AI-generated imagery is a type of media created using a program that inputs prompts for an artificial intelligence program to build from these lists of keywords. This is becoming a common practice in the film/entertainment industry in the 2020s (especially since late 2023-early 2024). It becomes a massive problem because it not only runs animators, actors, screenwriters, etc., out of a job but oftentimes, the result comes out with shoddy and lazy quality.
Notable Media Made by AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Winnie the Pooh (the film is mainly animated with AI tools)
- Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections (the patch update replaced the real human actors and were redubbed with AI, but save for Japanese and other dubs, and thankfully, this dub is reverted back)
- CoComelon (allegedly used AI in its videos for its animation quality since 2021, perhaps one of the earliest examples)
- The Backyardigans (2024) (although the animation is human-made, the graphics, lighting, character designs, soundtrack and voices are suspiciously artificial)
- Elsagate (being content farms, most Elsagate content is usually AI-generated)
- The Rodfellows (some of the voices are generated with AI)
- The New Norm (the theme song is entirely AI-generated; some of the promotional art is also AI-generated)
- Non-fungible token (Some NFTs are created with AI, which ironically makes sense given their environmental impact)
- The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival (the voices in the trailer and the promotional art are AI-generated)
- Monster Camp (2024) (the entirety of the film is AI-generated)
- Many mobile games (it depends on each developer, notably many of their game assets and ads use AI-generated materials)
- Dhar Mann (most of the scripts used in the videos suffer from this. While hypocritically saying he hated using AI)
- Angry Birds: Block Quest (prototype version) and Jelly Match (both games used AI-generated art)
- Ian Levine (Doctor Who fan and Missing Episode hunter) (Reconstructing 1960s Doctor Who missing episodes made by AI-generated website from Image to Video)
- The Day Before (voice-acting was allegedly AI-generated)[1]
- Willy's Chocolate Experience (The poster and description website is entirely made by AI, and when people went to the event, it's just a fake event which reminded people of the episode Krabby Land from SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Zachryzaxor's Ex-Girlfriend Series (some of the custom effects used in the videos are AI-generated)
- Fake Mobile Game Advertisements (many of them are AI-generated)
- Garten of Banban (character designs were generated with artificial tools)
- The Lion King (2019) (another early example; and while most of the film is human-made, the team used AI to allow virtual characters to behave in ways that mimicked real animals; which resulted in a lack of freedom for the animators)[2]
- Mufasa: The Lion King (the upcoming prequel to this film; while the animators had more freedom this time, AI was used to generate the voice of Zazu; in-spite of the trailer crediting his voice actor Preston Nyman)[3]
- Ryan's World (AI was used to generate video thumbnails)
- Its film adaptation, Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure, had some of its promotional material be AI-generated as well
Celebrities and Companies That Use A.I
NOTE: This list is in under construction. Feel free to edit this page.
Companies
Social Media
- Twitter/X (Graphics and Writing via premium features)
Websites
- Duolingo (Fired a variety of language experts and replaced them with AI only to cash in on Duolingo Max)
- Google (has AI overviews in searches)
Video Creation Industry
- Vyond (Animation and Script Writing via Vyond Go)
Game Industry
- Rovio (Graphics, though usually prototypes)
Film Making Industry
- Lionsgate (Animated Films)
- Dhar Mann Studios (Script Writing)
Television Industry
- SBT (They used AI to remaster El Chavo and El Chapulin Colorado in the return of both series on SBT)
- TV Cultura (They used AI to remaster their children's shows for the channel's 55th anniversary)
- TV Globo (They used AI for some of their programs)
- Globoplay (They did AI dubbing for the documentary series about the Rio-Paris flight tragedy)
Drink Industry
- Coca-Cola (Made a AI Christmas commercial)[4]
Fast Food Industry
- KFC (Made a Promo Discount in Indonesia commercial in 30 seconds with 2 ads)
Stores
- Toys R Us (produced an AI-generated commercial)
- Macy's (using an AI-powered shopping assistant to try advancing shopping for customers)
Celebrities
- Ian Levine (telling his fans to donate money to Reconstructing 1960s Doctor Who missing episodes made by AI-generated website from Image to Video on his Facebook Group)[5]
Celebrities and Companies That Are Against A.I
NOTE: This list is in under construction. Feel free to edit this page.
