Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines

What's the point of using videos like this if it's a risk to reputation just to use them?

Saving money of course! That’s the sad truth

The same reason you don't feed prime vegetables and fruits to pigs.

there are no risk of reputation until you use it. further more, even within creative professions, using Gen AI is already acceptable to some degree.

What's the point of saving money if it's a risk to reputation?

The people with whom this is a reputational risk were not going to buy Will Smith concert tickets anyway.

I’m wondering at what point the minority are going to finally accept ai is here to stay.

Will smith punched a dude on stage, a comedian. I think you are putting a lot on a cage concept with a scatter plot of outliers.

You actually need a reputation of merit for there to be risk. Hes a rapper, not a saint or Ethicist.

“AI” editing is one thing

The upscaling seems to be Google doing it without permission of the original uploader. Google however are unaccountable, you can’t complain otherwise you’ll be exiled

Vote with wallet etc /s

There's no risk to reputation. You get a massive rage boost then reveal that "a social media contractor used authentic crowd photographs in an unauthorized manner and is no longer employed by the company". You reveal the photos, everyone either celebrates the contractor getting canned or that this wasn't AI and you get huge lift.

People are suckers. You can tell them you are going to do this, do it, and they'll still fall for it. Don't tell them and they'll think better of themselves and of you for obeying them (cf fictional firing) and you're done!

The entire point of this article is that the "make it look worse" filter is being applied by YouTube automatically, whether creators want it or not.

I wonder if it had the same bad effect on other content (surely they tested it first and thought it would be useful!). Maybe double AI reinforces itself somehow?