2026-04-18 12:08 UTC
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@bebadefabo@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 13:42
@cmccullough@polymaths.social or just stop wasting your time watching click bait videos online. It's all crap even before the AI shit in your Cheerios.
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@f800gecko@mastodon.online 2026-04-18 18:09
@cmccullough AI is like a cop interviewing a suspected perp and pretending to be its friend while harvesting anything and everything that can be used against said suspect perp. That's all it's designed for: entrapment. Soon as counsel is called in the game ends. Cops have to do this. AI does not. So why is it DESIGNED that way?
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@thomas@metalhead.club 2026-04-18 19:31
@cmccullough something similar happened to me few weeks ago. I enjoyed a video of a funny parrot and was stunned by its skills when suddenly I noticed that the video was AI generated. I've never lost joy quicker. I felt betrayed.
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@Coho@climatejustice.social 2026-04-18 19:44
@cmccullough The person who invents an AI detector, Ai blocking app, will become the most popular and beloved person on earth. I don't buy apps, but I'd buy an AI blocker
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@musevg@23.social 2026-04-18 20:09
@cmccullough You're NOT talking about that dog at the supermarket cashier video?
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-04-18 20:47
@cmccullough I so feel this. But I am at the point where i don't even bother with "wow look at this" images or vids anymore at all. No cliks. I just skip that stuff cause it's very likely just LLM garbo anyway. It's made the net a lot less interesting and fun.
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@Bradley_JF@mastodon.online 2026-04-18 21:00
@cmccullough I'm hating on AI because of the impact it's having on memory prices for PC's. I want a new m.2 SSD to play with Linux distributions, but I'm not going to pay $370-$670 for something I bought for $170 in January of last year. I have too much data on my existing drives and I'm not willing to go all in and format my OS drive for what will likely just be a hobby to pass time.
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@firefly_lightning@convenient.email 2026-04-19 02:42
@cmccullough I love images (photography, paintings etc) and I even have a tag for them to follow them on my instance, but early on I was tricked by some pics of cool robots and now I can't even enjoy the tags without being concerned
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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green 2026-04-19 10:21
@cmccullough Agreed. It's awful for good creators too. I've seen a few photographers in the Fediverse get angry with people who asked if an unusually good photo was AI. I can see that this feels frustrating or insulting from the photographer's point of view. It's frustrating for others too though, that we have to check. It feels insulting to belatedly discover something we praised was not real, but AI. The AI ruins everything, including social relations between the humans caught in the middle.
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@osto@norden.social 2026-04-20 08:52
@cmccullough people tend to forget that it's not about a video of a dog doing something cool, but about seeing an actual dog doing something cool and also being able to catch that on camera in exactly that moment.
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@Strakolo@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 06:39
@cmccullough sucks the joy out of watching videos
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@harry_wood@en.osm.town 2026-04-23 09:02
@cmccullough First they screwed up the open web. Then they screwed up our coding jobs. Then they screwed up dog videos <-- THEY'VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME
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@stephan@sonomu.club 2026-04-23 10:11
@cmccullough I completely agree. All that genAI brought us is mistrust and gazillionbytes of useless dumb shit which dumb people think they "made". Don't know if it's any consolation to you, but I guarantee that absolutely nothing about this is AI: https://strategies.schallundstille.de/
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@mathieulefrancois@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-23 14:10
@cmccullough agreed. Though I can see some good uses for AI, as an overall, I'd be much happier without it at all.
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@Khrys@mamot.fr 2026-04-18 18:07
@cmccullough Same here.
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@Catwoman69y2k@meow.social 2026-04-18 17:30
@cmccullough AI definitely kills wonder.
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@isaackuo@spacey.space 2026-04-18 17:25
@cmccullough FWIW, a lot of videos where some animal is doing something cool isn't AI, it's human crafted CGI. They are usually made by CGI artists who aren't trying to be deceptive, they're just having fun practicing. As such, they don't bother avoiding various CGI "tropes", like mirrors and ceiling lights. Stuff that's kinda a giveaway that it's CGI but they're not trying to be deceptive.
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@Rixer@veganism.social 2026-04-18 17:18
@cmccullough I think the most reasonable solution is getting off social media and meeting people in person and doing things outside, communities etc. The more importance you give to this device, the more control, manipulation, and psychological harassment you are subjected to. You are feeding the beast by accepting it as your daily addiction and comfort. It should be used sparingly. What people are doing now is trying to turn waste water into drinkable water, while those who create the waste, dump 100x more waste water ahead of them to keep them busy.
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@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social 2026-04-18 17:15
@cmccullough There must be millions of us that have done that same thing just this week. What a fucked up time to be alive.
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@jpoesen@drupal.community 2026-04-18 16:05
@cmccullough Exactly. The fun has been drained from the wonder that was web content. The Post Truth era indeed.
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@mcv@friendica.opensocial.space 2026-04-18 12:50
@cmccullough Of all the effects AI has on our society, being unable to believe what you see is by far the most dangerous. Anything can be faked now. I'd support a law that requires AI generated content to be explicitly labeled as such.
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@crcollins@writing.exchange 2026-04-18 12:24
@cmccullough Yeah, I find myself scrutinizing every posted photo or artwork these days. It's weird, when you think about it. People usually post art or photos they took because they are proud of how they came out. Don't see how one can be as proud of just typing some words in for a machine to generate it. I suppose it's just for "engagement."
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@rgulick@social.coop 2026-04-18 12:10
@cmccullough Are we numb yet?