TWO SISTERS, STUNNING BEAUTY, AND WAY TOO MUCH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEThere's something that's becoming a regular occurrence whenever I open Instagram. I'm scrolling through posts, wasting time like everyone else, when suddenly a stunning woman pops up. Gorgeous, an incredible body, a perfect smile, flawless skin, and photos that look like they came straight out of a professional photoshoot.
And my first reaction is no longer "Damn, what a beautiful woman," but something a little less romantic:
"Look, another one created with AI."
That's exactly what happened when I came across the profile of a blonde woman who looked to be in her mid-to-late forties, maybe even approaching fifty, with a well-maintained figure and a genuinely beautiful face.
I checked out her account because apparently I still haven't learned how to manage my free time, and it only took a few photos for all the alarm bells to start ringing.
Everything about her suggested she was just another model who doesn't exist outside the digital world of artificial intelligence.
And it's not like I have some kind of superpower. By now, plenty of us have developed a knack for recognizing the patterns that keep showing up in these images. Skin that's a little too perfect, certain facial expressions, the lighting, the proportions, that strange kind of artificial beauty that looks spectacular but starts feeling suspiciously familiar once you've seen enough of it.
Still, all you have to do is check the comments to realize that
not everyone has all their ducks in a row.
Between hearts, declarations of love, marriage proposals, and guys convinced they're looking at the woman of their dreams, you quickly discover that plenty of people still take these images as completely genuine photographs.
And look, I'm not saying everyone who fails to recognize an AI-generated image is an idiot. Technology is advancing incredibly fast, and telling what's real from what's artificial is getting harder every day. But some profiles practically have a giant flashing sign announcing that something isn't quite right once you start looking through their posts.
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THE NEW GENERATION OF REALDOLLSThe
first RealDolls capable of moving on their own are already starting to appear on the market, a sort of first generation of sexual automatons that, if the industry's gamble pays off, will eventually give way to far more sophisticated dolls and, who knows,
fill homes around half the world with joy, happiness and surprisingly stable relationships.
For now, though, let's not get too excited. Their movements still look a lot like
the robot dance at an '80s nightclub. Yes, they move, but with the kind of stiffness that makes it pretty obvious there are motors, mechanical joints and a computer underneath the skin desperately trying to coordinate everything without making the whole thing look like an excavator starting up in the morning.
But these are just the early days.
After all, fitting a RealDoll's skeleton with
motorized joints, sensors and a central unit capable of interpreting voice commands and turning them into movements can't exactly be easy. And the really interesting part isn't so much what they can do now, but imagining what they'll be capable of five or ten years from now.
To put things into perspective, remember those AI-generated videos from just a few years ago showing
Will Smith trying to eat spaghetti while his face melted, fingers appeared and disappeared, and the spaghetti seemed to be trying to eat him instead. We laughed because the whole thing looked ridiculous.
And look where we are now.
Something similar will probably happen with robotics.
What looks clumsy, mechanical and even comical today could seem completely normal in just a few years. Smaller motors, smoother movements, better sensors, voice recognition, conversational AI, memory, personality... Every piece of that puzzle already exists separately. The real leap will come when someone manages to put them all together inside the same body and make the whole thing work reasonably well.
For decades, we've been told that
robots would eventually make their way into our homes to help us with household chores: cleaning, cooking, tidying up, fetching things...
What I never imagined,
not even in my wildest wet dreams, was that when they talked about robots helping around the house, they also meant lending a hand with our fantasies and vices.
Anyway.
The future is already here.
It just still moves a little like RoboCop after six shots.
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