If you woke up this morning staring at your screen, wondering if that image in front of you is even real—you might need a little longer this time to figure it out. Suddenly, artificial intelligence is hitting differently.
There was a major update yesterday to ChatGPT, and images are now more perfect than ever. OpenAI just got incredible.
Incredible to the point where it’s more intelligent, more capable—it can now alter images, perfect them, and tailor them to look exactly the way you want. Those weird extra fingers and distorted hands? Gone. The awkward spelling in AI-generated text? Almost flawless now.
I’m not saying this is the “Dead Internet Theory” finally coming to life—but honestly, I think the dead internet has already been creeping in, quietly, for a while. This update just took it up a notch. From here on out, it’s probably time to stop believing every image you see online. Even when it comes from a so-called trusted news outlet, it might be worth keeping a shred of doubt.
Lately, I’ve been talking to people about artificial intelligence—how you really can’t trust what you see online anymore. And their response is usually something like, “Well, I don’t really use social media,” or “I’m not online much.” But that’s not the point.
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re not online. Because everything around you is. Every website. Every platform. Every piece of content. The potential for it to be AI-generated—or completely fake—is now everywhere.
What makes this even more real (or surreal) is that OpenAI just gave us an update that pushes image generation to near-perfection. And if we’re being honest, we already perfected writing. Schools across the country are struggling with students who can’t do a single assignment without ChatGPT stepping in.
And now we’ve arrived at a point where what we see—and very soon, what we hear—might not be accurate, might not be true, and might not be real.
There’s irony here. Because somehow, the dead internet just became more alive than ever.
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