Boomers Getting Tricked By AI On Facebook

0:00 what's up Greg and welcome back to another

0:01 episode of Boomers getting fooled by AI

0:04 on Facebook gang there is an epidemic going on right now while we all grew up

0:09 with our parents telling us not to believe

0:11 everything we read online it is now time

0:13 for us to return the favor it is time for us to warn them that 90%

0:18 of the content they see on Facebook is not real all this started for me

0:22 when I got this image on my timeline now to the average person this might look

0:27 like your average great photograph after all do this sort of thing all the time

0:31 but being the internet sleuth that I am I was a little bit skeptical for one

0:36 what are the dogs doing right here like what is that are they chewing up

0:40 some kind of pillow or animal carcass

0:43 or something hey guys my six golden retrievers paused

0:46 in the middle of tearing apart a deer

0:48 carcass to pose like this completely unprompted

0:51 I got to admit this is a pretty great photograph but also I am very scared

0:55 I'm worried they're performing some kind of ritual

0:57 so this image doesn't seem right with me

0:59 but nobody else in the comments seemed to notice it was weird looking so maybe

1:02 I'm just crazy Connie said absolutely gorgeous

1:06 and then someone replied to that and said you

1:08 looking good in your picture and a great comment wa dude what what a weird time

1:13 to shoot your shot dude that was so out of the blue yeah and actually

1:17 you know what's hotter than those dogs you

1:21 and your common hotter than the dogs there's other weird part to this image like

1:25 this dog that's either sitting on another dog

1:27 or melted into another dog but it is by far not the worst image on this account

1:32 you know they say some people's dogs look exactly like their owners and I

1:36 think this is a great and terrifying example of that there's a mix of responses

1:40 on this image somebody should call the cops

1:43 absolutely love creepy okay kind of mean look

1:47 I think we can all agree it's a terrifying image but that baby did not choose

1:51 to be born half dog okay he was probably cursed by a witch please be

1:56 nice to him he has enough to deal with plus you haven't even seen this full

1:59 image you'd be really creeped out if you

2:01 saw that this dog actually has human feet

2:03 and ass as I began to click on these AI generated photos on Facebook I started

2:08 to get recommended them more and more to the point where now when I go

2:12 on Facebook it's pretty much just AI generated

2:15 content this is another account that I found

2:17 that posts images like this it always seems

2:19 to be a child sculpting something very impressive

2:22 out of trash and the people in the comments just eat this stuff up dude great

2:27 work keep it up great talent nice one thanks what do you mean thanks did

2:31 you ask the kid to build this oh finally the kid I hired to build me

2:36 a car is done with it I can't wait to drive it around I am

2:39 2 feet tall in a caveman so this is perfect for me all of the images

2:43 in this genre give off the vibe of like oh look at this poor kid he

2:47 probably lives in a rural African country he's

2:50 probably poor doesn't have many resources but despite

2:53 all that somehow he is an incredible

2:56 sculptor somehow he's defied all logic and found

3:00 1 million cloves of garlic to recreate the Titanic with could you do us a favor

3:05 guys and just toss him a like could you just do it or he'll cry

3:09 they're like baiting you into feeling bad

3:12 for them and thinking they're cute so that you'll

3:14 engage with the picture obviously encouraging them

3:16 but I got to say honestly this kid

3:18 I don't feel bad for him at all this kid has so much garlic this kid

3:21 is like a garlic Kingpin you know this isn't all of his garlic either he's

3:25 probably got a garlic Lamborghini a garlic Mansion

3:28 where he Parks this garlic yach he's living

3:30 better than me this dude is the Garlic Mr baste not to mention he's way more

3:34 defended against vampire attacks than any of us

3:37 great work beautiful artwork where does he get

3:39 all this garlic from okay it is nice to see people questioning the validity

3:44 of this image part of me does kind

3:46 of think that they're not actually questioning whether

3:48 the image is real or not they just

3:50 legitimately think that he got the garlic through

3:52 nefarious means or something I'm asking myself

3:55 the same question and garlic is expensive they're turning

3:58 on the kid thief a garlic Thief this kid is stealing garlic from people who need

4:03 it must have some pretty big Pockets

4:05 to steal all that garlic young man that must

4:07 be why your arms are so long you use them for sneaking and stealing I'm

4:12 Sam and I made this from real wood great job Sam totally normal house has all

