Hey guys, I just wanted to address something that people coming from Danny Gonzalez’s video have been saying, which is that these pages are directly monetizing their pages. I don’t think this is true. The tutorial Danny showed in his video involved using a call to action, which is something I couldn’t find on any page. The only ways you can directly monetize content on Facebook, is by having your users buy you “stars”, which is not something any of these pages had available, or by monetizing reels, which wouldn’t apply here because these pages are 99% photo content. Curious to hear what you guys think.
Fascinating, gives off Dead Internet theory vibes, like bots interacting with other bots. I think the Internet literacy idea probably makes the most sense, but you're right, that really can't excuse half shark half jesus on a bus, can it? Maybe the poster has some automated AI generator and the themes of public transport, sharks etc have just become embedded in the prompt, like the 'loab' phenomenon? Anyway, really enjoy your channel, thanks for work you put into the content.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :) yeah I still haven’t come up with a good explanation for why people are engaging with such outrageous content in this manner
@@farrellmcguire I think it's gotta do with 'Everything related to Jesus Christ or Religion posts MUST always get interactions online. If you don't, you aren't an true follower.' or something like Subconscious Guilt that not commenting or giving any interactions to said posts will male Jesus Christ sad. For the Shark related posts though, I think it's always gotta do with people whom have seen an past 'Jesus' post from the same account which posted an Shark post which leads the people into thinking that the Shark post has some hidden religion symbolism to them and they need to interact with the post. As an Filipino person, I can confirm that Filipinos can easily be manipulated into giving anything Christian related content some interactions or they will burn in hell for making Jesus sad
There's also the fact that a LOT of facebook users are very prone to falling for phishing scams or giving access to their account to sketchy websites, which means the bot idea isn't out of the question. Also, said people are even more likely to just think "oh, a nice christian photoshop" and don't really know what a content farm is.
I'm guessing it's religious people trying to express themselves using Ai images? Since a lot of Hindu art (from what I've seen) have similar aesthetics to ai images (dreamlike, lots of repeating shapes, soft and smooth), my theory is that that people liked or recognized the way the images looked, and found whatever the picture depicted meaningful, even if the themes were randomly thrown together.
Because back then the people showcasing them were usually the ones most aware of it's dangers, but now with the floodgates open, almost anyone can abuse it
@@someyetiwithinternetaccess1253 Exactly. Uploading one AI video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, just for laughs? Hilarious. Posting hundreds of AI images of Jesus saving disadvantaged African children from a shark in order to sell exploitative Facebook traffic to scammers? Definitely somewhat sickening and greasy. EDIT: Point being: AI is not innately bad, humans are just careless scum who wouldn't think twice about abusing powerful technologies for personal gain. I really wish artists would focus more on changing laws to protect their work instead of plugging their ears and screaming "AI BAD!"
Gotta be the uncanny valley. It happens every time I see any ai image and it’s so unsettling and kinda scary to see ai images. There’s always something off with them.
@@GoofyAhhBoxyi don't think it's unsettling or scary but without fail my brain can just tell if a photo is AI generated, even if it looks perfect. I really don't know what tips me off about them.
I think that "brainrot" as a meme is just a type of humour, but this shit and youtube kids is potential hazard to human brain (as well children as older people), imagine someone real liking photo of spaghetti jesus and not thinging antyhing at all. Single though would completely wake them, but it just don't occur - ever
I think that "brainrot" as a meme is just a type of humour, but this shit and youtube kids is potential hazard to human brain (as well children as older people), imagine someone real liking photo of spaghetti jesus and not thinking antyhing at all. Single though would completely wake them, but it just don't occur - ever
@@wiktor3727 I think "brain rot" started as truly derogatory, but over time, people started using it in a self-deprecating fashion to the point that the definition has shifted away from being malicious. There's definitely a soft divide between the two definitions though. YTPs are "brain rot", while this mass-generated AI slop is _actual_ *brain rot.* EDIT: Also, you've got duplicate comments here. Not your fault. Just taking the opportunity to point out that YT is one massive broken piece of trash.
IDK if there's anyone else but more recently I've been seeing AI images of Indian amputee children holding signs saying things like "like = prayer" in my FB feed.
The "Amen" thing freaks me out if that's not bots. I keep seeing one with AI generated pictures of people who have found huge gold nuggets, and although not related to god or jesus you still see "Amen" "Amen" "Amen" hundreds of times
Facebook is 50% bots at this point I'm pretty sure. I seriously hope threads doesn't federate because having that shit on the fediverse is the last thing i want.
I suspect that at least some of those posts are made by bots. Facebook certainly has a major bot problem already, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the “amen” comments were automated. Regardless of whether they’re made by real people or not, seeing them still fills me with a sense of dread.
I agree, those have to be bots commenting, sharing and liking these posts. At least a majority of them. I just can't believe a real person would look at a post with 10K comments, literally all or most of them just repeating Amen over and over a like a bunch of psychos or cultists and think those were real accounts. Sure in this video he says he thinks they are real accounts, but this seems like a big reason people hack and steal other people's accounts in the first place, to make it seems like they are real, that the accounts have a history. So at one point some/all of them may have been real accounts, but they aren't anymore.
I believe they're applying the same rule they do to titles to the prompt. They just fill up the prompt with engagement bait keywords and top searched keywords with no concern for if they make sense. It's truly the literal bottom of the barrel use of AI.
Prompt might be AI generated. Like, a randomizer picking words from a collection of keywords, and then generating a set of 20 images after which it repeats and randomizes the prompt again. All automated, including posting it on facebook and using a bot-network to give the post comments/likes.
I'd imagine it be something like this if it is a meta-prompt: "Please generate an image generation prompt involving Jesus Christ in absurd settings or baked into the scenery in absurd ways, such that any observer can't help but be amused by the sheer level of blasphemy on display. Thank you! 🙏" Actually, ChatGPT refuses to do this with this specific wording ... and doesn't when replacing the word "blasphemy", yet acknowledges that any AI-generated religious imagery could be construed to be blasphemous by default... wow.
Based on the images it seems they're directly targeting places like the Philippines. Since it seems the setting and people are supposed to be Asia while also crossing into the Christian demographic and the Philippines is the first nation that comes to mind when it comes to Asian-Christian. You are right that the end goal may be to sell these pages and I think the buyer might be politicians for a platform to influence elections. An even worse thought, these could be purchased by aspiring cult leaders. God knows the Philippines doesn't have enough of crazy dudes claiming to be divine reincarnation of God. This is the real life Bene Gesserit at work.
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@@the-letter_s Serranos work at least has something to say and isnt just AI generated garbage being fed to braindead boomers. You obviously dont have to like his work, but to raise AI crap to his level is wrong imo
it's because even if you're not religious, religion brainwashed you. i'm a raging atheist, i hate all religions, and i find this pictures absolutely hilarious
If you showed this to a college student in 2009 who just said “I love watch to youtube videos on my laptop!” with no context whatsoever they’d have a heart attack
Parents then: "Be VERY careful when you're on the internet. You never know who you're talking to." Parents 20 years later: "Look, Johnny! Aunt Ida on Facebook said that she saw Jesus made out of animal intestines!"
