You Too Can Be The Wizard of Oz

Thanks to the emergence of AI, in 2025 nothing is as it seems, at least online. The Internet, once a promising tool for good, has turned into a freak show for pornographers, Trump-haters, the morbidly obese and older women dead-set against showing signs of aging.

In the time it took for me to check my email, I saw a video of a huge fat woman dressed in a gold lame bodysuit shaking and shimmying her enormous breasts and stomach, her long golden hair flying wildly about her moon-face, who then suddenly morphed into a grotesque, lizard-like creature with gold scales covering her body, before turning back again into a human, although still grotesque.

Next I saw an ad featuring a pretty young woman who suddenly wasn't so pretty anymore. The voiceover said, "These two are the same photographs. Try it, you can change yours too." It was a free offer so I did. That's my original photo above; the altered me is shown at right.

What's the point? Will everyone be hidden behind their AI faces someday? Will reality become a thing of the past? Are we all destined to become The Man Behind the Curtain?