4:18 the features of a regular house nothing more

4:21 and nothing less guys toss Sam a like

4:23 if you don't think his house is going to eat him I'm trying to figure

4:25 out what was happening here what how did the AI come up with this do

4:29 you think the prompt was like kids standing in front of a little kid house

4:33 and the AI was like little kid house huh say no more I know what

4:36 that means it's obviously a house with the soul

4:39 of a small child imbued within it it's

4:41 beautiful and so welld designed yeah I mean

4:43 honestly aside from the fact that there's no

4:45 way to get in or out of the house it's the most beautiful sentient house I've

4:48 ever seen I collected bananas to sculpt this bunny and this person says you know

4:52 you can eat them too those bananas you're

4:54 using to sculpt the bunny you might think

4:56 that God just placed them here on Earth to sculpt with but take off the outer

5:00 peel and you'll be surprised now I got to say that usually I would agree

5:04 with this person but these bananas actually do

5:06 not look edible I don't know what's going

5:08 on here but these are not normal bananas in fact this whole thing kind of just

5:12 looks like one mutated banana melted together I

5:16 don't even think this kid sculpted this he

5:18 just found a banana that already looked like a bunny wow look at this kid

5:22 he sculpted Jesus sitting on a whale out of um out of well I'm not

5:28 exactly sure what any of this is supposed to be are these diamonds and then

5:32 these are like I don't know these look

5:33 like the containers that dishwasher pods come

5:35 in very interesting material choices wow look

5:38 at this local impoverished child who made a Jesus sculpture

5:42 out of only 1 million diamonds and other precious gems guys toss him alike he

5:46 doesn't have much else made it with my own hands and oh God what a toll

5:51 it took on this poor young child he does not look so good man made

5:55 this with my own hands and eyes he took my[ __] fing eyes now all things

6:01 considered these images I've shown you so

6:03 far are actually pretty tame and the deeper

6:05 and deeper you go into these accounts

6:07 the more insane they get it's like they had

6:09 a prompt that they used to generate the first few images and then they just

6:12 keep adding on to that prompt making it longer and longer but before I show you

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7:59 to keep getting longer and longer it seems like one of the big tricks

8:02 that these accounts use to get people to engage

8:04 with them is by including Jesus or other

8:06 Christianity symbols in their images so this account

8:10 at first just posted Jesus in the sand

8:12 this guy sculpted this gigantic Jesus thing everybody

8:16 thinks it's beautiful the caption is why don't

8:18 pictures like this ever Trend clearly baiting people

8:21 to engage with it and like the picture

8:22 but then after San Jesus I saw San Jesus on a log then I saw

8:27 San Jesus on a log on a guy then I saw San Jesus on a log

8:32 on 20 guys is there an AI that is also coming up with the prompts

8:38 in the first place cuz like who is coming up with these these don't even

8:41 seem like something a human being would come up with like in this one why is

8:44 San Jesus holding a smaller sand Jesus and why is he on like a runaway log

8:49 like this guy is like oh no my sand Jesus on a log with another sand

8:53 Jesus it's getting away say what you

8:55 want but this is definitely my favorite part

8:57 of the Bible another interesting thing about

8:59 these these pictures are the comments like all

9:01 of the comments on the vast majority of these images is just amen amen amen amen

9:05 amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen

9:07 no questions no concerns just amen amen amen amen

9:10 amen amen amen construction worker making Jesus

9:13 using only a hammer amen there's an entire

9:16 genre on Facebook of AI generated images

9:19 of Jesus made out of vegetables and then show

9:22 this on the screen with like a scary sound effect and you'll never guess what

9:26 the comments are on these images you will

9:29 not find a single comment questioning what is going

9:33 on here has this always been a thing I don't think I've ever seen anything

9:36 like this before no one's questioning why

9:38 these kids hands are facing the wrong way why

9:41 if he is made out of vegetables are his eyes so blue and lifelike and obviously

9:45 I'm not trying to make fun of Christianity at all here if anything I think

9:48 these pictures are kind of disrespectful to Christianity

9:51 cuz they're just like using these fake

9:53 ridiculous images to bait people into engaging

9:55 with their profile so that they make money but you should already know by now it

10:00 gets worse it gets way worse than vegetable

10:02 Jesus dude you got crab Jesus you got

10:05 shrimp Jesus and of course you have another

10:08 shrimp Jesus amen amen amen who is this for it's on like a legitimate Facebook

