[wan23]

My elderly uncle is completely addicted to these. We can barely complete a conversation without him getting bored and pulling out his phone to watch these nonsense videos. I don't even understand what the point is. The ones he watches are these clearly procedurally generated stories. It'd be one thing if the content was actually interesting, but ugh.

[jb1991]

Now I am super curious, I really need to see an example of one of these videos!

[gregschlom]

Here's a representative example that my father in law (in his 70s) shared with me the other day: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puRg-4ZvNYs

[bpoyner]

somebody in the comments mentioned this is a point where the AI glitched out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRg-4ZvNYs&t=150

[alvah]

That's hilarious. Reminded me of the scene at spaceport security in the original Total Recall where Arnie's AI loses the plot.

[jgalt212]

someone had nine-sixty dollars drained from their bank account. seems legit.

[papageek]

She just wants your attention. https://youtube.com/shorts/27VqkuNndOY

[alcover]

Fascinating broken-bot glitch, thank you. Reminds me of some sci-fi movies.

[dmos62]

Oh, that's exactly the kind of video I was talking about.

[taude]

4.2K likes.

Maybe I should be generating generic AI made videos. LOL.

[ManuelKiessling]

Crazy. On mobile it’s relatively easy to grab the playhead and scrub back and forth quickly over the full length of the video — this shows how the face movements are totally repetitive and constrained to a very limited space and variety.

[kedean]

"and nine sixty dollars is gone"

This isn't even well done. I also opened it in a private browsing window, and the ad I was served was the most obviously AI-generated slop hawking some kind of health drink...that was clearly just a badly generated bottle of apple cider vinegar (text on the bottle was all mangled but it's exactly the kind my grocery store sells), and the "doctor" speaking barely synced up with his voice. Do people falling for these just have no sense of the uncanny valley?

[wedigshit]

These are crazy (and scary)

[saltyoldman]

I hate that I opened that in my main account, it's weird AF. Goes off to edit YT history to hope that click didn't affect my alg.

[marc_g]

Absolutely regret just doing the same thing.

[delis-thumbs-7e]

This is genuinely disturbing. I’m speechless.

[keybored]

The man ran into the woman. [Young adult Far East man runs into young adult Far East woman.] The woman said sorry, I am such a clutz. The man said, that’s okay. The man fell in love with the woman. The man dated the woman for many weeks. The man met the woman’s father [Tekken grandpa]. The man did not recognize the father. The man and the woman got married. Turns out that the father was actually the owner of the company where the man worked and the daughter was the heiress. The man and the woman went out for dinner.

[majani]

Hang out with some 5-10 year olds and give them control of YouTube, they'll show you within 2 minutes

[eth0up]

Or this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hyw04fT4vtM

Skip ahead a minute or two - the narrator is a bit dull

[nialv7]

these videos are as close as we can get to plant electrodes directly in your brain's reward center, and repeatedly pressing the "reward" button. obviously not everyone is the same, but if it hits it hits hard.

[MichaelZuo]

There are so many of these stories… it makes me wonder if humans in general have “general intelligence” either.

Or whether it’s only a small subset who do.

[sublinear]

What people do is not well correlated with what they know. You can't reduce people to their behavior. You can reduce machines to their behavior.

If you disagree, I would strongly suggest you review where else you might be making this incorrect assumption.

[kakapo5672]

You can't reduce people to their behavior ...

As a first approximation, why not? Behavior is generally all we have in front of us, plus any other assorted social signals. Internal mental states are invisible, as is the personal history of the individual. We might note a man beating a kitten on the sidewalk, and believe this behavior sufficient grounds to reduce this person to the category "dick", even if we remained unaware of his high intelligence, his doctoral paper on gender-inequality, and the fact his mother hates him.

[MichaelZuo]

If you don’t assess people based on their actions… then how do you assess them?

From my experience actions are easily worth thousands of times more than any other criteria.

[sublinear]

Attaboy you're on the right track! We're almost in agreement. I'm saying that you cannot accurately assess people at all! All you can do is guess.

But when we assess a machine, we do know everything about it based on its actions.

[Timwi]

> But when we assess a machine, we do know everything about it based on its actions.

This is obviously false. Every developer has had hour-long debugging sessions to track down a mysterious behavior. Sometimes entire teams are stumped by a technical glitch. Until the bug is found, nobody knows everything about the machine.

[sublinear]

Yet the bug has a chance of eventually being discovered. If someone is determined to find it, they certainly will. You are not thinking clearly here.

[MichaelZuo]

This comment doesnt make sense.

How is it relevant to my question, whether you think someone else agrees with you… or not?

I just don’t see a reason for anyone to give you higher credibility than other HN users.