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shrinking the world
reversing the zoom diaspora

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/will-ai-shrink-the-world

EL GATO MALO 2025.05.23 Fri 

https://substack.com/@boriquagato 

tell me what you notice about these two videos
this:

and this:

i’ll give you a hint:

yup. all these videos which are entirely AI generated from simple text prompts. this is not even sophisticated stuff anymore. it’s a children’s toy. here’s a bunch more if you want to run down the rabbit hole. some are far more sophisticated than the ones above.
and again, this is a publically available toy. imagine what the high-end tools are like…
this is not future tech, it’s nowtech (and not even cutting edge nowtech.)

you cannot tell what’s real or fake.
that ended 15 minutes ago
that video of musk is real. it’s typical zoom quality. it looks way faker than the videos above.
and that starts to really, truly change some things.
there were always questions about the effects of the “zoom diaspora” that gathered so much momentum during the days covidian.

SNIP 

fun videos EXCELLENT signal to noise ratio
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