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For fuck's sake people...
Here's the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds
The ad was a weird take. I think it's a mixture of the message and the uncanny Ai. Even if the ad wasn't Ai, it'd be a really odd ad.
There's definitely some AI in it, and it's definitely shit.
Some AI? It's all AI!
Most definitely AI.
Pass
Yeah, pretty much all of that hit my uncanny valley instincts. It was definitely, significantly edited after generation, but the clips themselves were...not right.
Holy shit that whole thing was off-putting even without considering where it came from.
Seems I suck at spotting ai in this clip. The cat one looked off and maybe the dude hanging down from the fairy lights but honestly I would have assumed it was all filmed or animated for the cookies.
This is a wild place. Share you experience and get more downvotes than upvotes. Not that votes matter it’s just an odd thing to do. Sorry I can’t see things like y’all.
The tree exploded weird, the mixer was vibrating weird, the guy falling on the ice flopped weird, I could go on. It was weird after weird clips stacked on each other
This is the thing though, some people just don't see that shit. Every single clip looked so unnatural and AI slop to me, real Black Hole Sun vibes, but some people are literally not seeing the dogshit jank we see. I suspect this explains some of why corpos think it's amazing if they can't see the abhorrence.
I watched it twice and I couldn't really tell. It's switching between scenes so fast I can't really focus on any part. I am on a phone too, so it's small.
Switching really quickly is one sign that it's AI content because it's still really bad at keeping context. AI is good enough at generating a scene where "a certain thing happens," but really can't create a scene where "a certain thing happens and as a result this happens." It can't tell a story.
That's crazy to me. I'm on a phone too, and it's... Just garbage content.
Technologically speaking it's amazing! Very close to real. If it was on in the background at a bar or something I probably wouldn't clock it.
But watching it? With my eyes? Immediately obvious.
I wonder why some people can't see it? Do you notice other AI stuff? Like even a lot of animated pictures and memes are AI now, as I scroll by I'm like yep, there's more. And I'm sure I'm not seeing it all, and I'm getting fooled by some of it, but all the time I'm seeing it.
Do you have a technical background? An artistic one?
I just like tech, never been one for art.
20 years ago people would have shit themselves seeing this and hearing that it was all created entirely by computers. But the reality is in the implications. Sure that's kinda/sorta impressive that AI can do that much now, but the implications that some can't tell the difference anymore is absolutely horrifying. Trump can post a video of him urinating on a 40' tall pile of brown corpses and some will see it as AI slop, and some will take it as real, and cheer it on. The implication is that people can now do and say horrible things and claim that the evidence is AI, or the reverse, that people can make it look like someone did something horrible and people will believe it. Give it another 5-10 years and it'll be even harder to tell. This shit is society-ending levels of bad.
AI makes all animals more fluffy and cutesy than they are in real life. My mom keeps trying to show me "real" videos that are funny or cute and it just makes me want to put her in a home. She's also a shit human outside of that, so don't judge me for wanting to put her in a home for not recognizing AI.
Those tips will help me in the future. I would like to say I’m not an idiot and maybe it’s how I see things vs others. Something I find interesting anyway, like I can’t visualise anything in my minds eye and find it shocking people can picture say a red apple.
I did judge you for you mum comment, but if she’s a horrible person perhaps make some distance between you two if possible. I’ve come to realise most my family have horrible views and it sucks.
It does suck. Realizing that as a child she indoctrinated me to the right wing. Manipulated me into seeing the world as she does. It took me far longer than I'd care to admit to see what happened and realize that those ideas are sick and horrifying. And now seeing how she's so easily tricked by AI, it starts to make sense. She's just stupid and easily tricked into believing falsehoods.
As someone with a shitty past but I would say shittier due to parents being shit rather than hostile like yours seem.
I’m come to accept that my parents made mistake and as the eldest those mistakes have shaped who I am, the good and the awful lot of bad. And I realise that they did the best they could as they came from shitty backgrounds too and didn’t have the ability to break the cycle. I decided not to have kids as I am breaking that cycle.
I guess I’m saying perhaps you mom went through a similar background and although it doesn’t excuse it, it explains it more for your peace of mind than hers though.
Edit: for context. I saw my dad beat my mum for years. When that stopped I saw my mum beat my dad and worse bully him. Other things like she had me kick down doors looking for my dad and generally was a warzone we grew up in.
That sounds familiar. After coming to some realizations on my own, I now know my dad had ADHD like me and my son, as did my grandpa. At that time ADHD wasn't really understood so I could understand how a relationship within that context would be difficult. My own relationships have struggled for the same reasons because despite my elementary teachers suggesting I get tested, she refused. 40 years of not knowing what was wrong with me, fucked me up bad, all because she'd be embarrassed of having the kid with a disorder. My mother, however doesn't have the excuse of mental health, she's just flat out evil. Everything that ever went wrong was someone else's fault, usually mine, because I was there. Nobody else was, because she didn't have any close friends, for a reason.
I love my son more than anything, and it hurts knowing what's in store for his future but at least he's got some help in understanding his condition, and meds and therapy for it. But the future is only going to get worse. And that potentially civilization ending sun spot is the best I can hope for, to at least level the playing field for him. Otherwise his future is just unbridled capitalism and fascism. It hurts like a MFer to know that.
Edit: that last part is basically saying "you're lucky you don't have kids, they're great, but it hurts"