"A mistake we've all been making in our responses to the rise of AI slop is deriding it on the basis of its embarrassing mistakes and nauseating uncanniness. The reality is that the tech is improving at an astonishing rate, going from seventeen-fingered body horror images to borderline-convincing live-action film in just a couple of years. It will get better still, and all the while remain an uncreative and immoral act of plagiarism and wanton destruction of both the environment and creative jobs."
"The self-named "PJ Ace," CEO of [grits teeth] viral AI video company Genre.ai, has posted a thread to X to boast about how he was able to make a trailer for a Zelda movie in just five days, and for only $300, using a suite of AI tools within Freepik. There's so much to unpack here, but let's start with the video itself."
A mistake in responses to rising AI slop is focusing on embarrassing mistakes and uncanny artifacts. The technology is improving astonishingly fast, evolving from grotesque multi-fingered images to near-live-action video within years. Despite improving fidelity, the process remains uncreative and constitutes plagiarism, causes environmental harm, and displaces creative workers. A recent AI-generated fake live-action Legend of Zelda trailer, produced in five days for roughly $300 using Freepik and other tools, exemplifies the problem. The creator publicly boasted of the low cost and speed. Generative models lack continuity across frames, producing inconsistent character appearances and incoherent narratives despite moments of photorealism.
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