“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
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.
The other side is how noone has gotten to the point of studying the history of technology.
Drag is pretty sure lots of archeologists have studied technology. For example there was the search for the recipe for Roman concrete.
So you’re the special kind of dumb that needs obvious inferences spelled out while trying to play it off as being cheeky👍🏿 THE TECHNOLOGY THAT MADE DATA THE MOST VALUABLE ASSET IN THE WORLD. YOU KNOW THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS SO RECENT THAT THE PEOPLE "STUDYING " IT ARE DOING SO TO MAKE ADVANCMENTS NOT TO LEARN FROM THE PAST
Please don’t have kids, I’ll venmo you the cost of the abortion.
Drag thinks pretending that only electronics are technology is disrespectful to the scientists and engineers of the past who created technologies like the aqueducts, the roads, ships, kilns, swords, and recreational marijuana use. And it limits our ideas about what the future of technology can be, constraining us to a single vision of ever-more-complex computer systems as technology. Drag thinks we need a change in language to provoke a change in thinking. That will open up new directions in science. For example, meditation is a technology, and in the last 15 years psychologists have been pushing scientifically backed up meditation practices to help people. That’s technological progress and it’s good. We need to open our minds to possibilities like that.
Also here’s a wikipedia article on the history of computer science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science. Drag learned about the history of computer science from drag’s teachers in school. Alan Turing and Von Neumann and Charles Babbage.
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 area. 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.
Fool. You act like AI shit won’t be that common in 2025. /s
it’s already pretty much fixed in Flux.
What do you mean by Flux?
what blue magma says. it’s great.
also, it’s funny that people get mad at me (referring to the downvores) simply for stating a fact. it conflicts with their narrative that AI is stupid and bad and useless.
“Flux” is the name of an open source image generating AI model. You can run it on your own hardware.
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.
I like to think they will think it was a kind of “aggressive architecture” to keep people away from looking at these pictures because they are cursed. Especially because, with everything happening all over the world, it is not too much to think that the future could be a dystopian, extremely religious world.
Nah it’ll be like what we think of this kind of art.
