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Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing


Meta fails to read the room.

The images show the Northern Lights hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge, over a city skyline, and over a ferris wheel. Once you get past the first few comments from people sharing their own AI-generated Northern Lights pictures, the replies range from thoughtfully critical: Society is still sorting out messy questions about AI, like what it’s doing to photography and the ethics of training it on the internet’s collected works of artists, writers, musicians, and photographers.

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