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Tombmas Spooks

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

It all started to go downhill when people began to purposefully make vertically video

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

This is a skill that should be taught to everyone, I’m asking around if there’s anything helpful (like a website with a game) for this

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Is there a website that trains you to recognize gen AI images and video, perhaps in form of a game?

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Like when it’s a cartoon or TV show it’s very clear that stories are being told, a small child can understand that it’s not showing reality.

But AI stuff mixed in with real videos that are presented like candid camera stuff is different. It’s become good enough to often fool media literate adults.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Sometimes when something makes you feel uncomfortable your feelings are right. :)

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

There’s other stuff like potential cognitive problems as it trains perception to accept impossible things (e.g. items that appear and disappear), especially for children.

Like imagine growing up seeing this stuff for hours each day.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Besides the obvious deceitfully showing something that never happened as if it was a “candid camera” video, maybe most importantly it will implicitly promote training biases and (usually secret) system prompts.

For example in the “dog jumps on wedding cake” video everyone is thin and white.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

we should have a website for just grinding recipes

nothing could go wrong

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

“Why don’t we just use AI to detect AI fakes?”

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Len Smith @ignu.bsky.social · 2h

i like the wine glass floating in the air

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

What about people who like the third season of Star Trek: Picard

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 3h

caturday diptych

a man sitting with an orange cat (zaha) on his left and a white and grey cat (eero) behind him on a ledge. the man looks a bit startled because eero is yelling almost in his ear.

the man has turned in his chair and is yelling back at ereo, who looks confused, but in a "what the hell are you talking about" way. zaha, the orange, still sits placidly on the ottoman waiting for attention

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3h

The greatest achievement of “AI” will be the end of the timeline cleanse because we won’t be able to tell if short fun videos are real anymore

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4h

Very impressive hair on this lady

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4h

Alas, it's AI

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 4h

tbh in this specific case LLMs might actually do a better job than the man

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 5h

bsky.app/profile/mazo...

*Bratan* @mazov.bsky.social · 12d

Oh shit oh fuck it's gonna pop

Cnbc headline
Jim Cramer: Why the crazy spending of this AI boom isn't like the dot-com bubble

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 6h

The super-moon was like almost a week ago, at least fix your writing when you copy and paste stuff for growth hacking your account.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 6h

There's so many people who have the stance that "well, sure AI is bad, but most humans are also bad, so why not just use AI, it's all the same anyway" and this makes mad with a passion

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 7h

wtf is this “hype” thing on YouTube and should I even care

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 8h

still entertaining offers for a few hours

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 8h

Sure

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 9h

It’s amazing how people cannot help themselves but project their humanity into machines.

To wit, a computer doesn’t even know what a number is.

It literally knows nothing.

It’s a machine that runs instructions (that come from humans) to transform one set of bits to another one.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com