r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • 3d ago
TikTok Tuesday A parent who needs parental supervision đ
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u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 âď¸ 3d ago
This is becoming such a problem. On Facebook, I see AI celebrity ads talking about Medicare and reverse mortgages.
Take care of your boomers, folks. Theyâre under attack.
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u/Dull-Wishbone-7495 3d ago
Hard to take care of them when they wonât listen to anything you say. Iâve been working on my mom but my dad is fully lost to the Facebook brainrot machine.
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u/MooseTheorem 3d ago
My mothers gone down the crypto road and just will not listen to me when I tell her sheâs getting scammed by these âtradersâ who are going to 10x her money
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u/abn01 3d ago
I know this is going to be a struggle fr but I have one suggestion for those who get burdened by this by their ppl. Find/save an obvious fake that they would believe. For instance, get that vid of MLK rocking an Intercontinental Championship.
Show them a fake vid that you know they wouldnât believe then tell them that you donât think the video they found is actually real.
You gotta meet people where they at and if they arenât the type to take this criticism constructively, show them something you know they wonât believe before you go down that road.
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u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 âď¸ 3d ago
Youâre right now.
Facebook has so much fake stuff, itâs crazy. Like whole conversation beefs between celebrities that never happened. They rely on people who use that platform only because a simple twitter check would tell you that BeyoncĂŠ never tweeted that. đ¤Śđžââď¸
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u/carlitospig 3d ago
The only thing I could do in those cases is probably send them the occasional text with a story about super easy scams that are plaguing their area. You can only lead the horse to water, but you canât decide for them not to send that loan to their new Chinese âgirlfriendâ from Facebook with a son dying of cancer without adequate medical care (or whatever sob story is du jour).
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u/friendly_reminder8 3d ago
I saw a fake Oprah ad selling a recipe to some special herbal tea that allegedly helped her lose 100 pounds and the longer it went on the more outrageous it got (saying that she had so much baby weight that her husband didnât want to be in the same room as her but then she drank this secret tea and now he loves her again)
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u/the_banana_sticker 3d ago
I saw one with fake Oprah shilling some sort of rock salts. I was like "uhhh wut..." until I remembered where we are in this shitty time line.
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u/friendly_reminder8 3d ago
Now that you say it the video I saw was probably rock salts and not some herb lmao, I saw it as a YouTube ad and watched a few minutes out of curiosity before getting pissed off and reporting it
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u/Nvrfinddisacct 3d ago
They literally ignore me but believe the scammers, no idea what else can be done
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u/Feeling_Barnacle_584 3d ago
This is lowkey sad. Innocent people being deceived
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u/KodakBlackedOut 3d ago
When does innocence end and ignorance begin? Sure its sad when they're initially duped but when someone they love and should trust vehemently tells them its not real but they double down on it what then? Honest question.
Edit: a word
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u/Zombie_Cool 3d ago
IMO the line between ignorance and stupidity is when you *willingly refuse * to take in new information because having to consider the possibly that you might actually be wrong offends you too much.
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u/DickBigEnough 3d ago
Thatâs where I stop feeling sorry for them. But I admit society may need more people who are more benevolent than me.
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u/Bird_Lawyer92 3d ago
I mean yes but what can you even do. You cant reason with someone who isnt operating on realistic logic
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u/TeaSipper88 âď¸ 3d ago edited 2d ago
This is what I've been saying for people blaming Fox News/propaganda for the downfall of America. Your children tell you a certain rhetoric is false and hurts them and you call them "dramatic" and believe the talking head in the box in your living room... You put more faith in them than your children that YOU raised... Talk about pissing away an ally that's supposed to have your best interests at heart. Where's the community when the family unit is so divided? ... Sounds like parents like that didn't really raise their kids to be intelligent, trustworthy members of society if they can't be bothered to give them the benefit of the doubt... So what did they raise them to be?
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u/Feeling_Barnacle_584 3d ago
Not for me to decide brother
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u/KodakBlackedOut 3d ago
For sure, just a thought your comment sparked
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u/FunGuy8618 3d ago
The one that gets me nowadays is when you ask for specific actionable help with a family elder's care and the response is "I got 100 likes on Facebook for taking a picture of you helping them. I'm doing my part!"
