Or take 'celebrity slop': a fake image of billionaire Elon Musk comforting a sobbing Starbucks cashier who 'can't afford a gift' for her daughter – or last week's AI video of Jewish celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, giving the middle finger to rapper Kanye West after he went on an anti-Semitic tirade on social media.
However this won't happen any time soon if gullible Boomers keep sharing the slop – not helped by social media sites such as Facebook whose algorithms were last year found to be boosting these AI-generated posts.
Some are completely bizarre: an old lady sitting in a shoe she supposedly knitted herself; a young boy carving an intricate monkey into a tree trunk; a baker creating a full-sized horse out of bread.
Then there's 'religious slop' – unearthed skeletons of supposed angels or images of Jesus carrying a giant prawn in the sea.
It's amazing that these images can be created at all – I certainly have no idea how it's done – but I don't need to understand the technology to know that a photo of chickens on Mars probably isn't real.
