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Comment by monitron

5 hours ago

> The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

Wait...wh...why?!? Of all the things, actual pictures of the planet Saturn are readily available in the public domain. Why poison the internet with fake images of it?

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echelon  3 hours ago

> > The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

> Wait...wh...why?!?

It has just begun. Wait until nobody bothers using Wikipedia, websites, or even one day forums.

This is going to eat everything.

And when it's immediate to say something like, "I need a high contrast image of Saturn of dimensions X by Y, focus on Saturn, oblique angle" -- that's going to be magic.

We'll look at the internet and Google like we look at going to the library and grabbing an encyclopedia off the shelves.

The use of calculators didn't kill ingenuity, nor did the switch to the internet. Despite teachers protesting both.

Humans will always use the lowest friction thing, and we will never stop reaching for the stars.

  • awesome_dude  31 minutes ago

    I, for one, have been hoping that AI slop would cause people to be a LOT more cynical about the information they get (from the internet in particular, but from any source in general)

    But it's not happened yet

    • echelon  18 minutes ago

      What statistical measures of "people" are you doing to measure this? How can you be sure nothing has changed?

      Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of "it looks like AI" comments on photos and videos now. That's the new "is it Photoshop?"

      I'd hold off on judgment until we get population studies on this.