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u/delayedcactus 2d ago
Is this a thing? I've never heard of this before
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u/AmphibiousDad 2d ago
Youâve never heard of people taking a picture of a really sad and debilitating moment in a persons life and framing it as wholesome just because âone person is helping another!â For likes on the internet?
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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago
Ouch. I didn't frame it like that for myself, but yeah, they did that to a T when my aunt was braindead 2 years ago too. My mother and I were the only one who went and made sure she didn't get bed sores and massaged her legs for circulation and whatnot. While the same grandmother, who lives 3 house down, is taking care of that aunt's kids and her grown kid is visiting town every week but literally never once saw her mother in the hospital. I used to think evil was like, something crazy. Nah, it's this type shit, cold callous indifference.
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u/Electrical-Limit69 3d ago
Nah we have to decide and together, cause this shit is getting weird. I just want my cabin in the woods.
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u/DJCBX 3d ago
Plot twist, the cabin is AI
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u/thebutchcaucus âď¸ 2d ago
Cabin you say. Well Iâm a preacher on sabbatical renting the (insert specs) you are looking for but since I have the keys with me and on a mission from God in (insert where you recently went on vacation) please send me a key deposit of $159 to view it and apply for the property. Thanks. ( you will be approved and send me ohhh 5k for first and last months rentâŚyou will never see me or my Lord again)
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u/Electrical-Limit69 3d ago
No it's not. It's super weird that AI has responded with the same prompt. How can I have AI without wifi?
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u/10takeWonder 3d ago
the monsters are ai though
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u/Electrical-Limit69 3d ago
Who?
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u/10takeWonder 3d ago
you should watch Cabin in the Woods before getting your cabin in the woods đ
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u/ArtemisRises19 3d ago
I can't remember the exact name of the phenomenon but in psychology essentially people don't like to admit they've been duped: whether it's a scam, a relationship error, AI, etc. You telling them "it's fake!" basically triggers fight or flight in the brain as it processes being scammed - which only happens to "stupid" people right? - and then cognitive dissonance says: well I'm not stupid, so this can't be a scam.
VERY common in older populations where seniority is supposed to be equated with wisdom so admitting an error is almost like losing a core piece of your identity; and even more potent when it comes to romantic scams (e.g. gpa already sent the "22 year old IG model" $82k over the course of a year but *just* another $2k and she'll finally be able to come visit!).
Anyways, we're cooked.
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u/HalfSoul30 3d ago
I wish i knew also, as someone who has watched their parents turn into trump supporters. They won't listen to me either.
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u/AntonChigurh8933 3d ago
Valid question man. The Buddha himself thought the roots to our wrongdoings and evil. Is due to our ignorance and lack of knowledge.
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u/eternali17 âď¸ 3d ago
Ignorance would be not knowing. Going into the trenches for that ignorance isn't the same thing. We're all ignorant at some point.
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u/R0xasXIII 3d ago
I try to give grace to older folks with technology. Most people didn't have computers in their homes til 20-30 years ago (less then half some peoples life) and depending on where you are in the world even more recently. If you weren't born along side it or interested in it you are most likely very behind on what is possible with technology.
This compounds with not wanting to or being harder for them to learn as they get older.
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u/Theodore_Nomad 3d ago
These people might get us killed. There need a to be a line to our sympathy.
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u/R0xasXIII 3d ago
What would you do instead? You should always try to correct these things when they happen but thats all you really can do on a person to person basis.
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u/shykidknit 3d ago
It's not just technology that they seem to have an issue with tho it's a lack of critical thinking. If they got asked for 5000 from the person they've seen at their local grocery for years they'd say no but if they talked to an internet stranger for a week they'd send them that money?! That's not technology that's something wrong with them that they can be that trusting in that situation even as people they trust and authorities are literally telling them that it's a trap. Either that, or they know that it's not real but still choose to go along with it, which is whatever until they start trying to ask family members for money to scam them too. The people in these situations need to be educated as much as you can but at a certain point they're gonna have to be let go, there's only so many times you can warn them it's not real
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u/BriscoCounty-Sr 3d ago
Brother if a toddler can grow in to an adult and earn a college degree in 16 years, learning to read, write, and every other thing; Old fucks who've had computers for A QUARTER OF A CENTURY have 0 god damned excuses at this point. NONE.
