In case you just joined us, I'm a member of the website DeviantArt, which is a little like Instagram, in that most members are artists, and they upload their artwork, and usually <indecipherable> be some time browsing the artwork of other artists. (I don't create art, so I just browse.) Originally, the idea was that members would negotiate to buy images, and the site got a percentage of the sale. I have no idea whether DA gets any money from my membership, which is interestingdo ...
Anyhoo... since there are so many images on the site, from time immemorial and from countless artistists, the site sort of takes over your browsing for you. It keeps track of the images you've 'liked', and tries to show you similar images. In my case, seem to have told the algorithm that I mostly—or only—want to see pictures of girls. (There was all sorts of silly stuff, mostly having to do with artifacts related to Anime, and computer or videogames, about which I knew nothing. So it boiled down to: this member only likes pics of girls.
But here's the thing. The combination of the DA algorithm and the design of AI software results in a peculiar situation: every picture looks like the same girl. The actual same girl! This is very weird.
[Note: I have exaggerated. Since I wrote these words, I'm noticing a—slightly—greater variety of facial types. I was alarmed, on that day, with seeing so many images with what seemed to be the identical facial features, but it was a fluke ...]
I got into a conversation with one of the artists about why all the girls have big boobs, and he swore it wasn't him. He said the AI seemed only familiar with heavy-breasted chicks! And now, it looks as though that's the only girl I have been noticed as likeing! So every day, I have to scroll through about 20 portraits of the sane girl, by which time I get bored and do something else.
Kay
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