Definitely. Should have gone the islamic route then we wouldnt have this mess, but i can almost bet AI disrespects their wishes with depicting their prophets too
I work at a library part time, and you'd be amazed how many people I've taught how to use a mouse in one year. Even more folks don't know what a browser is and it's really weird to explain that different browsers belong to different companies and they're all trying to get your attention, and that's why there's so many notifications for choosing a primary browser. If you can get them onto UA-cam, showing them videos about the history of the Internet, spam, and old tech compared to newer counterparts, can actually help a lot! But most people are just using the computers to apply for a job or for some legal work, so they don't have time for it.
It's even harder with phones, especially since grand kids and salesmen get them the newest shiniest most powerful phones and they barely know how to unlock the thing.
Same thing happened with UA-cam shorts, People would upload the same video over and over again and by chance getting a gazillion subscribers and after a year these UA-cam channels got sold Edit no. 1: Corrected grammar
How is this NOT horribly immoral? Its preying on the gulliblness of religous people and encouraging cultish behavior for money and attention, which is why any cult exists in the first place.
It's also just spam bots on Facebook which is too broad and open to interpretation to properly police. Facebook could create an algorithm that is Anti-AI, but there's nothing to bring to court logically
I don't see how anyone is being preyed on here, nor how any behaviour which could be construed as cultish is being pushed. For something to be immoral, damage must be done, which doesn't seem to be the case here. I don't see any trick whatsoever which one can "fall for" here - just some autogenerated mindless fun. I think the best argument for this being in any way immoral is because it spams peoples feeds with irrelevant shit which would potentially be nicer if this didn't exist?
Dead internet theory? More like dead facebook theory because i have not seen any examples of this stuff anywhere other than facebook. edit: I changed my mind, youtube has hella bots. Still not as bad as TrashBook though
Shortform content platforms like Tiktok and Instagrams (and UA-cam shorts to a degree) are also showing symptoms. Though not made with AI, they're getting swamped with low- or zero-effort content.
Anime Jesus was a thing before this AI thing. There's an anime/manga where Buddha and Jesus were laid back room mates. Also, back in the early 2000's an aunt of mine even gifted me a manga adaptation of the New Testament. I kinda regret not keeping it, it was an interesting piece of media lol
The only think is that I love of ALL THIS MESS is that recently like 2 weeks ago....the Latin American facebook community started to make memes mocking the people who think the images are real lmao
THANK YOU! I've been posting about all these AI Jesus pics on my socials for weeks and weeks and either people don't care or think I'm crazy. Thank you for going down the rabbit hole for me. This was very entertaining.
The ironic thing about portraying Jesus as a half-shrimp, half-human mutant is that He was Torah-observant, meaning, He followed the dietary regulations of the Mosaic Covenant, which disallows the consumption of shellfish (among other unclean meats).
The diet reason, is not only because of health reasons in Jewish culture. But, according to Jewish culture, those animals were sacrificed to pagan Gods. Also, in some obscure Christian denominations, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost inhabit Sea life, and some forms of land life. Which includes shellfish, pigs, cows, and horses.
One thing that gets boomers all excited is when ai will generate Jesus’ face using background objects and people specific positions like it was just a coincidence that Jesus appeared It’s like that visual illusion that makes people see faces of Jesus or Demons and walls or clouds or food “Face pareidolia” but it’s intentionally arranging objects and people to make it look like a coincidence
I knew some people who would fall for this kind of thing because they just don't have enough exposure to the internet to see how truly weird it is. They probably don't even know what AI generated pictures are, at most they heard of it and have a basic concept of AI but beyond that they don't care. They don't think too hard about the stuff they see on facebook, they're essentially on auto-pilot and react to what they are familiar with. They see Jesus, they like Jesus, so they like the post, maybe subscribe, and join in by commenting "Amen". They might consider the oddity of the pictures for a bit but again they don't think much about it. All of these people share one thing in common: they're at least 50 or older. I blame the lead poisoning.
This type of content gives me intense dread for the future, a AI takes a more prominent role online and it becomes harder and harder to distinguish reality.
The irony of all these religious boomers engaging with the most hollow, soulless, false depictions of faith and thinking theyre being legit faithful isnt lost on me
i genuinely dont even think these pages are being run by humans, not directly anyway. like, a human probably monitors them and gives them themes to follow, but i think bots just make most of the prompts and upload them, and they probably take gaps between posting as to not be considered as spamming, though i dont know how facebook works so i dont know when it counts someone as spamming
I deleted my Facebook years ago and I'm glad I did, but my uncle (who is 70) still uses it. Next time I talk to him I'm going to ask him if he ever sees any of this stuff. BTW I think your analysis is spot on, these pages must be started with the intention of selling the account once it gets enough traction. That means -- *never* follow one of these accounts, you never know when it will be bought by scammers and used for nefarious purposes.
The 2 minute mark is SO FUNNY I GET IT NOW IT'S THAT ONE EPISODE FROM SPONGEBOB, spongebob did that EXACT thing while he was taking care of the baby scallop. That had nothing to do with it, i just think it's hilarious.
Another video? Ai? Yippee! I worry about the older community of Facebook as they think AI images and photos are real or actual art work! Thanks for covering this
I knew it would come back to money somehow, just didn’t know how. And yeah, even if they’re not doing anything explicitly shady, illegal, or even immoral, it feels like the foundation for something potentially really bad is being laid. That definitely goes for AI in general as well. But I don’t know, maybe I’m catastrophizing.
I definitely think whoever ends up buying these pages are probably gonna do something bad with the audience, whether it’s pushing a scam or some other deceptive practice
@@marsburdis If someone wants to make a bunch of fake pictures for the sake of getting fake internet points, well... who is really being harmed here? And I'm saying that as a Christian. As for taking Jesus' name and likeness in vain, I've seen a lot worse; this is irreverent to be sure but ultimately harmless.
This also is on youtube shorts, and they keep saying this: "IF YOU SKIP GOD WILL BE ANGRY AND YOU HATE GOD" when a video dosen't determine your love to God
There’s definitely a scam element to these pages whether it’s from the people who run the pages or not. Lots of replies to comments from weird accounts telling people to add them or complimenting them on their profile - seems like a setup to romance scams
Yep...as a fan of Asian dramas, I run some pretty big groups on Facebook related to male celebrities and there's a real romance scam problem on that site. Some impersonate celebrities, and some just hunt for lonely, impressionable women, preferably older to squeeze them out of cash. It's scary how easily people fall for this stuff.
@@exceptionallyriso why? Those are elders, they have excuse of being a layman generation in a technological boom we have right now. They will shrink as a group in a couple of decades. Just remember that 2004 kids are 20 years old right now and after 2000 tech is a part of our life.
@@calluxdoaron1903 The hopeless part is not for the older generation, it's about my own self. Will I also become so easily tricked by things on the internet as I grow old? Is it inevitable?
@@calluxdoaron1903 This is not an intellectual take. We should not let old people be tricked by technology just because they won't be around in a couple of years. If we do that, when AI gets too advanced, people will get tricked, and they won't be able to tell what is real and what is not.
damn that's why I kept on seeing people posting flowers or something plant related and the caption was either its my birthday and nobody came or something like this is my art
my guess is they farm for followers and then sell of the accounts to brands so they can start off with a followship right away. people sell their UA-cam account names like this as well.
