Language Games: A Secret Way Of Communicating That AI Will Never Understand

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Has AI content gotten out of control?

AI images, videos, voices, and articles are not only infiltrating the internet—it is a full-on flood … and every day it continues to pour down harder and harder. It’s so bad, many people are complaining that AI is ruining the internet as we know it.

In this article, we will look at where all this AI content is coming from, its inevitable takeover of the web, and how this will change the way we view online content. In the end, we will reveal some novel ways that humans might be able to preserve authentic shelter amidst this AI storm. These solutions might surprise you!

HOW DID OUR MEDIA STREETS GET SO FLOODED?

In November of 2022, generative AI got a boost like never before. This was when OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public, which sparked advancements in technology that have not been seen since the launch of the internet itself. Even though this technology isn’t even a toddler, tech giants like Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft have used these powerful AI advancements to propel their growth to record levels. And it’s not just the big AI companies that are exploding in value. The web has been littered with AI tools from AI image generators, video creators, tax assistants, music makers, and more. Almost anything you can think of is being fleshed out in the form of an AI tool or startup.

As a result of this surge in GenAI, AI content has been appearing all over the place. In just the past year, GenAI image tools have created more than 150 billion photos. If those pictures were printed out and stacked end-to-end, they would circle the earth more than 570 times. Not only that, but 150 billion pictures is 100 times more than Shutterstock’s entire library of photos, vectors, and illustrations, and almost four times the number of images ever uploaded to Instagram. Because of this, social media platforms have been hit with a massive storm of AI-generated content.

But AI content is not merely limited to images. In terms of content creation, ChatGPT generates the equivalent of 20,000 issues of the New York Times every single day. As a result, a lot of that content is finding its way onto the web in the form of AI created blog posts, AI-generated images, and AI-generated videos that can be found on platforms like TikTok and YouTube. In fact, videos created by GenAI tools received over 1.7 billion views on YouTube in 2023.

This AI content trend has extended to businesses as well. 83.2% of content marketers plan to use AI content generation tools to assist their marketing efforts in 2024. AI content creation is getting so bad that many online publications are predicting that 90-99.9% of the internet will be comprised of AI by 2025 or 2026. This means that only 0.01% of internet content will be authentically human. Human-written articles, human-taken pictures, and human-filmed videos will very soon be a thing of the past.

As a result of this AI content monsoon, instead of assuming that what you see online is authentically human, you will have to assume that all material is AI-generated. Despite some attempts in the form of AI content detectors and watermark technology, there is currently no good way to detect AI content as compared to authentic human content. Such methods have been found unreliable, and as GenAI continues to improve, detection will become even more of a lost cause.

This unavoidable content shift will go beyond the internet. Television and movies, for instance, are another industry that AI is beginning to take over. Companies like Showrunner are leading the way, releasing AI-generated movies and shows specifically tailored to the individual watching them. This approach will surely personalize movie creation. Instead of everyone watching the same “Top Gun” movie at the theater, people will see their own version of “Top Gun” that is customized to their liking. As a result, hundreds of thousands or even millions of “Top Gun” movies will exist, not just one. Hollywood will be transformed as well. Companies like Google and Meta have already been making deals with major studios to leverage video generation and editing technology.

Even outside of the internet and entertainment media, AI will begin permeate our physical world in the form of smart robots from companies like Boston Dynamics and self-driving cars like those from Tesla. Eventually, AI will become an inescapable part of our everyday experiences. But what does this mean for the authentic human experience?

LONGING FOR “THE GOOD OL’ DAYS”

We’ve painted what might seem like a grave picture for humans—one where we are left in the shadows. The thought of this future (not too distant) reality is a bit infuriating. In fact, AI’s omnipresence might start to burn us out. We will most likely long for authentic human-to-human interactions and human-made content. As a result of our push to modernize the internet, we will find ourselves longing for the days of internet from the early 2000s. We’ll want to live in the “good ol’ days” of a simpler tech world—one that is filled with humanness.

Is there a way we can avoid this AI-consumed world and preserve human authenticity? The answer might be found in teenage slang.

When we were young, we hid our conversations with friends from our parents. As teenagers that wanted our privacy, we used slang to keep our parents and other adults in the dark. The current generation of teenagers and young adults is no different. This generation is using a combination of secret apps, platforms, and slang terms to keep their personal conversations private and away from the prying eyes and ears of parents, teachers, and other adults. Current day slang like “giving, bet, bussin, sus, drip, receipts, slaps, and shook” are just some of the words and phrases being used as an intentional disguise to keep the old people away. The irony is that humans of all ages will soon use these exact same techniques in the near future. But instead of using them to fight against their parents and teachers, they’ll use them to fight against AI.

This will be done in a variety of ways. For example, human content creators will insert “human slang terms” into online articles and videos. These words will be used as a beacon—a beacon that indicates to the end user: “This is authentic human content!”

You might be thinking, “Can’t AI just generate that slang too?” Well, not exactly. The beauty of cutting-edge, trendy slang is that it always stays one step ahead. As soon as lame adults catch on, the slang has already evolved. The same will be true of AI. As soon as AI catches onto the “human slang terms,” new ones will have already emerged. In this way, AI will always be one step behind.

Even if training on live data gets so fast that AI is able to pick up on these nuances in human language in real time, we might find other ways to intentionally indicate human-created work. One way might be by blatantly including spelling and grammar mistakes in content. Because AI strives for perfection and rarely includes such mistakes in its output, we might be able to distinguish human-created content by its mistakes. In this way, those mistakes which make us “human”, might be the very thing that we begin to cherish.

In addition to language indicators, we might see groups beginning to form “human safe spaces” where synthetic text, images, videos, and robots are outright banned. Such media platforms will be reminiscent of a time before AI, where people posted authentic pictures of their food and cats, and ranted about their dead-end jobs.

THE FUTURE OF CONTENT

It’s no surprise that everyone loves playing with their new favorite toy: GenAI. As a result, the internet is getting flooded, and our drainage system simply cannot keep up. As a result, the AI tides are continuing to rise higher, causing us to drown in a sea of AI-generated content.

Although human-created content still pushes back on this AI wave, those efforts will soon be overwhelmed. As we have highlighted, our escape might be found through language. This could be in the form of grammatical mistakes that indicate human content or in the form of our own human slang. This is going to require, however, that you highkey vibe with this goated lingo.