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If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one
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A Boring Dystopia
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This is just sad, really. Especially since the audience for this will know it's AI, asking the question of who exactly do they think they're fooling?
I feel like our modern life, due to cultural and economic factors, is just slowly.. then rapidly, heading towards being composed almost entirely of a simulacrum. The real being eroded away in favour of the hyperreal
i think one of Adam Curtis' movies is about that. Not sure if it's HyperNormalization or Can't get you out of my head or another one