CiaraApr 23
People keep sharing an image of a bird with a drop of water bursting on its head like a crown. It's AI, but people share it in good faith, believing it’s an amazing photo by a human of a real bird in a real moment of time. Meanwhile, humans who have taken amazing photos of real birds captured in real moments of time, like a hummingbird in ballet with a butterfly, get questioned in good faith by people who are tired of being cheated by AI-deceit. The way AI has broken social trust is distressing.
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg

@CiaraNi As a journalist, I need more and more time only for #factChecking and I find myself no longer believing anything at the first glance unless I can see verifiable original sources. I only follow real photographers, no accounts showing photos that are not their own.
Sometimes, the AI crap is so hard that I react, like that fake about #snails: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/28951404-a41f-4215-ab89-bc35dbc41233

What really gets to me is that this #fakes keep circulating, with loads of likes and shares, and they’re right at the top of

Snails Or Slop Slime

You're probably all familiar with those pages on the big social media platforms that run as “entertainment” and steal content wherever they can. The main thing is to…

Steady
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Show threadPetra van CronenburgApr 23

@CiaraNi the search results. Fact-checking is being ignored. Yes, I’ve even been told that I must be imagining things, that the AI must be right, otherwise it wouldn’t be there!

At the moment, it’s often enough to drive you to despair: people’s complete disconnect from nature – experiencing the world solely through a screen – is compounded by a massive flood of so-called nature accounts. Not only is our content being misused to train AI (scraping bots are causing websites to crash more and

Show threadPetra van CronenburgApr 23
@CiaraNi more frequently). The algorithms churn out fakes, misinformation. The abyss between people and nature is widening. Professional work is becoming invisible to search engines.
And that's dangerous for nature ... and humans.
I often feel like Don Quixote ... AI slop being the windmills ...
Show threadCiaraApr 23
@NatureMC Well said - all of this. Great points, worrying points. It bugs me too that the fakes keep getting circulated, even after it's clear they're not real.
Show threadCiaraApr 23

@NatureMC

"The abyss between people and nature is widening. Professional work is becoming invisible to search engines.
And that's dangerous for nature ... and humans."

It's worrying and depressing.