Companies
Social Media
- Bluesky
Film Making Industry
- Universal
Game Industry
- Nintendo
Celebrities
- Jessica Conrad (writer for The Simpsons, who wrote the episode "Bart's Birthday" as a way of making fun of generative AI)
- Sam Register (President of Warner Bros. Animation)[6]
How to Tell if It’s AI
- Lack of accurate anatomy: Characters are either missing fingers or toes or have extra fingers or toes.
- Voice acting is emotionless and artificial and text-to-speech.
- Character models look plastic. Backgrounds do not match the image subject's art style or lighting.
- Lack of dynamic poses and camera angles.
- Dialogue is artificial and awkward.
- The script also has plot holes and doesn't follow up on the character's storyline from the previous episodes.
- Grammatical errors or scrambled text and misspellings.
- Image/video quality issues, the content itself may be blurry than the initial appearance.
- Constantly distorted movement objects rapidly morphing, and limbs twisting, common in AI-generated videos.
Why It's Artificially Incapable of Making Works of Art
- Plagiarism: AI steals artwork from many artists and imitates their art style to become replicas that impose as the artists, which the AI creators could potentially take advantage of. This angered many artists and caused lawsuits.
- Animation made by AI does not look like a humanmade piece of media but rather like a video game. There's a lack of dynamic poses. The most notable examples are the AI SpongeBob and AI Family Guy on YouTube and other social media are the best examples.
- Cloned AI voices, when using the text-to-speech feature, are emotionless, and the voices occasionally "crackle", making the viewing experience unpleasant.
- AI artwork also looks plastic and artificial which makes it distracting and uncanny.
- Generating the art itself is prone to errors from the aforementioned issues that may take more effort to correct than creating the image or media from the beginning. It's efficient to just create the art from scratch where you can easily fix the errors and make adjustments.
- The storytelling and dialogue are disjointed, stories with holes, and awkward.
- The images themselves are of poor quality when inspected closely with blurry details compared to authentic digital art.
- It puts actual artists out of a job and causes them to be disrespected in the entertainment industry. These people are very passionate about their talents and dreams and went to college to achieve their dreams of working in the film and television industry. Replacing them with AI turns away real talented artists and models.
- Much like Non-fungible tokens, AI-generated content is usually produced with Ethereum, which harms the environment. Not helping is, as mentioned before, NFTs that are AI-generated have been produced.
- Google is one of the worst offenders of AI ever, as they have AI overviews in searches, and they are so annoying and unreliable that they will never shut up. To add more salt to the wound, you cannot disable them, even extensions don't work or adding "without ai overview" to searches.
- AI-made work can never capture the heart and passion put into works made by human hands. And sure, there are many terrible, bad, or mediocre at best media that exist out there, but as bad as they are, at least they're made by humans who are passionate about their works, and not soulless robots whom the companies that create AI-generated content care about nothing but laziness, idiocy and greed.
Trivia
- Because of the rise of AI in the entertainment industry, artists have started movements protesting replacement of humans with AI generated art such as the #NoAI movement by JellyboxStudio.
Gallery
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Example of Google's AI practices mentioned on WIAIOMWoA#10 Context: those so-called "workarounds" don't work.
Videos
References
- ↑ https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-day-before/ai-writing
- ↑ https://news.disney.com/making-of-lion-king See the sixth thing in this page
- ↑ https://www.projectreylo.com/post/the-king-returns-inside-disneys-game-changing-mufasa-movie-and-the-ai-revolution-that-brought-him-to-life
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/11/21/coca-cola-ai-holiday-commercial-backlash/76477569007/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKqp42XbtZE
- ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/wb-animation-prez-sam-register-says-industry-must-protect-the-artists-from-ai/
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