Facebook's AI Spam Isn't the 'Dead Internet': It's the Zombie Internet

It is amazing and often inspiring to see the group's unhinged creations.

For better or worse, it is hard to dispute that AI generated imagery is making real advances in surrealism, and lowering the bar for people to make their own surreal horrors. At the same time, it's clear the more dedicated a human artist is, the more zany and unhinged their AI generations will be. The work of someone who has put thousands of hours into AI art is just miles ahead of people who just write a prompt and hit generate.

Thus I propose Cursed AI is a counterexample to AI spam - an AI generated community where you go if you WANT to see totally bonkers AI imagery!

If Facebook died tomorrow, I would want the Cursed AI group to continue existing!

*(Full disclosure: I love cursed imagery. For example, I celebrate the goatse image as one of the most iconic and important cursed images ever - use that disclosure to judge whether you accept my taste in images.)

Thanks, SV!

> “This is most evident when the content in question is extremely low-quality, comically absurd or offensive in some way,” Schoolcraft added. “Whether it's a child transforming into a water bottle cyborg, a three-armed flight attendant rescuing Tiger Jesus from a muddy plane crash, or a hybrid human-monkey baby being stung to death by giant hornets, all tend to have copy+pasted captions, reactions & comments which usually make no sense in the observed context. It's as if everything from the creation of the images, to the daily management of the accounts, to their fan base and interactions, has been automated to optimize whatever revenue stream this genre helps generate.”

What exactly is the revenue stream of bots talking to bots? I see how Facebook would make money from this, but not how all the people involved in creating these bots would benefit.

Is there a case for KYC versions of platforms? Maybe platform knows who you are, but you can remain anonymous "outwards"?

All forms of automated detection and generation will work like GANs and race each other.. Leads me to believe something else is the answer.