He's camera shy
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Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.
I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.
We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.
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This is because we have seen a lot of new tech that makes cameras water resistant/proof and technological advancements in submarines. No one's made a new backwoods proof camera yet.
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Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.
I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.
We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.
It's so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it's flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos...
Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I've been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven't added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.
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It's so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it's flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos...
Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I've been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven't added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.
This is as good a time as any to recommend downloading a copy of Wikipedia! And if you already have your copy, please seed afterward!
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I wonder how this graph will be affected by AI image generation
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And ufos too.
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And ufos too.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We got a lot better at identifying FOs. APs too.
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subsequently killed by the CIA
And the reverse vampires!
Where does The Rand Corporation fit into all of this again?
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It's so sad. I feel like we need to be hoarding all sorts of random media that was put out pre-AI, because it's flooding everything. Videos, music, gaming, historical photos/videos...
Random example: I have a folder of desktop wallpapers that I've been casually adding to for the last decade or so. Literally thousands of them by this point, but I haven't added anything recently because every source is inundated with AI generations now.
I don't even mind AI stuff existing, but there probably should be a tag for it
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We got a lot better at identifying FOs. APs too.
low quality camera: holy shit what is that? is that an alien?!?! where is my cow?? the aliens took it!!!!
high quality camera: holy shit why is there a hubcap going to space at 999999999mph???
teenagers on TikTok: TODAY WE SRE TAKING THIS COW TO MCDONALD'S!!!!!
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Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.
I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.
We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.
Out of curiosity, any particular reason you checked in April every year?
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Bigfoot was the second shooter at JFK's assassination so he had to go into hiding but was subsequently killed by the CIA
wrote on last edited by [email protected]CIA kills JFK.
CIA creates Bigfoot.
Bigfoot kills JFK.
CIA kills Bigfoot.Some Nietzsche shit right there.
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This is because we have seen a lot of new tech that makes cameras water resistant/proof and technological advancements in submarines. No one's made a new backwoods proof camera yet.
Keep Bigfoot’s name out of your filthy mouth.
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Here in Europe we don’t believe in that shit, read somewhere that it correlates with education
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low quality camera: holy shit what is that? is that an alien?!?! where is my cow?? the aliens took it!!!!
high quality camera: holy shit why is there a hubcap going to space at 999999999mph???
teenagers on TikTok: TODAY WE SRE TAKING THIS COW TO MCDONALD'S!!!!!
Well, now we get blurry videos from $300m military jets. They are on the case.
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Out of curiosity, any particular reason you checked in April every year?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]None, really. Started devouring every morsel of information I could a bit over a decade ago, until it turned into less than a trickle in April, and then I quit. Then April sprang back the year after, I remembered my compulsion, and I checked for more information again until there was nothing left. And then it turned into a tradition for me the year after
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Here in Europe we don’t believe in that shit, read somewhere that it correlates with education
Don’t believe in cameras, giant squids, or Bigfoot
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You mean those very tan people, you can only see in mirrors, who donate blood and love garlic and the lowercase t?
....Italians?
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This is as good a time as any to recommend downloading a copy of Wikipedia! And if you already have your copy, please seed afterward!
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Here in Europe we don’t believe in that shit, read somewhere that it correlates with education
sorry to break the news bro, cameras exist.
