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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. (lemmy.ca)

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[–] PassingThrough 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sometimes it feels technology may doom us all in the end. We’ve got a rough patch in society starting now, now that liars and cheats can be more convincingly backed up, and honest folk hidden behind credible doubt that they are the liars.

AI isn’t just on the path to make convincing lies, it’s on the path to ensuring that all truth can be doubted as well. At which point, there is no such thing as truth until we learn yet a new way to tell the difference.

“They don’t need to convince us what they are saying, the lies, are true. Just that there is no truth, and you cannot believe anything you are told.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It kind of makes me want to go live in a shack in the woods, grow a garden and live out the rest of my days growing my beard and writing increasingly more obscure poetry until it gets posthumously published after my death.

Vegetables and Trees are real at least.

[–] TheGiantKorean 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Conservatives are already starting to claim that legit photos and videos are AI, like Harris' crowds.

[–] PassingThrough 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. Or anything held against them is now just fakery.

Like this gem from the news today.

[–] TheGiantKorean 2 points 1 month ago

Lol, I just read that one.

Not that the MAGA crowd paid any attention to actual evidence anyway.