The AI-circle trend: make photos look real by printing them out and scanning
floguo · x · 2026-10-02
A viral AI-circle joke: Danh Hentschel shares his photo "process" — shoot on iPhone, print in color on letter paper, then scan. The bit plays on the trend of degrading images to make them look authentically human-shot amid the flood of AI-generated photos, with others chiming in "me too".
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