In case you missed it: AI images of Shrimp Jesus have taken over your Facebook timeline.
Shrimp Jesus or Crab Jesus are not a product of human imagination. They are the product of AI’s imagination and a start of synthetic content, a trend that increasingly fills the internet. iIt starts with one image getting likes, other bots then copy it and each other until it has surpassed a point where the images make sense. Bots are upvoting synthetic content and produce more and more (sometimes) interesting, funny, strange, odd but often stupid & silly images for for the fun of it.
Shrimp Jesus” is a term linked to a bizarre AI-generated spam phenomenon that has recently surfaced online. The spam, typically featuring a surreal image of a shrimp with a halo, often accompanied by nonsensical or cryptic messages, is generated and spread by AI bots. The absurdity of the concept has led to its rapid spread across various platforms, confusing and amusing users in equal measure. While largely harmless, this peculiar spam highlights the strange and unpredictable ways AI can be used, raising questions about the control and monitoring of AI-driven content online.
2024 will be the year that we stopped believing photographs, and this only the beginning. Welcome to the age of generative AI!
