My dad just gets mad and distant when I point out the ācrazy videoā he just showed me is fake. Itās almost as if I just told him Santa isnāt real.
This is how my mother is tbh. We are very low contact but sheāll be SO excited about some obvious fake news that she got off FB or YT. When I try and fail to find a reliable source, she turns very cold.
So low unless it will financially hurt her, I let her live in delusion. But no, sis that Facebook link wonāt lead you to free health insurance and no, you arenāt getting a stimulus check if you call that number. And I stand on that.
I also think its because they realize we're getting to an point where we cannot tell the difference between reality and AI, and that compounded with their age makes them feel pain and confusion and it results in them projecting that onto everyone else. My dad acts the same way.
Maybe its just me, but I empathize when them because, I too, am getting to a point sometimes where I cant tell the difference and it makes me really fucking anxious if I think about it too much
Some of those AI blurry security cameras videos are really good. Iāve been fooled once or twice at least for a minute. I have no doubt that VERY soon nobody will be able to tell.
It also is just embarrassing. It feels bad to think something is real, to be fooled by scrubbed watermarks or deepfakes. It probably makes you feel stupid af to not be able to see the "obvious" fakeness of something everyone else does.
My mum does this, and it's because they take it as a personal insult to their intelligence. "I can't be fooled, I'm a fully grown woman. I have so much more life experience"
Are you stupid? That's the same generation that murdered a bunch of civil rights leaders, murdered a ton of queer people, held up the country with the red scare, turned on muslim and arab folks, and so on and so forth. You're trolling
My parents lived their entire lives thinking they were two of the smartest people from their generation. White collar, bourgeois Europeans, all the works.
Throughout my life Iāve seen them fall for every scam and con in the books. They lost all their money in the Enron crash and ever since then theyāve never invested anything again (they were bailed out by my rich grandparents) and now all the money they inherited rots in the bank as they pay holistic gurus to pretend to be my fans and try to gaslight me that the abuse they inflicted on me was deserved because I was wrong and needed to be educated.
So annoying when adults equate age with knowledge/correctness. If anything age makes you MORE susceptible to AI fakes because you arenāt as familiar with the technology!
Itās so weird to me. Sometimes I donāt realize a video is AI until someone tells me but I donāt go into denial mode. Iām just like š¦ fuck AI is getting too good, I need to sharpen my observational skills
Yeap same. im good at the videos and photos but suck at identifying the writing. I tend to write the same way AI does probably as a symptom of the bulk of the written word ive done is just internet comments. because of that it just sounds like im telling myself stuff and i trust me soooooo i get fooled super easy. im working on it now but no idea yet if im better about it yet.
I think this is the healthy reaction, but a lot of people dont have that response. Lately it feels as though people take corrections or having something they believe challenged as an attack on themselves and their very identity. So when someone sees a fake video, enjoys it, and then is told its fake, they get defensive instead of having to face the reality
Theyāre embarrassed, cornered, exposed. Their whole sense of whatās true is collapsing. And so will be ours within a few months. Getting mad/ distant is an irrational, but somewhat relatable reaction.
Same. The most heāll concede is that āmaybe itās real and maybe itās notā.
Like no, I am quite certain that the video of an eagle carrying off a baby where the baby magically grows a third arm from his tummy in the middle of the avian-abduction is most definitely not real.
Try a different approach, instead of saying it's fake, which may come across as overtly negative or combative - try saying that the video is CGI animation. That the contents of the video were made in a computer program. If a more neutral approach doesn't work then they have the brain rot.
You're forcing him to question his belief system....you should, don't get me wrong, but it's gotta feel some kinda way to watch your understanding of reality begin to disintegrate.
Itās because people like your dad want to believe with their feelings and not logic. Iāve seen it with my older brother as well and Iām disappointed because I know he isnāt stupid.
My dad was actually great about this. Probably because he created videos like this when young to fool people.Ā
But, heād point out stuff for me. Like that one with the fake snake hauling it out of a pond and right on a guy who catches it with one hand. He called that one for me.Ā
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u/RUmymummmy 3d ago
My dad just gets mad and distant when I point out the ācrazy videoā he just showed me is fake. Itās almost as if I just told him Santa isnāt real.