The jankiness of the original had a lot of charm, almost selling the dystopian absurdity of trying to deploy a service via the janky voice and slightly desync'd audio and animation. I don't think it's just nostalgia, because I felt the same way watching it the first time all those years ago. I think AI slop is decidedly different, because it just doesn't have the charm. I don't know if I can yet decompose exactly why…
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#42Earlier 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…
The things we called AI back then weren't AI. The things we call AI now aren't AI either. The definition remains wide.
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#43Could someone remake the "MongoDB is webscale" skit with AI gen please?
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#44This is very well done. I wouldn't and don't consider this to be AI slop. The author's own reflection captures perfectly my own feelings on the matter... intent does matter. I think what gets lost in a lot of the AI media discussion is that intent matters. I find auto-generated slop-farm TikToks just as dystopic as the most fervent doomer, but I also remember when I was a 10-year-old kid making movies with my parents…
According to Kagi, all AI generated content is slop. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html#what-is-co...
That is not how Kagi looks at it.
We are marking domains as slop if they contain mostly AI generated content. It is hard to say if a single piece of AI generated content is slop or not (there is useful AI generated content too). But if all the content on a domain is AI generated, it is likely something that people would not like in their results.
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#45Kinda shocked at how much editing they had to do.
You'd think AI would make it easier to splice together individual clips, but I haven't find a tool that does that well yet. Opus seems tailored for doing fine tuning on long form content like podcasts.
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#46the 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
"only if you are Yahoo!" is one of the best line reads of all time.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The things we called AI back then weren't AI. The things we call AI now aren't AI either. The definition remains wide.
Sounds like Humpty-Dumpty.
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#48the 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
It's differently good. Impressive (but less funny).
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#49>I am not the kind of person who thinks AI will replace actors blah blah blah. But I am glad these tools exist, because this video wouldn’t exist without AI. >In no world would I ever have put together a real cast and crew to remake a 15 year old inside joke video for Googlers, but I was able to make it with AI. BUT IT DID !! and part of the charm is that this involved real people talking, mutual understanding and a…
So much of what makes people willing to be moved by creative art is the willingness to believe they're investing in someone else's real thoughts & effort -- and opening themselves to a channel of real human connection & relationship.
AI has raised the bar, in terms of making it more difficult to create the trust necessary for people to be willing to open themselves up to that connection.