Another banger post by @robhorning.bsky.social. "The proliferation of cameras and editing suites means that 'images' and 'memories' have less and less to do with each other." Thanks to AI in apps like Google Photos, even our so-called memories are premediated.
“A recent Stanford study found that some people credit Replika for saving their lives. But chatbots can be unpredictable, and users have also blamed the chatbot app for throwing them into mental crises.”
AI girlfriends have been seen as a harbinger of chaos for a long, long time.
Showing how AI image generators reduce much of the world to stereotypes (for example, making all "Indian Man" into an old man with a gray beard.