@SandmanDP
2005: “This is photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels” 2025: “This is AI, I can tell by the vibes”
@gbrlbrbs
Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
@ericooliveira9693
You guys have that very specific "Vox voice". I don't know enough about speech to articulate what it is, but there's something about the tone and cadence of the Vox voiceovers from the mid-2010s that influenced a lot of English voiceover on the internet, and presumably that's a lot of what these AI models were trained on(disproportionately moreso than, say, television voiceover). So I'd say the reason why you sound like AI is because AI is copying you pretty directly.
@WT83
I've noticed that if you can write or speak at a high school level, many people feel that's literally impossible and you must be AI.
@BigFoote2024
RE: Your comment that it's so much easier to destroy trust than to fix it - - as a psychologist I'd use the analogy of a desk in my office: numerous people worked together for hours designing it, gathering the materials, building it, but with a sledgehammer I could turn it into kindling in 5 minutes. Creating and destroying are asymmetrical.
@sciencesaves
This is exactly what an AI would do
@bewilderbeesty
“Whatever’s left of our shared reality” is a throwaway comment, but also really profound. I don’t even have a proper vocabulary to navigate this, but it honestly feels like the number one topic for us online types
@Tridentgumisgood
“Why are you AI?” “Who says I’m AI?” “You are AI.”
@damondominique
i just wanted to say you guys are so good at what you do! y’all report on interesting topics in a smart and fresh way and we get to sit back, relax, and learn in a non cheesy, “real” way.
@blenderguru
I like that you demonstrated the ragebait photo, because you showed that labels won't prevent kneejerk reactions. We've all been duped by fake quotes and or photos of current news that were actually the wrong place and wrong time. AI is definitely making this worse, but trusting something we want to believe is one of humans biggest flaws. The book "Mistakes were made but not by me" explains this concept as "Can I believe it vs must I believe it".
@Clockworkbio
Y'all I just started getting these comments on a video I spent 3 months rigging and animating. Legitimately WILD this video came out when it did. I have never felt more seen and/or validated.
@ethanuyeda7352
14:52 It's frustrating that the solution to these tech problems will be sold to us by the companies that brought them about in the first place.
@Chlo_R0
As a software engineer that wasn't aware of this initiative, I found this video super interesting. Thanks for putting this together, Howtown!
@CebisoMhlanga
"...To preserve whatever's left of our shared reality" is a statement I never thought I would live to hear. Crazy times.
@Infinity868
97% of non-AI work being called AI, that I've seen, is not content that resembles AI at all. It's obviously not, and it's being called that by complete normies on a whim. The first step in investigating if something is AI is knowing what the heck you're talking about.
@tyronedlisle4412
This is a nightmare. We're going to end up having to pay subscription fees just to prove we aren't taking Ai photos and videos. Truly heading to a cyberpunk dystopia.
@speakingdreams
I love the idea of a thing being sponsored by candy, just candy. Not even physical candy, just the concept of candy.
@vanfisher3613
I have followed Joss Fong’s work since Vox and have always enjoyed the detailed and calm presentation of complicated topics. I reached out to Ms. Fong in J School for a project on YouTube journalism and she was one of only two YouTubers who provided a response (the other was Half-Asleep Chris). I am truly heartbroken to discover that she has been an AI this whole time!
@electrominded8372
The best thing about doubting what you see online because of AI is that people might go offline to spend more time in the real world.
@Howtown