AI made figure skating videos

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My facebook account (I hate facebook/Meta but because of my hobbies I need to have an account) has given to my feed videos which clearly are made by AI. I checked - I do not tell the user's account name here - the account and it was full of AI made videos. What is sad, people believe they are real. The face is always similar, the style is similar, the body is similar, face is similar, only hair and dress and amount of audience varies but the arena looks very similar in all those videos. The name of the skater, of course, is not told as the "name" is AI made.

Thoughts about that? Have you encountered something like this? What bothers me about this is during the corona times there were also some video competitions, at least in some places. How can you be sure that they are authentic in the future if a similar situation occurs again?

 

[NanaPat]

What bothers me about this is during the corona times there were also some video competitions, at least in some places. How can you be sure that they are authentic in the future if a similar situation occurs again?

For the "video" Canadian Challenge competition, an official or two and professional camera person traveled to various arenas at pre-arranged times. The skaters performed their programs for the camera person in the presence of the official(s). The advantage of this system was that the videos were of good quality and were filmed in a similar way. Also, the skaters were only offered one opportunity to do their program. For the competition, all the videos were shown in succession to the online judges and the online audience.

No room for AI under this system. But there was much less travel and exposure to large groups of people than there would have been even with and in-person audience-free competition.

 

[Mathman]

I think we are out of luck. Anyone can make a fake AI video of anything they want -- or write an AI term paper to get a college degree (or, better yet, just skip the middle man and print out a degree certificate. directly.)

 

[Anna K.]

print out a degree certificate. directly

...and get a lawsuit upon your head five years later when you have earned enough fortune to pay the damages caused by incompetence

Kidding. Serious people check the university website and verify the certificate number before they admit you to the job. As well as, checking the AI presence in university papers has now become the professors' main duty. Life changes.

As for the skating videos, there are two words: authorized source.

 

[Mathman]

...checking the AI presence in university papers has now become the professors' main duty. Life changes.

Life changes... and stays the same. As for students getting AI to write reports for them, I remember how it was decades ago.. The teacher would assign you to write a 500-word report on the Fall of the Roman Empire. So we would trudge to the library, check out the Encyclopedia Britannica, and copy out 500 words into our notebooks.

Now comes the hard p[art. We had to re-write it using our own words. What?! I'm a little kid. The author of the Encyclopedia article is an expert scholar and a professional writer. If I try to re-write this guy's work, what can I possibly accomplish except take a well-written piece and make it ten times worse? What is the point of that?

 

[ladyjane]

I am one of the people who realise the possibilities of AI in analysing, the processing of lots of data but also that it cannot 'get' the creativity of what humans can do. It can learn a lot from what you put in, and seemingly come with new answers to problems. But these videos? Utter drivel, and ignoring them won't help as facebook/META will just pump up more of that drivel, just other ones. @Anna K. gives good advice though.

 

[4everchan]

I see lots of AI created post on FB. It's funny but 95% of the time, it's obviously AI. So it cannot be that good if it ain't fooling me, and I am easy to fool

 

[dorispulaski]

otoh I am a fan of skating kitty cat videos produced by AI.

 

[elbkup]

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Margaret Atwood on AI and creativity

 

[moonvine]

Life changes... and stays the same. As for students getting AI to write reports for them, I remember how it was decades ago.. The teacher would assign you to write a 500-word report on the Fall of the Roman Empire. So we would trudge to the library, check out the Encyclopedia Britannica, and copy out 500 words into our notebooks.

Now comes the hard p[art. We had to re-write it using our own words. What?! I'm a little kid. The author of the Encyclopedia article is an expert scholar and a professional writer. If I try to re-write this guy's work, what can I possibly accomplish except take a well-written piece and make it ten times worse? What is the point of that?

Or if you’re a college student pay someone else to do it for you.

 

[CoyoteChris]

Life changes... and stays the same. As for students getting AI to write reports for them, I remember how it was decades ago.. The teacher would assign you to write a 500-word report on the Fall of the Roman Empire. So we would trudge to the library, check out the Encyclopedia Britannica, and copy out 500 words into our notebooks.

Now comes the hard p[art. We had to re-write it using our own words. What?! I'm a little kid. The author of the Encyclopedia article is an expert scholar and a professional writer. If I try to re-write this guy's work, what can I possibly accomplish except take a well-written piece and make it ten times worse? What is the point of that?

