The photo above with the lovely woman wearing a hat as she walks along the beach in a blue bikini was created by the Gemini AI app, otherwide known as nano banana. It’s a nice image, and as you might expect, one of the common uses of generative AI involves creating images of beautiful women. We can’t help oursleves.
This has so many implications it makes your head spin. But one of the immediate side effects we’re seeing these days is a proliferation of “AI slop.” That’s basically garbage content created by AI in bulk, and then often used on social media to drive clicks and engagement, and in many cases revenues for the account posting this garbage.
Have you been on Facebook lately? They app is loaded with AI slop, and Facebook’s algorithm seems to be encouraging it! I like accounts that feature pretty celebrities, and now I’m inundated with fake celebrity photos, often paired with fake news about what a celebrity said and did. And of course Facebook seems to be doing little about it.
So while we can enjoy these images, it’s a lot less interesting and fun when they’re everywhere, and you don’t know what real or not real.
