“In the early 21st century, there was a genre of art where hands were drawn either with an incorrect number of fingers or other mutations. We believe this style of art was used for ritual purposes. Strangely, this movement of art lasted a very short period of time, from 2023 before gradually disappearing by around 2025”
EDIT for those who didn’t get it, it’s because some newer image generators draw better hands
Everything is extensively documented these days. If any future society has access to those photos, and understands they’re AI generated, they’ll also have access to our history.
But what if there’s some sort of nuclear/zombie/robot/alien-apocalypse which results in tremendous data loss. Maybe a thousand years from now a future archeologist wonders why there are so many cursed pictures from a particular era. That might be a deeply unsettling mystery until someone finds an ancient research document about image generating AI. However, if nobody finds that document, the archeologists might just go with the traditional “ritual purposes” explanation.
What’s a bit more likely is that, in the future, the “Department Of Truth” will have access to all digital information and will have no trouble at all re-writing history at will.
Don’t project the future through the same eyes you observe the past with.
Things like this usually don’t happen because unless it was more than 100 years the past there is empirical accounts of whatever it is theyre pondering about.
The other side is how noone has gotten to the point of studying the history of technology. I mean I’m under 40 and I remember life with no internet in the house muchness in your pocket.
Also dont forget were recording humanity at an unprecedented scale now and show no signs of slowing. There will likely be a flood of media and resources to actually watch how most shit in the past was done 100-500 years from now.
In the future, kids will watch The Flintstones and laugh at the antennae TVs and landlines in Bedrock and think that the antiquated tech is the joke.
They might just do that today
They must not fix this. I was happily second screening a fall themed YouTube music channel and my wife walked past and went “oh that AI whacked one” I go “nah” it’s just normal Rockwell inspired". We wait a couple of seconds and the very next pic has some well drawn kids and books… Most with 5 fingers and two thumbs per hand and I go dammit they got me.
Fool. You act like AI shit won’t be that common in 2025. /s
No, we don’t.
Its their Original Sin
