Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) on X

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put

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@publictorsten What is so shocking about this is *not* that the genAI did exactly what it is designed to do, namely create teh most likely looking image, but that the person who used it switched off their brain at the sight of the words 'AI'.

Before AI, if a social media person had had to do a major edit of a photo which left them deciding 'bra or no bra', they would have asked the sitter. Now they use genAI to be 'more productive', they stop doing their own job properly.

@tomstoneham @publictorsten I am noticing this a lot: GenAI being used as an excuse/accelerator for a massive erosion of professionalism, with the excuse of “increased productivity” (“getting things done”).

@klmr @tomstoneham @publictorsten

This is in keeping with the TechBro mantra, "Move fast and break things."

Which is how we have quickly gotten to a world full of broken things.