The title is intended to be a joke, playing on our long-run "Enough with the cat pictures" thread.

Here's my beef: I have quickly grown to hate the stereotypical generative AI images that are ubiquitous on the internet (for Harris voters and residents of Rio Linda, that means "exist everywhere").

Before this, I had gotten tired of HDR images, with their unnatural-appearing "high dynamic range". Something like this appears in the AI images I'm complaining about. They appear cartoonish rather than realistic. And they are all of a kind.

Can I ask an AI program to generate a pastel watercolor image instead? I don't know, haven't tried.

I was just wondering if other SF folks are getting tired of AI (in this form) already.

Yes

About to delete facebook because of all of the fake pics posing as real ones

quote:

...all of the fake pics posing as real ones...

They just go hand in hand with many of the people who post on FB...

quote:

Originally posted by BigSwede:
Yes

About to delete facebook because of all of the fake pics posing as real ones

I deleted facebook (bragbook) several years ago. …I don’t miss it in the least!

It seemed somehow improper to post this in the United Healthcare thread, but given that the image is almost certainly AI-generated, it seems proper to drop this here:

I've heard a few YouTubers say it's made their lives easier when it comes to creating thumbnails for their posts, so there's that.