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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 2:02pm
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 2:02pm
The notion of AI replacing cognitive, creative, and philosophical thinking will run its course soon.
So will the thought of dainty petite humanoid robots doing what ever we can do physically.
Eventually everything will settle down, and people will realize, that it's just a better algorithm running on faster processors.
Then and only then can we begin to harness this new computing potential most efficiently.
I akin it to, had the first 10 years of the telephone, was used only to remotely fart prank people.
So will the thought of dainty petite humanoid robots doing what ever we can do physically.
Eventually everything will settle down, and people will realize, that it's just a better algorithm running on faster processors.
Then and only then can we begin to harness this new computing potential most efficiently.
I akin it to, had the first 10 years of the telephone, was used only to remotely fart prank people.
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WookieMan
2026 Jan 9, 2:14pm
WookieMan
2026 Jan 9, 2:14pm
Tenpoundbass says
Prank phone calls are still the best even as an adult. Problem is finding people that answer their phone. I think most people have a decent enough amount of intelligence to know when something isn't real, or so I hope. I'm hyper reluctant to believe anything even before AI as someone that's worked with photoshop and video editing. What's here now is not really new, just easier for the common person to use it.
I akin it to, had the first 10 years of the telephone, was used only to remotely fart prank people.
Prank phone calls are still the best even as an adult. Problem is finding people that answer their phone. I think most people have a decent enough amount of intelligence to know when something isn't real, or so I hope. I'm hyper reluctant to believe anything even before AI as someone that's worked with photoshop and video editing. What's here now is not really new, just easier for the common person to use it.
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TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2026 Jan 9, 2:16pm
TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
2026 Jan 9, 2:16pm
Already is. My mother was watching something about some murderers in LA, and it was talking about a storage unit with 3 dead bodies positioned in it and how there was a screenplay written by the murderer about it and all this other kooky shit. It even mentioned the LA Times and ABC and a named Detective etc as "References"
It was narrated in that generic AI Voice
She is too old to tell the difference, almost 80.
Needless to say, the whole thing never happened.
It was narrated in that generic AI Voice
She is too old to tell the difference, almost 80.
Needless to say, the whole thing never happened.
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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 3:24pm
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 3:24pm
WookieMan says
In my opinion AI is far easier to spot than profession photo or video doctoring.
I can tell when someone is being genuine and authentic, and the same goes for AI video.
I do like it for exaggerated caricatures and animation. I like it much better than 3D rendering by humans. Which I could always tell was not real. No matter how great the graphics and GPU got. It's a great CGI replacement, but not a better human model.
At the same time I think 3D rendering does a better job at a convincing scene. The lighting, and how other objects react with objects in the scene. AI wont even try to throw up dust and be true to every shadow for every light source.
I'm hyper reluctant to believe anything even before AI as someone that's worked with photoshop and video editing
In my opinion AI is far easier to spot than profession photo or video doctoring.
I can tell when someone is being genuine and authentic, and the same goes for AI video.
I do like it for exaggerated caricatures and animation. I like it much better than 3D rendering by humans. Which I could always tell was not real. No matter how great the graphics and GPU got. It's a great CGI replacement, but not a better human model.
At the same time I think 3D rendering does a better job at a convincing scene. The lighting, and how other objects react with objects in the scene. AI wont even try to throw up dust and be true to every shadow for every light source.
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Patrick
2026 Jan 9, 3:38pm
Patrick
2026 Jan 9, 3:38pm
I never trust that I'm talking to a person and not AI unless I've actually met the person.
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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 3:41pm
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 3:41pm
There's phrases and words you can say to any human and get a constant response no matter the nationality or culture.
AI speakers never catch it and react differently than expected. If you can't get any real emotion out of the voice on the phone, then it's AI.
AI speakers never catch it and react differently than expected. If you can't get any real emotion out of the voice on the phone, then it's AI.
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FortWayneHatesRealtors
2026 Jan 9, 3:44pm
Tenpoundbass says
Give tips please.
There's phrases and words you can say to any human and get a constant response no matter the nationality or culture.
AI speakers never catch it and react differently than expected. If you can't get any real emotion out of the voice on the phone, then it's AI.
Give tips please.
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HeadSet
2026 Jan 9, 7:51pm
HeadSet
2026 Jan 9, 7:51pm
Before AI, a simple radio narrative convinced a significant number of people that Earth was being invaded by Mars.
Without AI, criminals convinced a significant number of people that covid was a plague-like threat, that face diapers stopped an aerosol virus, and that multiple boosters were needed.
Just by libel and no AI, news sources convinced s significant number of folks that Russian collusion was real and the Hunter laptop was fake.
Without AI, criminals convinced a significant number of people that covid was a plague-like threat, that face diapers stopped an aerosol virus, and that multiple boosters were needed.
