Slopbait

These screenshots come from a YouTube video titled "10 Antique Typewriters in Your Attic Worth a Fortune! (Most People Don't Know What They Have)." The whole thing is AI-generated. It doesn't pretend to be anything else, but I still think it's deeply misleading. I expect a few newbies will watch this video and fail to realize that many of the machines shown on it are nothing but hallucinations.Yes, I'd be happy to find any of these typewriters—if they existed!The AI has gotten very good at creating texture, lighting, and parts of real typewriters, but the way they're put together is just statistically plausible fantasy. Unfortunately, it's very easy and cheap to generate something like this now, and hope for a little payoff. This video joins the AI-generated book about typewriter collecting whose "author" whines that "I’m just trying to feed these kids and my Pomeranian."I think we need a new term for this kind of product. I propose slopbait.