I’m spending way too much time on the RealOrAI subreddits these days. I think it scares me because I get so many wrong, so I keep watching more, hoping to improve my detection skills. I may have to accept that this is just the new reality - never quite knowing the truth.

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raincole 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those subreddits label content wrong all the time. Some of top commentors are trolling (I've seen one cooking video where the most voted comment is "AI, the sauce stops when it hits the plate"... as thick sauce should do.)

You're training yourself with a very unreliable source of truth.

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lukan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I may have to accept that this is just the new reality - never quite knowing the truth."

Some people, quite some time ago, also came to that conclusion. (And they did not even had AI to blame)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing

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padjo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m really hoping that we’re about to see an explosion in critical thinking and skepticism as a response to generative AI.

Any day now… right?

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notarobot123 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think the broader response and re-evaluation is going to take a lot longer. Children of today are growing up in an obviously hostile information environment whereas older folk are trying to re-calibrate in an environment that's changing faster than they are.

If the next generation can weather the slop storm, they may have a chance to re-establish new forms of authentic communication, though probably on a completely different scale and in different forms to the Web and current social media platforms.

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efnx an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

One can hope!

	▲	lukan 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, one can. But then I see people just accepting the weak google search AI summary as plain facts and my hope fades away.

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bradgessler 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What if AI is running RealOrAI to trick us into never quite knowing the truth?