Artificial Rubbish – part 5
Artificial intelligence is taking over antisocial media and most people aren’t even aware of it.
I recently posted this on my The Hall of Einar Facebook page:
I don’t pay Facebook to promote my posts so they are only seen by a small number of my greatly appreciated hardcore followers. It got 6 likes, which is normal for my posts – I have 1.9K followers.
I spent a fortune on photography equipment, travelled to a remote place, walked for miles, journeyed multiple times to learn the birds’ behaviour, and came back with this, my best shot.
I posted about my real life adventures and the experience of spending time with them:
Then I spotted AI generated nonsense images of Black Guillemots. Someone’s used a text command to create a computer-generated image of a Black Guillemot with chicks. The beak is all wrong and so are the chicks, as well as the fact that they are never seen out in the open and Black Guillemots only lay one or two eggs.
The Facebook page for The Wildlife has 129K likes and they have 196K followers.
Then I spot another:
The Facebook page for Wildlife Planet has 91K likes and they have 179K followers.
And another:
The Facebook page for Nature And Wildlife has 102K likes and they have 239K followers.
Who are all of these followers? Many are probably bot accounts – and not people at all. Do people believe that these cynically engineered ‘cute’ photographs and false-poetic captions are real? Seriously? Yes, they do.
Why do the people creating this AI this do it? They sell advertising on their website. Why do I do it? Sharing the love of nature.
Please follow me on Facebook, X and Instagram and like and share if you would like to. Let’s bring real life back to wildlife.