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X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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"Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI."

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't care about "Grok", but just this morning I was looking at some creations that Stable Diffusion and Flux cranked out, and it's crazy just how incredible these image generators are getting.

I also saw one example of software that allows you to live-stream with someone else's face, using only a single photo of that person. You literally can't trust anything you see, read, or hear online anymore.

My webhost also put out some AI wordpress thing that basically creates posts and images for your website automatically. What's the point of the internet if everything is fake?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Dead internet theory

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's the point I'm reaching as well. The internet as a mass of disconnected sites feels dead. Any attempt to look up information goes to pages that follow the same formula and feel very AI generated even with errors and unconsistencies typical for AI. What is the point of the open net anymore? The only value I feel like I'm getting is in specific trusted platforms or sites. It's a sad state that we've reached.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm finding more and more websites with these long form question and answers about a topic. They all look the same and if you know enough about the subject you can easily tell that either AI or an idiot wrote these "articles.

I'm just going to start archiving human created content from the last 20 years, and stop looking for new content. The internet of 2024 is 99% quantity and 1% quality (from sites dating back more than five years).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly. No wonder people use tiktok to look up stuff these days. At least there you have actual humans sharing their knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

For how long though? How do you know these are real people?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Please link the livestream face thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the article I saw, but this one has the demo of the guy using Musk's face.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it have the link to download the tool?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It mentions the name of the software used, but I'm not sure if links are provided.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, it does! Thanks, great! Seems like a bit of a pain to install though, I generally prefer package managers over cloning random github repositories.