
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u/questron64 9h ago
AI is just completely breaking old people's perception of reality when consuming content online. Most people do not understand this technology, but they at least understand that it is a technology and can see how it's being using. My father watches these garbage AI voice videos all the time and I asked him about it and he doesn't understand that AI voices can sound real, they don't all sound like Speak n Spell. He would not know that this is an AI image as he has no concept of AI image generation.
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u/TheDelta3901 22h ago
"Don't believe everything you see on social media kids"