That would make a lot of sense; my mother in law was following some random cross-stitching page that got sold and started posting adult stuff. Bless her heart, she thought she had a virus lol
The more I watch this video, the more early internet vibe I get. You use to be able to stumble onto some wild privately owned websites with some insane layouts ment for noone, completely unable to be navigated with tons of hidden links buried under massive layers of images. This has that same disturbing feeling, but when you boil it down, it's just some poor dude in a poor country trying to make a couple hundred bones with tech that he sorta understands, at least more so than his neighbors.
@@Cretaceous158 I'm not rehashing this same argument with you that I've had hundreds of times already. if you're making this point still, after everything we know, at this point I'm just going to tell you to shut the fuck up.
@@Cretaceous158Human aren't electrified rock. Trying to compare the human brain to a computer is a fruitless endeavour. Try replacing your brain with a computer, go ahead and see how smart you are after that. Stop anthropomorphizing soulless objects, humans are living breathing animals. Not rocks.
I see what some people are saying, but I dont think these accounts are a case of "dead internet theory", at least the people liking and following the pages seem genuinely interested in Jesus art (tho there are def some bots following the accounts too). My grandma does the same, anything jesus related she is sending to everyone. I guess people don't really pay attention to all the details of the photos, and like grandma, they probably dont know what AI images are, just think they are your typical Jesus "hyperrealistic" art
Another thing that Dead Internet Theory believers don't seem to realize is that humans also like to do what they see other people doing. Everyone else commenting “Amen” increases the likelyhood that someone else will do the same.
in conclusion, these bogus pages takes advantage of religious people for engagement, possibly for profit even. Best thing to do right now is to mass report them for scam or a form of misinformation, or any reports related to misleading content. It's honestly sad to see.
Have you thought about that maybe its not a lack of media literacy that makes people think this isnt AI but that instead.... they simply dont care its AI?
Another aspect to this is Facebook has ways for people to monetize their posts if they get enough engagement. So there's another end goal: get enough traction to qualify for monetization and milk it for all you can
I just wished almost if i have to that God must have to be more mindful of humans going to make the most wackiest trash in history for money/profit only or even because some other good-old humans played mostly Supermario Brothers as their childhood videogame on the NES rather instead of being busy making a future-era Android or iPhone become capable of successfully playing Gran Turismo VII but not Guilty Gear Strive at atleast 30-60 FPS than being busy on atheists minding their own business without knowing that they got overshadowed by weirdo Reddit atheists tho.
I'm not even religious, yet this feels very very disrespectful. Using a religion for engagement and profit. I don't care if the admin is christian or not, it's still horrendous
@@kc8391 I can agree with that. I wonder if the spiritual heads of different Christian denominations even publicly replied with this particular usage of Jesus Christ's image?
A lot of AI generated machines are trained on stolen data, so yes these accounts are still stealing by proxy, They also don't have copyright over those images, as AI generated images don't have such protections.
I have my suspicions this is somewhat related to the increase in internet access in rural parts of the world (India, Southeast Asia, Africa) where historically it was pretty rare. People there are now getting internet access, which is good, but as a result we’re seeing some people (or groups) who are preying on the ignorance or superstition of people by making and chain posting these. It’s also very possible that bots are playing a major role. A lot of these pages don’t seem human at all, nor the majority of the accounts interacting with them.
I have noticed WAY TOO MANY ai jesus stuff and also no joke!!! A kid with an oxygen tank facedown in some water with s9mething saying its its birthday and a cake near it. Its disgusting and NEEDS TO STOP
Perhaps these peculiar images are a glimpse into the chaos that lurks just beyond our perception, reminding us that not all creations of this world are mere slop; some hold the key to deeper truths waiting to be unearthed.
It can be explained - primitive pictures appeal to primitive urges. Sharks = scary, Jesus = good, mud and stewardess = hot?… Also I thought that it might be a kink.
It's such a bizarre phenomenon. To me, it feels like the algorithm filling space between advertisements with throwaway accounts. Like cutting the head off a hydra, blocking one of these spam profiles regularly seems to spawn two more in my feed.
A Jesus made out of shrimp makes PERFECT SENSE ACTUALLY. Because what is the most powerful shrimp??? It's the peacock manis shrimp and it is SO POWERFUL that the universal symbol of death in the ocean ''the great white shark'' is no match for it. Also the Mantis Shrimp has many photo receptors, 12 of which I believe are associated with color. So that's the 12 main disciples but it is more than that, it is the 12 within the 7. We cut the rainbow into 7 colors so if you split that into 12 pieces you have the 84 colors and 8+4 goes back to 12.
True, but this is one of those stretchy theories. The content itself isn't facts but it kind of points to something that is. It's like if you took a time machine and went back to the dark ages and wrote a ridiculous head scratching story but reading every first letter reveals Einstein's theory of relativity. Or something of that affect, ambiguous truths are the best ones because you have to see through the bs. Or sometimes it will be true it just wont be the whole truth.
This isn't new. Right before I got married 8 years ago I went down a rabbit hole and found a lot of this stuff, just more raw and with less engagement, like barely any. I remember finding an abundance and website, smecca that was putting out gifs of wave form animations and 3 dimensional mapping that trended toward a human head eventually.
I have a relative that keeps sharing some AI images around a poor African boy building Jesus statues and stuff. I commented once telling them what AI is and how the image wasn't real but was completely ignored, and she still does it. And yeah, I'm from the global south and the relative is an older woman. At least these are innocent enough, but I'm genuinely worried about older family members falling for a scan around that, if they already fall for cheaper less elaborated scans like people pretending to be family thought messages, imagine with AI. Even my mom has a hard time telling AI images and videos from the real thing, and she isn't stupid either or completely alienated from technology or anything.
1:35 it appears they upload the different results from an ai image generated and post it on Facebook I’m guessing the ai prompt was “dog drawing Jesus with plane in background”
If you have a bot farm, sock puppet swarm or any kind of large group of accounts you control and would like to use them later for some nefarious activity, it might make sense to farm them on facebook and grow their posts over time to make them seem like actual humans. Have seen this kind of activity before, the locations of some of the accounts kind of points to this as a likely possibility.
I wonder if at least part of what we're seeing are bots gone rouge. I recall a story from a few years back about accounts being "borrowed" (essentially stolen but without the usual degree of criminality) to drop posts on particular channels to up engagement, they were even targeting accounts that matched relevant subjects to reduce suspicion further. A bot run account with a randomized timer and an army of bots borrowing other accounts interacting with each other without guidance, possibly allowed to because it serves someone's interest.
I really enjoyed this video and the digging you did! However, near the end you mentioned that "no content is being stolen anymore because it's AI generated". I disagree with that because the AI that generated those photos almost certainly used training data without permission. AI in itself is often stealing and utilizing other people's work for image generation, which obviously everyone has varying opinions on. I know the legality of these images generators are being figured out right now, but I thought it was worth pointing out to you. Thanks for the video!
