thinking about how we're on the cusp of a massive influx of algorithmic media to the point of absolute saturation, to the point where finding something uncontaminated will be impossible in the near future
much like low background steel
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in reply to @tef's post:
ironically, I would say that LAION-5B and similar scrape datasets are good sources for this, since by definition they can't contain anything generated by the systems trained on them
yeah but it's only recently that we've gotten able to generate images that aren't really obviously AI. if you see a deepdream or something you can just discard it. it's like... idk, finding a piece of steel that has a big "THIS IS RADIOACTIVE" stamped on it
maybe it’s time to start marketing my novels as 100% written with authentic angst
the moon thing is making me turn snobby about shooting film and darkroom printing again even though there’s plenty of manipulation to be done under an enlarger