I live in Oklahoma and SOOO many places have mascots that are called either "Boomers" or "Sooners." These names come from the landrace they had. ( not opening THAT can of worms🤦🏼♀️😮💨) a "sooner" is someone who snuck in before it started and a "boomer" is someone who stole land from people who had claimed a space. They're both cheaters!? Why on EARTH would you want that as a mascot!? Why would you be PROUD to be called that!? I know this isn't about generations, but that's where the term came from.
That's probably because they have an "uncanny valley" effect. Humans don't like things that look human but aren't. That's why most CGI cartoons have super exaggerated features. When they tested making it look life-like it made people too uncomfortable because the viewers could always tell something was off. Now animators purposefully avoid that area of lifelike animation, the uncanny valley, because it will inevitably fail.
What good has ai done? Seriously, ive only seen people, take other's art, scam people, make p*rn and cp of women and children, and got people in legal trouble. Like wtf.
It's doing a lot of things in the medical field, and it does things like weather forecasting and stuff. It can be used as a positive tool, but no one hears about that stuff because you need to be in that field to know about it. AI images and art stealing is more public-facing, so that's why you see it. It's terrible the way it's ravaging the arts and crafts world. That is the one area we don't want it.
i’m simultaneously into AI and *very* against it. as the previous reply sorta says, it is best used by PROFESSIONALS. not just tech professionals but people who are in their field enough for it to actually be a tool and not a problem.
like after saying that i thought about it and it shouldn’t be used to generate images at all. same with music. it should be there to make hard work/calculations easy so real people have time for creative endeavors
Can confirm that some of them aren’t bots. My poor Aunt shares and comments on a lot of this nonsense. There are definitely bots amping up the traffic to get the posts to be recommended by the algorithm in the first place, but then real people are falling for it.
@@littleflick Yes - my sister, who is 68, likes and shares a lot of AI stuff. There are definitely bot comments, but there are a lot of real people commenting and sharing too.
There always is. He's just choosing comments to fit the subject of the video, that people are fooled by the AI pictures. Some people genuinely are but there are always comments criticising the existence of AI art and the reproduction of other artist's art style or images.
It's so annoying that boomers tend to get angry when you point out that the stuff they're fooled by isn't real, no matter how nicely and gently you say it, or what evidence you give. I get that they probably feel embarrassed, but then they fall for the exact same stuff the next day and it's so frustrating!
ok I'm a few days late but I wanted to point out something I thought was interesting that might be contributing to this, and that you might not be that aware of if you live outside the US. Robert said these images seem to target religious groups and also older folks and I think he's correct. The reason for it I believe is because very religious (the type of people to comment blessings and prayers on AI facebook images) are often very sheltered from the mainstream and live in their little bubbles where AI is barely even something people talk about let alone understand or can easily recognize. I think it would be especially common for someone like my elderly relatives who grew up and live in the rural midwest to fall for things like this. and personally, as long as nobody is getting hurt (like these accounts seem to not be asking for money or anything) I don't see it as a huge problem. however, I do think it's something we should try to work on getting our older friends/relatives/etc aware of because it could easily be used for much more scary purposes than AI grocery store jesus
Could instantly tell it was a piece of ham on the dog's face lol. For the '120' year old grandma: you can tell it's AI by how freakishly long the distance is between her wrist and her knuckles are, as well as her fingers (her hands look almost alien-ish). Her necklace (?) disappears after the '2' on the left, and above the '0' on the right. The end table leg in the back right corner is distorted. The kids in the army uniforms: Their hands!!!🤣Not enough fingers on one, too many on another.🤣 Seriously though, the amount of times I've had to tell my mother that the images and videos she shares on Facebook are AI images/video is unreal. There are a lot of AI youtube channels on here too; some are obvious with their robotic voice, but some have managed to make the voice sound very natural so you'll think it's a real person talking.
AI photos are very scary. People are being scammed out of money. Thank you for doing this video. Hope it makes people to be more aware. I have seen many asking for money to get a poor sad dog out of a kennel situation or off the street.
I'm a Boomer but I was born in the last year of the Boomer generation. So I'm a "young" Boomer. But my sister is 7 years older. She's fooled by AI all the time! When she reposts AI pictures thinking they're real, I have to tell her. It's so weird that I can immediately tell if something is AI, and she has no clue.
theres a whole thing with a huge portion of baby boomers being exposed to tons of heavy metals like lead and studies on how it affects the brain, looks like you managed to scrape by and not get (or at least barely get) exposed to it!! but your sister is not so lucky, sadly :( does she act neurotic or out of character/random sometimes? possibly even randomly angry?