Just by libel and no AI, news sources convinced s significant number of folks that Russian collusion was real and the Hunter laptop was fake.
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Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 8:36pm
Tenpoundbass
2026 Jan 9, 8:36pm
FortWayneHatesRealtors says
Try throwing the caller off, to evoke a human response. If the response matches how you would respond, then you know it's AI.
Say something "I can't talk right now, I've got my dick in your mother."
AI will say, "Uh... well OK, I'm sorry you feel that way." or come back with some bro slam back lacking in change in energy, or tone.
If it passes the test, just apologize and tell them it's your AI test and they passed. Any real call center person would get a kick out of the otherwise mundane call.
Probably not so crude, but you get the point. Attack their character or professionalism, even if criticism isn't due.
Give tips please.
Try throwing the caller off, to evoke a human response. If the response matches how you would respond, then you know it's AI.
Say something "I can't talk right now, I've got my dick in your mother."
AI will say, "Uh... well OK, I'm sorry you feel that way." or come back with some bro slam back lacking in change in energy, or tone.
If it passes the test, just apologize and tell them it's your AI test and they passed. Any real call center person would get a kick out of the otherwise mundane call.
Probably not so crude, but you get the point. Attack their character or professionalism, even if criticism isn't due.
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floki
2026 Jan 9, 8:46pm
In a customer service call, I don't respond to any automated or AI question, I just keep pressing 0. It takes a while but most of the time gets to a rep. Sometimes the call gets disconnected.
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Maga_Chaos_Monkey
2026 Jan 10, 2:03pm
Maga_Chaos_Monkey
2026 Jan 10, 2:03pm
@FortWayneHatesRealtors no offence but you seem sort of black pilled lately. I hope all is okay. Maybe the weather since you moved out of CA? That would probably happen to me if I tried to move too far North.
Do you really think patriots.win is CAI? I don't have an account with them but I do check their 'Hot' section sometimes for latest events when nobody at patnet is on point.
For whatever reason, their crapy website stopped playing most videos for me late 2025.
I'd thought they spawned from being banned from reddit.
Do you really think patriots.win is CAI? I don't have an account with them but I do check their 'Hot' section sometimes for latest events when nobody at patnet is on point.
For whatever reason, their crapy website stopped playing most videos for me late 2025.
I'd thought they spawned from being banned from reddit.
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FortWayneHatesRealtors
2026 Jan 10, 9:08pm
Blackpilled? Not sure what that means. But damn depressed at scale of fraud. And even more that nothing being done about it. Had a lot more hopes in Trump. He doesn’t do much about it, neither do Republicans. Democrats are worse. So hopelessness.
I worked all my life paid my taxes, followed rules. Seen plenty skirt the rules and get ahead. Mostly I believed in what we all were told America was, an honest free market. Just to realize at old age, based on evidence, that it’s all changed. That it’s widespread fraud ran by government, economy is 100% manipulated, government money flows to bad people. And dishonest people get away with everything, while honest hard working people just pay for it all. I want America back that it was supposed to be, but I know it won’t, even Republicans are part of the same fraud.
We got Venezuela, what difference does it make when our own internal fraud is in so many more trillions that no external funding solution can solve it. We are doomed to collapse like Roman Empire did from our own hubris.
I worked all my life paid my taxes, followed rules. Seen plenty skirt the rules and get ahead. Mostly I believed in what we all were told America was, an honest free market. Just to realize at old age, based on evidence, that it’s all changed. That it’s widespread fraud ran by government, economy is 100% manipulated, government money flows to bad people. And dishonest people get away with everything, while honest hard working people just pay for it all. I want America back that it was supposed to be, but I know it won’t, even Republicans are part of the same fraud.
We got Venezuela, what difference does it make when our own internal fraud is in so many more trillions that no external funding solution can solve it. We are doomed to collapse like Roman Empire did from our own hubris.
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mell
2026 Jan 10, 9:19pm
FortWayneHatesRealtors says
Fraud always existed, just the mediums and means changed, and so did the playbook. Even old farts will learn to hang up and call the company/person to verify when they get a call or email and hear some weird shit on the phone or internet.
Blackpilled? Not sure what that means. But damn depressed at scale of fraud. And even more that nothing being done about it. Had a lot more hopes in Trump. He doesn’t do much about it, neither do Republicans. Democrats are worse. So hopelessness.
I worked all my life paid my taxes, followed rules. Seen plenty skirt the rules and get ahead. Mostly I believed in what we all were told America was, an honest free market. Just to realize at old age, based on evidence, that it’s all changed. That it’s widespread fraud ran by government, economy is 100% manipulated, government money flows to bad people. And dishonest people get away with everything, while honest hard working people just pay for it all. I want America back that it was supposed to be, but I know it won’t, even Republicans are part of the same fraud.
We got Venezuela, what difference does it make when our own internal fraud is in so many more trillions that no external funding solution can solve it. We are doomed to collapse like Roman Empire did from our own hubris.
