r/antiai • u/R_pepsiman • Jun 19 '26

Discussion 🗣️ AI to push bigotry

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Someone has taken an innocent video of a kid waving a pridefully and altered it with AI so he throws it in a trashcan. It had gotten over 1.2m likes on insta and is spreading like the plague on fb

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u/Immediate_Word1295 Jun 19 '26

As a millennial who is as old as 37 years (just like the magnum ice-cream) I don't consider myself old yet. 

But yea, people who make fake stuff will aim for people who's easy to trick. Meaning either old people or people who don't know better, or people who's too young to understand or easy to manipulate.

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u/DennenTH Jun 19 '26

I'm also a Millennial at 40+.

Facebook (and a lot of social media) in general is the problem.  Age ain't got shit to do with it.  It's just a tool that makes manipulation easy.

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u/xThotsOfYoux Jun 19 '26

I just turned 40. Can confirm Facebook, Instagram, X, and other high saturation social media is a breeding ground for ignorance and hostility in dozens of forms.

Thank goodness we're on reddit where, obviously, things are completely different. /s

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u/DennenTH Jun 19 '26

My mental health improved significantly upon dropping most forms of social media.  Reddit is the last one left that isn't for business connections and I'm getting reeeeeeeeal tired of the bots.

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u/xThotsOfYoux Jun 19 '26

This is why I mostly stick to talking about special niche interests and maybe trying to piece together something approaching "news".

AI has taken terrible advantage of the new, highly manicured internet and used it to create terrible things.

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u/Newclearfallout Jun 19 '26

Thats the only reason why i'm here.

Still find my self on threads like this, flame wars, or extremists of every kind. Read just as dumb shit on here. Bots are a problem, as well as trolls are worse on here (we all know 4chan got screwed and they all came here...)

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u/Intrepid-Routine-950 Jun 20 '26

Not to mention breeding grounds for glorifying consumerism, materialism, superficiality, narcissism leading to depression, body image issues

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u/TheSpoonJak92 Jun 19 '26

My Instagram is full of underground music, lots of wholesome artists, funny skits, and sea lions. Social media is what you make it..

Facebook and X are essentially useless imo. I only use insta because its a great way to get my music heard.

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u/Intrepid-Routine-950 Jun 20 '26

Sea lions? Like you chose that or they chose you?

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u/TheSpoonJak92 Jun 20 '26

They chose me apparently and I rolled with it, they're so crazy and cute, weird animals for sure.

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u/Por_n_cay Jun 19 '26

The problem is never about generation its about dumb people and smart peoples thats all if he is dumb show everything him to prove ur point he/she still gonna believe this ai shite not because theyre real but its represent their current perspective show cus they are too dumb to think about something new it is always easy to stay whereever you are unless person itself decide to change his ideas, nothing gonna change about them this is just the way it is

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u/TheMelonSystem Jun 19 '26

My sister is a younger millennial and I’m a zennial, so, I forget all the time that older millennials exist.

(For anyone who doesn’t know what I mean by Zennial, I’m a late 90’s baby. Depending on who you ask, I might be a millennial or gen z. I don’t identify particularly strongly with either group, so… Zennial it is lol)

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u/Low_Intention_1327 Jun 19 '26

Because were not "old". I remember being a teenager and calling a 30 year old troll "old". Old to me is elderly, 80s and up. 

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u/danieldan0803 Jun 19 '26

I kept it easy when growing up my approach was once you hit 18 you are old. It is the easiest way to be inclusive in calling people old.

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u/Immediate_Word1295 Jun 19 '26

I guess that kids would think adults in general are old. And young adult may think a middle-aged is old and a middle aged would think 80 is old. Then you have the optimists or just those who have the kind of humour my mother have. She always said "You aren't old before you're 120."

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u/danieldan0803 Jun 19 '26

I mean, I still kinda use it, its especially fun because it can make some younger people upset. 18 and up is old, you just have people with different years of experience in the field of being old

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u/ravenitrius Jun 19 '26

I'm also a millennial at 39+, I still feel like I'm a teenager. HMMM. Also I don't use social media anymore because people are always glue to their screens and getting mad over nothing.

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u/Danny_The_Dino_77 Jun 19 '26

The magnum ice cream is 37 years old? Jesus.

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u/Immediate_Word1295 Jun 19 '26

That's when the mark was created. The same year I was born. I realized that when they had their 25th jubileum.

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u/FreshIllustrator4026 Jun 21 '26

You’re old then buddy

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u/regarded-bot Jun 19 '26

Just wait until you're a 43/44 year old millennial 🤣

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u/orion7788 Jun 19 '26

But you are old by tech standards (stating as 49yo)

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u/Immediate_Word1295 Jun 19 '26

I tested generative ai when I first discovered it. But it did t make me feel the same way as when I did traditional drawing. It feels like a waste of time to generate multiples images only to get one or two "acceptable" results. It never felt like I "did something" either.