Clover

I don’t want to blow this out of proportion. Using sketch to image is entirely optional, and plenty of people will never even find it in the gallery app. Out-of-focus bee isn’t going to undo the fabric of our society. But I do think we’re at an increasingly weird place with AI. Sure, you’ve been able to add an out-of-focus bee to an image in Photoshop for ages. But putting this capability in the very same device you use to take the picture and distribute it is another thing. The capabilities and accessibility of generative AI tools are outrunning our shared understanding of what might be real and what might be fake when you scroll through Instagram.