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Well, we’ve arrived. There’s an AI-generated Mexican abuela whose mother, from Guadalajara, never wrote anything down. This channel, on YouTube, claims to be teaching people how to cook and how to clean their house “the old way”. She wears the same pink shirt in every video, has the same sprigs of hair sticking out across all videos, and the AI-ness of her content look and feel is there — odd textures on food, non-sequitur images, weirdly generated toilets flushing (see below), and so on. This enterprise is designed to sell PDF books about cooking and cleaning “the old way”.

Here’s the kicker. It’s good advice for the most part. The content is truly good stuff. I don’t mean the images, or an AI-buela saying “chy-al” (like child without the d) instead of Chee-lay for chile, the spice. I mean the cooking steps are sound, the fresh ingredients are good, using vinegar and soap to clean, and so much more.

There really seems to be good content under an awkward skin of please-make-this-AI-buela-viral.

What I’m slightly surprised about is the comments. People really do seem to think she is real. While there are some people pointing out the AI fumbles, a significant portion of the comments suggest they believe she is real. Could those commenters also be fake? I can’t say.

There is absolutely no AI disclosure anywhere. Even a casual look at some of these hallucinations makes it clear that this is AI

Welcome AI-buela. Mucho gusto.

Gig Harbor, WA