# Looks like AI is going to shift us all back to manual labor, like how it was for most of human history

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 8:37pm 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/983733/204 "2023-09-18T20:37:57Z")

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People continue to be shockingly, depressingly credulous about AI generated images, many of which go viral from some AI Facebook groups I follow. The latest ones to spread like wildfire are the last Irish Greyhound:

> **[Real, Vintage Photo of a Giant Irish Dog?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/giant-irish-dog-photo/)**
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> "That's impressive photoshopping for 1902," one Reddit user commented.

and the Giant of Kandahar:

> **[Fact Check: Is the Giant of Kandahar of 1923 real or fake? Viral picture...](https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/fact-check-is-giant-kandahar-1923-real-fake-viral-picture-debunked)**
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> A picture of a gigantic humanoid called the Giant of Kandahar from Afghanistan recently began doing the rounds on the internet.

To be clear, the original creators are posting them in AI-specific groups, never trying to convince people that they are real. But others share the images different places and people fall for it. The people in the AI groups, of course, think it is hilarious and when an image goes viral they make all sorts of images mocking the original. Currently at the “cursed AI group” we are making hundreds of old photos from Kandahar. Here are a few of mine:

[![](https://i.postimg.cc/1tZQQs0k/Kandahar.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/1tZQQs0k/Kandahar.jpg)

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