An estimated 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Often called factory farms, these facilities raise livestock in densely packed, enclosed spaces, with some housing tens of thousands of animals at one time.

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In a new Technology in Society paper, Sheng and co-authors analyzed 4,800 independently generated images and found that ChatGPT defaulted to pastoral imagery when prompted to depict dairy and pig farms, even when they requested more realistic images. However, when researchers disabled the underlying prompt revision, the generated images depicted more intensive livestock farming.

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    “The moment that I found out it is actually a prompt revision that is erasing all the reality, I was absolutely shocked,” says Sheng. “That’s insane.”

    If you’re going to insist on using an image generation program instead of actual photos, at least put in the effort to use it correctly. Share some photos, a URL to search results, etc. and instruct it to use them as inspiration.

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      Image search results are getting flooded with AI generated images. Even using filters to block domains with known AI-generated images still has a lot leak into it. There’s a good chance you’ll just be asking the models to use AI-gen images as a reference by doing that

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        Because there is nothing in this world more sacred than corporate intellectual property and the copyright code that protects capital. /s