Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I'm sorry, that only makes sense if the only people you see are performing actors and you literally never run into any real people. Your brain absorbs a lot more than your top-level thought process is aware of. That's why we humans even have intuition.
AI/Deepfakes are right now still just glorified algorithms, but they are sprawling, sophisticated algorithms that have been built up, iteration by iteration over the past 2 and a half decades. They are absolutely getting better at mimicking specific types of human expression. Still complete garbo at creation, and synthesis is still unreliable, but if you want on-demand endless "in the style of"s, AI has you covered. It can easily generate 50 plausible James Patterson or John Grisham titles, Photoshop has been becoming less of an art tool and more a collection of advanced algorithms for years now so it can do that pretty handily, and YouTube is awash in decent-sounding fakes where the living Presidents react to Sonic or play Minecraft or whatever. And that's just what normies are doing with the free stuff available to the public.
Seriously, just go to YouTube and type in "the presidents play", press enter, and scroll for days. Trump is the hardest one for the algorithm to replicate, because his speaking style is more explosive and varied than most politicians (so the computerized cadence is often noticeable as not how the real Trump would modulate his pitch and tone) - but if you didn't know better, the Obama is decent and the Biden can be uncanny. It was just a few years ago the Key and Peele guys did a fake Obama video about this phenomenon, showing how easy it will be to dupe - but they were focusing on the visual aspect, and just doing an Obama impression for the voice. That's now no longer necessary.