an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn’t just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it’s that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI
this is about the trampoline bunnies
“lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi–” silence nerd, the problem is that i don’t want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me
keeping prevs tags cuz yeah. yeah.
seeing an animal video and worrying that it’s a video of animal abuse and being relieved to find that it’s just AI
(it’s like that picture of the blue tongue skink eating chicken nuggets that turned out to be a Photoshop)
(except now people who did Photoshops are out of business and replaced by people who just type in prompts of whatever ill-advised thing they want a picture of a blue tongue skink doing)
(this is good news for blue tongue skinks that shouldn’t be eating chicken nuggets because staging a picture of that for real is now by far the least easy option)
