The White House Celebrated Labor Day With AI Slop of a Fully Automated Factory

A government post marking a holiday about workers featured AI-generated imagery of a factory with no workers in it — an irony critics were quick to note.

The optics wrote themselves. Not enough is being made of the White House posting AI slop of a fully automated factory to celebrate Labor Day, observed @sam_alberti — a holiday about the value of human labor, illustrated with a synthetic image of a facility that has no humans in it.

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