William Pietri@williampietri@sfba.social
For decades, one of my joys has been the little snippets of real life that are incongruous and revealing. E.g., Chuck Shepard's long-running column News of the Weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_Weird
That remained true with the rise of the internet, which added a lot of weird photos and personal stories. So I'm sad to say that AI slop is slowly leaching the joy out of this. I always have to be on guard for fakes. I'm a pretty good fact checker, but it's still so draining to have to always be vigilant and to face the inevitable disappointments.
E.g., somebody just sent me a photo of great-looking corn-on-the-cob boots, which were plausible as some sort of artist's project. But after a careful look and a few minutes of searching, I decided they were fake. Boo!
So let me offer a big fuck-you to both the AI image generators and all the humans using them to create and circulate plausible but fake images without being forthright about what they're doing. They're all parasites on social trust.