"Are you one of the millions of workers who've recently been laid off, had their wages cut, or are locked in an endless struggle just to hang onto the job you have? Are you tired of dreaming of a vacation that never seems to come, amidst a stagnating economy where all the wealth seems to line the pockets of a few powerful billionaires?"
"No, this isn't Paul Verhoeven's 1990 film "Total Recall." It's Endless Summer - a new AI product created by a Meta designer named Laurent Del Rey. For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of you chilling in exotic locales, shopping with your totally-real travel buddies, and posing in front of world-renowned landmarks. Users can buy anywhere from 30 to 300 photos at a time."
"Prices vary depending on how long you want your vacation album to be, with 30 photos running just a measly $3.99, or $34.99 for the largest package, according to TechCrunch. It even has a "room service" option which runs in the background, spitting out two automatically-generated travel pics every morning - so you can see what you're missing in your sad little life, apparently."
Endless Summer is a generative AI app that produces photorealistic images of users in vacation settings for a small fee. Users can buy packages from 30 to 300 images, with prices from $3.99 to $34.99, and an optional "room service" feature that generates two travel photos each morning. Creator Laurent Del Rey, a Meta product designer, launched the tool to help users "manifest the soft life" during burnout and to reflect that summer travel is increasingly dominated by high-income Americans. The service enables affordable simulated vacations while highlighting widening economic barriers to real-world travel for working-class people.
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