{"id":16511,"date":"2024-11-10T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T07:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/10\/the-images-of-spains-floods-werent-created-by-ai-the-trouble-is-people-think-they-were\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T07:38:47","slug":"the-images-of-spains-floods-werent-created-by-ai-the-trouble-is-people-think-they-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/10\/the-images-of-spains-floods-werent-created-by-ai-the-trouble-is-people-think-they-were\/","title":{"rendered":"The images of Spain\u2019s floods weren\u2019t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rapid growth of \u2018AI slop\u2019 \u2013 content created by artificial tools \u2013 is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real<\/p>\n

My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur\u2019s Substack newsletter Social Warming<\/a>. It shows a narrow street in the aftermath of the \u201crain bomb\u201d that devastated the region<\/a> of Valencia in Spain. A year\u2019s worth of rain fell in a single day, and in some towns more than 490 litres a square metre fell in eight hours. Water is very heavy, so if there\u2019s a gradient it will flow downhill with the kind of force that can pick up a heavy SUV and toss it around like a toy. And if it channels down a narrow urban street, it will throw parked cars around like King Kong in a bad mood.<\/p>\n

The photograph in Arthur\u2019s article showed what had happened in a particular street. Taken with a telephoto lens from an upper storey of a building, it showed a chaotic and almost surreal scene: about 70 vehicles of all sizes jumbled up and scattered at crazy angles along the length of the street.<\/p>\n

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\nThe rapid growth of \u2018AI slop\u2019 \u2013 content created by artificial tools \u2013 is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real
\nMy eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur\u2019s Substack newsletter Social Warming. It shows a narrow street in the aftermath of the \u201crain bomb\u201d that devastated the region of Valencia in Spain. A year\u2019s worth of rain fell in a single day, and in some towns more than 490 litres a square metre fell in eight hours. Water is very heavy, so if there\u2019s a gradient it will flow downhill with the kind of force that can pick up a heavy SUV and toss it around like a toy. And if it channels down a narrow urban street, it will throw parked cars around like King Kong in a bad mood.
\nThe photograph in Arthur\u2019s article showed what had happened in a particular street. Taken with a telephoto lens from an upper storey of a building, it showed a chaotic and almost surreal scene: about 70 vehicles of all sizes jumbled up and scattered at crazy angles along the length of the street. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rapid growth of \u2018AI slop\u2019 \u2013 content created by artificial tools \u2013 is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur\u2019s Substack newsletter Social Warming. It shows a narrow street in the aftermath of …<\/p>\n

The images of Spain\u2019s floods weren\u2019t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}