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Chelsey Weber-Smith

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424 total appearances

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Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

cute cat ai videos like pale in comparison because we had like no comparison yeah practical effect kind of hoaxes or you know and as a lot of rotten.com ended up being hoax stuff which was really comforting to me to learn yeah you know many many many years later but two girls one cup is mostly fake i believe

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I don't know.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I hope.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It's nothing sacred.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

That makes sense, which feels like kind of what we're seeing with AI right now.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yep.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I know.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

How sweet.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yep.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I mean, I don't remember that, but I remember it from from the research.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah, that was a big a big moment.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And it's really interesting, too, because this was like a full blown moral panic, I would say, over something that looking at it now, these pictures are.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

really fake like they look bad they look really bad and it's very very very clear that these are computer generated and so it's it's just interesting because we have it's again it's the classic moral panic do you want me to uh read some of the selections i i picked out uh that show how fake it is and also that like this was clearly written to be a joke yeah yeah yeah yeah

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yes, to be very clear, this is fake, fake, fake, fake.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Not in good taste, but fake.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And the ones that are in the jar finished, those look very, very fake once you get, like...

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I understand why people were freaking out, you know?

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Yeah.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It's a slippery slope.