Kiss Reality Goodbye: AI-Generated Social Media Has Arrived
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The arrival of AI-generated social media content, as demonstrated by OpenAI's Sora, raises concerns about the future of online reality and authenticity, with commenters questioning the implications and potential consequences.
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This is what I'm concluding as well. I don't know if that means there will be a backlash that favors simpler communication- in person, old-school methods, private blogs or what have you- or there will be a faction of people who realize this and abstain while the rest of the world go down the mass hallucination rabbit hole of a severly dystopian Matrix.
At point was social media ever a reflection of reality?