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AI Is Generating An Unstoppable Online Backlash
AI-generated images, videos and writing are changing the internet, manifesting the "Dead Internet Theory," and the backlash isn't dying down.
Billy Coul, the organizer behind the Glasgow Willy Wonka fiasco, has been named and shamed by Rolling Stone as a “corner-cutting huckster,” who used generative AI to publish sixteen books on Amazon. Among the AI-generated tsunami of curvy anime girls and hazy fantasy art, there are artists who are experimenting with AI as a tool, and some have managed to create visually striking and thoughtful work. “ Hallucinations ” have still not been solved, and today’s models guzzle water and energy at a terrifying rate, to the point where Altman believes that an AI-powered world will require a “breakthrough” in nuclear fusion.
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