Friday, May 19, 2023

"End Stage Capitalism and Necrobrands"

 From Canada's Newest Magazine:

Imagine an online store that uses artificial intelligence to generate graphic T-shirts.

Once a week, the online store uses Twitter’s API to find trending topics.The top-ten trending topics are run through an image generator, like Midjourney, and added onto stock imagery using Printful’s API. The newly designed T-shirts are pushed onto a Shopify Store, using AI-generated descriptions by Critbot and OpenGPT. New products are advertised on Instagram using ChatGPT prompted descriptions and hashtags. Orders are taken care of by Printful’s drop-shipping service. Any questions by customers are answered by Ada, ZenDesk or the other myriad of customer support chatbots.

Now, imagine that the company that created the brand has long since dissolved. Artificial intelligence continues to churn out new designs and sell them to an unsuspecting public. The company and its human counterparts are gone, but the product lives on.

This is just one example of the inevitable many that will soon take up space in your feed....

....MUCH MORE