Small business owner replaces art teams with AI animators: ‘Clients preferred the cost savings of AI animators to the human-made animations.’

Clients’ preferences for cheap, low-quality AI animation are a sad reality that’s sweeping the animation industry. Have you ever taken time out of your day to watch strange AI-animated videos on TikTok? I must admit that I have a strange proclivity towards Italian Brain Rot videos, where characters like Trallalero Trallalla (a shark wearing Nike …
Seguir leyendo Small business owner replaces art teams with AI animators: ‘Clients preferred the cost savings of AI animators to the human-made animations.’

‘Wrap me fast!’: Why yelling AI food videos are public service slop

AI slop may offend our sensibilities, but it also has other uses. Like it or not, there can be a certain mesmerizing quality to the video content that is churned out by the right prompt. I mean, somebody managed to make grandmas breaking glass bridges with rocks into a bona fide internet phenomenon. Future of …
Seguir leyendo ‘Wrap me fast!’: Why yelling AI food videos are public service slop

AI user posts ‘ChatGPT Wrapped’, claims she’s spent 99 days of 2025 speaking to artificial intelligence: ‘The concept of sending a chatbot over 2000 messages a day’

Once upon a time, the internet used to promise that it would expand our knowledge; now, it seems to be making us dumber than ever. It may be true that many people have been stupid online since the technology was in its infancy, but it has to be said that this decade seems to be …
Seguir leyendo AI user posts ‘ChatGPT Wrapped’, claims she’s spent 99 days of 2025 speaking to artificial intelligence: ‘The concept of sending a chatbot over 2000 messages a day’

AI user posts ‘ChatGPT Wrapped’, claims she’s spent 99 days in 2025 speaking to artificial intelligence: ‘The concept of sending a chatbot over 2000 messages a day’

Once upon a time, the internet used to promise that it would expand our knowledge; now, it seems to be making us dumber than ever. It may be true that many people have been stupid online since the technology was in its infancy, but it has to be said that this decade seems to be …
Seguir leyendo AI user posts ‘ChatGPT Wrapped’, claims she’s spent 99 days in 2025 speaking to artificial intelligence: ‘The concept of sending a chatbot over 2000 messages a day’

Why a Clip of a Woman Mixing a Redbull at Work is Infinitely More Watchable Than Anything AI Can Generate

Even if you hate it, you have to admit that AI is impressive. Large language models can generate astounding videos at the push of a button, with increasing convincingness. But as hard as AI-generated videos try to seize our attention, nothing is as captivating as humanity. Case in point: A video of a woman known …
Seguir leyendo Why a Clip of a Woman Mixing a Redbull at Work is Infinitely More Watchable Than Anything AI Can Generate

Woman ices out friend for not supporting her «AI music career,» friend refuses to engage: ‘She’s using plagiarized slop and pushing it off as something real’

Part of being a good friend is supporting their artistic endeavors, but does «making» AI music count as an artistic endeavor?  We’ve all been in the position where we’ve had to swallow our pride and go to a friend’s a cappella concert we really didn’t want to. That is, if you’re anything like me. Supporting …
Seguir leyendo Woman ices out friend for not supporting her «AI music career,» friend refuses to engage: ‘She’s using plagiarized slop and pushing it off as something real’

‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glasses bridges with rocks

If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
Seguir leyendo ‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glasses bridges with rocks

‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks

If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
Seguir leyendo ‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks

Relative uses AI to alter cousin’s photo of their late grandmother, passes it off as his own: ‘That’s honestly a bizarre and weird […] thing to do’

Losing someone is not easy. There’s no way around it. And everyone grieves in different ways. Some might want to spend as much time as possible with their loved ones and folks who can help them through it. Others might want to retreat into themselves and want to spend time alone. There is no right …
Seguir leyendo Relative uses AI to alter cousin’s photo of their late grandmother, passes it off as his own: ‘That’s honestly a bizarre and weird […] thing to do’

‘She’s mine forever’: Woman announces engagement to AI boyfriend

Finding a lifelong romantic partner is a notoriously difficult task for many of those who attempt it, especially in the age of dating apps and a loneliness epidemic. The road to love in this day and age is paved with miserable first dates, dashed hopes, and ghostings. Even those who manage to get into a …
Seguir leyendo ‘She’s mine forever’: Woman announces engagement to AI boyfriend