Back when generative AI first reared its ugly head, there was a panic that the average viewer wouldn’t be able to identify it. But now, years into the rise of OpenAI, Grok, Midjourney, and the myriad other AI agents, anyone who has spent time online can identify a specific “AI look”: weirdly flat lighting, nonsense text, and often a strange yellowish tinge.
One theory for this yellow hue (or “piss filter,” in some internet spaces) claims it’s the result of a massively popular AI trend — a trend that highlights just who is behind all of these images in the first place.
