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Thursday, November 06, 2025
"Sitcoms will never be the same" he says as he shares an AI video of 'Friends'. Sorry….do you guys think this looks good?
The Mary Sue: People who think AI is great REALLY want us to see how “good” it can be for videos and…it always looks bad. Like this sitcom video that someone posted on X thinking they were really giving us something special…
5 comments:
Carolyn Burback
said...
I HAD to go find this clip on youtube. It was worse than I thought it would be to be honest. I think people should stop making AI slop that is going to impress nobody except the sell-out companies looking to use AI as a film/television model for producing work. The characters look off and inconsistent, the dialogue is sometimes not even sentences but rather random sounds, and physical comedy is lost from the delayed, soulless AI movement. I think what makes sitcoms so good are the actors who bring their unique interpretations of their characters; they add their own habits and voice inflections to be funny and relatable. The most popular sitcoms also have strong design choices based on the characters which AI doesn’t have the nuance or creativity to produce. Thankfully I don’t think anyone but cheap companies will want to move in this direction as it takes the whole point of the art of television away.
The use of AI to attempt to do everything is not the move people think it is. I would rather have AI and robots do my mundane everyday tasks like dishes, laundry, and cleaning than try to create art. Though AI has gotten “smarter” and better at replicating elements of specified art and technology elements it still very much looks artificial and lacks the human elements of art like emotion. I hope that it continues to be recognizable as AI work, but some elements have gotten to be good enough to confuse and trick elderly and impressionable individuals. The use of AI to create art is wasteful of resources, energy, and creative potential. There are moments where AI can be a tool like fixing formulas or solving complex equations, but to be reliant upon it or think that it can replace entire industries especially artist based industries is not the use of technology that we need.
The people who are willing to use AI to make “art” (the word “art” being used in the loosest sense in the case of AI) seem to always have little respect for the medium. I suppose that some would argue that trying to replace human creativity with a computer program necessitates a lack of respect but I won’t get into that here. Usually when they’re found passing off AI “art” as their own work they act like writing a few words in a text box is comparable to the commitment that it takes real artists to make their art. To someone who has done so little with art that they don’t even understand why it takes so long to make art and think that the creative process could be simply replaced so easily I’d imagine that AI generated art might actually look alright. When you know absolutely nothing you don’t even know how much you don’t know but once you start gaining knowledge you start to see how much you have left to learn. In this case AI “artists” don’t know enough about art to even see the issues in composition and style that the AI makes, they simply see lines on a page and go “good enough”.
To be completely honest, I never understand when people try to hype up generative AI videos. Even if they look somewhat believable, like Sora, there's still logical inconsistencies that come from the AI not being able to understand what it's producing on a genuine level. It can't, for example, track how many things something is juggling in a video, so two things might get merged, etc.Additionally, I don't really understand why people find this necessary. Maybe it's that they don't feel like they're capable of making the art they want to see themselves, but oftentimes it's just to make weird slop of things that already exist and then get excited over the possibilities of what it could mean for original content. Even though that completely defeats the point they're trying to make, because they're not creating anything with original content, they're just using things that have already been created. You could not create an episode of Friends without feeding an AI Friends content.
AI could completely kill the entertainment and art industry if we let it. Even though AI art is never anywhere near the quality that a real person would make, a lot of people believe that it is making art more “accessible” which just is not true. Art is already a very accessible form of creativity, it all just depends on what type of art you decide to create. If we create AI tv then it loses it’s humanity and the best entertainment shows humanity in creative ways that robots would not be able to create. Plus with AI there is also the whole water usage part and how bad it is for the environment. Entertainment has never been an eco-friendly industry but there are plenty of places that have been attempting to change that. If we start to use AI for more entertainment then all of those attempts will be for absolutely nothing.
5 comments:
I HAD to go find this clip on youtube. It was worse than I thought it would be to be honest. I think people should stop making AI slop that is going to impress nobody except the sell-out companies looking to use AI as a film/television model for producing work. The characters look off and inconsistent, the dialogue is sometimes not even sentences but rather random sounds, and physical comedy is lost from the delayed, soulless AI movement. I think what makes sitcoms so good are the actors who bring their unique interpretations of their characters; they add their own habits and voice inflections to be funny and relatable. The most popular sitcoms also have strong design choices based on the characters which AI doesn’t have the nuance or creativity to produce. Thankfully I don’t think anyone but cheap companies will want to move in this direction as it takes the whole point of the art of television away.
The use of AI to attempt to do everything is not the move people think it is. I would rather have AI and robots do my mundane everyday tasks like dishes, laundry, and cleaning than try to create art. Though AI has gotten “smarter” and better at replicating elements of specified art and technology elements it still very much looks artificial and lacks the human elements of art like emotion. I hope that it continues to be recognizable as AI work, but some elements have gotten to be good enough to confuse and trick elderly and impressionable individuals. The use of AI to create art is wasteful of resources, energy, and creative potential. There are moments where AI can be a tool like fixing formulas or solving complex equations, but to be reliant upon it or think that it can replace entire industries especially artist based industries is not the use of technology that we need.
The people who are willing to use AI to make “art” (the word “art” being used in the loosest sense in the case of AI) seem to always have little respect for the medium. I suppose that some would argue that trying to replace human creativity with a computer program necessitates a lack of respect but I won’t get into that here. Usually when they’re found passing off AI “art” as their own work they act like writing a few words in a text box is comparable to the commitment that it takes real artists to make their art. To someone who has done so little with art that they don’t even understand why it takes so long to make art and think that the creative process could be simply replaced so easily I’d imagine that AI generated art might actually look alright. When you know absolutely nothing you don’t even know how much you don’t know but once you start gaining knowledge you start to see how much you have left to learn. In this case AI “artists” don’t know enough about art to even see the issues in composition and style that the AI makes, they simply see lines on a page and go “good enough”.
To be completely honest, I never understand when people try to hype up generative AI videos. Even if they look somewhat believable, like Sora, there's still logical inconsistencies that come from the AI not being able to understand what it's producing on a genuine level. It can't, for example, track how many things something is juggling in a video, so two things might get merged, etc.Additionally, I don't really understand why people find this necessary. Maybe it's that they don't feel like they're capable of making the art they want to see themselves, but oftentimes it's just to make weird slop of things that already exist and then get excited over the possibilities of what it could mean for original content. Even though that completely defeats the point they're trying to make, because they're not creating anything with original content, they're just using things that have already been created. You could not create an episode of Friends without feeding an AI Friends content.
AI could completely kill the entertainment and art industry if we let it. Even though AI art is never anywhere near the quality that a real person would make, a lot of people believe that it is making art more “accessible” which just is not true. Art is already a very accessible form of creativity, it all just depends on what type of art you decide to create. If we create AI tv then it loses it’s humanity and the best entertainment shows humanity in creative ways that robots would not be able to create. Plus with AI there is also the whole water usage part and how bad it is for the environment. Entertainment has never been an eco-friendly industry but there are plenty of places that have been attempting to change that. If we start to use AI for more entertainment then all of those attempts will be for absolutely nothing.
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