A recent AI discovery resurrected my late father's handwriting—and I want anyone to use it.
  • ThePJN@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    “It’s tempting to say we’re stepping into a new world where all forms of media cannot be trusted,”…

    Yes, we are and it’s shit for the human mind to have to constantly do a double take on everything to make sure it’s actually real.

    “but in fact, we’re being given further proof of what was always the case: Recorded media has no intrinsic truthfulness, and we’ve always judged the credibility of information from the reputation of the messenger.”

    Sure subjectivity, biases, and other factors skew things, that’s a thing. But I’m sorry, “Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless.”, is quite the fucking claim.

    • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 months ago

      Any information humanity has ever preserved in any format is worthless

      It’s like this person only just discovered science, lol. Has this person never realized that bias is a thing? There’s a reason we learn to cite our sources, because people need the context of what bias is being shown. Entire civilizations have been erased by people who conquered them, do you really think they didn’t re-write the history of who these people are? Has this person never followed scientific advancement, where people test and validate that results can be reproduced?

      Humans are absolutely gonna human. The author is right to realize that a single source holds a lot less factual accuracy than many sources, but it’s catastrophizing to call it worthless and it ignores how additional information can add to or detract from a particular claim- so long as we examine the biases present in the creation of said information resources.

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      A few coworkers were talking about some new LLM that can create realistic sounding podcasts. Aside from a few vocal blunders, it was getting difficult to tell if the voices were AI or not. It’s getting concerning at this point.

      I know not to trust stuff. But there’s so many people who just trust things or get fooled (even if they do know better). After hearing that generated podcast, im sure I’ll be fooled soon enough. It’s already exhausting and the worst part hasn’t come yet lol

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    19·
    2 months ago

    Is the solution to male loneliness ripping your father’s shrieking soul from the depths of the underworld and crudely resurrecting him in defiance of God’s will?

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Yes!

      But this is really more of a crude simulacrum that can parrot out recorded bits of a person’s life on command.

    • Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 months ago

      There really isn’t a single hand writing in the US. I have not seen anyone write like the images, and mine is very different. I assume it is like in most countries that use the Latin alphabet

  • Melody Fwygon@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 months ago

    We can no longer trust anything that is specifically sent to us via digital means.

    Technologies like the Document Scanner and even the Photocopier will now have to encode secret data to authenticate that a real, functioning machine has digitized the document.

    This can in fact, cause a great amount of trouble for people.

    People will be required to never digitize themselves handwriting all letters of the alphabet; lest their handwriting be vulnerable to an AI learning it.