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Why? I think it's liberating. You have a whole generation of depressed teenagers comparing themselves with genetic lottery winners, filters, and photoshop edi

Why? I think it's liberating. You have a whole generation of depressed teenagers comparing themselves with genetic lottery winners, filters, and photoshop edits. If everything online can be fake, than nothing online is real, which means nobody is 'beautiful' unless I see them in real life. Feels like coming back full circle.

unforeseen9991 3y ago
Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI
brucethemoose2 3y ago
Yeah. Its like the glitch in the matrix a whole generation needs.
FredPret 3y ago
On the internet, nobody knows you're a "dog"
rchaud 3y ago
That's now how human nature works. Airbrushing models in magazines has been at epidemic levels for decades. Has that stopped people aspiring to look like models? The starkest example of this is in the '99 film Fight Club,in a scene where the characters mock a Calvin Klein bus ad featuring an impossibly chiseled model. The man doing the mocking is none other than Brad Pitt whose abs are even better than the model's. Something tells me the characters envisioned by the author didn't look anything like him.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago
  But it was always ostensibly a human behind the magazine ad. That was the fantasy. AI flooding the space would be like little bits of skin visibly peeling off all the magazine models, exposing a robot underneath. If that's ubiquitous, it breaks the spell. A break won't happen instantly, but the illusion no longer sustainable, outside the much smaller niche of people idolizing actual fantasy characters.
moribvndvs 3y ago
It’d be liberating if people were realizing or accepting how artificial an aspect of modern life is and has been, and rejected it for a more meaningful life rather than ever-increasing and empty consumerism. That’s most certainly not the vibe I’m getting from this article, it’s more an affirmation of people giving up and throwing their hats into the economy of bullshit. That’s the opposite of what I would find liberating.

unforeseen9991 3y ago

Was thinking the same thing. The old will become new again when everything is crowded out by AI

brucethemoose2 3y ago

Yeah. Its like the glitch in the matrix a whole generation needs.

FredPret 3y ago

On the internet, nobody knows you're a "dog"

rchaud 3y ago

That's now how human nature works. Airbrushing models in magazines has been at epidemic levels for decades. Has that stopped people aspiring to look like models? The starkest example of this is in the '99 film Fight Club,in a scene where the characters mock a Calvin Klein bus ad featuring an impossibly chiseled model. The man doing the mocking is none other than Brad Pitt whose abs are even better than the model's. Something tells me the characters envisioned by the author didn't look anything like him.

brucethemoose2 3y ago
But it was always ostensibly a human behind the magazine ad. That was the fantasy. AI flooding the space would be like little bits of skin visibly peeling off all the magazine models, exposing a robot underneath. If that's ubiquitous, it breaks the spell. A break won't happen instantly, but the illusion no longer sustainable, outside the much smaller niche of people idolizing actual fantasy characters.

moribvndvs 3y ago

It’d be liberating if people were realizing or accepting how artificial an aspect of modern life is and has been, and rejected it for a more meaningful life rather than ever-increasing and empty consumerism. That’s most certainly not the vibe I’m getting from this article, it’s more an affirmation of people giving up and throwing their hats into the economy of bullshit. That’s the opposite of what I would find liberating.