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jwz

I was just thinking about how every techbro podcaster must have a really cringeworthy gallery on their phone where they tried to nail that perfect overly-excited selfie for the youtube thumbnail. Thinking about how awful those photos must be made me smile. And then I thought, I'll bet they just use "AI" image generators for that now, and I made it worse.

@jwz speaking of AI generated selfies:

> My passport photo is actually AI-generated, because, why not? We live in the metaverse.

ma.tt/2023/12/the-bag-post/

Matt Mullenweg · What’s in My Bag, 2023By Matt

@jwz

those have a name

the "YouTube Face"

I will never create a video but if I did, this would be mine (extra credit for anyone who knows who this is)

@jwz I can confirm, I've seen youtubers that are clearly just having AI generate thumbnails for them.
Ones I used to follow, too