SAN FRANCISCO, CA - In the wake of a devastating supply chain attack in the npm registry that left millions of enterprise applications compromised and billions of user records exposed, developers across the JavaScript ecosystem expressed deep sorrow today, lamenting that such a crisis was completely unavoidable.
“It’s a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern web apps,” said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string. “There’s absolutely no way to foresee or prevent someone from taking over a long-abandoned utility package and injecting a crypto-miner into every production build in the world. It’s just an act of nature.”
Amazing that moderate-effort generated images look this good now, and yet i immediately twigged that it’s not a real photo.
Lo and behold i look closer and indeed the text is garbled nonsense.
Are they intentionally priming the models to have this weird aura of surreality? Or is it just something inherent to AI-generated images that’s somehow really difficult to avoid?
Entire generations are subconsciously being trained to detect AI, better than another AI can.
While this is true, there’s still a very consciously visible “style” to these images. It’s too obvious for me to call it subconscious.
Like the weird focus, the text on the whiteboard looking like a digital font… The individual things that are weird are quite easy to point out.