All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

> AI-generated videos have developed their own unique look. There's a visual quality that marks them, a subtle wrongness that your brain picks up on even when you can't articulate exactly what's off. It's the new uncanny valley, and I feel an intense revulsion whenever I encounter it.

Yesterday on the comment thread for the "Attention is Bayesian Inference" blog post (which definitely seems to have been written by AI), a couple people were asking "who cares who/what wrote it, if it has good information", and others were struggling to articulate a response. Well, for me this is the response: it has a specific tone, and every time I see it it activates my gag reflex and I back-button straight out of the page. I'm not interested in examining or deconstructing this response either, as far as I'm concerned it's evolutionarily adaptive and I intend to keep it.

Re: All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

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Post by SunshineTheCat » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

One of the arguments I keep seeing from people churning out AI video is that the tech is enabling people "creative freedom" that's been made possible now even without the technical know how.

However, 99% of the the "creativity" from what I've seen is done by the AI (how it should look, where the cuts need to happen, the tone, color grading, etc). Which is to say, it's taken from other people's (creative) work.

While a big part of being able to create a good video has much to do with storytelling, the craft of shooting and editing a video is a big part of the creative process as well.

AI video isn't "enabling people to be more creative," it is quite literally removing creativity from the process all together.

Re: All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

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Post by webdoodle » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

rkapsoro wrote: post #4

There is one use case that is brilliant: comedy and meme videos. Bigfoot comes to mind.

I completely disagree. Meme's are a basic form of psyop, and are being using by intelligence agencies, the military, old media and new media, to warp our brains, and make us biological robots. Comedy is used much the same.

Re: All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

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Post by palmotea » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

voidUpdate wrote: post #2

And to make these harmful videos, they have ingested terabytes of uncredited video content and are causing a RAM shortage. What's the point?

> What's the point?

If AGI is achieved, some of the "they" at the cutting edge get to become feudal lords over massive AI empires that don't need you in them.

Re: All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

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Post by threethirtytwo » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

This isn’t a crisis. The author is describing a good thing.

When the day comes that the author can fulfill his dream that will not be a good day. And AI videos will be even more dangerous then.

Re: All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

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Post by fao_ » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

palmotea wrote: post #8

voidUpdate wrote: post #2

And to make these harmful videos, they have ingested terabytes of uncredited video content and are causing a RAM shortage. What's the point?

> What's the point? If AGI is achieved, some of the "they" at the cutting edge get to become feudal lords over massive AI empires that don't need you in them.

I'm not sure why this is downvoted because this is very literally the motivating reasoning, see: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement