This week we're going to talk about videos.There’s no denying that video is a major part of our lives.Gone are the days of three networks, and in its place is non-stop video being force-fed into our eye holes thanks to social media.DETECTIVES' TRUE CRIME PODCAST TAKES FRESH SHOT AT KILLER WHO VANISHED AFTER CAUGHT-ON-CAMERA MURDERWatching videos online is a pretty common thing for most of us, which means that there are bound to be some things that are almost universally annoying.
(iStock)However, there are certain things about videos that I see on social media and elsewhere that absolutely drive me up a wall.You’ve probably seen these too, so consider this some form of group therapy session.No, you’re not alone.AI-generated videos can be cool, until you embarrass yourself by sharing one without realizing it's not real.(iStock)Social media is rife with AI video.
Some of it’s cool.Like one of my favorite genres of social media video is AI clips meant to look like you’re eating at a Pizza Hut in 1998 or cruising through a mall in 1984.It’s awesome, but I’m cool with it because I know it’s AI.I recently sent my wife a video I saw of a French bulldog wearing some kind of dog life-preserver.
I thought it was cool, until my wife was like, "Y’know that’s AI, right?"I didn’t, and I felt a lot of shame (even though dogs wearing life-preservers in a pool is a wild thing to make with AI).IT'S BEYOND TIME FOR SOMEONE TO LAY DOWN SOME SOCIETY-WIDE GROUND RULES FOR HANDSHAKESWhy does getting called out for not being able to suss out AI feel like getting pantsed on stage in front of your high school?You wind up getting pinned with a scarlet A, which stands for "A-hole who doesn’t know something is AI when he sees it."Unfortunately, the only way to really avoid this is to go in assuming that everything is AI — and therefore not real — which is really a strange, dystopian place to be.But if that's what it takes to not look like some rube who doesn't kno...