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Enshittification

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Discovered this today while browsing featured media on Wikipedia Commons.

Today's video on Media Of The Day was a video about having sex in space. It is also pinned to the top of Wikipedia's Sex In Space article.

It was amusing, but didn't include citations or appear otherwise credible. It was made using a service called "simpleshow foundation", which brands itself as "giving you the power to create simple and engaging videos with an easy-to-use, AI-powered video maker platform".

So, yeah, more AI slop.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is narrated by the Kurzgesagt guy, and didn't look AI generated at a glance.

It's also here on youtube from 8 years ago, when this technology was not available for regular folks https://youtu.be/Jy6MwwHpv1s

The yt channel links to https://simpleshow-foundation.org as the website.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look at the date the file was created:

Date 31 May 2016

Going back to the website then finds zero mention of AI nor was the technology really capable of creating anything like that video (or even parts of it)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160401142946/http://simpleshow.com/us-en/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, per the comments in this thread, OP is misleading us?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps not intentionally, super annoying the way they phrased the title though. I guess it makes sense why news media says things like “allegedly” or “possibly”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But they're not the same thing. The headline makes it sound as if Wikipedia is deliberately allowing AI-generated video, when the video in question is years old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah which I didn’t like as well tbh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I don't see anything there suggesting Wikipedia themselves endorsed this video? Just because someone slips it into an article doesn't mean its allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Would it have been possible for a couple to fuck in space and ground control wouldn't have known about it? 🤔 If no one has fucked in space, the only way we could visualize it is through artificial means. Be it AI or drawn by a human. I'm kinda okay with it for the sex in space article. But not much anywhere else. However: that video is not even AI generated? It's like a JibJab video. 🤨