Seriously, are these really the best examples they could come up with?

What is the point of having a fake picture of your dog in a costume? What’s the point of having a fake picture about being at a party?

The only use case I can think of for this is for someone who likes to make up stories and lie about what they’ve done. Is that really the target market?

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hobofan 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

In a world were there is a significant amount of people that do things just to take photos of themselves doing things rather than experiencing the thing, this may be the lesser evil.

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xp84 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Trying to be as least cynical as possible, imagine if you were a party with 3 or more people, and you really wanted a nice pic like that to commemorate the night, but never got to take one all together because someone left early, and you were in the bathroom when they announced their departure.

Yes, it's a major first-world problem to not get a photo, but to the right person, it could mean a lot to them to "fix" the photo they took with A and B to add C to their 'rightful place.'

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pibaker 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What's the point of having a photo like that?

Is spending time with your friends not enough in 2026? Do we must provide photographic evidence of all the fun you have been having or it did not happen?

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ryanjshaw an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You’re mistaking your preferences for the majority’s preferences. Huge chunk of humanity now chooses to experience in-person events recording it through their phones.

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madaxe_again 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you miss the last 15 years of social media?

So many people I just stopped spending time with altogether as instead of being present they’d be posing for their 90th instagram shot by 10am - and then of course they want you to pose, too.

So no. Spending time with your friends is not enough in 2026. I’m not even convinced people have friends now - just colleagues and mutual parasites.

	▲	72deluxe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think it depends on who your friends are, and/or culture. I was in France the other month and walking down to the river in Saumur, I noticed an area serving drinks (out of an old converted bus) with lights and suchlike (opposite the castle on the hill), with a small acoustic band. Nobody (and I mean nobody) had their phone out. The couple of hours I spent there, nobody was observable taking selfies. The age range was from young to old. I was shocked. It was very different from the UK. Refreshingly so.

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bryceacc 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

and then as you look back at that wonderful night you "remember" with all your friends, you will reinforce a false picture and reality strays further

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keiferski 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is such a contrived imaginary situation that is pretty divorced from reality. No one wants a fake AI photo to commemorate a real event.

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chorkpop 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But still what's the point? To look back on false memories that didn't happen?

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AyanamiKaine 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That was exactly my first reaction!

Mark where you at the party today? Yes of course look at these pictures I took (╥﹏╥)

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embedding-shape 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The only use case I can think of for this is for someone who likes to make up stories and lie about what they’ve done. Is that really the target market?

As far as I can tell, the biggest uses of these sort of models is to pump out lots of content on multimedia-based social media, so yeah, it's basically for the sort of person who doesn't shy away from exaggerating, omitting or outright lying in order to get more views.