Sorry, I posted an AI picture

[Disturber]

I put up a picture of Nick Lowe on Instragram. With a Hamer 8 string bass. 

I had the jpg on my drive for some time. Don't remember where I found it. 

I thought it looked very clean. And after I posted it I zoomed in on some details, the fingers etc and I began to wonder if it was AI. Then I though perhaps someone just processed it, to clean it from grain. Over processing can give an unnatural clean look.

Then someone commented that it looked like AI. So I ran the picture through a checker and the outcome was that it was probably AI.

I get very annoyed and worried by shit like this. Our history will be all fxcked up by falsifications from AI. How will we know what is reality. How will our children and grandchildren know. Any historical photo could be all made up. Every past event can be altered with.

This past weekend I started watching a youtube vid about Def Leppard. Illustrated by stills. The voice over mentioned guitarist 'Phil Collins' then a still came up with  Phil Collins, playing a guitar in the studio, dressed as a member of Def Leppard. I realised I was watching AI slop. No humans involved in that video. Turned it off on the spot. 

I feel shitty for being fooled that the picture of Lowe was real. The Hamer bass looked very much like his old bass. just needed to vent this and say that I'm sorry that I put that shit up on Insta.

[cornjulio]

I think there is much to be said for analog catalogues, books, records, libraries....maybe we will reconsider these in the eye of AI 🫥