Comments on: week 9 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/03/27/week-9/ Experiments in Digital Content Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: ipadbaby22 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/03/27/week-9/#comment-776 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:25:08 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2074#comment-776 This has also been one of my biggest takeaways after reading Verified. I cannot lie, I love Instagram, and just because of the amount of content I see, especially content that evokes a reaction, reels often become a starting point for research. As you point out, the content seen online should not be trusted immediately, and viewers often need outside context to fully understand what they are looking at. However, many people do not seek out the extra context, or share things without fully considering the validity of the content. This combined with the actual labor of researching often leads people to taking “easier” routes, even if they are not correct.

]]> By: LKSOC1004 https://digitalwriting.site/2026/03/27/week-9/#comment-690 Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:35:57 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=2074#comment-690 The length of video is kind of concerning to me personally. On the one hand, if there is serious, real video that you need to investigate, I’m sure there’s a way to find a longer or more contextualized version. However, AI content is likely only going to be as long as what you originally see. AI video is often made for reels or TikTok, so its not going to render anything longer than the prompt demands. It’s not going to have more context that got cropped out because it simply didn’t generate it.

I did run into a concerning example recently. I like to watch videos on astrophysics and space. There is YT creator named “Astrum” that I watch semi-frequently, and he pops up pretty often on my homepage. I saw a video come up in the recommended section and it wasn’t an Astrum video, but the voiceover in the video was Astrum’s voice. I listened for about 15 minutes before going to the comments to find out that the channel wasn’t his. Astrum has multiple channels, so I didn’t think anything about this video being on a channel different than I had seen before. Plenty of creators have 3 or 4 channels.

As soon as I checked the comments, I realized that this channel:
A) Was not Astrum’s channel
B) Was not a friend of Astrum
C) The video creator used an AI to model Astrum’s voice and create similar animations to the ones that Astrum uses.

That entire experience made me worried because, in cases like that, there’s no real immediate tell that something is mega off.

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