i saw this one posted around in earnest a bunch of times on reactionary boomer facebook (i keep an account just to spy on them)
There are more and more AI images being shared around by older conservative folk who don’t seem to even realize it’s AI. There’s thousands of them just like this. White folk sitting around doing white people things. Some of their groups have become flooded with happy pleasant Normal Rockwell style pictures of smiling white people with 14 fingers and non-euclidian geometry. But no one ever calls it out. They eat that slop right up and don’t even focus on the details like mangled English or joints going in incorrect directions. It’s like the Pleasantville-esque vibrations override their uncanny valley, or maybe they’re just not too familiar with what an image generator AI is.
On some level I feel glad for them. They get to spend their twilight years seeing pleasant AI images without the scrutiny we have. They’re seeing the best pictures they’ve ever seen, they adore this stuff. I constantly see people in those groups asking who the artist is, or if they can buy the picture and frame it. Imagine going over to mee-maw’s house and there’s a portrait of a 3 armed pastor in a church reading from a “Huvlev Brobablw” with a congregation of twisted indistinct shapes. And meemaw sees nothing the matter with it at all, doesn’t even notice.
i saw this one posted around in earnest a bunch of times on reactionary boomer facebook (i keep an account just to spy on them)
There are more and more AI images being shared around by older conservative folk who don’t seem to even realize it’s AI. There’s thousands of them just like this. White folk sitting around doing white people things. Some of their groups have become flooded with happy pleasant Normal Rockwell style pictures of smiling white people with 14 fingers and non-euclidian geometry. But no one ever calls it out. They eat that slop right up and don’t even focus on the details like mangled English or joints going in incorrect directions. It’s like the Pleasantville-esque vibrations override their uncanny valley, or maybe they’re just not too familiar with what an image generator AI is.
On some level I feel glad for them. They get to spend their twilight years seeing pleasant AI images without the scrutiny we have. They’re seeing the best pictures they’ve ever seen, they adore this stuff. I constantly see people in those groups asking who the artist is, or if they can buy the picture and frame it. Imagine going over to mee-maw’s house and there’s a portrait of a 3 armed pastor in a church reading from a “Huvlev Brobablw” with a congregation of twisted indistinct shapes. And meemaw sees nothing the matter with it at all, doesn’t even notice.
on another level I’m just sad
i want to print this post out and put it on my wall
perhaps they’ve finally internalized “it doesn’t have to make sense, it’s art”