10:14 account this account has 117,000 followers who is

10:19 meant to appreciate this image Christian shrimp hey

10:23 man shrimp's Got To Get To Heaven Too how else can they be saved

10:26 from their shelfish [Music] I'm convinced that there

10:31 was not a human running this account at all

10:34 I think this account was conceived of created and is currently run by an AI

10:40 there was never a human involved and not only that I'm also starting to suspect

10:45 that the comments are also bot there is

10:47 no other explanation for the amount of engagement

10:49 on these pictures and like serious engagement and also

10:52 all the comments are like saying the same

10:54 things and they're all very generic so they it feels very botlike so if that is

10:59 true true then technology has created a corner of the internet where an AI is

11:05 interacting with another Ai and they both think the other one is a human does

11:10 that not just feel wrong like I kind of feel like a third wheel just being

11:14 on this page learning that AIS interact

11:16 with other AIS without humans watching at all

11:20 feels like learning that like ghosts hunt other

11:25 ghosts thought they were here to scare us

11:28 what the hell and of course the caption of shrimp Jesus is uh made it

11:31 with my own hands do me a favor and destroy it with your own hands how about

11:34 that can you unmake it please another popular

11:36 thing for them to add into these images seems to be flight attendance there is

11:41 a lot of flight attendant Centric AI generated

11:44 images often times with Jesus as well

11:47 and I'm assuming that whatever this account started

11:49 off posting was more tame than this like it kind of made sense the caption is

11:54 beautiful cabin crew Scarlet Johansson so I don't know if it had something to do

11:58 with Scarlet Johansson on a flight or something

12:01 and then the AI just kept changing the prompt

12:04 over and over until it was this here's another one with the exact same caption

12:10 I like that a good amount of the comments on this one say good luck good

12:14 luck amen good luck amen man I have uh I have no[ __] clue what's

12:18 going on here but good luck or congrats I don't know man it's crazy how much

12:23 these accounts post if I just scroll

12:26 through here you can see these accounts post

12:28 literally hundreds if not thousands of times

12:31 a day just post after post of nonsensical images

12:35 what is this what is this supposed to be and it's like why do do

12:39 they make money from this I've scrolled

12:41 a lot through these types of pages and I've

12:43 never seen like a sponsored post or anything so it's not like they're doing ads

12:47 for companies using the following that they've built

12:49 with these Pages cuz like who would the ads

12:51 even be targeted to Christian shrimp after

12:53 doing some research I found this video

12:55 that this guy made called make money posting

12:57 AI art on Facebook using free tools where he

13:00 basically explains that you can sign up

13:01 for Facebook's monetization program and basically you get

13:04 paid kind of like on YouTube based on how many views your image gets and I

13:08 think on Facebook it has something to do with how many likes so some

13:10 of these accounts might be making bank most

13:12 people think that clickbait is some shady taboo weird

13:17 kind of topic when in fact all it is is trying to get a click yeah

13:22 guys clickbait is not necessarily a bad thing

13:25 just as long as you're honest about what

13:27 you're delivering anyway let's go ahead and learn

13:30 how to trick people into believing that fake

13:32 images are real utilizing good images ad

13:36 headlines and articles to drive people to relevant

13:41 content that actually does talk about what the image or ad said in the first

13:46 place yeah but the if the image is not real then doesn't that make it impossible

13:51 to deliver on the promise now this guy does go on to say later

13:55 in the video that you should make it clear when things are AI or not real

13:59 but after finding a bunch of these accounts

14:01 it doesn't seem like anyone using this method

14:03 actually does that I haven't seen one single image that has been like by the way

14:08 this is AI and not real so just say now trick here's a different Facebook

14:12 group that posts like beautiful manions uh

14:16 that all seem like they're AI generated no disclosure

14:18 anywhere that these images aren't real like being

14:21 in a coffee mug love it huh yeah there is something about this image that just

14:25 looks like being in a coffee mug very

14:27 insightful thank you either way if this keeps up and this type of AI content

14:32 invades all the other parts of the internet

14:34 it is just going to become completely unusable

14:36 I think Facebook and like every other social

14:39 media platform needs to start training an AI

14:42 that can detect AI generated content so that it can like put a badge over all

14:46 of these images to be like hey these aren't real just you know cuz so

14:50 many people are so Keen to try to use this to make money or create content

14:55 for them that like just imagine in a few years if every single tweet or Tik