I disagree with the comments not being bots. Most of them have a post history, but it was a while ago, indicating they got hacked. And when people reply to them to tell them it's AI, they never respond.
the funny thing is that this kind of happens on youtube too, instead of ai generated jesus pictures its youtube shorts though, and the people on youtube try to get to 100k subs, then sell their channels to someone else
I believe that the Shrimp Christ image was originally from somebody trying to do a “Shrimp Heaven Now” (a McElroy Bros joke) reference on a forum. Reminds me of being a teen in the 2000s and seeing images from SomethingAwful’s weekly Photoshop Phriday competition end up in the wild. There’s a particularly infamous crop of images from a “put goatse into this picture” prompt that ended up going viral because people thought they were real pictures of heavenly hands opening up a miraculous hole in the clouds. I remember my mom getting an email attachment from a super Christian family member and showing it to me like “can you believe how amazing this is? It’s a miracle!” and I couldn’t stop laughing. She didn’t believe me when I tried to explain where I had seen the pictures before 😂
The funny thing about the "praying to a sand sculpture of Jesus" thing is that there's an event documented in the book of Exodus where God personally punishes the Hebrews for worshiping a statue that was supposed to be a depiction of him. I doubt many humans are actually interacting with these posts, but it goes to show that those few who do so unironically ought to actually read the Bible.
In my opinion, my beliefs shouldn't be a bargaining chip or for sale by anyone. I despise when people use it for that type of thing, especially AI generated nonsense.
Great video and the satifying resolution at the end was (even though you called it) rather unexpected. If it helps i have this one bit of critique ehich is that i feel your cadence of speech is a little unsettling but i did like the explanation segments because they have an honest and open feel to them
So, the Digital Omnimessiah is into flight attendants, puppies, and American soft drinks. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Hey guys, I just wanted to address something that people coming from Danny Gonzalez’s video have been saying, which is that these pages are directly monetizing their pages.
I don’t think this is true. The tutorial Danny showed in his video involved using a call to action, which is something I couldn’t find on any page. The only ways you can directly monetize content on Facebook, is by having your users buy you “stars”, which is not something any of these pages had available, or by monetizing reels, which wouldn’t apply here because these pages are 99% photo content.
Curious to hear what you guys think.
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Fascinating, gives off Dead Internet theory vibes, like bots interacting with other bots. I think the Internet literacy idea probably makes the most sense, but you're right, that really can't excuse half shark half jesus on a bus, can it? Maybe the poster has some automated AI generator and the themes of public transport, sharks etc have just become embedded in the prompt, like the 'loab' phenomenon? Anyway, really enjoy your channel, thanks for work you put into the content.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :) yeah I still haven’t come up with a good explanation for why people are engaging with such outrageous content in this manner
What if you are bot?
What if me are bot?
What if everyone are bots?
@@farrellmcguire I think it's gotta do with 'Everything related to Jesus Christ or Religion posts MUST always get interactions online. If you don't, you aren't an true follower.' or something like Subconscious Guilt that not commenting or giving any interactions to said posts will male Jesus Christ sad.
For the Shark related posts though, I think it's always gotta do with people whom have seen an past 'Jesus' post from the same account which posted an Shark post which leads the people into thinking that the Shark post has some hidden religion symbolism to them and they need to interact with the post.
As an Filipino person, I can confirm that Filipinos can easily be manipulated into giving anything Christian related content some interactions or they will burn in hell for making Jesus sad
dead internet theory seems right on facebook
There's also the fact that a LOT of facebook users are very prone to falling for phishing scams or giving access to their account to sketchy websites, which means the bot idea isn't out of the question. Also, said people are even more likely to just think "oh, a nice christian photoshop" and don't really know what a content farm is.
you telling me…… a shrimp……. turned this water… to wine?
You telling me..... A shrimp.... Fried this rice?
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This feels like walking out of bounds into a very empty and vast land in a video game, feels so unearthly and uncanny…
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Not just Jesus, In India the same stuff is there for Hindu Gods and Goddesses. I too have wondered this myself.
Same thing with the Buddha, but at least the images aren't weird.
At least they aren't weird
@@Atomcrusher that's what I said💀💀
I'm guessing it's religious people trying to express themselves using Ai images? Since a lot of Hindu art (from what I've seen) have similar aesthetics to ai images (dreamlike, lots of repeating shapes, soft and smooth), my theory is that that people liked or recognized the way the images looked, and found whatever the picture depicted meaningful, even if the themes were randomly thrown together.
how bizzare were the AI pics?
When AI images first came out, I thought they were cool and exciting. Now a couple years later I feel more creeped and uncomfortable with them
Same here, generations used to be quite comforting, now more abominations pop up so much and so quickly it's terrifying
Because back then the people showcasing them were usually the ones most aware of it's dangers, but now with the floodgates open, almost anyone can abuse it
I prefer to be creeped and uncomfortable, and I prefer to be so on purpose.
It was kind of the opposite way around for me until recently.
@@someyetiwithinternetaccess1253 Exactly. Uploading one AI video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, just for laughs? Hilarious. Posting hundreds of AI images of Jesus saving disadvantaged African children from a shark in order to sell exploitative Facebook traffic to scammers? Definitely somewhat sickening and greasy.
EDIT: Point being: AI is not innately bad, humans are just careless scum who wouldn't think twice about abusing powerful technologies for personal gain. I really wish artists would focus more on changing laws to protect their work instead of plugging their ears and screaming "AI BAD!"
These images hurt me physically. Its so unnatural that I actually get chills
Yeah maybe it's our instincts that make us know this ai photo isnt teal.
Uncanny valley for objects, Never thought that would ever happened
maybe combined with the music that sounds pretty creepy makes you feel that
Gotta be the uncanny valley. It happens every time I see any ai image and it’s so unsettling and kinda scary to see ai images. There’s always something off with them.
@@GoofyAhhBoxyi don't think it's unsettling or scary but without fail my brain can just tell if a photo is AI generated, even if it looks perfect. I really don't know what tips me off about them.
What a weird form of brain rot, I mean there are brain rot in every social media platform but this one is just so bizarre.
Old person brain rot
I think that "brainrot" as a meme is just a type of humour, but this shit and youtube kids is potential hazard to human brain (as well children as older people), imagine someone real liking photo of spaghetti jesus and not thinging antyhing at all. Single though would completely wake them, but it just don't occur - ever
I think that "brainrot" as a meme is just a type of humour, but this shit and youtube kids is potential hazard to human brain (as well children as older people), imagine someone real liking photo of spaghetti jesus and not thinking antyhing at all. Single though would completely wake them, but it just don't occur - ever
@@wiktor3727 I think "brain rot" started as truly derogatory, but over time, people started using it in a self-deprecating fashion to the point that the definition has shifted away from being malicious. There's definitely a soft divide between the two definitions though. YTPs are "brain rot", while this mass-generated AI slop is _actual_ *brain rot.*
EDIT: Also, you've got duplicate comments here. Not your fault. Just taking the opportunity to point out that YT is one massive broken piece of trash.
IDK if there's anyone else but more recently I've been seeing AI images of Indian amputee children holding signs saying things like "like = prayer" in my FB feed.
One like=One prayer?
PLEASE NO NOT AGAIN
Skeleton African kid with a violin next to a birthday cake "Nobody knows it's my birthday"
The comments: amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
@@Hypnotically_CaucasianAmen 🙏
The "Amen" thing freaks me out if that's not bots. I keep seeing one with AI generated pictures of people who have found huge gold nuggets, and although not related to god or jesus you still see "Amen" "Amen" "Amen" hundreds of times
Facebook is 50% bots at this point I'm pretty sure. I seriously hope threads doesn't federate because having that shit on the fediverse is the last thing i want.
I suspect that at least some of those posts are made by bots. Facebook certainly has a major bot problem already, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the “amen” comments were automated. Regardless of whether they’re made by real people or not, seeing them still fills me with a sense of dread.