When I was in college in 1968, fraternities had files of papers you could chose from. If there was a test in say history in three sections for a day, the first section students from a frat would memorize specific questions and report back for the students of the other sections in the frat. I stayed in a dorm.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

...and get a lawsuit upon your head five years later when you have earned enough fortune to pay the damages caused by incompetence

Kidding. Serious people check the university website and verify the certificate number before they admit you to the job. As well as, checking the AI presence in university papers has now become the professors' main duty. Life changes.

As for the skating videos, there are two words: authorized source.

People "on the spectrum" and those to whom English isn't first language, now say that their "handmade" works are often wrongly detected as AI-made.

I am one of the people who realise the possibilities of AI in analysing, the processing of lots of data but also that it cannot 'get' the creativity of what humans can do. It can learn a lot from what you put in, and seemingly come with new answers to problems. But these videos? Utter drivel, and ignoring them won't help as facebook/META will just pump up more of that drivel, just other ones. @Anna K. gives good advice though.

Or, AI has lots more of "creativity" than humans?

https://www.magnific.com/premium-ai-image/female-figure-skater-jumping-midair-white-outfit_280185975.htm#fromView=search&page=4&position=8&uuid=43f77259-0789-4f11-9bd5-bf2e4396bc53&query=Balletic+figure+skater

https://www.magnific.com/premium-ai...259-0789-4f11-9bd5-bf2e4396bc53&query=Balleti c+figure+skater
(Actually I wassearching another AI-generated figure skater picture I had seen, with three arms, illustrating a rather bland article on FS, probably also AI-generated.)

Life changes... and stays the same. As for students getting AI to write reports for them, I remember how it was decades ago.. The teacher would assign you to write a 500-word report on the Fall of the Roman Empire. So we would trudge to the library, check out the Encyclopedia Britannica, and copy out 500 words into our notebooks.

Now comes the hard p[art. We had to re-write it using our own words. What?! I'm a little kid. The author of the Encyclopedia article is an expert scholar and a professional writer. If I try to re-write this guy's work, what can I possibly accomplish except take a well-written piece and make it ten times worse? What is the point of that?

Once, for an exam, I had to sum up to the quarter, a speech by a French politician, about the Public Service, particularly empty, where each paragraph had a title summing it up to about a tenth (which was more than sufficient to express anything that was to express), in other words of course. I think that was the most difficult sum-up I've ever done. I'm really ashamed to parody Henri Guillaumet's words to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for this silly boast, "what I have done, no electronic beast would have done".

 

[ladyjane]

Or, AI has lots more of "creativity" than humans?

https://www.magnific.com/premium-ai-image/female-figure-skater-jumping-midair-white-outfit_280185975.htm#fromView=search&page=4&position=8&uuid=43f77259-0789-4f11-9bd5-bf2e4396bc53&query=Balletic+figure+skater

https://www.magnific.com/premium-ai...259-0789-4f11-9bd5-bf2e4396bc53&query=Balleti c+figure+skater
(Actually I wassearching another AI-generated figure skater picture I had seen, with three arms, illustrating a rather bland article on FS, probably also AI-generated.)

Nothing creative about these, just stupid mistakes (sorry, @DizzyFrenchie). I was thinking more along the lines of Scripts for films, novels and the like. Yes, you can generate a script for a Doctor Who episode through A.I. - which is understandable, because the series already exists for almost 63 years - there's many episodes to choose from. Mix them together and you get a 'new' script, though the examples I have seen of such mixes were rather bland episodes as they could have been written for any Doctor, Companion (1 or more), and even monster.

I personally find it an insult to the human mind to think that AI can be seen as being more creative than humans. You'll never get out more than you put in, even if the system learns. Creativity can't be learnt, that's just it. I don't think it means every human will (always) be creative.

 

[DizzyFrenchie]

Nothing creative about these, just stupid mistakes (sorry, @DizzyFrenchie). I was thinking more along the lines of Scripts for films, novels and the like. Yes, you can generate a script for a Doctor Who episode through A.I. - which is understandable, because the series already exists for almost 63 years - there's many episodes to choose from. Mix them together and you get a 'new' script, though the examples I have seen of such mixes were rather bland episodes as they could have been written for any Doctor, Companion (1 or more), and even monster.

I personally find it an insult to the human mind to think that AI can be seen as being more creative than humans. You'll never get out more than you put in, even if the system learns. Creativity can't be learnt, that's just it. I don't think it means every human will (always) be creative.

I'm sorry, I was joking and I ought to have made it clearer than just putting quotation marks.