Yahoo News 25 Obviously-AI Viral Facebook Photos That Boomers Can't Help But Fall For EVERY Time
AI-generated art is inescapable nowadays, and social media platforms have made some efforts to make sure AI content is labeled as such so that users don't mistake it as real. But clearly, some things slip through the cracks.
On Facebook, there's been a recent uptick in faceless accounts incessantly reposting images that just look a little... off. Perhaps most notable is the "peach cream and filling" phenomenon, in which countless accounts post dozens of AI images of an older woman with a birthday cake. The caption is always the same:
And when I say countless, I mean COUNTLESS:
People are very confused.
Went onto Facebook for the first time in a while and literally my entire feed, when it wasn't an ad, were these AI cake posts. I scrolled for about 5 minutes and here's the ones I saw. pic.twitter.com/RBuoZPlOVV
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1.Several things about this image look wrong, but boomers in the comments eat it up anyway.
And that's far from the only one:
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Which ones would have duped you, too? Have you seen any wild AI imagery come across your feed? Let me know in the comments.
And if you're itching to read more about this wild phenomenon on Facebook, I highly recommend this Substack write-up by @cursedcontent.