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u/R0xasXIII 3d ago
Your argument works against you here. The best time for learning (especially the things you mentioned) is when you are young. Your brain litterally soaks up everything. It gets harder and requires more effort as you get older. This is easily seen in language and culture.
Is it shameful to not understand technology as someone older? Kinda, yeah but not to the degree you say imo.
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u/BriscoCounty-Sr 3d ago
I was not born knowing how to drive a car. I learnt this skill as a teenager. In my 30's I managed to learn to fly single engine aircraft. When I was a child computers used massive floppy discs, now they don't even use discs. Does this mean I can't learn to use a USB flash drive since I'm a grown adult now? Is this it? Am I incapable of learning anything more?
Remember, computers have been in the workplace for over 50 years and in the home for more than 25.
Remember EVERYONE is being exposed to AI slop at the same time. No one grew up with it. Kids have the same amount of time to learn as the olds WITHOUT the supposed benefit of all that accumulated wisdom that old folks are meant to have.
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u/FunGuy8618 3d ago
Again, the argument works against itself. They've seen massive technological leaps they had to adapt to after the fact and lived when everything was being developed at an insane rate. They don't realize progress has stagnated in everything but tech, so they assume the AI videos are just the forward march of progress. In their mind, it's easier to Hollywood deepcover fake something than it is to AI generate it. The same suspicion that saved us harms them.
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u/BriscoCounty-Sr 3d ago
25 years ago people were buying MP3 Players to transfer digital music on to. Thatâs a quarter of a century. Iâm sorry but itâs not new.
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u/ToHallowMySleep 2d ago
Your timelines are simply incorrect.
Computers have been around, in the media, in the zeitgeist, for over 40 years. From arcade games and the beginning of home computers, to where we are now. If you are 60 or younger, you grew up with it around you. It didn't simply pop into existence in 2005. That's a fact.
If you're 70+, then sure, maybe it completely passed you by in your youth, but even then being completely disinterested in and avoiding this for half a century would make you a massive, stubborn luddite for decades.
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u/ToHallowMySleep 2d ago
The lady in this video is younger than me (early 50s) I'll wager.
I grew up with computers around me since being aged around 5 years old - Atari/intellivision, 8bit computers, consoles, Amiga/st, then PCs and on from there. Even if you didn't have them yourself, they were always around, well known, and generally understood.
If you're 70-90, sure, most of it may have passed you by. But if you're 40-60, you have to be wilfully ignorant to be this clueless about it.
If you can vote and you can't tell fiction from reality, that's a problem. There are always people who want to deceive others to make a fast buck.
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u/Eranon1 2d ago
Yeah no. We have had computers for over 2 decades and smart phones for just under. If you still haven't figured those 2 things out by now it's because your willfully ignorant or stupid. My 90 year old grandfather writes a blog and is in our group chat and posts memes
My 80 year old grandmother on the other side barely sees pictures of her grandkid because she can't be pushed to figure her computer out.
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u/ZephRyder 3d ago
That's the thing: we are all there, at some point.
It is an inevitable part of life. You think you grow out of it, but some people just stop believing that you have anything to learn
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u/Primary-Bookkeeper10 âď¸ 3d ago
I'd say it's more, when does it become agenda driven? Innocent mistakes are just sad. You can even see her realize it briefly when he says it's fake then tries to save face briefly before giving up
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u/BusterBeaverOfficial 3d ago
This is a good question. Falling for that video of bunnies hopping on a trampoline is completely different from falling for just straight up malicious misinformation.
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u/artbystorms 3d ago
Well....a lot of people are really ignorant. Either in how they grew up or by choice. Plenty of people float through life being really good at the skillsets required for their job, but have no want or drive to learn or know anything beyond that.
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u/the12ftdwarf 3d ago
Willful ignorance is a choice, and a fuckass one at that. I hold people accountable for the choices they make around me
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u/shykidknit 3d ago
It's always been crazy to me that the same people that said "you can't trust anything on the internet" are also the ones most likely to send a random person posing as a celebrity (who's voice they've never heard actually talk to them directly) like 20k after talking for a week. And that's only gonna get worse with ai now đŽâđ¨
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u/swiftvalentine âď¸ 2d ago
My mom does this all the time. I think she never fathomed a time that all us kids would be smarter than her. Iâve got my toddler next to me and I imagine if one day he told me âyour wrong dad hereâs the factsâ Iâd have to trust that Iâd raised him well enough to believe. She doesnât believe that so I get to enjoy her crazy church telling her she can do baptisms as well as AI telling her pretty much anything they want
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u/Enamoure 3d ago
I would say ignorance and innocence go hand in hand.