Fraud always existed, just the mediums and means changed, and so did the playbook. Even old farts will learn to hang up and call the company/person to verify when they get a call or email and hear some weird shit on the phone or internet.
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Maga_Chaos_Monkey
2026 Jan 11, 11:50am
Maga_Chaos_Monkey
2026 Jan 11, 11:50am
FortWayneHatesRealtors says
That's the definition I think.
Maybe put the internet and news away for a while. Go out at night and look up, the stars are all still there.
I feel the same about a lot of what you say. I took a 16 day road trip recently and forgot about a lot of it while I was out seeing lots of super cool things this country still has to offer / met a lot of super cool people as well.
Even the final night driving back to San Antonio East of Houston I drove through some refineries that were lit up in what looked like a dystopian nightmare. But it was so! friggin! cool!
I hate to see it, you sounded so positive when you were bailing out of CA a few years back. Go travel man! Sounds like you're retired?
I had to go back to the grind...
Don't let the bastards wear you down!
So hopelessness
That's the definition I think.
Maybe put the internet and news away for a while. Go out at night and look up, the stars are all still there.
I feel the same about a lot of what you say. I took a 16 day road trip recently and forgot about a lot of it while I was out seeing lots of super cool things this country still has to offer / met a lot of super cool people as well.
Even the final night driving back to San Antonio East of Houston I drove through some refineries that were lit up in what looked like a dystopian nightmare. But it was so! friggin! cool!
I hate to see it, you sounded so positive when you were bailing out of CA a few years back. Go travel man! Sounds like you're retired?
I had to go back to the grind...
Don't let the bastards wear you down!
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HeadSet
2026 Jan 11, 12:18pm
HeadSet
2026 Jan 11, 12:18pm
Maga_Chaos_Monkey says
True. But now I hear that my favorite star, the beautiful orange tinted Betelgeuse, is about to blow up. Orion just won't be the same.
Go out at night and look up, the stars are all still there.
True. But now I hear that my favorite star, the beautiful orange tinted Betelgeuse, is about to blow up. Orion just won't be the same.
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WookieMan
2026 Jan 11, 12:19pm
WookieMan
2026 Jan 11, 12:19pm
Maga_Chaos_Monkey says
I think people need travel. Especially solo travel like you did MCM. No wife, kids or friends. Seems sad but I'm uber pumped to take a solo trip to Mexico in May. A 3 day concert is involved and I have to worry about nothing besides hanging out with like minded people that have the money to do it from across the country and world. Get paid too.
I dumped all my townie friends about 3-4 months ago. I still like small town living, but all it became was drinking and talking about the same thing over and over and over. It was boring. I'll come back after a break, but probably not till this summer.
I'm ready to get out and just do something I like for once and not have to worry about what anyone else wants to do. Wife or kids. Just a me trip. Getting tired of plans I "have" to do or someone is upset. I think you might need something like that FW. Do something you normally wouldn't do.
And more to the AI shit, sitting around in whatever state or place gets mundane and now not trusting a damn thing makes it harder. Just 5-10 days can break anyone out of a funk. Get out and see different people you don't know.
I hate to see it, you sounded so positive when you were bailing out of CA a few years back. Go travel man! Sounds like you're retired?
I had to go back to the grind...
I think people need travel. Especially solo travel like you did MCM. No wife, kids or friends. Seems sad but I'm uber pumped to take a solo trip to Mexico in May. A 3 day concert is involved and I have to worry about nothing besides hanging out with like minded people that have the money to do it from across the country and world. Get paid too.
I dumped all my townie friends about 3-4 months ago. I still like small town living, but all it became was drinking and talking about the same thing over and over and over. It was boring. I'll come back after a break, but probably not till this summer.
I'm ready to get out and just do something I like for once and not have to worry about what anyone else wants to do. Wife or kids. Just a me trip. Getting tired of plans I "have" to do or someone is upset. I think you might need something like that FW. Do something you normally wouldn't do.
And more to the AI shit, sitting around in whatever state or place gets mundane and now not trusting a damn thing makes it harder. Just 5-10 days can break anyone out of a funk. Get out and see different people you don't know.
And let's also connect that to intel agencies. Our own CIA is very well known for creating online forums and using them to manipulate and sway opinions, spark riots. Great examples of that social engineering is their success with Twitter / Facebook in Arab springs and in Ukraine and BLM riots out here, or even that little crapy looking website patriots.win (social engineering for conservatives), with Elon Musk like a whore trying to give away "free (manipulated) internet" to every nation where CIA has an operation. This isn't US only, China, Russia, Israel and others doing same things. It's scary the level of manipulation that will come upon us from all sides as AI matures, it only gets worse from here. This is why I think internet is doomed, the level of manipulation is going to skyrocket sooner or later and ruin everything.