I agree, those have to be bots commenting, sharing and liking these posts. At least a majority of them. I just can't believe a real person would look at a post with 10K comments, literally all or most of them just repeating Amen over and over a like a bunch of psychos or cultists and think those were real accounts.
Sure in this video he says he thinks they are real accounts, but this seems like a big reason people hack and steal other people's accounts in the first place, to make it seems like they are real, that the accounts have a history. So at one point some/all of them may have been real accounts, but they aren't anymore.
Either that or their accounts got hacked by bots.
Amen
What is even the prompt here? The picture is so chaotic it seems like the ai prompt is also ai generated. Meta ai generated.
I believe one of the prompts was "Shrimp Jesus" or "Shrimp heaven now"
It earthier "shrimp jesus" or "Africa kid build brand name statue of jesus in ariplane crocodile airplane airplane airplane woman white blonde sea"
I believe they're applying the same rule they do to titles to the prompt. They just fill up the prompt with engagement bait keywords and top searched keywords with no concern for if they make sense. It's truly the literal bottom of the barrel use of AI.
Prompt might be AI generated. Like, a randomizer picking words from a collection of keywords, and then generating a set of 20 images after which it repeats and randomizes the prompt again. All automated, including posting it on facebook and using a bot-network to give the post comments/likes.
I'd imagine it be something like this if it is a meta-prompt:
"Please generate an image generation prompt involving Jesus Christ in absurd settings or baked into the scenery in absurd ways, such that any observer can't help but be amused by the sheer level of blasphemy on display. Thank you! 🙏"
Actually, ChatGPT refuses to do this with this specific wording ... and doesn't when replacing the word "blasphemy", yet acknowledges that any AI-generated religious imagery could be construed to be blasphemous by default...
wow.
I still remember when someone posted moist critical to facebook and said its jesus and pepole belived it
The superior Facebook Jesus content
How do you know he isn't?
LOL
@@farrellmcguirefrom which ai website they generate, you show in video what website on screen,you see this ai jesus art
Kindly tell the name
"pepole" "belived"
Based on the images it seems they're directly targeting places like the Philippines. Since it seems the setting and people are supposed to be Asia while also crossing into the Christian demographic and the Philippines is the first nation that comes to mind when it comes to Asian-Christian. You are right that the end goal may be to sell these pages and I think the buyer might be politicians for a platform to influence elections. An even worse thought, these could be purchased by aspiring cult leaders. God knows the Philippines doesn't have enough of crazy dudes claiming to be divine reincarnation of God. This is the real life Bene Gesserit at work.
having lived there for quite a while this is very philippines core actually isnt it
- not an obscure topic
- right into business
- actually useful info if you have older religious parents who aren't tech savvy
- current event and a pretty good theory about what's happening
Subscribed. You are on my shelf of Internet Mystery Theorists.
I'm not even a very religious person, but seeing Jesus being used for this kind of thing just feels wrong.
i agree, not really religious either, but this reminds me of Andres Serrano's work. it's just unpleasant.
Brain of Cthulhu go bbbbrrrr!! But in all honesty, seeing Jesus that way is just so dumb, if you are gonna glorify the Lord, make it real!
@@the-letter_s Serranos work at least has something to say and isnt just AI generated garbage being fed to braindead boomers. You obviously dont have to like his work, but to raise AI crap to his level is wrong imo
Jesus is not a
White man
it's because even if you're not religious, religion brainwashed you. i'm a raging atheist, i hate all religions, and i find this pictures absolutely hilarious
If you showed this to a college student in 2009 who just said “I love watch to youtube videos on my laptop!” with no context whatsoever they’d have a heart attack
Mf acting like 2009 was a hundred years ago, to truly get someone to get a heart attack from this is to show this to a 19 year old American in 1931.
@@naeljalani9631 you realize that technology has evolved drastically in the past few years, garbage like this wasn't even possible back then.
@@naeljalani9631 mf I’m pretty sure if you showed this to a 19 year old in 1931 they’d fucking ascend 10,000 meters then combust into strange matter
You don't remember youtube poops if you think this would be too weird for them.
If you showed what? AI images?
We already had Photoshop and photoshoped images in 2009
Parents then: "Be VERY careful when you're on the internet. You never know who you're talking to."
Parents 20 years later: "Look, Johnny! Aunt Ida on Facebook said that she saw Jesus made out of animal intestines!"
Every generation is the same,
No matter what
Jesus being a mascot of late stage capitalism is not something that i think he would have liked.
thats what he feared
Definitely. Should have gone the islamic route then we wouldnt have this mess, but i can almost bet AI disrespects their wishes with depicting their prophets too
funnily enough this scenario is exactly why Muhammad didn't like having pictures drawn of him
Stop yapping
@@stewart950no you stop yapping, ligma balls ahh Spongebob.
I work at a library part time, and you'd be amazed how many people I've taught how to use a mouse in one year. Even more folks don't know what a browser is and it's really weird to explain that different browsers belong to different companies and they're all trying to get your attention, and that's why there's so many notifications for choosing a primary browser.
If you can get them onto UA-cam, showing them videos about the history of the Internet, spam, and old tech compared to newer counterparts, can actually help a lot! But most people are just using the computers to apply for a job or for some legal work, so they don't have time for it.
It's even harder with phones, especially since grand kids and salesmen get them the newest shiniest most powerful phones and they barely know how to unlock the thing.
In truck jesus we trust
In 7up Jesus we trust 🙏
pepsi jesus and his apostle pepsi man are the only ones i trust
In coke horse jesus we trust
@@mikadosannoji553 And his bard Saint Pepsi
In Jeshark Christ we trust.
Same thing happened with UA-cam shorts, People would upload the same video over and over again and by chance getting a gazillion subscribers and after a year these UA-cam channels got sold
Edit no. 1: Corrected grammar
Good point. I'm also wondering if these pages are just gathering and priming an audience for some moneymaking scheme or disinfo campaign.
@@hyperdude144 crypto scam, more than twice I saw it happened.
Reject AI Jesus
Return to RNGesus
nah, real jesus
@@realmanjamalreal jesus won't make my videogames better
@@ComputerGoblin02 christian games are intriguing
@@ComputerGoblin02 will it makes you life better
Jesus Christacean
And Jesus answered, "I am the truth and the way and the light. No one comes to the father, except through me." SIX DOLLAR SRIMP SPECIAL!!
So you're telling me a shrimp parted these seas?
Shrimp special? I find it pretty mundane myself
*Machine.. Please stop posting Jesus images on Facebook.*
SHRIMP. HEAVEN. NOW.
Shrimp Heaven? Christacean!
DANIEL, WE CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS
ENTER THE PLANE-SHARK. FROM THE FRONT.
I was looking for this
Glad to know other people had the same thought I did
How is this NOT horribly immoral? Its preying on the gulliblness of religous people and encouraging cultish behavior for money and attention, which is why any cult exists in the first place.
It's also just spam bots on Facebook which is too broad and open to interpretation to properly police. Facebook could create an algorithm that is Anti-AI, but there's nothing to bring to court logically
Oh you know, it is
who says it isn't horribly immoral?
it's religious people, if their god does exist, then them getting scammed, would by their own lgpic be part of "the plan" so it's not THAT immoral.