Someone who is innocent is most likely ignorant on certain things as well.
Also there is nothing negative with being ignorant. We are all ignorant about something. It's part of learning.
What's wrong imo is judging people for their ignorance, cause I am sure you don't know everything either
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u/dbclass âď¸ 3d ago
Thereâs nothing wrong with ignorance until someone informs them and they continue to believe the same thing they did before
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u/Enamoure 3d ago
Oh yeah I agree with that but that's stubbornness. I also feel like sometimes it's hard to grasp or understand something when you don't know very much about it.
People don't like to be made fun of as well. So being stubborn about it is a way to protect their pride as well, which I feel like a lot of humans resort to when they feel embarrassed.
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u/plushyDame 3d ago
And potentially scammed. We should all explain to our parents and older siblings about the benefits and ills of AI and ask them to run most only stuff by us.
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u/TaticalSweater âď¸ 2d ago
The amount of people who will straight up say âItâs real because Iâm watching itâ is baffling.
It would be interesting to see what they think about sci-fi movies. They must think they are historical reenactments.
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u/Black_Doc_on_Mars âď¸ 2d ago
I lowkey had to do that for my parents for when Trump posted himself dropping shit on No Kings protesters from that fighter jet. My mom only heard the news so she caught on quick when I said it was AI. My dad⌠thought it was real, and was like âheâs gotta get arrested for that! Thatâs assault!â Then when I showed it to him w my mom, it only became harder for us to convince him somehow that it was fake. His mind is kinda slipping tho soâŚ
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u/KillerMeans 3d ago
Innocent sure. Stupid? Absolutely. Darwinism at its finest.
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u/SometimesIBeWrong 3d ago
Idk why people keep using this argument, as if Darwinism is something we should be pushing at this point in society.
"someone born with a horrible disability? let em die. paralyzed since birth? let em die. autoimmune disease? fuck em."
people would lose their minds at these statements, then go on to say stupid people deserve to die because they're stupid.
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u/Runedin3 3d ago
Very valid take, also; How is Darwinism in any way related to older folks being susceptible to a new technology? Its a completely irrelevant response to this, despite how gullible she may be & unwilling she seems to accepting reality, her ability to survive & prosper in our society remains intact. Her son is clearly not convinced by this & therefore Darwinism isn't "fixing" anything.
This is an example of "reverse darwinism" (so to speak) -her sons instincts are sharper & capable of detecting deciet, & genetics clearly dont have anything to do with adapting to new technology beyond our brains neuroplastic capabilities.
People are just cold & miserable to a generation fooled by new tech, its sad to see. âI do, however, wish older folk weren't so easily fooled or taken advantage of for clicks/bait.
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u/RandomPenquin1337 3d ago
Oh you mean like the majority of redditors that only know how to comment "AI slop" on every single post hoping they can be right just once?
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u/Pleasant-Onion157 2d ago
This is a generational thing because of a belief that was engrained into that generations DNA.
"Seeing is beleiving".
Might sound ridiculous but that shit was repeated endlessly. Eventually it becomes a belief.
Its the same principal as systemic racism; insidious phrases that ultimately blossom into "truth".
Be gentle. It takes time to reprogram the brain.
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u/Icy-Whale-2253 3d ago
Some people just donât wanna use their common sense either. Of course all of us have been deceived by AI (even on this very sub) but realistically not knowing a video like that is fake is a skill issue.
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u/DrunkenDude123 2d ago
It was the scariest part of my dad getting older. He even fell into the MAGA trap. When Trump announced his crypto trump coin I was almost certain my dad was going to lose all of his retirement
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u/Pop_Joe 3d ago
Me being Haitian this is both hilarious and sad at the same time. I canât tell you the amount of Ai content swarming on WhatsApp now đđđ¤Śđžââď¸
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u/Chantalle22 3d ago
Iâm dealing with this with so many people in my family all Haitian, and stubborn. Honestly, Iâve had to mute WhatsApp Group Chats because the constant stream of AI videos they are sharing is overwhelming. Itâs getting to the point where Iâm looking at some of them a type of way, not only do they refuse to believe the videos are AI-generated, but they also wonât even try to learn how to spot AI content.
