Consumers can't tell the difference between human-made and AI-generated videos, study suggests
A survey of U.S. consumers indicated that a strong majority of Americans would be comfortable supporting government regulation that required labeling on artificial intelligence-generated content. The same consumers surveyed had difficulty discerning AI-generated video from human-made video content.
Americans responded to a HarrisX survey asking them if they wanted "U.S. Lawmakers to Require Labeling on AI-Generated Content," with most responding that they would support such an endeavor.
Consumers were asked about fully AI-created videos, photos, writings, music, captions, sounds, and more, Variety reported.
The strongest response came in regard to labeling AI videos and photos, at 74% and 72%, respectively. Only 61% of respondents supported labeling AI-generated sounds and captions; representing the lowest amount of support on the survey.
Even though the majority of consumers supported forced-labeling on every media type they were asked about, a more concerning result came out of an attached task for each respondent: determining whether a video was real or AI-generated.
The video-based survey was conducted using OpenAI's Sora; a text-to-video AI generator.
Participants were shown a total of eight videos, four which were AI-generated and another four that were human-made videos. A majority of viewers correctly guessed the origins of a video just once for the artificial-intelligence generations and once for the human-made videos.
While an AI video of a close-up on a person's eye had 50% of respondents declare it wasn't authentic, AI-content that showed panning footage of a town was correctly deemed fake by 56% of viewers.
A human-made video of a city was the only footage correctly labeled as created by a humans, with 57% of viewers saying of it was real.
The same survey respondents made it clear that they would also support government regulation in terms of protecting certain job sectors from the impact of artificial intelligence.
In total, 76% said that they would support the government implementing "strong regulations to protect jobs Sora and AI could impact." Just 24% said that "strong regulations will stifle innovation and prevent more jobs from being created by the new technology."
The survey of 1,082 U.S. adults was consistent across all demographics with those between ages 50-64 most likely to support the regulations and ages 35-49 least likely to support, at 81% and 71%, respectively.
Women were more likely to support the legislation by a factor of 6 points versus men.
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Support for a few other notable regulation types were ranked highly by respondents. These included those who think there should be accountability rules for companies responsible for AI content output (39%), those who feel there should be stricter privacy laws for collecting user data (34%), and those who believe ethics standards for AI should be developed (33%).
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Don't buy the lies! The feds are LYING about the job market and US economy
The Biden administration isn’t shy when it comes to boasting about how many jobs it’s created — but maybe it should be.
The administration has quietly — and conveniently — deleted 439,000 jobs from its 2023 job reports. This means that almost a quarter of all jobs added in 2023 didn’t even exist in the first place.
Former investment banker Carol Roth cites a saying attributed to Mark Twain in response: “There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
“The data is bastardized, and I would argue not even relevant to how our country’s economy is run,” Roth tells Glenn Beck, noting that this is all either odd, lazy, or nefarious.
“Those are your three choices,” she adds.
Meanwhile, there’s a record-high number of 8.7 million people holding down multiple jobs.
“Those are things that would make you scratch your head and say, ‘That’s moving in the wrong direction,’” Roth says.
While government jobs make up much of the recent hiring, Roth says it's “not sustainable.”
“Those don’t have the same level of productivity because they are paid for by our tax dollars and or the printing of money,” Roth explains.
According to Glenn, 216,000 jobs were added in December, and 52,000 of those were government jobs.
“Which brought us to an all-time high of 23 million employees for the federal government,” Glenn says, shocked. “It’s an astounding, astounding number.”
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Gen Z girl MELTS DOWN over 9-5 job, but does she have a point?
A 20-something Gen Z girl broke out in tears on TikTok after learning that the nine to five grind isn’t all fun and games.
“This is my first job, like my first nine to five job after college, and I’m in person, and I’m commuting in the city, and it takes me forever to get there. There’s no way I’m going to be able to afford living in the city,” she told the camera.
The girl also claimed she has no energy to cook or workout and no time for friends or dating.
“I’m like so stressed out,” she sobbed.
Jason Whitlock has a surprising take on the TikTok.
“I’m somewhat defensive of this woman,” he tells Shemeka Michelle, who doesn’t disagree.
Shemeka recalls being a biology major in college and telling people she wanted to be a doctor while her heart was actually set on something else.
“But really, I want to be a housewife,” she tells Whitlock. “And like you said, it’s against nature, and they can’t figure out why they’re so unhappy — that’s why. Be at home, get you a man.”
“When you do a job or get involved in corporate America,” Whitlock responds, “you’re taking on someone else’s burdens and responsibilities and giving yourself a whole new set of problems that maybe you’re just not that passionate about.”
Whitlock believes the video is a symptom of America’s move away from “traditional family structures.”
“If things were working properly, our grandparents would probably at some point come live in our house, we would be married, we would have kids and the grandparents actually would take part of the load,” he explains.
“The whole system is out of whack,” he continues, “and I look at this young woman and she’s stressed, she’s got anxiety issues, she’s overburdened because our entire family structure has broken down.”
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Record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs as Great Resignation shows no signs of stopping
The Great Resignation — the widespread movement by American workers to quit their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic — continues to handicap the United States' economic recovery. A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September, causing job openings to remain at near all-time highs.
A record-high 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs in September, according to the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover or JOLTS. This follows the previous high of 4.3 million in August. The "quits rate," or the percent of workers who left their jobs, rose to 3% — also a record.
CNBC reported, "So far, roughly 34.4 million people have quit their jobs this year, with more than 24 million doing so since April. By comparison, 36.3 million people quit their job in all of 2020."
The number of job openings stayed on pace with recent months at 10.4 million, not far off from the all-time high of 10.9 million in July. Job openings increased in health care and social assistance, state and local government excluding education, wholesale trade, and information.
In September, there were seven unemployed workers for every 10 job openings — a record low.
"Hires and total separations were little changed at 6.5 million and 6.2 million, respectively," the report noted.
Nick Bunker, economic research director at Indeed, told The Hill, "The rise of quitting across the labor market is remarkable, but the concentration among a few sectors is eye-popping. Quits are up the most in sectors where most work is in-person or relatively low paying."
Liz Wilke, chief economist at payroll service company Gusto, told CBS News, "People are rethinking their work, and they are sitting on an unprecedented amount of savings — people feel very comfortable that they can find a new job, and that's what we think of when we think of a strong labor market."
ZipRecruiter chief economist Julia Pollak told CNBC that turnover is a major factor for businesses, "Employers are basically having to replace their entire staff in just a couple of months. It's really quite dramatic."
Pollak adds that the historic turnover may present tremendous opportunities, "It's an exciting moment for job seekers who are benefiting from employers offering hiring incentives and reducing their requirements."
Ben Ayers, senior economist at Nationwide, predicts that the job market will become enticing to those sitting on the sidelines, "We do expect that higher compensation and plentiful openings will draw more workers to reenter the labor force in coming months, helping to ease the tight labor market somewhat. But as the unemployment rate approaches pre-Covid levels next year and is expected to drop further beyond that, the labor market could remain relatively tight throughout the current expansion."
Goldman Sachs analysts warned that the Great Resignation shows no signs of stopping, "Labor supply drags from COVID concerns appear sizeable and will likely linger in the medium-term, since it may take some time for some people to feel comfortable returning to work."
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