I don't see how anyone is being preyed on here, nor how any behaviour which could be construed as cultish is being pushed.
For something to be immoral, damage must be done, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
I don't see any trick whatsoever which one can "fall for" here - just some autogenerated mindless fun.
I think the best argument for this being in any way immoral is because it spams peoples feeds with irrelevant shit which would potentially be nicer if this didn't exist?
"Dead internet theory isn't real"
Also Internet in question:
What is the point of this even?
This is Facebook specifically
Other platforms have these problems too in Facebook it's just on a much larger scale
@@Anton43218Of what?
Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the one who fried this rice?" And Jesus said, "I am."
Nice! 😎
Do you really like this kind of fish? I think you should do more research.
Hey! This kind of comment is wrong... we can verbalize it.
Man, this is blasphemy on a whole other level... Although it is really funny how ridiculous these images are, i wont lie.
Get the holy handgrenades!
@@Lloyd_2001 😂
Kind of like the concept of blasphemy.
Blasphemy is often funny, it is a bit odd seeing believers support it though.
@@ZeallustImmortal the word of the day is "heretic"!
Dead internet theory? More like dead facebook theory because i have not seen any examples of this stuff anywhere other than facebook.
edit: I changed my mind, youtube has hella bots. Still not as bad as TrashBook though
Shortform content platforms like Tiktok and Instagrams (and UA-cam shorts to a degree) are also showing symptoms. Though not made with AI, they're getting swamped with low- or zero-effort content.
I see a lot of bots in UA-cam in the music, especially in spiritual or meditation type videos.
Also I see lot of generated lists of Reddit post. AI AITAH. But I haven't seen too many bots, just a few
DeviantArt and Art Station got flooded as well :/
And twitter too
Anime Jesus was a thing before this AI thing. There's an anime/manga where Buddha and Jesus were laid back room mates. Also, back in the early 2000's an aunt of mine even gifted me a manga adaptation of the New Testament. I kinda regret not keeping it, it was an interesting piece of media lol
The only think is that I love of ALL THIS MESS is that recently like 2 weeks ago....the Latin American facebook community started to make memes mocking the people who think the images are real lmao
Which is, whether the creators intended another advantage, whether someone shares the content ironically or not it boosts the content.
THANK YOU! I've been posting about all these AI Jesus pics on my socials for weeks and weeks and either people don't care or think I'm crazy. Thank you for going down the rabbit hole for me. This was very entertaining.
The ironic thing about portraying Jesus as a half-shrimp, half-human mutant is that He was Torah-observant, meaning, He followed the dietary regulations of the Mosaic Covenant, which disallows the consumption of shellfish (among other unclean meats).
The diet reason, is not only because of health reasons in Jewish culture. But, according to Jewish culture, those animals were sacrificed to pagan Gods.
Also, in some obscure Christian denominations, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost inhabit Sea life, and some forms of land life. Which includes shellfish, pigs, cows, and horses.
well that's why he's becoming shrimp instead of eating it, you see?
shrimp jesus is friend, not food
That has to be where it came from. AI is very smart but it's also insane. Some prompt explaining not to eat shrimp could have created this
@@ursidae97like a weird communion?
@@THE_EDGEDAY_WATCHERwhich is wild because jesus also did away with mosaic law according to the lore
One thing that gets boomers all excited is when ai will generate Jesus’ face using background objects and people specific positions like it was just a coincidence that Jesus appeared
It’s like that visual illusion that makes people see faces of Jesus or Demons and walls or clouds or food
“Face pareidolia” but it’s intentionally arranging objects and people to make it look like a coincidence
I knew some people who would fall for this kind of thing because they just don't have enough exposure to the internet to see how truly weird it is. They probably don't even know what AI generated pictures are, at most they heard of it and have a basic concept of AI but beyond that they don't care. They don't think too hard about the stuff they see on facebook, they're essentially on auto-pilot and react to what they are familiar with. They see Jesus, they like Jesus, so they like the post, maybe subscribe, and join in by commenting "Amen". They might consider the oddity of the pictures for a bit but again they don't think much about it.
All of these people share one thing in common: they're at least 50 or older. I blame the lead poisoning.
Guys really will see a picture of Shrimp Jesus and go, "Hell yeah".
Neurons stimulated. Amen posted. Upthumb pressed.
*Amen
And Thomas the Tank Engine Jesus.
This type of content gives me intense dread for the future, a AI takes a more prominent role online and it becomes harder and harder to distinguish reality.
On fb, they are already posting fake historical pics. We really need to stop ai devs
@@AriayilzptSo real? They don't look real at all! These Jesus images look incredibly fake!
Then join a communist party and fight for a better world.
really? to me it makes it feel like it's a ridiculous passing fad
it's gotten so bad to the point where people are starting to think real things are AI and vice versa
The irony of all these religious boomers engaging with the most hollow, soulless, false depictions of faith and thinking theyre being legit faithful isnt lost on me
I know your likely not reilgous and this is not the anti-chirst's doing, but that sounds very much like the anti-christ tricking people.
i genuinely dont even think these pages are being run by humans, not directly anyway. like, a human probably monitors them and gives them themes to follow, but i think bots just make most of the prompts and upload them, and they probably take gaps between posting as to not be considered as spamming, though i dont know how facebook works so i dont know when it counts someone as spamming
I deleted my Facebook years ago and I'm glad I did, but my uncle (who is 70) still uses it. Next time I talk to him I'm going to ask him if he ever sees any of this stuff. BTW I think your analysis is spot on, these pages must be started with the intention of selling the account once it gets enough traction.
That means -- *never* follow one of these accounts, you never know when it will be bought by scammers and used for nefarious purposes.
Imagine if all the different jesuses in the ai posts meet and it's like a spiderverse thing
The 2 minute mark is SO FUNNY
I GET IT NOW
IT'S THAT ONE EPISODE FROM SPONGEBOB, spongebob did that EXACT thing while he was taking care of the baby scallop.
That had nothing to do with it, i just think it's hilarious.
Another video? Ai? Yippee! I worry about the older community of Facebook as they think AI images and photos are real or actual art work! Thanks for covering this
Al these AI images are peak meme content
Yeah, this is so ridiculous, that it is funny.
One time me and my friend tried to get an ai generated image of Jesus and in that image he has Godzilla's spines and tail 💀
@@Serial_Designation_V0000Literal Godzilla 💀
I knew it would come back to money somehow, just didn’t know how.
And yeah, even if they’re not doing anything explicitly shady, illegal, or even immoral, it feels like the foundation for something potentially really bad is being laid. That definitely goes for AI in general as well. But I don’t know, maybe I’m catastrophizing.
I definitely think whoever ends up buying these pages are probably gonna do something bad with the audience, whether it’s pushing a scam or some other deceptive practice
I still feel like it’s shady just because it’s using religious people for likes and views and taking Jesus’s name and likeness in vain.
@@marsburdis If someone wants to make a bunch of fake pictures for the sake of getting fake internet points, well... who is really being harmed here? And I'm saying that as a Christian. As for taking Jesus' name and likeness in vain, I've seen a lot worse; this is irreverent to be sure but ultimately harmless.
