It's a small thing in the overall catastrophe but I'm an illustrator of philosophers so I notice. There's one account that has been single-handedly polluting the web with AI-generated philosopher portraits that look vaguely authentic. These go with AI-generated essays about those philosophers. - ThreadSky

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jholbo.bsky.social • 4 days ago

It's a small thing in the overall catastrophe but I'm an illustrator of philosophers so I notice. There's one account that has been single-handedly polluting the web with AI-generated philosopher portraits that look vaguely authentic. These go with AI-generated essays about those philosophers.

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adewebb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Another confirmation to support the predictions of Dead Internet Theory. 😕

roland00.bsky.social•3 days ago

doing it with Berkeley is absolutely positively funny

jholbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

The first three image hits for Kant are: an AI Kant that doesn't really look much like him because it's obviously a genetic hybrid ofJacobi and Kant; Jacobi; that actual Kant portrait.

jholbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

And it's obvious the whole racket - AI-generated portraits of philosophers to illustrate brief AI-written intro essays on those philosophers, read by an AI voice (if you want) - is a likely futile effort to scrape for pennies. Someone is probably making, like, $10 by spreading pollution.

jholbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or maybe $1.

jholbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

A penny for your thoughts: trading all the footnotes to Plato for SEO.

cdanby.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's a Hegel t-shirt on Amazon that looks nothing like Hegel.

jholbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

I've seen stuff on RedBubble you wouldn't believe!

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