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genuinely perturbed by this story: pcworld.com/article/703854/microsoft-edge-taps-ai-to-make-grainy-images-look-nice-and-crisp-in-your-browser.html something pretty fucked up about all the images we see being gradually replaced by ones with fake details, and that this is done invisibly, by a complicated infrastructure built in at a browser levelPermalink Look on archive.org
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like, here's an example of it in action @jaytholen/1577595054159536129Permalink Look on archive.org
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especially the way that AI eats it's own shit - the next generation of ML image generation technology will have been trained on this stuff, will start generating things that look like the things it used to generate, consensus imagery of the world gradually drifting from realityLook on archive.org
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previously on... @v21/1490298544477065219Permalink Look on archive.org
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also, as an artist, the idea that people will be viewing not the images i have created, but instead an AI-generated hallucinated alternate version of them, and doing so without knowing... it feels bad?Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's bad enough dealing with platform pipelines that re-encode your video and add new artefacts. but at least those are the same for everyone @v21/988050683650805760Permalink Look on archive.org
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(ok ok, but also if you're gonna get serious about it you have to admit that people will be viewing work with screens with flux, with different colour calibration, on a phone in bright sunlight, while feeding a baby, in all the infinite different contexts that exist. but still!)Permalink Look on archive.org