This also is on youtube shorts, and they keep saying this: "IF YOU SKIP GOD WILL BE ANGRY AND YOU HATE GOD" when a video dosen't determine your love to God
There’s definitely a scam element to these pages whether it’s from the people who run the pages or not. Lots of replies to comments from weird accounts telling people to add them or complimenting them on their profile - seems like a setup to romance scams
Yep...as a fan of Asian dramas, I run some pretty big groups on Facebook related to male celebrities and there's a real romance scam problem on that site. Some impersonate celebrities, and some just hunt for lonely, impressionable women, preferably older to squeeze them out of cash. It's scary how easily people fall for this stuff.
these ai pictures are tricking every old person and its hilarious
amen 🙏
It makes me feel hopeless
@@exceptionallyriso why? Those are elders, they have excuse of being a layman generation in a technological boom we have right now. They will shrink as a group in a couple of decades.
Just remember that 2004 kids are 20 years old right now and after 2000 tech is a part of our life.
@@calluxdoaron1903 The hopeless part is not for the older generation, it's about my own self. Will I also become so easily tricked by things on the internet as I grow old? Is it inevitable?
@@calluxdoaron1903 This is not an intellectual take. We should not let old people be tricked by technology just because they won't be around in a couple of years. If we do that, when AI gets too advanced, people will get tricked, and they won't be able to tell what is real and what is not.
i am annoyed this doesn’t have more views
Here’s to hoping 😅
Amen 🙏 🫃🏼
Day after day, the Dead Internet Theory keeps getting proven more and more.
Indeed.
How tf is this proof of dead internet theory? Looks like “jumping on a trend” and “hivemind” theory to me.
damn that's why I kept on seeing people posting flowers or something plant related and the caption was either its my birthday and nobody came or something like this is my art
the crustifixtion that krilled jesus
Behold, the Christacean!
my guess is they farm for followers and then sell of the accounts to brands so they can start off with a followship right away. people sell their UA-cam account names like this as well.
That would make a lot of sense; my mother in law was following some random cross-stitching page that got sold and started posting adult stuff. Bless her heart, she thought she had a virus lol
can’t believe ai is killing content theft 😢😢
posted this and IMMEDIATELY realized that generative ai is just content theft with extra steps
Ai IS content theft.
@@AminalCreachermillennials are killing the content theft industry
Stealing content that is worth stealing takes effort; AI generation takes a lot less.
@@AminalCreacher It really isn't. Any more than any artist inspired by art they've seen before is "stealing" anything.
The more I watch this video, the more early internet vibe I get. You use to be able to stumble onto some wild privately owned websites with some insane layouts ment for noone, completely unable to be navigated with tons of hidden links buried under massive layers of images. This has that same disturbing feeling, but when you boil it down, it's just some poor dude in a poor country trying to make a couple hundred bones with tech that he sorta understands, at least more so than his neighbors.
Bot: I want to make a picture.
Thousands of other bots: Amen.
2:21 That ain't no shark, that is a motherfucking sharkplane LMAO and WHAT?
Exactly! People are looking at these images and mindlessly typing "Amen" underneath them.
*How do they not notice the sharkplane!?*
@@eliesh3833 "Ame--OH MY GOD WHAT THE FCK IS THAT"
Holy christ that things nostrils are eyes
Go watch the Sky Sharks movie. It's fun.
Thank you for making sense out of my Facebook feed.
"the AI content isn't stolen." so about that.... genAI models have to be trained on existing data. guess where all that training data came from?
By that logic, when a person looks at a picture, they steal it.
@@Cretaceous158 I'm not rehashing this same argument with you that I've had hundreds of times already. if you're making this point still, after everything we know, at this point I'm just going to tell you to shut the fuck up.
@@Cretaceous158 wrong. A person has to train and learn and be inspired a program is just a machine that scrapes data from other peoples' work.
@@Ash-nh6li They both work the same way. The AI uses the images to know how to make things, not what to make.
@@Cretaceous158Human aren't electrified rock. Trying to compare the human brain to a computer is a fruitless endeavour. Try replacing your brain with a computer, go ahead and see how smart you are after that.
Stop anthropomorphizing soulless objects, humans are living breathing animals. Not rocks.
What's the big deal?
It's Shrimply Jesus.
LTTN
laughed through the nose
I'm tired of seeing these posts on Facebook. No matter how many I hide, they keep popping up 😠
Easy solution: just don't go to Facebook.
I see what some people are saying, but I dont think these accounts are a case of "dead internet theory", at least the people liking and following the pages seem genuinely interested in Jesus art (tho there are def some bots following the accounts too). My grandma does the same, anything jesus related she is sending to everyone. I guess people don't really pay attention to all the details of the photos, and like grandma, they probably dont know what AI images are, just think they are your typical Jesus "hyperrealistic" art
Another thing that Dead Internet Theory believers don't seem to realize is that humans also like to do what they see other people doing. Everyone else commenting “Amen” increases the likelyhood that someone else will do the same.
ai bro starts up page to farm engagement, engagement gets farmed
simple as
some of the oddly specific ones make me feel like it's someone's fetish. especially the mud and pregnancy stuff
The border between religious stuff and fetish stuff is often very thin.
"Fetish" was originally a religious word.
in conclusion, these bogus pages takes advantage of religious people for engagement, possibly for profit even. Best thing to do right now is to mass report them for scam or a form of misinformation, or any reports related to misleading content. It's honestly sad to see.
No way to get rid of this content and Facebook benefits from the engagement so they have no incentive to do anything about it.
in other words, business as usual
Have you thought about that maybe its not a lack of media literacy that makes people think this isnt AI but that instead.... they simply dont care its AI?
Ngl an inexplicable glut of disturbing AI Jesus pictures sounds like the setup of a horror ARG
Honestly it’s a pretty good opportunity if someone wanted to start one
Another aspect to this is Facebook has ways for people to monetize their posts if they get enough engagement. So there's another end goal: get enough traction to qualify for monetization and milk it for all you can
It feels blasphemous to see Christ's image desecrated by AI arts
and it makes me want to yell at god for making me sentient.
I just wished almost if i have to that God must have to be more mindful of humans going to make the most wackiest trash in history for money/profit only or even because some other good-old humans played mostly Supermario Brothers as their childhood videogame on the NES rather instead of being busy making a future-era Android or iPhone become capable of successfully playing Gran Turismo VII but not Guilty Gear Strive at atleast 30-60 FPS than being busy on atheists minding their own business without knowing that they got overshadowed by weirdo Reddit atheists tho.
I'm not even religious, yet this feels very very disrespectful. Using a religion for engagement and profit. I don't care if the admin is christian or not, it's still horrendous
@@Gachaheathunter109 I honestly... Don't blame God for this. His children simply strayed away from His love & ideals
@@kc8391 I can agree with that. I wonder if the spiritual heads of different Christian denominations even publicly replied with this particular usage of Jesus Christ's image?
Amen
This is a very good boy and an amen sending prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝✝
Amen, my friend. (:])
Wow so skilled, amen 🙏
Amen Amen Amen Amen
Wow so amen, amen boy amen shrimp jesus 🙏
A lot of AI generated machines are trained on stolen data, so yes these accounts are still stealing by proxy,
They also don't have copyright over those images, as AI generated images don't have such protections.
Reminds me of that one photo where Jesus is surrounded by beautiful asian flight attendants lmao
Aye some of my Facebook comments are in here. I was live streaming while making them lol. Justen Chuckles Samson. That's meeeee!
