Art by Mrlovenstein
Oh no, there are millions and millions of boomers who are thoroughly addicted to that site and will happily consume AI generated content.
I went on there and saw a post about log cabins. That was some generic caption like “bet you wish you could live there”. The image was very clearly AI generated with things like floating lanterns and walls that didn’t need any support. Didn’t stop the literally over 20K comments of “you bet!” And “beats the city!” And a thousand other generic cliche responses. Which probably about half are also bot related but just as many are brain dead humans
Many of the replies are boomers whose accounts have been compromised but not detected - they just haven’t noticed the bot posts
They will consume regardless of who made the content, they are already believing every bullshit written by humans. When AI spills some deep woven conspiracy stories in the future, complete with unbelievable images “proving” the “incidents”, they will eat it up.
There’s already a creepy trend with AI generated Trump + god + beer + guns mashups floating around. Many seem to eagerly embrace the uncanny visuals of most AI generated images.
My dad was corrupted by social media. It’s getting a bit better, because he doesn’t have unlimited computer access anymore. But not long ago, his first sentence, after we hadn’t talked for a while, was: “What do you think about the woke agenda?”
He really suspended his real life and was almost 24/7 online and got deep in the wrong meta neighborhood.
My father was never like that before, i hope it’s not some state of perception that many of us are doomed to have sometime, because it’s age related.
They can also watch the ads and click on them to increase metrics.
Just don’t let the bots get near your wallet.
You could have left at any time.
For real I don’t get the comic at all. No one was holding anyone at gunpoint to play Farmville
The year is 2030. Skynet, once released onto the Internet, has started learning at geometric rate; in less than five minutes it was carpet bombing all social networks with shitposts.