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From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam
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The Guardian / Zoe Williams / Apr 18
“It’s a made-up conspiracy theory that is just realistic enough, as conspiracies go, to convince QAnon supporters that birds aren’t real, but has just enough satirical flags that generation Z recognises immediately what is going on. It’s a conspiracy-within-a-conspiracy, a little aneurysm of reality and mockery in the bloodstream of the mad pizzagate-style theories that animate the ‘alt-right.'”
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