If you were to ask younger me what the future will be like, I guarantee you I would’ve said that the future would have flying cars or jetpacks. However, what we did get was slurs for robots. AI is one of those things that showed up to the party unannounced and unwanted. Like it’s gotten to the point where now I can’t escape scrolling through Tik-Tok or Instagram reels without seeing some AI generated garbage posted by channels that promote AI programs so that way you could make even more AI slop. It started out not too annoying -like you could tell something was AI from this weird snapchat looking gloss it has over it. However, it is getting more difficult to tell the difference between AI or real things. That one AI video with bunnies on a trampoline is a great example. At first people didn’t see it until they found out that some stuff in the video started to look off. The biggest hint that gave it away that the video was AI was that one of the rabbits fazed through the trampoline during the start of the video. It didn’t take long for people to find out it was AI.
I feel as though AI really started to take off with chatbots. Chatbots weren’t a new thing but it did take off with a new AI chatbot on Twitter. Elon Musk with his infinite knowledge decided to release a chatbot called Grok which was half AI chatbot, half online companion that you could flirt with, and half ChatGPT to X that was trained to answer questions by X. So naturally Grok started spewing out hateful speech with only 2 months of it coming out, which is the result of letting AI get trained by a site more racist than Instagram. But now it’s time to talk about AI animation.
Animation was hit the hardest by AI because greedy companies decided to save money by using AI art for their commercials instead of allowing animators to get it out for them. It is lazy and a dumb decision. Jobs like that are hard to get these days. The “small” company Coca-cola used AI for their commercials and that went as well as you might’ve expected. Chuck E Cheese used AI to animate a commercial with the most nightmare inducing children I ever seen. And that fact it looks like the last thing you see before taking your last breath. Now, don’t get me started on Tik Tok. Unless you want a lobotomy, then you will be bombarded with all of this AI slop. It’s tiring to see all these massive companies use AI instead of real workers. Where’s the love and care put into it? Where’s the effort that pushed them to where they are now?
