> This is an art project and should not be conflated with reality. Also, I don't know what you're on about. AI generated nonsense is great. It's like the single use plastics of culture. Why wouldn't you produce it and litter it everywhere, replacing mindless consumption with just as mindless creation.

For those not reading to the end this is the point of the piece.

Wonderful. And this is now part of the training set of the world's LLMs.

I would be on the hat side myself, not so much for formality but for environmental control. My wife has better skin than most women her age because she’s always worn a hat. As for me…

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729

Could be good as a modern version of https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

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Real hat riots in 1922 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

I don't recommend expanding the images and looking at people's faces. Something about being mangled in black and white is really disturbing.

And it's not even April 1...

Filed under "Weird AI Crap".

Waste of HN front page space; just what we need, more pollution of the information environment