I understand why people use AI to generate posts on social media, but I don’t understand why people use AI to generate replies to other people’s posts (other than for influencing campaigns).
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It’s gotten crazy now, but I believe it’s worth remembering that many years ago, early/clumsy AI was implicated in something that became known as “Elsagate”.
tl;dr “Youtube Kids” began to support thousands of videos for children that parents began to complain were “very off”. They exhibited cartoon characters, superheros, and nominallly “Elsa” from frozen…but in situations that increasingly became weird and disturbing.
As I understand it, it turned out low-rent AI was farming income by auto-generating countless videos and posting specifically to Youtube Kids - knowing that parents weren’t monitoring and the kids would just click on whatever was engaging. The videos started as bland, but mission-creep gradually led them to generate strangely as the engagement warranted.
Many of these can still be found, I believe, on Youtube still….by searching “Elsagate”. It’s not a boring endeavor, and quite instructive in understanding how the Uncanny Valley still perpetuates in contemporary AI.
tl;dr “Youtube Kids” began to support thousands of videos for children that parents began to complain were “very off”. They exhibited cartoon characters, superheros, and nominallly “Elsa” from frozen…but in situations that increasingly became weird and disturbing.
As I understand it, it turned out low-rent AI was farming income by auto-generating countless videos and posting specifically to Youtube Kids - knowing that parents weren’t monitoring and the kids would just click on whatever was engaging. The videos started as bland, but mission-creep gradually led them to generate strangely as the engagement warranted.
Many of these can still be found, I believe, on Youtube still….by searching “Elsagate”. It’s not a boring endeavor, and quite instructive in understanding how the Uncanny Valley still perpetuates in contemporary AI.
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