Shrimp Jesus and other afflictions

Wednesday 29th May, 2024 - Bruce Sterling

*This is Facebook AI-generated engagement-bait, for various forms of Facebook scams and malware opportunities. This may be the first form of AI art, generated without direct human intervention, which has a business model.

*Not only is it “autonomous art” with no human creative effort, there will be more and more of it unless it is actively repressed.

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/ai-spam-accounts-build-followers

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*There are several “genres” of this kind of art, which include home decor, old people, amputees, infants, woodworking, ice sculptures, and military and religious themes.

*A Tunblr user who is curating and collecting images of this kind:

https://www.tumblr.com/faceboook-ai-images