{"id":9225,"date":"2024-08-22T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","slug":"ai-images-ruin-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9225","title":{"rendered":"AI IMAGES RUIN EVERYTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why I hate AI images so much.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see a screensaver show up on my computer screen like this &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240821_211034-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230; and I don&#8217;t know whether to be in awe of the beauty of God&#8217;s creation or disgusted by a computer&#8217;s manufactured patterning of pixels in imitation of God&#8217;s creativity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was this image the result of a lone photographer hiking up a hillside at the perfect time of day and stumbling across this scene with soul in rapture and grateful to have a camera to capture the moment?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or did someone type &#8220;lone tree on top of windswept hill under dramatic clouds&#8221; into the prompt box on their browser?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in this way, AI images do violence to real photos.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But maybe something good will come from AI images.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe in the end AI will inspire me to track down and photograph my own moments of wonder and beauty, just so I have some images I know are genuine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I hate AI images so much. I see a screensaver show up on my computer screen like this &#8230; &#8230; and I don&#8217;t know whether to be in awe of the beauty of God&#8217;s creation or disgusted by a computer&#8217;s manufactured patterning of pixels in imitation of God&#8217;s creativity.\u00a0 Was this image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9227,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions\/9227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}