Ep27. Leather Reinforcement Issues. Removing Scratches + More

Walsall leather museum petition: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-proposed-sale-and-closure-of-walsall-leather-museum hello and welcome to the leathercraft masterclass podcast with me Phil and today this podcast is going to be answering some questions that I got recently on the Forum and I'm also going to be discussing uh a couple interesting topics something in the leathercraft news and something that ties in with the previous podcast which in fact I'll just dive straight into that uh interesting interesting remember on the previous podcast I was talking about the infiltration of AI into leathercraft whether it's using AI to make artificial intelligence leathercraft bags sorry I have contact adhesive and a lighter on The Wire there um and how it's kind of infiltrated our craft which is very much a a human very much around a human touch and human creativity and kind of a AR tale be careful what you believe in now I have occasionally get I do get bot comments on the Forum which is really annoying but it's part of having an open Forum where you don't actually have to be a member to read The Forum you need a me to be a member to be uh to post on it which is free to do for anybody um but having an open Forum you are open to bots I mean you see them all the time on things like reddits and and other famous forums but you know you can't get around it recently I've received comments that are very closely resembling a human and what they're doing now instead of just putting spam words that don't make sense and then throwing a link in there from somewhere else because the more your websites linked on on Google the higher the ranking can be that's basically what's happening what they're doing recently is they're using artificial intelligence to answer questions on a forum and they're not posting links or trying to do anything first of all they're like a trojan horse they're making it seem like something real and then later on they're going to start link dumping and it's very subtle and I'm going to read these comments out to you I'm going to read a human one a response to someone's question and I'm going to read an AI one and I'm going to see if you can tell which is which it's very close some of them have been very convincing but it's yeah I'll talk about it afterwards okay so the comments are as follows and I will read I've got both of them open in tabs whichever tab I open first I'll read that one and then uh go to the next one okay so the person's question was the original question a real human being a student in fact I have a question about dying natural leather what should be applied in turn and should the flesh side be died as well okay so that was the human question now I've opened one of the tabs and the first one that I'm going to read I'm not going to tell you if it's human or not put it in the comments below before I actually reveal and see if you got it right okay so Bridget Davies says when dying natural leather start by applying a leather repairer or deglazer to clean and open up the surface then use a leather dye applying thin even layers for consistent color it's not necessary to dye the flesh side unless you want to match the surface color but you can apply a light coat if desired for uniformity okay so AI or human do you think I'm going to read the next comment hello Henry which was the person's name hello Henry If the product you're making doesn't have a lining where you'll see the flesh side you may dye the flesh side too however you will need to seal it well as the contents of the product a bag or a wallet may get some dye rub off the flesh side also absorbs a lot of dye so who do you think of those two replies to the question which one do you think is real and which one do you think is artificial intelligence one of them was me and one of them was AI okay so which do you think was real and which was AI okay so the answer is the second one was me okay so the first one was AI I mean it's since been deleted you can't go and see it obviously when I see see it come up I just get rid of them automatically and you can usually tell because you got a profile picture of this Bridget Davies and they they sign up and then two minutes later they're answering questions with their full name in their Avatar and a a profile picture like a school photo and it's all very there's no mistakes in it it's very a then B then C um and it's subtle but I think a lot of people will be fooled by that but for me I mean it's it it stands out very quickly uh I also in fact I there's a bit that I didn't put in on my one which would give it away which where I said I would start with this blog post I created on dying Leather So I created a blog post called we'll die eventually start today I don't think AI would come up with something like that you know just it just doesn't quite get humor but uh that would have given it away but yeah so I just thought it was interesting I'm not going to go into the matter again I've already...