In another ten years, after AI behaviour has been studied academically (which I feel like AI developers are not in a hurry to facilitate, so that the product preserves its mystique) we're all going to be super-jaded about this.
Like, someone's going to notice something like this and someone else is going to say "oh, yeah, that's just the Chang-Plimpton effect. It happens when multiple [hoozitz]-type parameters are very high in the source image, essentially creating a feedback loop in the [whatchamacallit]. "
I mean, I'm jaded about it now. The article - as written - feels like some Creepypasta I'd have seen on 4chan twenty years ago.
Oooo! A mysterious uncanny-valley ghost-woman image is popping up in the back of all my negative-of-a-negative-of-a-negative search results. Lets try to mystify this into a supernatural phenomenon, rather than realize it for a simple AI heuristic scraping the bottom of the logical barrel.
Someone at ABC News needed a fresh spin on the topic of AI Art, which was already saturating media markets. So they wrote a ghost story about AI Art (or, more likely, found a ghost story and slapped a journalist veneer over the top). I wouldn't even be surprised if someone used a chatbot to reskin the old Pokemon urban legend about an IRL kid who was killed by a haunted copy of the game.
In another ten years, after AI behaviour has been studied academically (which I feel like AI developers are not in a hurry to facilitate, so that the product preserves its mystique) we're all going to be super-jaded about this.
Like, someone's going to notice something like this and someone else is going to say "oh, yeah, that's just the Chang-Plimpton effect. It happens when multiple [hoozitz]-type parameters are very high in the source image, essentially creating a feedback loop in the [whatchamacallit]. "
I mean, I'm jaded about it now. The article - as written - feels like some Creepypasta I'd have seen on 4chan twenty years ago.
Oooo! A mysterious uncanny-valley ghost-woman image is popping up in the back of all my negative-of-a-negative-of-a-negative search results. Lets try to mystify this into a supernatural phenomenon, rather than realize it for a simple AI heuristic scraping the bottom of the logical barrel.
Someone at ABC News needed a fresh spin on the topic of AI Art, which was already saturating media markets. So they wrote a ghost story about AI Art (or, more likely, found a ghost story and slapped a journalist veneer over the top). I wouldn't even be surprised if someone used a chatbot to reskin the old Pokemon urban legend about an IRL kid who was killed by a haunted copy of the game.