Mastodawn

Discreet Elite 2d ago

John Oliver talks about AI slop. Thank you so much for telling the truth, informing about the harm & defending artists. 💚
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc
If you are from the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, this PeerTube link will hopefully work instead: https://vid.freedif.org/w/vjtzRBhfYhpmCjimk3L96W

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube

@sylvia_ritter The real art at the end is very stunning :)

Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)2d ago

James 🌈💜2d ago

Feels like Aus and UK might be the only exceptions for that one.

Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)2d ago

@shaknais ah, shame. Weird choice, though. I bet it was a great clip too.

João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)2d ago

@lordmatt @shaknais AU, CA, GB, IS, NZ are blocked. Not even my usual YT alternative (Invidiuous) works, unless someone knows and instance that does (the ones that I tried didn't).

Sylvia Ritter 2d ago

@jt_rebelo @lordmatt @shaknais That is really sad to hear :(. Everybody should be able to have access.

João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)2d ago

@sylvia_ritter HBO has this show on their streaming platform and this way people don't need to pay to watch it in those countries. Nowadays having free access to content is almost like a crime against corporate interests...
@lordmatt @shaknais

Creideiki 2d ago

@sylvia_ritter @jt_rebelo @lordmatt @shaknais The really weird thing with Last Week Tonight is that the full episodes are usually geoblocked, but the individual segments usually aren't, and contain the same footage. Here's only the AI segment, see if it works better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube

@sylvia_ritter
Same video is available in a PeerTube https://vid.freedif.org/w/vjtzRBhfYhpmCjimk3L96W

I found it (well, I was smoothly redirected) by PeerTube Companion. It's an extension or addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/
@jt_rebelo @lordmatt @shaknais

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

PeerTube

Sylvia Ritter 2d ago

@mikelgs Thank you so much to you and your PeerTube companion! 💚 I've added the PeerTube link to the post. Hopefully, it works for all of us now!

@sylvia_ritter
That companion thing is great, it's the second time I didn't remember I had it installed... and magically a link to YouTube brings me to some peertube instance 😂😍🥳

soletan 🇺🇦2d ago

@sylvia_ritter Sadly, the ecological aspect is a minor side note, only, but IMHO should be of more concern these days.

Hakan Bayındır 2d ago

@soletan @sylvia_ritter Making people understand that impact is harder than to make them understand how it affects their daily lives.

The amount of power wasted by AI Slop and PoW systems are worryingly high.

@sylvia_ritter Doesn’t seem to be available outside the US.

Sylvia Ritter 2d ago

@melivia The video unfortunately does not seem to work in Australia, New Zealand and the UK probably because of license issues. *sigh

Sylvia Ritter 2d ago

@melivia You can try this PeerTube link. Hopefully, it works for your country. https://vid.freedif.org/w/vjtzRBhfYhpmCjimk3L96W

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

PeerTube

crazyeddie 2d ago

@sylvia_ritter @melivia I boosted this one instead.

Stefan Scholl 2d ago

@sylvia_ritter I uploaded this video from TikTok on Reddit. People downvoted it, and I didn't understand why. Then a comment asked if it was AI.

It wasn't. The lighting and her movements are just similar to some AI videos.

Alison Meeks 2d ago

@sylvia_ritter Many thanks. Canada is in your list of can't view that channel as well.

Chrysanthos 1d ago

@sylvia_ritter hate how these vids are geo locked.

Sylvia Ritter 1d ago

@chrysanthos Yes :(, but thePeertube link should work: https://vid.freedif.org/w/vjtzRBhfYhpmCjimk3L96W

AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

PeerTube

Radieschen 1d ago

@sylvia_ritter I don't get how he can be talking about realistic fake images and videos, but somehow it doesn't occur to him that the comments about them might be AI generated as well.

Danny Boling ☮️1d ago

good observation. he definitely should have addressed that.

Emma Liv 🌈1d ago

@sylvia_ritter I've heard people say that violence doesn't solve anything, but watching videos like this and just reading the news every day, I feel like it absolutely can.

Crystal 💾💽📼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

@sylvia_ritter he's bringing up Pinterest as a victim of AI... the site that's been hijacking image search for a decade now xD

@crystal717 @sylvia_ritter That's a problem for the search engines to solve, not Pinterest.

狐ヴィクシー 1d ago

@sylvia_ritter peertube link keeps buffering and then went back to the start randomly

Toni Aittoniemi 1d ago

@sylvia_ritter The screen has become more important than reality. 🤔

Fish Id Wardrobe 1d ago

@sylvia_ritter thank you for the peertube link!

Michael Bacon 24m ago

Oh wow. That was so much better than my expectations. And the kicker . . . holy moly . . . I laughed. I clapped. I cried.