Are you seeing disquieting images like these on social media? There's a sinister reason why...
and it's taking older people for fools, reveals FLORA GILL By FLORA GILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 11:46 GMT, 20 February 2025 | Updated: 11:46 GMT, 20 February 2025 e-mail View comments This week I watched a video of an attractive woman strutting down a street in slow motion. At her side was a muscular, humanoid crocodile more than twice her height, wearing a suit and swaggering on his hind legs. The video was hypnotic, strangely beautiful and, at least to someone of my generation, very clearly made by Artificial Intelligence ( AI ).
Most extraordinary of all, though, wasn't the content – but the comments the footage attracted. 'Isn't it dangerous to have that as a pet?' scoffed one awestruck user. 'Dressing animals up in human clothes is just cruel,' insisted another.
Summarising the confusion was one bemused person who asked: 'Is this real?' I didn't need to click on the profile pictures of those commenters to know that they almost certainly remembered pagers, dial-up mobiles and fax machines. Yes, they were all Boomers: born between 1946 and 1964 when AI was only a science-fiction premise. The sudden deluge of this computer-generated content has left them questioning the foundations of reality – and many are very, very confused.
Content such as the crocodile bodyguard is often dismissively referred to as 'AI slop'. This conjures images of pig food overflowing from trough.