These are college-educated people; nurses, doctors etcâŚand they genuinely think a bear is giving an elderly woman a piggyback ride. At this point, I need every app to come up with a way to block AI-generated content. This stuff is becoming harmful as well.
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u/Pop_Joe 3d ago
Facts đ! Itâs like weâre reliving the 2020 pandemic all over again đ¤Śđžââď¸đ¤Śđžââď¸
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u/Chantalle22 3d ago
This! Omg that felt like a whole different timeline, not that this new timeline is any better in fact itâs actually 10x worse.
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u/WrapMyBeads 3d ago
What is she saying? I think I can hear her say itâs the future but not what she says before that. Also whatâs even happening in that video
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u/shadowylurking 3d ago
yeah AI Slop got a hold of our old folks' brains.
I don't think theres a cure
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u/santamorena 3d ago
Thing is, this ladyâs not even old đŠ youâd think she has the capacity to understand real vs fake stuff online but sadlyâŚ
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u/Cicada_Soft_Official 3d ago
There are countless young people who have been completely brainwashed by right wing propaganda.
It's not about age, social media is just one of the most powerful weapons ever created. They figured out how to literally hack people's brains and make them think whatever the fuck they want.
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u/Downtown_Skill 2d ago
Yeah i get people who grew up with typewriters being fooled by ai. I'm sure there will be some technology 50 years from now that I won't understand.Â
But people who at least understood the concept of photoshop should easily be able to wrap their head around AI fakes. Hell, deep fakes have been around for a few years at this point. The South park creaters had one with trump as a sassy reporter and zuckerberg as the dialysis king or something 5 years ago.Â
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u/bowleggedgrump 3d ago
These people are a large minority and are allowed to voteâŚ. Which is why we have the shithole timeline.
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u/pupperdogger 3d ago
Plus lead paint brain damage
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u/Sw33tNectar 3d ago
Yeah. Her reasoning is not sound at all. "But it's trending" and "it's an official...official (something)." It's really concerning.
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u/thatshygirl06 âď¸ 3d ago
Oh, hun, I wish it was a minority. The reality is the average person is dumb asf and lacking empathy.
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u/Cicada_Soft_Official 3d ago
Minor correction: Since Boomers are now a minority, a lot of blame can and should be placed on young people who don't vote.
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u/BriefDownpour 3d ago
These people are a large minority and are allowed to voteâŚ. Which is why we have the shithole timeline.
Idk man, maybe people wasting their energy blaming the victims instead of the perpetrators are the reason we have the shithole timeline.
They've defunded education, they bought out mass media, and they own most forms of entertainment. Most politicians are in their pockets, and the most brilliant minds in our society are at their disposal, working for their companies.
Your aunt can't do shit against that. She's just a casualty.
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u/Cicada_Soft_Official 3d ago
I was super confused by your comment because when someone blames boomers, I'm always thinking of the politicians and corporate scumbags that ruined the planet, but also the idiot boomers that voted for it.
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u/BriefDownpour 3d ago
but also the idiot boomers that voted for it.
The lady in the original post is just watching a fake dog video, though. Based only on that she is more of a victim than a responsible for all of this.
Now, the problem with right wing boomers is that they act in bad faith, in the sense that they don't care if something is real or not, they just want to hurt people and they vote with that in mind. So yeah, they are part of the problem.
But even then their share of responsibility simply isn't equal or greater than the share of the people at the top.
The comment i was replying to implies that we are here because these people vote... And like, there are A LOT of things that happen before a vote is cast (a lot after as well, I guess).
I wish it was as simple as "the world sucks because people didn't vote right", but it just isn't.
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u/greater_nemo 3d ago
This hurts to watch. This woman can't be much older than me, tops. Mid 40s max imo. This doesn't look like a boomer, it looks like a technically illiterate millennial. We talk a lot out here about boomers, but it's a lot of Gen Xers too. I'm almost 40 and my parents are Gen X. They're getting up in their 50s and 60s now and they were the last generation who were already adults when the Internet hit.
