Get the fuck off big tech photo storage apps if you're still on them for some reason. Coworkers have been discussing gen AI photos in your gallery
So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child's beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
It's not a picture for them to look back on or to share with the kid when they're older. It's for social media. It starts as a perfectly nice photo and like an intrusive thought asks "what if you could make it better. "
I would hate to have the only parts of my past edited with things that weren't there so my parents could impress the neighbors.
And people applaud this. At the same time you’ll be seeing more articles asking why suicide rates have skyrocketed and that young people feel more alienated than ever.
It's likely to become a sort of (deliberate) arms race where social norms will expect enhanced images and anyone who doesn't use them (or doesn't use sufficiently expensive bazinga editing) will be socially marginalized.
Internet, phones, computers; all of it. All of it is eventually folded up into a form of social coercion for you to be more of a productive human being. Sure, they serve that purpose; but the direction of that productivity will always remain the same under what we have now.
It's become more normalized and somehow more offputting than when everyone you know would add heavy gaussian blur to look... idk younger? Prettier? I honestly don't get it because the blurred photos look awful to me.
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child's beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
I haven't had to see those yet, but if that's what's being normalized now... this is a new level of bleak bazinga clownishness that I didn't even know was possible.
I intentionally bought a polaroid specifically for memories with my daughter that i could have ready nearly instantly. i still use 35mm on occasion, but that takes a bit more time and set up than a toddler can afford.
I gotta get a film camera. I got some nice prints of all my good cat pics cause it would really suck to lose them cause whatever device shit the bed. Hard copies of stuff are cool and good. I'd like to find something entirely analogue
I don't know, as someone who liked using Photoshop to do silly stuff (back when I had access to Photoshop), the idea of making it easy and practical to do on a phone sounds fun. I just don't want AI to do it to photos I didn't ask to edit. Stay tf out of my stuff