What is the purpose of AI generated images? When it comes to LLMs I can sort of understand them as Siri was popular long before AI, but what function does AI generated images fill in a normal person's life?
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I love my computer, you make me feel alright
Every waking hour and every lonely night
I love my computer for all you give to me
Predictable errors and no identity
I tried out the photos app to make a picture a video. It just kept making me blow bubbles in almost every video. It's very useless as it only has "subtle movement" or "I'm feeling lucky" Not impressed.
lol @ their Google Photos AI attempt, “now you can modify your photos so they appear to portray something that never happened!”
(Naw not restoration or removing blemishes or crowds or fixing an unfortunate aspect, like “now you’re at the beach when you weren’t!)
I legitimately do not understand how this is a thing that people want. Never in my life have I thought to myself ‘I’d really like a realistic looking photo of myself doing something that did not happen.’ Like, outside of scammers, why is this something somebody would want?
scammers and people who live their (fake) life on social media are the exact people who need something like this. Unfortunately for us all that is the majority.
The fake life on social thing is very weird to me. It’s one (if that) step removed from pathological lying. Idk, I just don’t see how trying to make others jealous of a thing that I never did would make me feel better. I guess it’s the dopamine hit of a ‘like’, but to me it just seems totally disconnected.
I can understand overplaying something you did a little, but to use the OP example of a woman laying in a field with an astronaut, is there really that many people going ‘well me and my boyfriend had a great date the other day. Sorry you can’t meet him, he’s back in fucking space. Long distance is hard.’
I guess they should have asked the AI to come up with a prompt that isn't super creepy and stalkerish.
our democracy is already straining under the flood of misinformation and over-information; this will just sink the final nail in the coffin. my parents already can’t tell current ai slop from actual news and video
The thing is it doesn't matter. People already couldn't tell if things were real or not. Facts have been out the window for a long time.
This doesn't change anything. People are just stupid.
Only thing I have ised this for was making funny edit to have fun with my family and removig unwanted elements from photos (people on beach or trash in alleys), but I can imagine people will use this to fake their online lives even more.
This is a tool, and like all tools, it has equal ability to be used for the good or for the bad. If all you ever look for is the bad, then you will never realize the good.
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