If you can't afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one

[Javaman]

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/806486/if-you-cant-afford-a-vacation-an-ai-app-will-sell-you-pictures-of-one

Faking wealth has always been big business, from buying designer dupes to renting private jet “sets” for photoshoots. But these days, people are using AI to make it a little more personal: creating photos of themselves living in leisure and luxury not to chase clout, but as a form of personal escapism or an attempt to manifest a better life.

App developer Tim Wijaya posted that he did consulting work for OpenAI earlier this year to study how Indonesians use ChatGPT and found many Facebook groups, some with up to 30,000 members, for sharing AI-generated photos of themselves having luxury experiences — from posing with Lamborghinis to shopping at Gucci stores. “Most are middle-low income users Tier-2/3 cities making under $400/month,” Wijaya wrote. “It’s both sad and fascinating that using AI has become a form of escapism, letting people experience lives they’ll probably never live.”

Laurent Del Rey, a product designer at Meta’s Superintelligence lab, recently made a side project called Endless Summer, a social media app “for when burnout hits and you need to manifest the soft life [you] deserve - with fake vacation pics of you,” Del Rey wrote on X

And a slew of other AI manifestation apps have popped up on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, from “Manifest AI Coach: Dreams Made,” which promises to use AI to create “vision backgrounds” to help with visualization and manifestation of a goal; to the similarly pitched Manifestar AI; to ManifestMe, which allows people to “generate personalized visuals that align with your manifestation goals and energy.” Then there was “Manifest AI: Bye Broke Brain,” which promised to “renew your brain in seconds,” and “Manifest AI: Affirmations,” for AI-generating affirmations to use every day


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This is a very sad trend.

[SoFlaBro]

1. More motherfucking AI slop to slop on top of the other fucking slop? What the fuck happened to just take a fucking walk?

[Midnight Writer]

2. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" - Philip K Dick, later filmed as Total Recall

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Weird!!