Ravenprose said:

AI fakery will drive me away from the internet. Reality is insane enough as-is.

To be honnest I only use official news websites to stay up to date, so this shouldn't affect me too much.  Anything else I do online is usually game related, I doubt much will change there because any image is just a bunch of polygons and shaders anyhow.

SupremeAC said:

I heard about some research a few weeks ago where they captured hundreds of hours of conversation between students (all GDPR compliant I presume) and one of the takeaways was that the classic joke is going extinct.  In all that captured data, only 3 jokes were told.  The assumption was that jokes just take too long and require too much effort both from who is telling it and who is the audience to gain traction in this modern day where the attention span is indeed not much longer than 5 seconds.

In my conversations with people under the age of twenty-five, this does not track at all. One third of the conversation is ironic language that turns even serious things into jokes, one third is traditional jokes, and one third is normal English of a very low standard that is completely serious and feels utterly out of place in a conversation that otherwise consists of ironic gibberish or jokes.

Then again, they have also usually been teenagers or if not then shit-faced on one or multiple legal and/or illicit substances.

Nothing sus.