For a long time, I was trying to be ambivalent. I thought “AI is a fad, it’ll blow over” and I bore through all the pictures clogging up my favorite art websites but the recent explosion in popularity of AI videos as “memes” on Twitter and YouTube has finally flipped me. This shit sucks.
I don’t even know what kind of people are into these things. Have you tried watching an AI video? They’re very creepy. The characters within look and move very unnaturally. I can’t watch them because I keep thinking it’s going to explode into gore and viscera like The Thing. This is an asshole thing to say but people who produce those things have earned my harshest judgement.
And the worst part is that one day very soon, this technology is going to used to start making videos of people commiting crimes. Sickos have already used it to homemake CP, it’s not going to stop there. I wonder if this is what it was like to live in the Terminator universe when Skynet was starting to be developed. It’s very obvious that this problem is only going to escalate, millions of people are calling for regulation or rules, but the scumbags engineering the tech remain anonymous and completely unhindered in their efforts.
the ai used for those png lip syncing looks just like shit from the year 2000 where you have to put markers on a picture so that it’d move them and make the image look like it’s talking, like imagine the image becoming mush to contort the lips in there to move. i can’t even find a proper image that conveys that tbh. anyone remembers the “princess jane” twitter thing? if that was made in the late 2000s people would go “this is funny home video”, not “HOLLYWOOD WILL DIE AND WE WILL RULE THE MOVIE WORLD WITH UNLIMITED CREATION IN OUR FINGERTYPES”
i know you mean the ones a la dream machine whatever and i agree, those feel extremely uncanny, everything morphs and melts and most of the time it doesn’t even know what to do so it ends up making shit up
videos about ai either go “HOW TO MAKE MONEY” or “FUNNY NSFW FREE, TALK TO ANY AN ANIME !” instead of “this is really cool”. china does a good job at using ai for anything but slop, don’t forget that china stay winning
all of that electricity and water wasted on shit like “REMOVE CLOTHES FREE IN IMAGE” to get disgusting without any form of consent (don’t forget csam, as the original poster mentioned! why the fuck) and “simpsons live action” where homer changes his face every single time and the computer has no clue how to make lisa’s hair spikes so it’s always changing in every shot. we are speeding up the warmth of earth for slop. this is how we will die. not from cool robits, but from water sources drying up, electricity being at maximum usage at all times due to ai centers, causing so much pollution from the current system of generating power (fossil fuels, nuclear power) and earth just losing its last breath from all the heat and all that jazz, i am tired sorry for being incoherent