I spend hours debunking the AI images and countless messages to people who believe they're real.
Thank you for also assisting with the fight against disinformation!
I have my suspicions this is somewhat related to the increase in internet access in rural parts of the world (India, Southeast Asia, Africa) where historically it was pretty rare. People there are now getting internet access, which is good, but as a result we’re seeing some people (or groups) who are preying on the ignorance or superstition of people by making and chain posting these.
It’s also very possible that bots are playing a major role. A lot of these pages don’t seem human at all, nor the majority of the accounts interacting with them.
I have noticed WAY TOO MANY ai jesus stuff and also no joke!!! A kid with an oxygen tank facedown in some water with s9mething saying its its birthday and a cake near it.
Its disgusting and NEEDS TO STOP
One of the craziest rabbit holes I've seen, good job on the video and investigation
What’s weird is seeing that fake phone number with the academy store in Texas as I live close to it with the area code 956
Perhaps these peculiar images are a glimpse into the chaos that lurks just beyond our perception, reminding us that not all creations of this world are mere slop; some hold the key to deeper truths waiting to be unearthed.
Bro this gotta be some kind of sin 😭😭😭
Maybe blasphemy: While icons can still be made, i don't think an AI can have the holy spirit like a human can.... It's a script.
Plus, he's not doing it not for jesus but for his own sake while using The Savior.
Only using God as money. God dislikes money because money brings Greed.
@@PeeGoblin-jg6tu Now, money is not a sin itself, it's the love of money/ idolatry of money that is. Lord save us all in these last times :D
@@godlovesyouforeverandeverYeah it has a slight hint of blasphemy and sacrilege. Not completely, but almost.
It can be explained - primitive pictures appeal to primitive urges. Sharks = scary, Jesus = good, mud and stewardess = hot?…
Also I thought that it might be a kink.
This is definitely written by AI. you can tell by how every paragraph has the same amount of lines 8:51
It's such a bizarre phenomenon. To me, it feels like the algorithm filling space between advertisements with throwaway accounts. Like cutting the head off a hydra, blocking one of these spam profiles regularly seems to spawn two more in my feed.
A Jesus made out of shrimp makes PERFECT SENSE ACTUALLY. Because what is the most powerful shrimp??? It's the peacock manis shrimp and it is SO POWERFUL that the universal symbol of death in the ocean ''the great white shark'' is no match for it. Also the Mantis Shrimp has many photo receptors, 12 of which I believe are associated with color. So that's the 12 main disciples but it is more than that, it is the 12 within the 7. We cut the rainbow into 7 colors so if you split that into 12 pieces you have the 84 colors and 8+4 goes back to 12.
Except the peacock mantis shrimp isn’t an actual shrimp
True, but this is one of those stretchy theories. The content itself isn't facts but it kind of points to something that is. It's like if you took a time machine and went back to the dark ages and wrote a ridiculous head scratching story but reading every first letter reveals Einstein's theory of relativity. Or something of that affect, ambiguous truths are the best ones because you have to see through the bs. Or sometimes it will be true it just wont be the whole truth.
take your meds
@@IamEscBoy The Meds is kind of what made me realize this.
This isn't new. Right before I got married 8 years ago I went down a rabbit hole and found a lot of this stuff, just more raw and with less engagement, like barely any.
I remember finding an abundance and website, smecca that was putting out gifs of wave form animations and 3 dimensional mapping that trended toward a human head eventually.
you didn't see this 8 years ago because we didn't have this kind of ai generation in 2016
I have a relative that keeps sharing some AI images around a poor African boy building Jesus statues and stuff. I commented once telling them what AI is and how the image wasn't real but was completely ignored, and she still does it. And yeah, I'm from the global south and the relative is an older woman. At least these are innocent enough, but I'm genuinely worried about older family members falling for a scan around that, if they already fall for cheaper less elaborated scans like people pretending to be family thought messages, imagine with AI. Even my mom has a hard time telling AI images and videos from the real thing, and she isn't stupid either or completely alienated from technology or anything.
1:35 it appears they upload the different results from an ai image generated and post it on Facebook
I’m guessing the ai prompt was “dog drawing Jesus with plane in background”
If you have a bot farm, sock puppet swarm or any kind of large group of accounts you control and would like to use them later for some nefarious activity, it might make sense to farm them on facebook and grow their posts over time to make them seem like actual humans. Have seen this kind of activity before, the locations of some of the accounts kind of points to this as a likely possibility.
I wonder if at least part of what we're seeing are bots gone rouge. I recall a story from a few years back about accounts being "borrowed" (essentially stolen but without the usual degree of criminality) to drop posts on particular channels to up engagement, they were even targeting accounts that matched relevant subjects to reduce suspicion further. A bot run account with a randomized timer and an army of bots borrowing other accounts interacting with each other without guidance, possibly allowed to because it serves someone's interest.
More freaky Jesus art? I don't see a downside! Bring it!!!
I really enjoyed this video and the digging you did! However, near the end you mentioned that "no content is being stolen anymore because it's AI generated". I disagree with that because the AI that generated those photos almost certainly used training data without permission.
AI in itself is often stealing and utilizing other people's work for image generation, which obviously everyone has varying opinions on. I know the legality of these images generators are being figured out right now, but I thought it was worth pointing out to you.
Thanks for the video!
artificially boosting user numbers to upcharge ad revenue is my theory, its always money
Amen't.
This now marks a point where it isn't for enthusiasm, rather a cry for help.
I disagree with the comments not being bots. Most of them have a post history, but it was a while ago, indicating they got hacked. And when people reply to them to tell them it's AI, they never respond.
the funny thing is that this kind of happens on youtube too, instead of ai generated jesus pictures its youtube shorts though, and the people on youtube try to get to 100k subs, then sell their channels to someone else
It's making the dead Internet theory right
On UA-cam there are yt shorts of ai generated birds I just hate it
I believe that the Shrimp Christ image was originally from somebody trying to do a “Shrimp Heaven Now” (a McElroy Bros joke) reference on a forum. Reminds me of being a teen in the 2000s and seeing images from SomethingAwful’s weekly Photoshop Phriday competition end up in the wild. There’s a particularly infamous crop of images from a “put goatse into this picture” prompt that ended up going viral because people thought they were real pictures of heavenly hands opening up a miraculous hole in the clouds. I remember my mom getting an email attachment from a super Christian family member and showing it to me like “can you believe how amazing this is? It’s a miracle!” and I couldn’t stop laughing. She didn’t believe me when I tried to explain where I had seen the pictures before 😂
The funny thing about the "praying to a sand sculpture of Jesus" thing is that there's an event documented in the book of Exodus where God personally punishes the Hebrews for worshiping a statue that was supposed to be a depiction of him. I doubt many humans are actually interacting with these posts, but it goes to show that those few who do so unironically ought to actually read the Bible.
In my opinion, my beliefs shouldn't be a bargaining chip or for sale by anyone. I despise when people use it for that type of thing, especially AI generated nonsense.
Great video and the satifying resolution at the end was (even though you called it) rather unexpected. If it helps i have this one bit of critique ehich is that i feel your cadence of speech is a little unsettling but i did like the explanation segments because they have an honest and open feel to them
Dead internet theory feels more real by the day
So, the Digital Omnimessiah is into flight attendants, puppies, and American soft drinks. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.