Did you see that thing about the anacondas spawning?

No, I did not.

I'm sorry, what? My anaconda don't want. Unless you got, never mind. So it's hard to know these days, you know, when you see something breeze by on Instagram, was that AI generated? Like, I fell for the bunnies bouncing on the trampoline. Like, I'm one of those. Oh, Marco. I know. I mean, well, I

When I first saw the bunnies

I was like, oh my God, that's amazing.

And then like, I'm one of those. Oh, Marco. I know. I mean,

well, I, when I first saw the bunnies, I was like, oh my God, it's amazing. And then, like,

you know, a few posts later, I saw the same thing with, like, raccoons. I'm like, oh, oh. When one of the bunnies did a flip and winked at you, you're like, wait a second. it wasn't that ridiculous it was pretty ridiculous but i guess and like okay you can kind of argue

okay that is we're in this kind of hellscape of, you know, all this AI generated stuff being fed to us on social apps to keep us engaged.

But also, like, is it that different from them algorithmically feeding us stuff that humans made that, you know, we're going to breeze through and never see again. And it's just, you know, tickling our fancy for a split second as we waste time. Like, it's a little bit different. Is it? Yeah, because, because if you believe that it's real, you know what I mean? I suppose, but like, because then, like, you get the sort of the, the excuse me, if everyone hold your ears, because I don't know it'll be upset people. It's the Fox News effect, where if you're fed a constant diet of things that are not true and accept them is true, even if each one individually is harmless, you essentially acclimate to the idea that, you know, you're filling your brains with untruths, but filing them under truths. and so your whole worldview gets really distorted because you're like, look at all these things. These are all things that happened. And you're like, actually, no, all 8,000 of those were BS. And you're like, that can't be true. Well, but like I wonder, you know, what are we comparing it to? Like how accurate was the pool of slop that was being fed to us before AI?

Like if it was just, you know, once you finish the handful of posts from your friends

and Instagram and, you know, between all of the thousand ads that you're seeing,

you're mostly just seeing like, you know, memes and screenshots of funny things from

Twitter or, you know, copies of TikTok videos, you know, whatever, like, you're just

seeing mostly low trust, low, you know, low nutritional value content anyway. So now that if a

bunch of that's going to be AI generated, like, I don't actually think it's that much worse than it

already was. The tip of the specific kind of video you're talking about is the kind of like, look at this amazing thing that happened and the entertaining value comes from believing that it happened because as soon as you believe, as soon as you realize that it didn't happen, it loses a lot of its value. You're like, oh, now I'm not interested in seeing it. You know what I mean? So the value comes from, can you believe that this thing happened? It's, the closest

analogy I think are the, um, the videos, and this is kind of limited by the, uh, how hard it is to be a good actor, uh, but the videos with it are clearly staged, where they stage some kind of thing to try to make it like, yeah, can you believe this thing happened? But like, but the, the good thing about those is, again, people aren't very good actors.

So it's usually very obvious that it's staged because it seems staged because they're bad actors. But obviously the AI stuff sort of fixes that problem because, you know, the bunnies don't have to be good actors. They just, you know, got to be convincing on the camera. Anyway, But the bunnies are probably mostly harmless, but like,

again, being fed a steady diet of stuff like that and not being interested, like, in,

not not being interested, but like accepting the truth of those because the value of them comes

from them being true, sort of primes you to accept anything from that feed as true if the value of it comes from you thinking it's true. So it's not great, but, you know, we will, as, as you just noted, everyone knows about that stupid bunny video because it's a good example of people essentially building antibodies because now they've been burned. Now they feel, they feel like they've been had, they feel betrayed, right? And that feeling hopefully will stick with people

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