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Loud groans have been echoing across Betoota this week as Facebook feeds in town continue to be swamped with AI generated muck.
With programs like OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and Google’s ImageFX now available to the public, The Advocate can report many of Australia’s late crypto adopters have been having a field day online, and are now keen to show off the cool things they’ve asked a computer to make for them.
In one such case, The Advocate can report local pub trivia host Kevin Bunting (48) has been going ham this week, posting hilarious images he’s concocted after spending the morning refining his prompts.
“Why did the chicken cross the road? As done by AI HA HA” posted Kevin.
“Greg I think AI’s coming 4 ur job m8!” he added, tagging in his friend Nev Doolan, a local indigenous artist who’s done a number of community murals around town.
Now that anyone with a laptop and a $20 monthly subscription can create the kind of animated images you’d see on the screens at a local bowling alley, social media feeds across Australia have been getting dumped with even more animated gunk.
The problem has become so bad, that operators at Betoota’s waste management have been getting calls asking if they’re available for an emergency clean up.
Speaking to the head of waste management at Betoota Council, Harold Boral, residents can now book social media clean ups from the beginning of next week.
“It’s pretty simple, we come through and just unfriend and unfollow anyone who’s likely to start playing around with this AI crap,” said Harold.
“Usually it’s friends in tech or media or just mates who spend too much time on Discord, but now that AI is starting to fall into the hands of Boomers with lots of spare time it’s becoming a real waste crisis.”
“We need the whole community to stay vigilant and unfriend culprits as soon as possible.”
