# Looks like AI is going to shift us all back to manual labor, like how it was for most of human history **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [May 8, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-ai-is-going-to-shift-us-all-back-to-manual-labor-like-how-it-was-for-most-of-human-history/983733 "2023-05-08T05:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 191
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-ai-is-going-to-shift-us-all-back-to-manual-labor-like-how-it-was-for-most-of-human-history/983733/191 "2023-07-21T02:00:40Z")
Another one getting **thousands** of comments and **thousands** of shares from credulous admirers is an old woman knitting a giant cat. If details of the cat didn’t immediately expose it for an AI, the old lady’ _feet_ definitely should have. But despite the wide press coverage of AI (and, hell, the decades of existence of _Photoshop_) apparently there are vast numbers of people not even primed for the _concept_ of maybe a photo being unreliable. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/MTBv2PDf/Screenshot-20230720-214813-800.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/MTBv2PDf/Screenshot-20230720-214813-800.jpg) Knitty Grandma has caused a flood of parodies, such as this one: [![](https://i.postimg.cc/JzdnyVYB/Screenshot-20230720-215033.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/JzdnyVYB/Screenshot-20230720-215033.jpg) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-like-ai-is-going-to-shift-us-all-back-to-manual-labor-like-how-it-was-for-most-of-human-history/983733)._