I liked the phrase A deluge of AI slop in the linked article you posted.
As L’guy says, we can tell when there’s not enough detail to ID. (After all, it happens often enough).
We used to be able to make things up without AI.
In 1551, Swiss naturalist Konrad Gesner wrote Historiae Animalium , a book describing all of the animals that he thought lived on Earth. The 1620 edition includes a description of a unicorn, presumably based on the accounts of travelers to far-off lands. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/mythic-creatures/land/unicorns-west-and-east
Not sure AI would stick a horn on a horse (unless you asked it to) but can certainly invent hairs and legs on insects.
The comment about phones is also interesting as they more or less stopped putting in better cameras to top end phones several years ago and now rely on increasing the processing power so they can do AI on the phone rather than needing to be linked to the web, see latest samsung s25ultra as a prime example of this.
The people on reddit recognised the “parrot video” as fake (it’s not a parrot nest; they’re not parrot chicks; and there are subtler tells, such as the rain drop glued to a feather.)
There’s a story in the Times saying that Deepseek is suspected of stealing data from Open AI. Most of the people who have commented on the article say, so what, Google have already stolen everyone’s data.
Chutzpah?
Or since this comment needs more characters “Methinks the lady Google doth protest too much.”
I stand corrected: ‘lady’ would have been enough.
It is Open AI that are complaining about stealing “their” data after they carried out the initial vast data gathering effort without asking. MS owns almost half of Open AI and since this story broke, perhaps by chance, my computer has constantly been ‘indexed’ by MS i.e. windows is looking at all the content on my computer to help me when next I want to find something on my computer. A conspiricy theorist might start asking if that information actually goes anywhere else.
