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“As he watches a video of a fisherman get tugged and pulled into the water,
Fahad, 16, is confident his eyes do not deceive him.
"That looks real to me, I think," he says.
"Nothing's off about it, and I think the floor was pretty natural as well."
His confidence is misplaced. The video he is watching was generated using AI.
"That's AI? Oh … oh, I'm terrible at this."
He might say he is terrible, but he is not alone. As Sasha, 17, watches the
same AI fisherman, she falls into the same trap.
"I feel like that looked pretty realistic. I'm going to say real," she says,
incorrectly.
"Oh my gosh, this is not going well."”
Everyone does, but this is a TV program with a teenage audience so they only
talked to teenagers.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
