I would have kicked up the 4d3d3d3. Maybe thrown in a hat wobble.
I thought/hoped that's what this thread was about.
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#22I do wish they updated this to 2026 google! I don’t think it would be nearly as interesting though since they do get rid of most red tape but since everything is enterprise scale, it’s never easy.
Huh?
The bureaucracy is way worse. BCID requirements. MDBs that take 4+ hours to roll out. The Byzantine array of different MDB group types, often with two party control. GDPR company compliance. Tagging proto fields with provenance. Documents are private by default now. Most support happens in chat groups, and is if you're not at deepmind your help requests are getting ignored. Spending a month filing GUTS tickets to get your intern access to basic tools. XManager idle pruning. GCP automated boq setup/teardown tools usually fail and you have to fall back to getting support from a contractor 12 time zones away.
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#23the deadpan emotionless delivery of the original memes are an important part of their humor. this remaster looks fancy but loses the entire spirit of the thing
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tbf, the original is also slop (albeit of the pre-AI variety)
no is not, the original is full of personality and ideas even if its poorly drawn and kitsch.
Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it. The artist's input was writing the text and signing off on the final auto-generated product. The reason the two characters in the video are weird superheroes is those were the available stock characters in the XtraNormal.com service he used.
After all, the creator didn't want to be an professinal full-time animator, he just wanted to animate three minutes.
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#26Is the other character a fox because that's Meta mascot too?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
no is not, the original is full of personality and ideas even if its poorly drawn and kitsch.
Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it. The artist's input was writing the text and signing off on the final auto-generated product. The reason the two characters in the video are weird superheroes is those were the available stock characters in the XtraNormal.com service he used. After all, the creator didn't want to be an professinal full-ti…
It is only "literally AI slop" if you widen the definition to include anything made using computers. That is not an honest take on what content made with AI is.
The original author chose those assets and that background, other people made those assets on the first place and had to take a ton of tiny creative choices that changed the final thing and help transmit ideas and feelings (of uncanniness, vulgarity, surrealism, whatever).
Anyone can tell the difference between one and the other.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
no is not, the original is full of personality and ideas even if its poorly drawn and kitsch.
Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it. The artist's input was writing the text and signing off on the final auto-generated product. The reason the two characters in the video are weird superheroes is those were the available stock characters in the XtraNormal.com service he used. After all, the creator didn't want to be an professinal full-ti…
> Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it.
Maybe I'm wrong but I would say that the slop feeling of the original version was a deliberate decision and part of its charm. That kind of video and voices were a meme back then, IIRC.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
no is not, the original is full of personality and ideas even if its poorly drawn and kitsch.
Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it. The artist's input was writing the text and signing off on the final auto-generated product. The reason the two characters in the video are weird superheroes is those were the available stock characters in the XtraNormal.com service he used. After all, the creator didn't want to be an professinal full-ti…
If the tech stack used to make that video makes it "AI slop" then every video game cutscene is AI slop.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but also literally AI slop. Stock characters auto-puppeted to a text script with text-to-voice run across it. The artist's input was writing the text and signing off on the final auto-generated product. The reason the two characters in the video are weird superheroes is those were the available stock characters in the XtraNormal.com service he used. After all, the creator didn't want to be an professinal full-ti…
It is only "literally AI slop" if you widen the definition to include anything made using computers. That is not an honest take on what content made with AI is. The original author chose those assets and that background, other people made those assets on the first place and had to take a ton of tiny creative choices that changed the final thing and help transmit ideas and feelings (of uncanniness, vulgarity, surreali…
Text to speech in the 2000s would be considered AI