Deepfake Landscapes: Hey not bad!

For January we’re letting the technology of the moment make some— fake some— landscapes.

Hey, devil his due— that's some good fakery! Can you tell the fake part without peeking at last week?

My language keeps shifting, even since last week. Artificial intelligence is ridiculous; intelligence means discerning or differentiating, precisely what these programs don't do. The technical terms are fine— generative pre-trained transformers (the GPT in ChatGPT) and large language models (hence large data centers)— but are hardly catchy or clear. Chatbot is true but too narrow.

So for now I'm going with deepfake. Adjective noun. The deepfake industry. Fakers. Deepfake factories. Deepfaketories, trashing the sky like 1840s Manchester. Fighting the rechargeries.

Also sounds like CityNerd. Photoshop 2026, release 27.1.0, MacOS 15.6.1. Robert Wellman Campbell, "Deepfake Landscapes: Hey not bad!" RSS Longa, 15 January 2026, public domain via CC0 1.0.