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I honestly think derealization has an impact on how we view AI. Like, AI images are almost upsetting in nature for me now because it's just so wrong looking.
I know people who cannot tell AI images from reality anymore if they're photorealistic. These people have never experienced dissociation or derealization before. I tried to express what I saw in the images that was so fucked and they did not see it.
genZ: a note from genX(we survived the uncanny valley of polar express) dont tell them HOW you can tell. theyll just take it as notes to try again on the next generation. stay disillusioned and let them keep failing. you owe them nothing. no enemy more vicious than apathy and anyone plaigerizing deserves as much. this is what drives our nihilism.
Not hard to spot at all
You know what Gen Z, we disagree about middle hair parts, but I got to say, you're turning out to be alright in my book.
Im gen Z and AI imagery has always triggered an instunctual disgust response in me, but some are really hard to tell these days. I'm afraid we're already starting to overcome the uncanny valley at least for those cases where people put effort into making it look real
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First, GenZ haven't been "kids" for quite some time now, granpa lol. Its Gen Alpha, and even then they're getting older as well.
Second, GenZ and subsequent ones are completely disassosiated from the commercial world. A huge chunk of them don't like "commercial perfect", pre-baked vibes. That shows with everything: the garbagy/shitposty anti-mainstream meme culture, the "ugly" haircuts, minimally branded clothing (only area where this doesn't apply much is in music, since its kinda the other way around with how "mainstreamy" most music has become).
There are some attempts to make music also sound weird, like how that Quebecois band Angine de Poitrine became popular a month ago and their music is definitely unorthodox compared to the mainstream songs.
The "not fully" makes me happy
I'd think AI imagery is uniquely toxic for product marketing because it reads as an admission the product is worse than the picture.
We know you'll pick the most flattering angle, and the one perfectly formed unit out of 500, with a photo of a real shirt. It's the upper bound on reality, but it's still reality. If you have to hallucinate instead, you probably can't even make that cherry-picked example look good.
It's simpler than that. AI is faster and cheaper.
And it tells me nothing. I can't tell how a shirt is going to lay over the body if the image is fake.
Faster. Cheaper. Stupider. And possibly to obscure something.
AI has always stuck out to me, but recently it has started becoming even more blatantly obvious. I experienced my first bout of severe derealization from a PTSD trigger the other day and now that I'm out of it, all AI images look just as wrong as the whole world did when I was derealizing. Like the AI stands out even more now that I spent a few days with a severely altered perception of the world and was questioning what was real or not. Everything is back to normal except AI. AI looks even worse now. It is taking some getting used to lol.
I also have PTSD and experience de-realization. I always found AI's realistic depictions of human people extremely disturbing. I wonder if that has something to do with the de-realization aspect. We've experienced living in a not-quite-right perception of reality, and we're experiencing that same wrong-ness when we see an AI model.
I can confirm, my teens hate AI and are experts at spotting it. They will dissuade me from buying anything that advertises with AI.
Gen X here, and I probably can't tell without trying harder than I care to. Why "probably?" Because I've always despised marketing because it's all lies of heavy exaggeration, implication without actually claiming, and completely unrelated crap that somehow entices dumbasses to buy it (e.g. scantily clad models used to sell cars, tech, etc.).
I block every ad I can everywhere I might encounter them - and when I can't? The mute button works wonders. The harder they try to sell me, the more full of shit I know they are. I don't like being tracked, but that's practically an afterthought compared to the absolute disdain I have for marketing & the amount of bullshit I have to filter in order to glean the slightest bit of actually useful and believable info from an ad.
This sorry world seems to be run almost entirely on bullshit, and who can sling it most effectively. I look at the current White House resident as the culmination of all that is wrong in a world built on lies - lies made not only acceptable, but normal and expected all in the name of "marketing."
Fuck capitalism and the manipulative, greedy, power-tripping assholes that use "marketing" to steal money by convincing people their lives will be so much better with widget Y when they told us just last year that widget X would do the same.
No, I probably can't tell real from AI as easily as the younger set, but that's because I don't care to look at either one. It's all just an endless push to separate me from the pittance of funds I have left over after funneling the bulk of the few funds I've managed to acquire from one rich asshole's pocket to another - never staying in my account long enough to even earn a penny of interest.
Preach, brother/sister/non-binary sibling!
This is such a Gen X response and that is a compliment
Same. I feel like I didn’t build a natural resistance to AI images because I so thoroughly cut out ad sources and rarely see them.
whenever I see a company using AI art for their campaigns, I automatically ignore that company
The kids aren't alright they click ads/random links on the internet.
Name one demographic immune to internet advertisements
Millennials grew up at a time where all internet ads were scams/viruses.
They used to be and they still are
The demographic that used to rely on DNS/hosts.txt-based ad blockers and then switched to more integrated solutions like NoScript, uBlock, or uMatrix.
Seeing ads (especially given how aggressive and ubiquitous they've got) is now just low key upsetting. All that bandwidth and processing power for distracting me while I'm trying to find something.
I remember seeing a auto-playing video once on mobile, checking my data and it just ate 2MB of my 100MB monthly plan. Fuck, I was so angry, I blocked the entire site.
Not completely immune, but I imagine there's a non-zero amount of people in the adblocking demographic who are immune to Internet ads specifically.
Lol "Gen z".
We all have eyes, don't we?
Most older people I know IRL can't spot generated images, my Gen Z coworkers always can.
The problem is, that we're already at a point where some images require experienced eyes to be spotted. Someone working in graphics can tell, someone who doesn't will have more trouble to differentiate. At it'll get worse, because you just know, they'll double down on improving the AI up until a point where fiction and reality becomes indistinguishable when it comes to photos.
I'm not sure how survivorship bias applies here?
You are aware only of those generated images that you did recognize. It's not like every image on the internet comes with disclamer for you to compare with and calculate your hit and miss percentage.
I guess it applies more to some comments than original post though.
My 6 year old habitually asks me "is this AI or just Photoshop?".
Thank got they don't have a product created for intelligent people. Revenue would drop by 100%.
I've taught my gen alpha kids to accurately identify slop. I love watching corridor crew debunking videos with them.
You can tell when it just looks too perfect or uniform imo
And the lighting is just a bit too vibrant, the colors have just a bit too much of the Lisa Frank HDR look...
yeah, real artists express their emotion, which is depression
