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.

I can just imagine them sitting there, huddled over the console hissing 'my precioussss' all day long till the fifth.

My children will have the Switch. Wasn't Ns1 a one game machine with Zelda at launch?

robio said:

From what I've seen, it looks good in small short clips. If you put things on a bigger screen or let it go for more than about 5 or 10 seconds, things start to break down. But in these days where everyone is getting their information on a small screen and rarely makes it past a headline, 5 seconds is all you need to fuck something up badly.


So yeah, I'm not a fan. No good will come of this.

This is probably going to be the worst part of the future. Yeah climate change going to be horrible but imagine not even knowing if it's real or not, if lies get so prevalent that humanity just quits caring. Governments can weapons this, rich people can, corporations can, scary stuff. Have you seen how a ton of ads on YouTube are complete AI bullshit. It's always some people claiming to run some company for 30 years but they are going out of business with a big sale. Shows clips of people working, using products, all fake. It's all garbage you end up ordering. It's wild.

Dvader said:

This is probably going to be the worst part of the future. ... if lies get so prevalent that humanity just quits caring.

We don't need AI for that, we're already there.  I know multiple people close to me who just gave up on following the news because it's just too much.  There's this radio show that has a segment in which they ask the public to come up with new words and one week the question was: news that you don't want to follow anymore.  Says enough doesn't it?  Also: the word that made it was 'ews' which I found to be both clever and hilarious.