Greetings reader, I hope this post finds you well. Welcome to April.
Disclaimer: This is mainly a rant post, you’ve been warned.
Generative AI in 2025 is hardly a new thing, it’s been around regularly for the past two years, easily and you really can’t traverse social media without running into some form of it. The aspect of it that really annoys me is not the lesser known approach of taking your facial makeup and allowing yourself to appear as a 17th century gladiator or space warrior from the 27th century, it’s the generation of photos that are supposed to be very real but, upon just a wee bit of inspection, clearly can be seen as fake. I’ve been seeing this WAY too much for my liking, thanks to the highly annoying Meta post suggestion algorithm, on Facebook. This images are that of architectural items – homes, the ever present “barndominiums” (I didn’t even know that’s a term), street scenes, indoor dwellings, and similar. The height of my annoyance is the large number of clueless people commenting on this images saying they are awesome, fantastic, great, beautiful, etc. Granted, these comments can be planted/created by the creator of the page (the creator even may be some sort of bot for all I know). A little bit of common sense after inspecting the image will reveal that this made by generative AI. I’m not saying I’m so keen to noticing that I stand out alone in stating this – there are always at least one or two comments in the post thread that point out the same.
The worrisome thing is if these comments that hail the greatness of this images are legitimate, we’re in for a future that will be VERY easily duped and accepting of fakery – not the really good deep fake imagery and video that is currently in development but it will be do just being too lazy to look a little further. We already have photo editing technology in the latest smartphone and imaging editing apps that can remove items from photos with accuracy beyond the Photoshop editing features that have been around forever.
Will we become so used to generative AI in the same way we’ve become used to voice generated audio that we clearly know isn’t a real person but is *close* enough, let alone the very latest in AI visual assistants that REALLY sound like a true person. My guess is, like many similar technologies, yes….it’s inevitable…they’ll sound even more realistic then the ship computers that talked back to the crew of the Starship Enterprise in the 60s.
Oh well, time moves on. Make it habit to touch grass, regularly (even it’s akin to astroturf).
Peace…oceans of rhythm
Fresh.