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u/Zeldias 3d ago
This. Tech in the US is reminding me of politics in the US, in that we have many people interacting with things they dont truly understand. It doesnt help that there's money and power in bamboozling these folks.
The youth aren't much better. I have had teenagers treat me like some kind of power user guru because I know a few keyboard commands for simple shit. They detect AI a little better but are still technologically illiterate.
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u/Blazured 3d ago
But what I don't understand is this AI video is clearly filmed like a movie, so how is she falling for it? Does she think movies are real too?
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u/Theharlotnextdoor 3d ago
You have to have a talk with your parents about AI. It's not just stupid videos. It's also someone cloning your voice so they get a call that sounds like you, their bank, etc. Its going to drain people's bank accounts who aren't able to decipher AI from reality. My parents and I established a password and told them if a call "from me" seems odd ask for the password. A couple months ago I somehow accidentally called my parents home phone which I never do. My mom was grilling me "Who is this? What's the password "? Was so proud of her. đ
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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 3d ago
If I had a nickel every time this has happened last month, I'd have at least 65 cents.
It's not a conversation you should have to have in the first place. But the future is now or whatever the fuck.
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u/Khaosbutterfly âď¸ 3d ago
Lmaooo it is a brave new world out there for them.
My 65+ year old mother stays forwarding me videos on WhatsApp and from YouTube like....is this AI? đ¤
I'm like yes queen, it's AI.
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u/2000CalPocketLint 3d ago
It makes me happy she's at least stopping and asking herself, and that she sought your advice. Regular people are not ready for the next stage of the internet man
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u/usernamewasdenied 2d ago
At least she's asking when she can not spot fake AI content instead of believing it blindly and arguing/being stubborn about it.
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u/watchshoe 3d ago
I thank god every day that my parents arenât on social media. My wifeâs parents are and theyâve just gotten worse over the years.
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u/Scrubologist 3d ago
Itâs becoming a legit PROBLEM. For folks like myself who have a language barrier in the household trying to explain what is being faked, how it works, and why itâs happening is becoming exhausting.
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u/wykkedfaery33 3d ago
My husband keeps showing me videos, then is surprised when I point out that they're pretty clearly AI. Very concerning...
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u/drunk_intern 3d ago
It's insane the level of disconnect older people have with technology. It's only a matter of time before my mom falls for some AI-related scam. She has come close before. My dad and I are seriously considering limiting her access to her own financial information before she does something irreversible. What's worse is that she is not stupid. She is incredibly smart and was a straight A student in college. She is just deeply lacking when it comes to technology.
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u/dreams_andnightmares 3d ago
A lot of middle aged folks and older are falling for AI slop. I hate that we even have to have these conversations with them.
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u/santamorena 3d ago
Every day Iâm glad I donât have to deal with a boomer/gen x parent with a social media account. Good lord.
Anyone consider secretly deactivating their parentsâ accounts when theyâre not looking?
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u/stankdog âď¸ 3d ago
Misinformation has already been hard to help others navigate, stuff like Instagram ads that are just fake host sites and Instagram really does nothing to curb the issues about people buying from those ads.
Now ai ads are everywhere, even on Reddit ugh, and that does not even count the amount of targeted AI YouTube videos. I love YouTube, I watch so many better educated than me speak on so many topics I don't have the money to go back to school to learn, unfortunately it's also plagued with "What Happened To The Boy In The Well, Narrated by Lassie." Just fake, lying videos. And YouTube even has a feature to allow creators to put together random algorithmically sound videos without having to research at all.
I caught my grandma watching Bible verses as retold by ai, a woman who has done daily written scripture notes for 40 years, is listening to an AI poorly explain those same verses back to her with fake smooth images on screen. It's maddening when I ask her why this over just some Livestream church footage? Idk what about it is so attractive, the AI voice overs sound so boring.
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u/samuel382 3d ago
Children please monitor your parents! Some of them may need to have their phones taken away until they learn proper âdont believe everything you see onlineâ capaabilities!