AI romance scam stuff is scary. i caught my mom in one a few years ago and im certain she's still communicating with him despite my many proofs. it's a touchy and angering subject for me. ill just say it, old people shouldnt drive nor should they be on the internet without more knowledge; like im 30 so i grew up with computers my mom is 66 and she still falls for spam emails sometimes! ugh
Here’s the thing. Boomers grew up in a time when if you saw it, you believed it. They don’t look that closely at these photos. They see and instantly comment lol I’m gen X and I have trouble with AI too. It goes against everything we were taught lol Robert is always respectful, but I think these other creators making fun of older people being tricked by AI is silly. We could make fun of younger people for not knowing how to use a rotary phone or a card catalogue. This is new stuff and I think older people are doing their best 😆
Robert I don't have fb now I deleted social media other than what's app and you tube but confession ..... I have got caught on some of those pics esp sad ones .... I am 60 my excuse lol 😂😂😂
I once worked with a 71yr old lady who was fully tricked by an obvious before and after Photoshop ad for a wrinkle cream. She would not believe me that it wasn't real and someone had edited it.
My mom constantly sends me images and says is this real. Thank goodness she realizes after years of me telling her everyone is coming for her she actually listens.
I'm only 35 but my eyesight has been truly bad for a decade now. Even I have to look twice when doomscrolling and do a zoom-in to check sometimes. It just gets easier to fool people with images like this when they get older and, well, really can't "see with their eyes" 😅 ya know?
The Taylor swift one had too many fingers! 😂 Also Robert, do you not have a family member with a head made of apples? I thought every family had one 😂xxx
I think most of the commente were bots, meant to "start the conversation" and encourage real people to comment as well. Also, did it look to anyone else like the 120 year old woman was the same elderly woman in every AI generated picture?
No stop 😂 I've seen the ham dog strike the same person twice, they shared on fb and then a year later shared it again when it came up in their memories. Even though people had commented on their post saying no that's ham 😂
I crochet and my Gen X aunt keeps sending me Facebook posts of AI crochet stuffed animals asking me if I can make them for her 😭😭 And I keep having to explain that they aren’t real 😭
I do have to constantly break my dad's heart by telling him the cool picture from facebook is in fact, not real but I feel like it's some sort of payback for Santa. Balance and all that 😂
For me it's my older sister, she's 68 and constantly posting AI pictures. Now when I tell her they're fake and it upsets her, I'll just think of it as payback for all the times she sat on me and pummeled me as a kid much younger than her 😂
@@sharimeline3077 I saw your two comments about her-as we age, our eyes fail, but that’s not all that can go wrong. It does not happen to everyone, but memory, and other brain functions can fail. I hope she is going to her doctor regularly-and if not, you need to take her, if you can.✌️
@@justkiddin84 She doesn't go to the doctor as often as she should. And she is extremely stubborn! But her daughter lives with her, and they do go to the doctor, and eye doctor too. I worry about her! Thanks for your suggestion, I appreciate it.
I agree. That videos that are even on RU-vid, using celebrity likenesses for various ads. They look real enough. It will be so hard to tell and honestly, some people aren't that bright and will think it's real. It's going to change the world in ways we aren't prepared for and is frightening
as someone who is rather optimistic about the future in most ways and think most ppl are overdramatic, even i am reallt scared of ai and find the whole thing bleak 🙃
I try to think of it as any other tool. Used correctly, it has great potential for good. But it also has great potential for evil. This is true about most innovations like the internet itself. I don’t say any of this to invalidate the concerns you all have which are completely valid, maybe just as a slightly optimistic outlook? 😅😭
I’m fully convinced AI will be the death of human creativity. Why make or do anything when a programme ( a shitty one) can do everything for you. People can’t even string a sentence together without chatgpt… honestly
I’m a crocheter and the crochet world is getting riddled by AI. Even AI generated patterns being sold on Etsy. It’s crazy and easy to spot once you know.
@@moni23me I agree. I’m in a few crochet groups too and I’ve seen people post photos of AI crochet and asking why they can’t achieve it, why it doesn’t look like that in real life… it’s because it doesn’t exist! And it’s sad that line is now being blurred, regardless of whether it’s easy to spot or not.
@@MsBlob I’ve no idea but it does seem that crochet has been inordinately targeted. I thought it was maybe just because I’m looking out for it that I’m noticing it, but it’s definitely riddled with it. I see it a lot in baking too, not that I’m a baker but I’ve seen quite a few posts of cakes that are quite clearly AI!
