I think part of it is that TikTok is short format, and current AI video generators fit that. Also it is probably easier to monetize slop on TikTok. And a lot of people doomscrolling, the algorithm is feeding you. All of that leads to it probably being the biggest experimentation ground for AI video, if I took a guess (and I am not really that into social media tbh, just slashdot, reddit and tiktok). Funnily enough if you are interested in AI, current events and video art tiktok is pretty good, they have some interesting science videos by physicists, open source projects you should know, etc. Though reddit is better for AI news.

There are I think some actually valid uses that might also be called AI slop, for example partly or completely AI generated video or slideshows over a human or AI narrated story, either something like reddit writer prompts like those sci-fi ones, video of a tiktokker illustrating something using AI driven presentation, or manhwa recaps where they seem to show you just the first few minutes of a two hour series made in china, etc.

What is really infuriating and needs to be turbo-banned is deepfake or just faked news stories, I don't care if they are left or right, where I could not tell if some were actually vidcasters I knew or faking them until I fact checked them. There are also a series of animal stories and I cannot tell if all are AI or not, like the baby wolf / duck / goat that comes to your door for help to rescue their trapped mom, night vision showing dog playing with wolf, hugging super-sized animals, etc. which maybe ONE of those was real but I wouldn't mind so much if it is flagged as AI-generated entertainment. I wouldn't want someone to become heartbroken because they thought cuddly animals actually get that big (though okay maine coons and those popcorn smelling batarang? things are apparently a thing).

On the other end of the spectrum I came across a small number of super talented artists presumably using AI plus traditional talent to create amazing fantasy landscapes, sci-fi world walkthroughs, etc. even those short "hi fans" 20 second stargate videos are all-around pretty impressive. I am thinking a lot of creatives getting really good at the tools are posting things on their own threads as a portfolio.

So yeah there is a lot of slop but it is an entertainment platform and maybe 40% of what I see is not that objectionable, the rest is doomscrolled past. Anyway my 2 cents.

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Alas, pretty soon you won't even be able to find real porn.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Perhaps appropriately, the original context had to do with someone trying to control his wife.

No!!! Even the Celts were interlopers.

And probably not the first.

No, it's just that we naively didn't expect it from "the West".

yes yes "i'm old and cranky"

is the new "normal".

Any high roller pharmaceutical company would quickly found a small startup with enough separation to provide plausible denial, then fund it with the cash required to get that data. Whatever trade secrets are in these 1+TB, knowing them is worth way more that these 25M.

And I am sure you never asked yourself: how did Nightmare Eclipse find all these bugs so quickly? And why now? Right?

When people blame Microsoft, they typically mean their Microsoft loving corporate IT. The same folks, who bought Crowdstrike products, also think that Windows is the only viable operating system in a corporate outfit. Since I am sure, that Microsoft's sales reps do anything in their power to support this view, they do share some of the blame.

Anyone remember the Witty worm? This was over 20 years ago, and so called "security" vendors still haven't learned a thing. Given the underlying security of Microsoft products, any software trying to defend this quagmire is bound to be so complex, that it will be more risk than benefit at some point.

Why do you believe those "AI detectors" are accurate? The past evaluations I've seen came to a different conclusion.

ISTM that the perps are most often social conservatives, such as leaders of regressive religions.

If that's the case, I shudder to think what it was like in the Middle Ages. Or in certain countries today.

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