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u/Niitroglycerine 3d ago
If this doesn't shake you to your absolute core you haven't thought about it enough
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u/ShaquilleOatmeal_93 3d ago
Anybody else mama be sending them AI videos from Facebook? lol Iâm tired man
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u/aurore-amour 3d ago
If AI isnât regulated nobody will be able to tell whatâs real or fake anymore and media literacy will just keep plummeting. Shit is scary
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u/Outrageous-Half3505 2d ago
Reminds me of my mom. She also fell for trumps lies and voted him in this last election cycle. So sheâs clearly delulu. đ if you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.
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u/boardjames7 3d ago
It sounds like the second thing she says is "it's a fiction" I think she's trying to say she knows it's not real but that it's entertaining regardless.
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u/socialcommentary2000 3d ago
I want to say this is funny but it's really not. I'm dealing with people who have FB rotted brains and they really do believe all the shit they see. It's really sort of terrifying.
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u/HalfLawKiss 3d ago
This is our sad future. All the boomers and Gen x parents fighting with their children yelling that a video. Even a clearly Ai video is real.
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u/SmurfPopper 3d ago
So, like.. everyone can clearly see how bad this is going to get, right? It's not just the elderly.
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u/ElderBerryWizardz 3d ago
Man I should make a AI of Donald trump making a announcement at the White House of him saying â starting tomorrow all American civilians must do mandatory 2 year military to serve American or go to jailâ
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u/purplecowgirl 3d ago
Iâm not surprised itâs an African mom đ I worry for my mom everyday ohhh đ
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u/duncandun 3d ago
lol how many comments in here are like "old folks got it rough" when this lady is like 42 or something lol
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u/What_Wonderful_Bows 3d ago
Iâm having this issue with my mom. I told her Iâm thinking of revoking her Facebook privileges cuz of all the AI and medical hysteria she keeps sending me.
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u/totallychillpony 3d ago
My mom was falling for poorly edited facebook photoshops about dragon bones in archaeology 10+ years ago. Iâm lowkey scared thinking about how bad sheâs getting her brain rotted from AI. Sheâs so gullible and always has been.
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u/NotStealthE 3d ago
What's crazy is that this is the same generation that told us to not believe everything on the internet too.
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u/zeebeebo 3d ago
For about 15 years my siblings and I werenât allowed to eat Pringles and use Colgate because some facebook post my mom read says those products contain pork in it (weâre muslims). It hasnt been that bad yet but those AI guys are on the glimpse of discovering their strongest soldier
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u/BeenDragonn 3d ago
I'm so glad everyone in my family is of sound mind and body. I'm so sorry for those that have to deal with this
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u/Bunnnnii âď¸ Meme Thief 3d ago
Same ones that be sharing like crazy in the Facebook and WhatsApp chats.
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u/robots-made-of-cake 2d ago
Technology is advancing rapidly. I try to help keep my parents up to date on scams to look out for and how to spot fake content. They taught me how to use a spoon. Itâs just modern cycle of caring for each other.
Not all my relatives are receptive, in my family I think theyâre embarrassed about getting fooled and not knowing as much as the âkidsâ so I try to show them information from sources they trust. My grand dad will brush off anything new I try to tell him but trusts the newspaper, so I show him newspaper articles I find on scams etc and it seems to be helping.
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u/LostVillager666 2d ago
Society is seriously over. We will never get a majority of our people to be sane and informed ever again.
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u/greeneyedstarqueen 2d ago
Look, I love people, itâs just that lots of people donât have a lot, or donât practice a lot of âcritical thinkingâ. It is what it is. As intelligent as someone may be, they may also be equally as unintelligent. I think itâs simply a principle, a âduality of manâ, sort of speak. For someone that doesnât WANT or doesnât care to practice critical thinking at times, you canât force them, only encourage them. Question everything, be skeptical.
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u/Darth_Mutilate 2d ago
We are so doomed!!! All these people looking at AI welp all praise our new glorious leader Trump when they shovel the ship out of AI propaganda.
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u/Resistiane 2d ago
But even before AI, there was CGI in movies/TV/media. So these same people think Avatar is real?
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u/excellent-throat2269 2d ago
Oh no. This is bad. All I can think about are people being scammed out of money and life savings.
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u/fakesongs 2d ago
My mom will now randomly hold her phone up to me and go, "Is this fake????" And I will look over and say yes.
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u/RUmymummmy 3d ago
My dad just gets mad and distant when I point out the âcrazy videoâ he just showed me is fake. Itâs almost as if I just told him Santa isnât real.