Also how AI trains itself by using other artists’ work and by using the average person’s photos and how it is now starting to have real world consequences (teenage girls are having issues with their photos being used to make AI 🌽 of them). Terrifying tbh.
It's honestly disgusting how ai would be so much better utilized making people's jobs easier. Ai should be like a calculator, makes doing it easier than by hand, but also not completely doing it for you. Of course, all that big companies see is a way to pay fewer workers
Yeah, I think the posts initially receive a lot of bot likes and comments which starts to increase the appearance of veracity of the content. This, in turn, makes regular people trust it more and interact. It’s very insidious.
I love Marcus trolling you guys with the edits. Little things like making the music too loud or putting something on the screen on the opposite side of where you're pointing lmao. Such a sibling move
Been searching to see if anyone else noticed the intro music.. wonder if Robert told him it wasn’t loud enough, so he amped up the volume… right over his voice lol 😆😆
@@catherineshields784 I bet that's exactly what happened. Robert: "The music's a little too quiet here - if you could please turn it up a bit, then we'll post it." Marcus: "You got it 😈"
I love this 😂 as a sibling of four (including my twin). Also I was always the editor of our movies we made, making use of ALL the features & WordArt I could get my hands on in Windows Movie Maker 😅
One of our Boomer gym members was so happy to show me a picture from Facebook of a mama blue jay carrying her nestlings on her back. She was so disappointed when I told her it was AI. She asked how I could tell. The baby birds on their mama's back was a dead giveaway.
😂 Everybody falls for things, sometimes. Even you youngins miss a joke sometimes. Remember they can’t see as well, and they want things to be nice in an awful world, too.
That's the kind of picture my older sister posts all the time. Too-cute, impossible nature pictures. There was one she posted of a supposed baby dolphin that was cartoonishly cute, and it was pink and white. It had rosy cheeks like a porcelain doll, it was so dumb honestly. She said on the post "I had no idea baby dolphins look like this! SO cute!" And I told her "Because they don't look like that." And I posted a picture of a real baby dolphin next to its mother. She was all broken hearted, but like, the real dolphin is so much cooler. I don't know what to do, she posts AI pictures like that every day. For now, younger people seem to be able to spot AI just fine, but what happens when AI gets so good that no one can tell the difference?
Instagram already has that option to toggle before uploading so I'm confused.... as to why Facebook -- also owned by Meta, same company as Insta -- doesn't? Or maybe it does and these guys are bypassing it by simply not toggling it, which is of course a problem in and of itself. Humans are freely able to tag their real life photos as AI when they're not and people who use generative AI can freely ignore the "This is AI" toggle. Such a problem.
@@n01-f6qI think the image generators should have a label built in. Maybe a slightly faded watermark over the whole image so that they can't just crop it out
It’s that uncanny valley effect that tells our brains something isn’t right about what we’re seeing without even knowing why. The human mind is amazing…when you use it! 😂
I’m a BoomerGen-X (really on the edge) and I look for it pretty carefully. But I watch YT and very rarely FB anymore. There is just one born every minute, and I bet a lot of the amens are younger people, too.😂
I know as a Genx, my partner's parents don't have great eyesight and cant spot the AI tells we can. But - Many of the comments are from bots, not even real people. It's Ai-inception to inflate the likes on their pages.
@@madinp1177 exactly. My Mother in law uses a very small hand me down smartphone with the tiniest screen ever, so she is not going to see the fuzzy hairline or extra finger that we can spot instantly. She thankfully doesnt care about all the religious ai rubbish, but that baby and dog, she'd think the baby cute, like it and probably show me because she knows i like animals. Standard tv which is where she gets most of her information from, hasnt really dealt with the problems with ai, so she also only has the younger generation like myself to tell her about these things.
I can feel you. My parents are approaching the boomer age but fortunately they're not much behind in technological knowledge. They're quite versed in the problems of AI and stay up to date on these topics. My brother and I also make sure that they're updated on such stuff. But still, they've almost gotten scammed into buying AI product listings. For instance, my mom once showed me a really stunning saree for medium price listed on Facebook (if you don't know, saree is one of the traditional attires worn by Indians. We are from India). The saree was too beautiful to be real and guess what - it wasn't! It was an AI generated saree design. I told her at once and she was surprised that I could spot it. She can identify most AI generated images but this was one of those hyper-realistic ones. And with my mom's eyesight not being the best, she is going to have a harder time trying to spot them. Both my brother and I gave her and my father a detailed lecture on things to look for to identify AI generated images, like the disproportionate human anatomy, relative dimensions and such. Even though we temporarily looked like heroes in front of our parents, even we youngsters are prone to fall for these AI scams. Edited to correct spelling and grammar mistakes
I mean Jeanne Calment did. 1875-1997 122 years young. It’s rare but it does occasionally happens. I had a resident that was 102. Love her and miss her sm
The trifecta of poor eyesight, zero tech knowledge, and innocence...these sweet old folks don't stand a chance! 😂😭 I'm 50 and will fight off having senior moments until I don't have it in me anymore. I run circles around my zoomer kids!
