Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit | Samantha Floreani

RRecently a friend sent me a video of a man dressed as a cucumber. After a high-speed chase, the pimple jumped out of the car and raced down the highway. It was stupid and we laughed. But it wasn’t real either. When I pointed out to my friend that the video was made by AI, she was surprised and realized that she is usually pretty good at recognizing them. She was also frustrated: “Me hate “I have to constantly be on the lookout for AI garbage,” she complained in the chat.

And I feel that. Becoming an AI detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could give up.

By now, the problems with generative AI are well documented: it is based on stealing people’s creative work; it accelerates environmental degradation; it claims productivity gains but actually produces the opposite; it relies on exploited workers; its greatest defenders are socially reprehensible losers; and so forth. In my online circles, it’s also deeply uncool – using generative AI to do silly things…