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People of the future might think that we deliberately messed up the hands of AI-generated people (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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"In the early 21st century, there was a genre of art where hands were drawn either with an incorrect number of fingers or other mutations. We believe this style of art was used for ritual purposes. Strangely, this movement of art lasted a very short period of time, from 2023 before gradually disappearing by around 2025"

EDIT for those who didn't get it, it's because some newer image generators draw better hands

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[–] Anticorp 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything is extensively documented these days. If any future society has access to those photos, and understands they're AI generated, they'll also have access to our history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But what if there’s some sort of nuclear/zombie/robot/alien-apocalypse which results in tremendous data loss. Maybe a thousand years from now a future archeologist wonders why there are so many cursed pictures from a particular era. That might be a deeply unsettling mystery until someone finds an ancient research document about image generating AI. However, if nobody finds that document, the archeologists might just go with the traditional “ritual purposes” explanation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What's a bit more likely is that, in the future, the "Department Of Truth" will have access to all digital information and will have no trouble at all re-writing history at will.