- Pdiddy, kayfabe content, and truth in recoordkeeping - I mentioned in [[2024-06-26 ai and personal data]] that I thought “voice replication, deepfakes, and personally identifying information” would be what pushed us into a “post-truth internet” (as opposed to, e.g, stolen art). - Since then, P. Diddy was arrested, and the amount of misinformation and speculation online is worse than I’ve ever seen it. - Someone put a book on Amazon saying that it was written by Kim Porter and published posthumously. People are making six-pat series dissecting the book on TikTok. - There’s an AI-generated song that people are saying was recently released by Justin Bieber; it’s an AI replication of his voice singing about a “Diddy party”. - **I feel like it is *so* easy to create fake content, and things go viral *so* quickly that fact and fiction are becoming increasingly blurred.** - There’s also a couple of TikTok who posts their home camera footage. They share “candid” conversations in their kitchen about coworkers or friends or whatever. - Except every video is clearly staged. - I catch myself feeling like a buzzkill every time I point out that a video someone shared with me is probably fake. - It makes me feel like: Why are you taking it so seriously, just laugh at the funny video? - BUT THAT’S HOW THEY GET YOU! - I don’t want to get desensitized to fake content presenting itself as genuine… Or is everyone else in on the joke? - Either way, this is [[{1.2a2e1} kayfabe content]]. - [[2024-11-09]] This continues to get worse because [[{1.2a2e2a1} algorithms increase the spread of misinformation]].