Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
- We were accustomed, in the age of photoshop, to false negatives, fakes perceived as real.
Duped only by skilled technicians, our base assumption was that most images on average were real, in the age of AI-generation, that assumption no longer holds.
EVERYTHING IS DEFAULT FAKE NOWfrom Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
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- What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?
This creates a wave of "Skepticism," leading to what I term "False Positive Reality." In this state, our pervasive skepticism makes us doubt even the real labeling it as artificial, simulated, fake—real... See morefrom Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
- What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?
from Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
trust and
- As we introduce media forms with higher fidelity—written accounts, images, videos—we not only come to expect them but to equate them with reality itself.
Media by Order of Fidelity
1. Video
2. Images
3. Audio recording
4. Written account
5. First-hand account
6. Second-hand account
7. Hearsayfrom Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
- Media serves not just as a conduit for messages but as an arbiter of reality itself. Friederich Kittler, the German media theorist, said it best, “Media defines what really is”. These days, the equation is straightforward: if something cannot be verified via Google or substantiated by media outlets, its very existence is questioned.
from Everything is default fake — 13101401 Inc. by JUSTICE THELOT
- "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
from Google
- But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of jour... See more
from Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories? by Freddie deBoer
There is always more work that could be done than I could possibly do in a lifetime. So I find it really important not to think of work as a todo list that I'm trying to get through - that's a crushing burden. Instead I just focus on the idea that my time is finite and that I want to spend it well each day.
from Emotional management by Jamie Brandon
- Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual decline of services as they prioritize value extraction over value creation for users, a process he views as an inevitable consequence of platform capitalism.
from Subvert by subvert.fm