And even though you are couching this ‘nicely’ it is still giving-‘but some of my friends are blacks’ energy. There are very intelligent, very tech savvy people in all the generations alive today. And there are ignorant folks in ALL of them, too.
for me the biggest thing is usually how dream-like it is, and the lack of background blur. things blend into eachother in a dreamlike way and when you zoom in you can see it. things also look TOO perfect, thats why i get extra suspicious of aesthetic pictures on pinterest when they look way too perfect. a lot of these images use crazy/flashy things to distract people with withering minds from getting suspicious, because theyll use all of their mental energy to try to process whats even going on, while a younger brain will pay attention to the details and realize it doesnt make sense.
I don’t mind the cute ones ( I do know most AI) I really don’t like the scary ones or people trying to screw people out of money …. Unfortunately it’s going to get worse unless they find a way to stop it
"They didn't find a bed for him yet" I believe means basically there wasn't a spot, or any room, at a mental health facility for him. A lot of times in the US we will say something like oh so and so is trying to go to rehab (for drugs and/or alcohol) or a mental health facility but there's not a bed for them. Bed because every patient needs one to sleep in lol and there's only so many at each facility.
This bothers me SO MUCH! I get so frustrated when people (and yes it is mostly on Facebook) think AI images are real. I'm an artist and can pretty easily identify AI images because if you scroll in there are a lot of tells. It's sad that people just take everything at face value 🤦♀ Also, I love Social Catfish! Makes you really scared for the future of humanity, though!
My Pinterest has become swamped by older woman beauty shots that are OBVIOUSLY AI. Not taking into account minor mistakes, all these images look like the human subjects have a forever filter on their faces.
Robert you are truly giving ppl more credit than they deserve. In general, ppl are just gullible/ and or just dumb. Social media is a brain cell sucker. Most of the comments on the Grandma post sound fake. Trolls are everywhere!
9:20 made me scream 😂 “they haven’t found a bed for him yet” is a reference to the psych ward. I’ve had a few grippy sick vacays myself (CPTSD from s*xual trauma) so I’ve heard it often! 😂 Idk if it’s just in the US but before you go to the psych ward you have to see if theres room. I’ve had to wait 13 hours in the ER for a room/“bed” to open up.
I saw it a lot on fb when it came out, fb friends, shares in groups, and reposted by pages suggested to me, all that. I thought the same thing at first and had to take a 2nd to actually look.
The catfish scam on 90 Day Fiance, Williams. Yolanda fell for it so hard that a Nigerian accent sounded British to her. Trilogy Media has helped with a scammer, too. The lady lost well over $100,000. Elon Musk, supposedly, selling opportunities is rampant as well.
Unrelated, but I finally got brave enough to try the new ELF Brow Laminating Gel per your recommendation after years of using the Anastasia Brow Freeze and you did not disappoint Robert!
I think boomers just assume they’re all pictures. They’ve never understood that a professional photoshop can deep fake something, let alone that an AI can create these things. The concept of it being fake just doesn’t occur to them.
@@therealJamieJoy They might have the forethought to see it's fake, but the elder ones I feel like definitely didn't bother with the computers and didn't see the evolution of online content. At least, that's my experience from assisting elder customers in retail in the electronics section.
@@therealJamieJoy When I worked there it was Computers, phones, printers, security cameras and such. I was the same, Elderly being 65+ as my viewpoint. They rarely bought iphones or samsungs, it was always older phones that 'just text and call', and even still changing the volume or going to the message app on the simpler phones could be so difficult for them. We had issues from charging them, 'i got a link in my message and I clicked it but my bills paid why did they send that?' phishing scams and the like. They just did not understand how they could be getting scammed, and then would tell US 'I saw on Facebook they're doing X scams!!!' and we had to explain to them 'people go on the internet and tell lies' quite often...
My vision is terrible without my glasses, so once I missed that the person's (or should I say "person") hands were not clasped together, but one huge, fused blob 😂 The **only** reason I found out it was AI was because it was a hyper-patriotic, nationalistic, US military image. Those are so often AI I automatically zoomed in...and saw the fused blob passing for hands I laughed so hard
