it bothers me the way people will say “must be AI generated” to mean “dishonest, scammy” in a way that humans have been doing as long as media has existed. The AI bros didn’t invent “lying” and there will still be people lying to you once we get the AI mess sorted

@0xabad1dea Yeah, but it's scammy without skill - like in the past, a forger had to actually be a master artisan to create fake artworks. A cult leader had to have a significant technical understanding of fiction tropes, to create a narrative about alien ghosts being tax audited, and the Mothership kept in the Forbidden Barn, etc.

@0xabad1dea That does open up the intriguing possibility that those shady ads are what the AI is using as the training basis for the new versions...