Comment by haiku2077

20 hours ago

Congratulations, you are almost fully unplugged from social media. This product launch was a huge mainstream event; for a few days GPT generated images completely dominated mainstream social media.

If you primarily consume text-based social media (HN, reddit with legacy UI) then it's kind of easy to not notice all the new kinds of image infographics and comics that now completely flood places like instagram or linkedin.

Facebook, discord, reddit, HN. Hadn’t heard of it either. But for FB, Reddit, and Discord I strictly curate what I see.

Not sure if this is sarcasm or sincere, but I will take it as sincere haha. I came back to work from parental leave and everyone had that same Studio Ghiblized image as their Slack photo, and I had no idea why. It turns out you really can unplug from social media and not miss anything of value: if it’s a big enough deal you will find out from another channel.