I think this is good, from an accelerationist perspective, for getting people off TikTok and social media. The more dead internet there is, the more they will hopefully come back offline
someone pops up on a webcam and starts talking about a product
Normalize ignoring anything you aren’t looking at on purpose.
Anytime I see an ai ad for a company, I know to avoid
wtf is UGC and do I care? Probably not.
Looked it up; user generated content
Genuinely horrifying
I think anyone savvy in the industry could have guessed this would be the endgame for AI - mass astroturfing to promote shitty subscription services.
I don’t think this is anywhere near the “endgame”, it’s a blip on the way to something way worse.
And politics
Oh hey look it’s the perfect tool for revolting pedos to pretend to be preteens so they can blend in with their prey.
Maybe creating an avalanche of fake kids is the better way to stop the pedos. If they can’t know if the one they are talking to is a fake the real ones (if they are still there) are safer.
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And AstroTurfing political engagement online.
I think this is already happening in China
This is already probably pretty widespread in general. With the absolutely absurd amount of AI slop being thrown out on the web, and the insane amount of available training material for tiktok-slop…
Also, low effort tiktok-trend astroturfing videos are probably some of the easiest AI videos to mass generate. You need exactly zero original content, have massive amounts of training data available, and can easily make a prototype video that the AI can modify.
Frankly the “pay someone to talk about how awesome your product is” brand of ads has always been kinda creepy, so this is par for the course.
who hurt people who work on shit like this
No one. They were born psychopaths.
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Sure they do. They’re working towards a future where they have more money than they do today, and that’s about all they care to consider.
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It’s probably just going to get more invasive, pervasive and pernicious. As the advertising loses effectiveness due to over-exposure they’re just going to push harder and harder. Eventually the advertising industry will collapse into a ghost of its former self when a critical mass of people effectively become serfs, with no money except for the scrip they spend at the company store.
I kinda doubt it had ever not been about throwing shit at the wall…
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Being a UGC creator truly must be a sad existence
Thats why I created UGC Followers. Are you tired of not getting enough real engagement with your fake ass testimonials? Now you can generate fake engagement characters to interact with your fake testimonials. Think of all the fake trending your fake testimonials and fake followers can generate!1!
It’s time to invest in companies in the electricity business. All these AI tools needs electricity to run, after all.
And all the real money you’ll really defraud and really make! Powererrrrerrrrrrr
I think these people have something missing upstairs.
It sucks that this technology is being used this way. It could be incredible for things like D&D where you can swap your likeness/voice for that of your character.
