Aral Balkan

What fresh hell is this?

(Needless to say that, no, I did not embark on a solo sailing journey from Ireland to Portugal in 2018 and get shipwrecked in the Atlantic.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bax_qHpe3hQ

#ai #bullshit #video #AralBalkan #shipwreck #atlantic #ireland #portugal

Aral Balkan - Shipwrecked in the Atlantic!

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Mar 21, 2024 at 9:02amWeb
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
Well, at least now I know how I’ll be starting my next talk :)
Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 Mar 21, 2024
@aral Maybe there is another Aral ... 😅
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@hyde Oh yes, that other “tech entrepreneur Aral Balkan”… the one with the pet giraffe… I know him well.
Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 Mar 21, 2024

@aral Exactly the one with Sophie, the French giraffe :)

It will be harder and harder to prove that you're not the one in those crappy AI videos in the future 🤦‍♂️

Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024

Not even sure what to do about this. When some AI makes up a bullshit video about you and posts it on YouTube as fact… Do you get it taken down? Do you leave it up as a prime example of how AI (capitalism) is destroying the Internet? Do you laugh? Do you cry? What do you do?

*smh*

Show threadAsta [AMP]Mar 21, 2024
@aral sounds like you edit your Wikipedia page about your daring tales of derring-do on the high seas.
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@aud Would require having a Wikipedia page :)
Show threadJono FergusonMar 21, 2024
@aral all of the above?
Show threadSimon DobsonMar 21, 2024
@aral Post detailed comments about all the inaccuracies?
Show threadDansLeRuSH ᴱᶰMar 21, 2024
@aral If you need some support/reports by us don't hesitate ... at least comments under the video ?
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024

@danslerush I mean, sure, I don’t have a Google account any longer so I can’t comment there.

(The joys of corporate silos masquerading as public space.)

Show threadDansLeRuSH ᴱᶰMar 21, 2024
@aral I still have a "garbage" account ... I comment and report
Show threadmike morrisMar 21, 2024
@aral Sell the script to Netflix/Apple/Amazon for a bajillion dollars?
Show threadBenjamin Sonntag-King 🐙Mar 21, 2024

@aral wow :/ that sucks in so many ways.
Sending support from France.

if I were you, I would ask YT to take it down.
Oh, and I'd be laughing: having people embarked in trying to kick you so weirdly is a sign that you are doing good stuff :)

Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@vincib Thing is, I’m not even sure this was targeted. I can very easily see how it could be automatically generated based on a combination of popular search terms to drive views.
Show threadJavier PérezMar 21, 2024
@aral you try to take it down; otherwise it generates engagement -> youtube promotes it -> it generates revenue -> it encourages posting more of the same
Show threadJens 🖤Mar 21, 2024
@aral
At least it's not a robot obituary, I guess... 🙄
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@jens The small mercies :)
Show threadGytis RepečkaMar 21, 2024
@aral Not that it's going to help much, but reported that  video 
Show thread01mickoMar 21, 2024
@aral report it FWIW. Bullshit needs to be called out. No matter what.
Show threadDave👾Mar 21, 2024
@aral Obviously you pitch your now much more exciting life story to a hollywood producer and take the payday.
Show threadAral BalkanMar 22, 2024
@daswickerman Or at least a good opening for a talk on the sewer capitalism has made of the web :)
Show threadrooftopjaxxMar 21, 2024
@aral but it's on the Internet so it must be true!
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@rooftopjaxx *smh* :)
Show threadAndre LouisMar 21, 2024
@aral What the actual?
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@FreakyFwoof I know, right?
Show threadnoodlejetski Mar 21, 2024
@aral that's what you think.
Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@noodlejetski AI knows best :)
Show threadSara Joy Mar 21, 2024

@aral That's super weird! They posted it to TikTok too. Also... Mysteries. 🤦

Maybe some weird quirk happened because you're named after two seas?

Show threadAral BalkanMar 21, 2024
@sarajw Is it bad that it’s the misuse of the apostrophe that really gets me?
Show threadSara Joy Mar 21, 2024
@aral Nope! It's not even a little misuse like the its/it's that's actually difficult to understand - it's fully changed the meaning and broken the grammar.
Show threadMichaelMar 21, 2024
@aral I'm glad it said you survived. Otherwise I'd have questions about who is impersonating you here on mastodon!
Show threadcybervegan (moved)Mar 21, 2024
@aral It must be true if it came off the interwebs. #ArtificialInsanity doesn't "just make shit up" now, does it? Maybe you just forgot? Maybe it's selective memory or trauma amnesia? #LOL #BotshitCrazy