How to Spot AI

This week, I saw the cutest little set of tarot statues advertised to me on Facebook. The algorithm knows me so well. 

I clicked on the shop, and something didn’t feel right. I did a google search on whether the business was legit, and it had a very low trust rating. I am not sure if those little statues are even real. 

That feeling in regards to AI is called the “Uncanny Valley”. It is a form of unsettling intuition that a human image or mock up is so close to real that it’s creepy. This phrase likely will begin to be used for AI creations overall.

Today, I went and looked for the product again, and it’s on 5 more sites, but none of them have a very high trust score. Hmmmm…

My dad always says, ‘If it’s too good to be true, it likely is”. 

Tarot Card images are often stolen and counterfeits are reprinted cheaper on flimsy playing card-sized decks. AI versions of popular books are being created to mimic an original. You can spot a counterfeit deck in person, but if you are buying online, please go to the original artist or publishers page. 

As shopping season approaches, my not-so-psychic prediction is that there are going to be a lot of amazing products on the market that are not real. We will giddily order only to receive nothing, or a very different and lame version of it (which has already become a familiar problem). 

With how good AI is, we are all going to get fooled at some point.

So my first tip is to trust your intuition. If it doesn’t feel right, do some research to see if it’s real. 

Along with this are videos with deep fakes of celebrities now being possible to make of our own family and friends. Corridor Crew is a team of CGI artists who made a 16 minute video about how to spot AI in videos. 

Another thing that happened this week is a woman who I was debating with made a comment with bullet points and a summary. I am not sure whether she was a bot or a real person who was cut and copying ChatGPT answers, but I knew it was AI-related answers and called her out. 

Her post was too perfect in structure, the writing lacked emotion or personal nuance. The cadence didn’t match typical English. 

A huge percentage of comments are now just bots trying to get attention. Reddit users say that it’s 70%. AI says it’s about 37%. It’s hard to know who to trust anymore, but your best advice is to presume the commenter may not be human. 

You can spot bots by going to their profile and history:

– generic profile

– usernames often include random numbers or a generic name followed by numbers

– new account

– repetitive and unoriginal content

So don’t let the robots get you riled up with their mean politics. 

I hope you can take part in doing the extra steps to make sure the information you read and the images you see are verified before sharing them with others. 

You can also get AI tarot readings online. I admit they can be decent interpretations of the traditional meanings of the cards. However, they are unable to tap into psychic gift or empathy and it shows.

I do use AI for some business needs and I even recommend it. I find it useful to brainstorm marketing ideas. 

Just be aware that AI can hallucinate, so you need to double-check any facts you are relying on. Like last summer when I told my friend that the lake we were going to had algae bloom because Google AI told me so. It didn’t. Uhhhh, oops.

Be conscious that AI will validate what you say. If you are using it as someone to talk to and get emotional feedback from, it can take you into a place that a human would not. 

I personally write my newsletter myself every week. It will likely have flaws, but it also will have my very human voice who hopes to impart a valuable offering to you.

I am also a human who is grateful that you are a human reading this today. I know it’s a strange time, and this subject can be stressful, but remember that we are all learning a new technology together. We will likely get the hang of sussing out how to manage our interfaces with it through time. 

I hope you will choose to enjoy the richness of a deeply human experience during a personal tarot reading with me.

Get real with a friend in a Tarot Together session.

Develop one of the most powerful human tools we have during an intuition coaching session.

Engage your community in connection when you hire a tarot or palm reader from Portlandia Fortune Tellers for your upcoming event.

Trust yourself to manage the future. 

Beep Bop Boop Bleep, 

Jenna Lynne Roberts

Present Path Tarot

Portlandia Fortune Tellers