Indeed,
For a country founded (at least partially) by people who disagreed with the rule of kings/queens… These American States seem to forever be trying to reestablish a pseudo-royalty for which to:
worship as though a better archetype of the best possible human
a desire to enrich this de facto royalty in hopes to one day become as they are
a desire to enhance ones own standing in society, not so much for the improved living conditions itself, but instead to be “better” than their peers
Though I’m sure that the type of deference to a hierarchical structure is psychologically built into humans, America has perfected it while believing it does not apply to themselves.
The only thing that made me do a double take was my own disbelief that CT could be that snappy a dresser. Then I noticed the left hand leopard had a tiger’s face. I didn’t even see the Lovecraftian horrors that were the rest of the cats’ bodies until you mentioned zooming. These fake images are horrifying in oh so many ways, and the vast majority of the horrors are all in the implications for the future.
Zooming in is normally my go to when not sure if an image is human-legit or ai-made. On the other hand, the other points taken into account, another giveaway is the non-osha approved handrail.
Edited to add this: am i mistaken to believe that ai generated images may be harder to distinguish from human made if the generative tool being used is a paid-for version?
I’ve not developed that habit yet. It usually takes a minute for me to even consider “this might be fake” if it’s not obvious in some way. I’m a great big skeptic in most ways but I still default to seeing a picture and assuming it’s real until something clicks to set up a red flag.
There was probably quite a bit more money coming from it back then than there is now. I can understand taking short cuts because of that. I mean that is the actual use case for AI: it may not be any good but you didn’t have to hire someone/spend any time or creativity doing this thing.
