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There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply … being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.

A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces. The White House account on X jumped on a trend of creating images in Studio Ghibli style and posted an image of a Dominican woman in tears as she is arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). AI political memefare has, in fact, gone global. Chinese AI videos mocking overweight US workers on assembly lines after the tariff announcement raised a question for, and response from, the White House spokesperson last week. The videos, she said, were made by those who “do not see the potential of the American worker”. And to prove how pervasive AI slop is, I had to triple-check that even that response was not itself quickly cobbled-together AI content fabricating another dunk on Trump’s enemies.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Facebook is a disaster that is happening in real time and yet

Facebook has for some reason decided I need to see a constant stream of compact, cutesy studio apartments with a variation of “this is all I need” captions.

Oh you still use it

I mean, aren't we sleepwalking into disaster from pretty much every single direction at this point? How much more midnight on the doomsday clock can we get? The most depressing thing is gonna be when we finally cross that midnight line and we still have to pay bills.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I for one can't wait till AI can make video that digital forensics can't distinguish between it and real video...

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yes, then the incessant bitching and worthless backpedaling might stop! All the anti-AI efforts to poison models and close Pandora's box is worse than the foregone conclusion that AI is here to stay. Gonna tear down the nuclear plants going up, starving artists? It's not a nice reality, welcome.