Acceptable Substitute

1. Heh.. first thing I noticed was that the city buildings were quite odd. I was trying to place where the first photo was taken before I got to the part that said it was fake AF.

   1. You saw buildings? You need help.

2. “Only she’s not real; she’s an AI creation with her own website, even, where morons errrr people converse with her like she’s a real person and not something created by someone else.”

   Not to pick a nit, amigo, but real persons are “created by someone else”. Usually a team, in fact.

   But yeah, I get your point. 😉

3. > given how “retouching” has become so pronounced nowadays.

   I worked at Playboy over 3 decades ago (Lake Shore Drive office in Chicago, Tech Support), and Playboy has *always* retouched their models.

   What has changed over the years is that they used to shoot on film, do paste up manually, create the film for the press from that. Then they shot on film, digitized from the film, did digital paste up, and used an imagesetter to create the film that they sent to the press. Then in the 1990s they went “digital to press”.

   There has also been a change in how people look at Playboy. It has become more socially acceptable to appear in the pages of that magazine–hell, my mother would tell people I worked there, and she was a Catholic. This means that they have a wider pool of women to draw from.

   And lastly Hefner is dead. When he wasn’t distracted he held a dictatorial level of control over the magazine and the women in it. Now that he’s not in control anymore they don’t have to meet his tastes.

4. The first image:
   * look at its left ‘hand’ thing, a pathetic approximation.
   * the part in its hair is weirdly even.
   Instantly identifiable as a corruption of everything decent and just.
   Beat on it all day with a shovel, and it keeps standing there with its dead eyes and insipid grin.
   .
   Those machines have a long way to go before I hybrid something like that with my beloved physical body in my quest for immortality.
   .
   Besides that, it needs bigger hooters.

   1. … and they keep telling us there are no lizard People. There’s Photographic proof they are real!!
      Yes, more cleavage needed please.

5. There are a ton of AI “artists” out there with Patreon accounts that people subscribe to in order to see the fake AI art, much of which does’t even look as almost real as this “Milla Sofia.” It’s incomprehensible to me. I mean, sure, the “perfect women” look nice, but simply as art pieces, not anything else.

   1. An example: https://twitter.com/DreviumDreams/status/1683137394361483264/photo/1

      1. If I want to see a pic of the perfect woman, I just do a search on Salma Hayek.

         1. Or a young Barbara Eden

         2. You misspelled Bridget Regan 😉

6. After reading this column, I visited the creatively-named local-owned family-operated:
   * Adult Store
   * 290 River Rd, Eugene, Oregon…
   … during daylight hours.
   .
   I was greeted by a pleasant young fellow.
   Utterly a ‘cherry’ with such, I wandered through the brightly-lit displays as we chatted about the booths up the hall.
   .
   Intrigued by one life-size free-standing display with portraits of an adorable young lady, I discovered that was a ‘positionable’ toy for the masturbation crowd.
   Apparently, these are popular with long-haul drivers… belted in the passenger seat, they make a persuasive argument for traveling in the ‘multiple occupancy’ lanes to avoid tolls.
   And apparently, the toy has other uses, as well.
   .
   Unfortunately, all that steel and silicone weighs a good 250# (two hundred fifty pounds), so a trucker must count that against the gross going across the scale.
   .
   The things I learn!

   1. My point:
      * the clerk referred to the positionable toy as ‘she’.
      I referred to the toy as ‘it’.

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