Chuck DarwinThe deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal
The stuff of Salvador Dali’s wildest dreams is no match for Facebook these days:
Amputee kittens using crutches. Strawberries in the shape of lifelike frogs. Bosomy conjoined twins, structurally impossible sand sculptures, snakes swallowing fully-grown lions, airplanes with human hands. An underwater Jesus covered in shrimp.
These unsettling images appear in our social media feeds, sometimes as a jump scare, and sometimes as a Trojan horse.
They might be accompanied by a manipulative caption
— “99% of people will scroll past without clicking like”
— or hashtag gobbledygook that often includes, for some reason, a combination of the words “Scarlett Johansson beautiful cabin crew.”
The replies, a medley of gullible users and likely bots, are usually full of compliments for the insane image.
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