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These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.
by saaaaaam 3mo ago
These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.
- thewanderer1983 3mo agoVisual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured. What took this industry decades to advance it taking months in AI. Think the spaghetti Will Smith and now this. Another one people don't mention here but is specific to video is higgsfield ai.
- claaams 3mo agoThose old movies with old visual effects are watchable and still enjoyable. This is never good, interesting or enjoyable.
- KronisLV 3mo ago> Those old movies with old visual effects are watchable and still enjoyable. Id say it’s definitely possible to get spoiled by high production quality - if I went back to the old Star Trek or even the first seasons of the Doctor Who reboot, I’d mostly have to try to enjoy it for the story (then again, Doctor Who has never been overly concerned with presentation, the most fearsome aliens in the galaxy being metal boxes with plungers sticking out of them is quite silly). Same with most CGI in the older movies or even the style of older anime, it can all be a bit hard to watch. I guess I also experience the same with video games, though to a lesser degree - some like Hidden & Dangerous 2 can still be enjoyed whereas something like Operation Flashpoint would be quite frustrating, though more often due to controls rather than graphics. Ehh, they did what they could at the time.
- KronisLV 3mo agoAlso, just to be clear, the AI generated videos are quite trash. However, you could imagine that maybe with a decade of refinement they'll get better - the existing prompting and composition were okay, it's just that they were plain bad technically. Then again, so was Will Smith eating spaghetti.
- pennomi 3mo agoSurvivorship bias. Not disagreeing with you that these are unwatchable, but it’s a little rose-tinted to think that (non-AI) slop didn’t exist a long time ago.
- galleywest200 3mo agoAt least non-AI slop had a human behind it.
- userbinator 3mo agoThe AI slop isn't making itself either.
- Jtarii 3mo agoYes it is.
- userbinator 3mo agoCare to elaborate? Or are you just parroting some ideological belief with no basis in fact? All AI-generated content is the result of one or more humans who decided to use AI to create it.
- coldtea 3mo agoIt's logical for slop to exist. It's bad when slop production is automated.
- clickety_clack 3mo agoSpaghetti Will Smith was 3 years ago, so it’s taking a little longer than months.
- sph 3mo agoAny day now LLMs will develop taste
- skinfaxi 3mo agoDon't many people have poor taste?
- byzantinegene 3mo agoguess that's what AI trained itself on
- sph 3mo agoLike any other instance of this tired cliché, people can develop taste.
- skinfaxi 3mo agoWhat does a developed taste look like to you when expressed in words?
- 10xDev 3mo agoIt is remixing what the industry created, not advancing past it. OpenAI even ended Sora in under a year. Anthropic doesn't even bother.
- squidsoup 3mo agoNonsense. Ray Harryhausen's work today is still incredible, by any standard.
- thrance 3mo agoSpaghetti Will Smith was funny, this only inspires disgust in me: a clear downgrade. We're just getting deeper in the uncanny valley, with no end in sight. > Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured. The difference is intent. Watching an old movie, the effects are obviously janky and far from seamless, but the authors had intent and the imperfections are understandable. When an AI jumbles a basic walk animation, it's just weird and soulless. The prompter just didn't want to spend any time doing actual work, so used this slop as a stand-in, when better techniques exists.
- saaaaaam 3mo agoYes, I imagine in six months or so this will be far better.
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- coldtea 3mo ago>Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured The industry haven't matured except until a certain point. Then it declined. Modern visual effects are worse than practical effects in their heyday. They are also worse done than 3D effects in their tasteful early days (like Jurassic Park).
- Mashimo 3mo agoAre you sure this is not just a case of good VX has hard to spot? And you only notice the bad/cheap examples.
- coldtea 3mo agoIt's a case of the biggest blockbusters, with the biggest budgets, like the MCU movies or Fast and Furious and such, looking like crap vfx wise. Same for movies at every level. VFX can be more subtle (e.g. how Fincher uses it), but it's rare. The industry (which is separate from the technology) didn't mature, it enabled crappy effects to dominate.
- Mashimo 3mo ago> with the biggest budgets, like the MCU movies or Fast and Furious Oh, I hundred percent believe it. But did they spend the money on the vfx? For example 1917 or Nolan movies I think have great VFX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRZbsk_wuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRZbsk_wuA (last part)
- Jtarii 3mo agoCGI animals are still universally awful.
- y-c-o-m-b 3mo agoI think this has more to do with the cutthroat business than the technology involved. It seems the tech has improved, but the quality has suffered due to pressure to just fling shit out the door using the least amount of money to generate the most amount of profit. They are squeezing every penny dry. It seems to me the person you're responding to still has a valid point.
- flohofwoe 3mo agoCGI effects actually got worse once they were used en-masse to make movie production cheaper. Good CGI still takes care, skill and taste.
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- sd9 3mo agoUnless I'm misunderstanding the article, or your comment, the models were responsible for generating the music _videos_. The music itself is Uptown Funk... which was a very successful song in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0) The videos are indeed awful though.
- Philip-J-Fry 3mo agoThey're just saying that like Suno Music, if you look closely the cracks show. They're not saying the music is AI generated.
- saaaaaam 3mo agoYes, I know what the music is. The videos are awful. I meant that watching them is an equivalent experience to listening to music generated by Suno.
- esikich 3mo agoThey are awful because there is no effort put into it. You're missing the point entirely with generative art. Generative art with care and intent is indiscernible from "real" art at this point. You just don't realize it.
- 4chandaily 3mo agoGenerative art with care and intent is art. The intent and care is the whole point. It is the difference between slop and art whether generative or not.
- esikich 3mo agoI completely agree and this is a very unpopular opinion outside of people who actually are artists.
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- datsci_est_2015 3mo agoLmao yeah I’d rather give $100 to a college kid to film a bunch of shit and then splice it together. Would be significantly more interesting.
- bko 3mo agoWhat college kid would do that for $100? Seems like a lot of work. They might do it for free if they enjoy it or for a class, but purely for the money, not even close to being worth their time.
- ashdksnndck 3mo agoIt depends on how long it takes to make the video. Most employed college kids are paid minimum wage or thereabouts. $100 is a day’s work.
- latexr 3mo agoSeems pretty clear that the argument isn’t “approach a random kid in college studying philosophy or economics and ask them to make a music video for $100”. You ask this of someone studying cinema or something related, which has both the know-how and access to equipment but is lacking in experience.
- walrus01 3mo agoThe more concerning part is that a much less discerning audience will happily engage with and watch endless hours of AI slop videos. For example what happens if you give a 3 year old a tablet and youtube access to keep clicking on things. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-baby-slop-9.7166873 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-baby-slop-9.7166873 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-videos-children-youtube.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-videos-children-you... Or for an "Adult" audience, I'm sure you could get an AI to create videos of "OW, My balls!" from Idiocracy. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dh4l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5233f0b2-ebb8-43db-9b2d-af95825d016e_784x439.jpeg https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dh4l!,f_auto,q_auto:... https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQEqLntg_DW7vg/feedshare-shrink_1280/B4EZPZSmXZHsAk-/0/1734517352274?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=F1v735yjWBfP_XC-0JTIy5VqJInpE1yPRJ2wc5dYEzs https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQEqLntg_DW7vg/fee...
- __alias 3mo agoI've had some real success with Suno. There's one song I made as a joke which is a house track with lyrics about me and my friends which I've genuinely downloaded and listen to regularly.