15:00 Tock is created by chat GPT or mid Journey that sounds like a nightmare also

15:06 AI uses images and videos on the internet to train itself so if like most

15:11 of the images and videos on the internet become AI generated and a lot of them

15:16 look as bad as the ones that we've seen isn't the AI just going to get

15:20 worse and worse if it thinks that that's what real life looks like what is its

15:24 bad replication of that going to look like after I watched that one video I

15:28 started looking through a bunch of other videos on how to make money using Ai

15:32 and there's a bunch of other ones

15:34 that I think people should know about this dude's

15:36 video is called I got AI to create my Facebook ads in 10 minutes the first

15:40 few ways that he shows are pretty tame it's just like using AI to create product

15:45 photos using an existing product that already exists

15:48 the AI is just being used to enhance

15:49 the photo like change the background but this next

15:52 one is crazy we'll drop our product

15:54 URL in here type in our target audience which is females aged 18 to 45

15:59 and then we can hit next and then it generated two add copy examples

16:03 that we can use so he just gave

16:05 this service the product description that he's trying

16:08 to advertise it came up with a script for him and now it's going to use

16:12 AI to have this random woman lip sync

16:15 the AI generated dialogue meet the mocktail wash

16:19 my intimate Savior and relaxation partner I

16:21 don't know who this woman is I assume

16:23 that she must have like licensed her likeness

16:26 to this service I hope she did but even

16:28 still I feel like you have to be super careful as an actor if you're

16:32 going to be licensing your likeness to a service like this cuz you could end up

16:36 advertising anything and that's kind of terrifying okay

16:38 here's another tutorial about a similar method today

16:41 I'm going to show you how to make as like this or this completely with AI

16:45 and what I'm about to show you is scary it's crazy to acknowledge how scary

16:49 a tool is but then your first thought is like well how can I make money

16:53 off of this top 10 scariest ways to make money number one fake AI ad

16:58 let me go ahead and show you how to make them what you're going to want

17:01 to do is go to this website and then click on new project so he shows

17:07 this ad for his website that sells licorice which has got to be like the most

17:11 Whimsical business idea I've ever heard of but he reveals after the ad is done

17:15 playing that like half of the people in this ad were AI or at least like

17:19 the video was real but their lips were Ai and the dialogue was AI some

17:24 of the creators in this ad are AI hey uh a entrepreneurs have you ever wondered

17:31 why testimonials like this work so well how

17:35 like it's because people assume that the people

17:38 on their screen are real people talking

17:40 about a product that they genuinely enjoy thus

17:42 giving the product more credibility and maybe generating

17:46 fake videos of fake people endorsing your product

17:49 who have never experienced your product because computers

17:51 cannot eat licorice is maybe a little bit

17:54 unethical I'm kind of starting to think that this guy doesn't care and that he

17:58 thinks that we're all dumb when we are

18:00 speaking to people on the newsfeed they are

18:02 in their dumbest most stupidest dumbest state don't

18:05 worry if you feel bad lying to people guys they're actually really dumb so it's

18:09 okay obviously clickbait and scams and fake product

18:14 testimonials have always exist and will always

18:17 exist it just sucks that it seems like

18:19 it's becoming so much more accessible and a whole

18:22 new generation of business owners are choosing

18:25 to adopt the practice AI is a really broad term and in most cases it's

18:31 a tool and I've seen like artists use AI as a tool to improve their workflow not

18:36 just like using it to type in a prompt and use the result as an end

18:41 product but like use it like you would use any other tool in Photoshop so

18:44 if it's making artist lives easier I think that's one thing but to use it

18:48 to trick people or create the most Bland

18:51 or disturbing content I've ever seen on Facebook is

18:55 super disappointing and I'll be the first person to admit like it is cool

18:58 that this techn ol exists it's cool that computers

19:00 can even generate such realistic albeit horrifying images

19:04 in the first place but can we not just pause for a second to think about

19:08 how doing stuff like this is going to make

19:10 nobody trust anything anymore or at the very

19:13 least the entire Internet is just going

19:15 to become unusable cuz it's just going to be

19:17 Bots interacting with other Bots can someone make

19:19 a movie like the movie her but it's actually just two robots falling in love

19:24 and they both think that they're falling

19:25 in love with a human that's going to be big with this new internet dude anyways

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