If you intentionally want to see bizarre AI generated images, I can highly recommend the Cursed AI group on Facebook.*
It is amazing and often inspiring to see the group's unhinged creations.
For better or worse, it is hard to dispute that AI generated imagery is making real advances in surrealism, and lowering the bar for people to make their own surreal horrors. At the same time, it's clear the more dedicated a human artist is, the more zany and unhinged their AI generations will be. The work of someone who has put thousands of hours into AI art is just miles ahead of people who just write a prompt and hit generate.
Thus I propose Cursed AI is a counterexample to AI spam - an AI generated community where you go if you WANT to see totally bonkers AI imagery!
If Facebook died tomorrow, I would want the Cursed AI group to continue existing!
*(Full disclosure: I love cursed imagery. For example, I celebrate the goatse image as one of the most iconic and important cursed images ever - use that disclosure to judge whether you accept my taste in images.)
The future is bright. AI is turning out just like all the sci-fi we software engineers were inspired by.
Thanks, SV!
> “This is most evident when the content in question is extremely low-quality, comically absurd or offensive in some way,” Schoolcraft added. “Whether it's a child transforming into a water bottle cyborg, a three-armed flight attendant rescuing Tiger Jesus from a muddy plane crash, or a hybrid human-monkey baby being stung to death by giant hornets, all tend to have copy+pasted captions, reactions & comments which usually make no sense in the observed context. It's as if everything from the creation of the images, to the daily management of the accounts, to their fan base and interactions, has been automated to optimize whatever revenue stream this genre helps generate.”
What exactly is the revenue stream of bots talking to bots? I see how Facebook would make money from this, but not how all the people involved in creating these bots would benefit.
I did some research because I was also interested and I read somewhere that FB has creator fund, similar to tiktok, where you can get paid for engagement under your posts. So it seems to be a scam, where they don't even hope to display content to real users, just fake engagement and get paid by FB
I'm sure that Facebook could get rid of it if they wanted to. The same way that they could get rid of only fans creators flashing you pictures of their privates in their short videos. The same way they could get rid of racists and transphobes and other bigots. The same way that Google could get rid of the 20 paragraph essays on basic facts you can find in Wikipedia.
It's just that getting rid of these things would be less engaging and lead to a deficit in ad revenues. And they have nothing else to show instead. Because authentic contents do not give them enough ad revenue.
So they can't actually get rid of them without collapsing the business model.
[+] [-] barfbagginus|1 year ago|reply
It is amazing and often inspiring to see the group's unhinged creations.
For better or worse, it is hard to dispute that AI generated imagery is making real advances in surrealism, and lowering the bar for people to make their own surreal horrors. At the same time, it's clear the more dedicated a human artist is, the more zany and unhinged their AI generations will be. The work of someone who has put thousands of hours into AI art is just miles ahead of people who just write a prompt and hit generate.
Thus I propose Cursed AI is a counterexample to AI spam - an AI generated community where you go if you WANT to see totally bonkers AI imagery!
If Facebook died tomorrow, I would want the Cursed AI group to continue existing!
*(Full disclosure: I love cursed imagery. For example, I celebrate the goatse image as one of the most iconic and important cursed images ever - use that disclosure to judge whether you accept my taste in images.)
[+] [-] tivert|1 year ago|reply
Thanks, SV!
> “This is most evident when the content in question is extremely low-quality, comically absurd or offensive in some way,” Schoolcraft added. “Whether it's a child transforming into a water bottle cyborg, a three-armed flight attendant rescuing Tiger Jesus from a muddy plane crash, or a hybrid human-monkey baby being stung to death by giant hornets, all tend to have copy+pasted captions, reactions & comments which usually make no sense in the observed context. It's as if everything from the creation of the images, to the daily management of the accounts, to their fan base and interactions, has been automated to optimize whatever revenue stream this genre helps generate.”
What exactly is the revenue stream of bots talking to bots? I see how Facebook would make money from this, but not how all the people involved in creating these bots would benefit.
[+] [-] arturkesik|1 year ago|reply
[+] [-] Simulacra|1 year ago|reply
[+] [-] fluffet|1 year ago|reply
Is there a case for KYC versions of platforms? Maybe platform knows who you are, but you can remain anonymous "outwards"?
All forms of automated detection and generation will work like GANs and race each other.. Leads me to believe something else is the answer.
[+] [-] barfbagginus|1 year ago|reply
It's just that getting rid of these things would be less engaging and lead to a deficit in ad revenues. And they have nothing else to show instead. Because authentic contents do not give them enough ad revenue.
So they can't actually get rid of them without collapsing the business model.
[+] [-] unknown|1 year ago|reply
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