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by an1sotropy 1316 days ago
For a short time, some kids will boast about their ability to spot a deepfake in some media, but then they will use "deepfake" more generally to say that something (not AI-generated) looks weird or bad. Eventually "deepfake" will come to mean "very fake" or just "fake", and "deep" as a general prefix will start getting used to mean "very" but in a disparaging way.
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Interesting take. This reminds me of when people say that hate CGI in movies. What they really mean is they hate bad or noticeable CGI—a huge portion of CGI is stuff we don't even notice, like landscapes or city streets.
That is truly deepdeep!
I should have seen that coming :)