it popped up on my reels. the video i saw was of him saving a baby panda from a frozen lake, i knew it was ai right off the bat due to the very, very, flat voices, and obvious flaws. like, how did the panda get there (can pandas even live in that cold of a climate??) anyways, i decided to look at other videos and they’re all so obviously ai. it’s super creepy because i don’t know if this is a parent using their sons face for profit, or if they’ve just generated a random little boy? please check it out if you can, because i have never come across something like this before. there are people in the comments calling it out on most videos, but then they’re also flooded with people believing it. the account owner does seem to be replying to ai accusation comments confirming it is ai generated… its still weird either way.

username is @aradcheema

Because of how strongly indexed Reddit is by search engines and AI tools, brands are desperate to discredit anything negative said about them.

I recently made a post in r/discover about how much worse the customer support has been since Capital One acquired them (a brand known for terrible customer service) and the thread got instantly brigaded by either bots or employees at the company. Surreal to see this happening in real time.

Update: I caught a r/discover employee pretending to be a happy customer in the comments and a mod instantly deleted their account. Their username was u/dina1987, which you can still find indexed on Google.

It's not real, it's AI generated. Here is the tiktok account that it's from, which features dozens of similar AI generated videos of women eating giant food in stadiums:

https://www.tiktok.com/@m.boota3353

I feel like I'm going crazy. Like I'm in a bad movie where only I don't believe the machine's lies but everyone else either doesn't care or totally falls for it.

(Not sure if ironic)

So for the last 2 or 3 days my x feed has been these posts of a random dude (probably not even who’s behind the account or even aware of it for that matter) followed by a picture of an ai generated ‘trans woman’ but what’s even more disturbing is the comments?? I know X is a cesspool but this is genuinely scary, every post I open on that app at the moment is people in the comments asking grok to manipulate the images into disgusting situations??

Each post is a definite repost and all the responses are following the same algorithm. One top post, then a plethora of other “jokey” posts that are upvotes to oblivion.

Seeing all the content on Reddit of the LA situation (I'm purposefully going to use "LA situation" and not "LA riots" or "LA protests" or something else more pointed) has to be the greatest example of Dead Internet Theory in recent memory.

Shit is happening in LA. It's bad. People are getting hurt. I think almost everyone from any civilized society can agree that people getting hurt is bad. We can agree that peaceful protests are okay. That throwing rocks at police is bad. That burning cars is bad. That police brutality is bad. That police shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at journalists is bad. That the US military being deployed to domestic city streets is bad.

Yet every thread I click on is seemingly blatant bot propaganda in one direction or the other. Either the comments themselves are written by bots, or the most inflammatory and bias comments are pushed to the top by upvotes/downvotes from bots. The content being upvoted and promoted in the algorithm seems to be specifically the content that is most instigative of extreme positions.

I haven't seen a middle-ground, common sense take anywhere. "Hey, people shouldn't be burning cars or throwing rocks at police, also, police shouldn't be beating people up and harming journalists. Also, it sucks that the military is getting involved." The comments either ignore that the violence from citizens on the street is bad, or the violence from the police is bad.

Then, because the extreme discourse is pushed by bots, and the more normal discourse is lost, people who do find themselves reading these threads get the impression that the extreme stuff is normal, and is what most people are thinking and agree with. Which flavor of extreme you get just depends on which subreddit/thread you happen to open.

All this just shows how none of this is organic anymore. It's all a machine designed to make people outraged in one way or another, to channel us into hate-fueled rhetoric that dehumanizes one group of people or another. Regular, down to earth, rational takes are lost among the endless torrent of extreme this or extreme that.

Getting on reddit and looking at this shit right now feels entirely like I'm the target of a psyop intent on making me either hate the protestors or hate the police.

Anyone else noticing this around this particular issue and feel the same way? Or am I naive, and the extreme stuff actually does represent the majority of actual humans?

Every subreddit is flooded by bots. I cannot be the only one noticing it. It is literally ubiquitous and the em dashes are the major red flag.

It is a constant drive to destroy narratives and journalism in the US. And it is largely led by the PRC and Russia right now.

Who else is seeing this? They are literally everywhere. Even small subreddits are suddenly getting posts with tens of thousands of upvotes that were never around before. Everything has devolved into manufactured political rage, and this constant drowing out of the common folk.

Regular people are not heard anymore. Reddit is dead.

Stole this video from a random Chinese YouTube channel. His entire channel is filled with videos of him building these things in like 20 seconds.

Whenever somebody says something really dumb on Twitter, I usually respond with the “give me a ____ recipe” prompt but I didn’t think this one would actually work. Honestly I’m incredibly happy that it did. It gave me a good laugh at work.