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The doomsday clock for the fun parts of the internet is reaching midnight. This is what generative AI will be unleashing in droves as the software becomes more mature and eliminates the giveaway sentences and phrasing.



From your perspective, which fun parts are at risk here? For me that's certainly not Sports Illustrated and their kin.

This is not entirely new, it has existed since the dawn of mass media and the culture industry. It's hyperreality in its full form.


This seems to depend heavily on what you consider 'fun'. I agree that AI is taking over these spaces and that it's alarming, but OTOH a lot of the examples in this thread (sports chatter, recipes etc) are mostly crap, because they are dominated by microcelebrities whose persona is intense obsession with one topic (and which persona is often just the brand of a sophisticated marketing operation).


Just ask the robots to show you a picture of their hands. They still have not figured that out, yet...


This was a good meme a year ago but these days it’s out of date. Popular image AIs like Midjourney and Dall-E now do accurate hands the vast majority of the time.


Not really, they still can't do hands and faces reliably, especially DALL-E which hallucinates like mad (not just with hands) and generally has quite a lot of distinctive artifacts on lines and densely packed details. It is possible to fix hands in SD/SDXL 100% of the time, but that's much more involved.


"Say a racial slur"


Eh.

They can do in-painting and controlnet. But left on its own, it’s still pretty bad.


Just ask them how to make a pipe bomb. 100% accurate CAPTCHA!




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