Generative AI in Place of Humans

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Generative AI in Place of Humans
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but it lacks the creativity, empathy, and nuanced judgment that define human work. It can assist and enhance, but it cannot fully replace the irreplaceable essence of human ingenuity.
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"Oh, please. Yes, technically, it's a painting. But it has no soul!"

— Squidward, "Painting with Squidward" - Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years

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 frequently, the result comes out with shoddy and lazy quality. In contrast, AI is useful in some cases (such as speeding up tasks like security checkpoints in airports or quickly researching a fact using a chatbot like ChatGPT), but most uses of AI are often malicious.

Notable Media Made by AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Film

  • The Lion King (2019) (an 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)[1]
    • 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; despite the trailer crediting his voice actor Preston Nyman)[2]
  • Winnie the Pooh (the film is mainly animated with AI tools)

Television

  • Turn-On (Sources claimed that the show’s script was generated by a computer, making it the first piece of media that used some form of AI)

Themed Entertainment

  • Willy's Chocolate Experience (The poster and description website are entirely made by AI, and when people go to the event, it's just a fake event that'll probably remind people of the episode Krabby Land from SpongeBob SquarePants)

Video Games

Web Media

  • Non-fungible token (Some NFTs are created with AI, which ironically makes sense given their environmental impact)

Web Video

  • The Backyardigans (2024) (although the animation is human-made, the graphics, lighting, character designs, soundtrack and voices are suspiciously artificial)
  • Cocomelon (allegedly used AI in its videos for its animation quality since 2021, perhaps one of the earliest examples)
  • Clownfish TV (Some videos use AI-generated thumbnails, though the videos themselves use screen captures of websites)
  • Dhar Mann (most of the scripts used in the videos suffer from this. While hypocritically saying he hated using AI, additionally some thumbnails look A.I Generated[4])
  • Elsagate (being content farms, several Elsagate videos are generated with AI)
  • Monster Camp (2024) (the entirety of the film is AI-generated)
  • The New Norm (the theme song is entirely AI-generated; some of the promotional art is also AI-generated)
  • The Rodfellows (some of the voices are generated with AI)
  • Ryan's World (AI was used to generate video thumbnails)
  • Zachryzaxor's Ex-Girlfriend Series (some of the custom effects used in the videos are AI-generated)
  • BENJIxScarlett (used Generative AI for Sprunki In Real Life)

Companies and People That Support or Use A.I

These lists are under construction. Feel free to edit this page.

Companies

Drink Industry

  • Coca-Cola (Made a AI Christmas commercial)[5]

Food Industry

Fast Food
  • KFC (Made a Promo Discount in Indonesia commercial in 30 seconds with 2 ads)
  • McDonalds (Used A.I generated art for one of their Twitter advertisements)[6]

Tech Industry

  • Lian Li (Used AI-generated art for their Hydroshift LCD AIO liquid coolers)
  • Rent-A-Center (used AI for their RAC Exchange ads)

Film & Entertainment Industry

  • Adobe (Is heavily pushing AI these days)
  • Dhar Mann Studios (Script Writing and Thumbnails)
  • DreamWorks Animation (used AI in a Twitter post to promote their upcoming film Dog Man; though the post was later deleted likely because their owner; Universal; is against AI)
  • Lionsgate (Animated Films)
  • Paramount (used AI to remaster classic shows or movies such as "I Love Lucy" for Blu-ray[7])
  • Warner Bros. Discovery (suspiciously used an AI DVNR tool to remaster Friends for 4K releases)
  • Toei Animation (one of the earliest notable examples, a 2021 article listed that they'd use AI to speed up animation. However, it's limited to background only.)
  • Vyond (Animation and Script Writing via Vyond Go)
  • The Walt Disney Company (supposedly used MidJourney to generate a Thanksgiving post, some of their movies as of late use AI)
  • Marvel Studios (used AI for the Secret Invasion intro)

Gaming Industry

  • Rovio (Graphics used as placeholder images for prototypes)

Music Industry

  • Rizz Records (uses AI for both visuals and music in their videos)

Television Industry

  • Globoplay (they did AI dubbing for the documentary series about the Rio-Paris flight tragedy)[8]
  • Nickelodeon (Supposedly used AI for The Backyardigans reboot)
  • SBT (used AI to remaster El Chavo and El Chapulin Colorado in the return of both series on SBT)[9]
  • TV Cultura (used AI to remaster their children's shows for the channel's 55th anniversary)[10][11]
  • TV Globo (used AI for some of their programs)[12]

Toy Industry

  • Toys "R" Us (produced an AI-generated commercial)

Themed Entertainment Industry

  • El Dorado Waterpark (a few pre-opening artworks used AI)
  • Momentum Leisure (used AI for promotional art)
  • Parques Reunidos/Palace Entertainment (used AI for promotional art for Parque de Attractionnes de Madrid's Halloween 2023 event)
  • Six Flags (used AI for a promotional ad in 2023)
  • Tripsdrill (used AI for promotional artwork for their new-for-2024 additions)

Websites

  • DeviantArt (A lot of content that shows up is AI generated, and in some creator showcase videos they promote AI-generated content.)
  • Cameo (Used AI-generated voices for their Cameo Kids website.)
  • 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)
  • Crunchyroll (Subtitles is uses a AI-generated)
Social Media
  • Facebook (Meta supports AI)
  • Instagram (Meta supports AI)
  • Twitter/X (Graphics and Writing via premium features)
  • YouTube (Graphics, writing, thumbnails and clickbait titles via YouTube's imagine feature)[13]

People

Companies and People That Are Against A.I

Companies

Film Industry

Gaming Industry

  • Nintendo (denounced using generative AI for game development)

Toy Industry

  • Hasbro (denounced using generative AI for their productions)

Websites

  • Pixiv (Is restricting the use of AI as of late)
  • Newgrounds (bans submissions that have any use of AI)
  • SMWCentral (as for late 2024, it bans Super Mario World ROM hacks that contain images generated by AI.)
Social Media
  • Bluesky (denounces AI)

People

  • William James Adams Jr. (will.i.am) (While he previously promoted an AI assistant in 2018, ever since the AI boom, he has denounced AI and advocated for facial protection)
  • Jessica Conrad (writer for The Simpsons, who wrote the episode "Bart's Birthday" as a way of making fun of generative AI)
  • Stephen Hawking (possibly one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against AI)
  • Hayao Miyazaki (possibly one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against AI, having called it out during a demonstration in 2016)[28][29][30]
  • Janelle Monae (Spoke out against AI)
  • Sam Register (President of Warner Bros. Animation, committed to protecting animators' jobs)[31]
  • Steven Spielberg (Said AI is bound to steal the "creative spirit")
  • Kaz (writer for the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise; who wrote the Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Early Years episode "Painting with Squidward" as a way to show how Squidward complains that; since the art was machine-made; it has no soul; mentioned in the quote of the article above; since the episode was released in 2022 before the AI boom; he serves as another early example of a person against generative AI)

How to Determine if a Work Is AI-Generated

Writing/Text

  • Repetitive phrasing or unnatural sentence structures: AI-generated text might use certain phrases or structures more than human-written content, leading to a sense of redundancy or unnatural flow.
  • Lack of Depth or Understanding: While AI can provide information, it may lack deep insight or context. The text might sound somewhat shallow or surface-level.
  • Unusual or Incorrect Facts: Sometimes, AI makes factual errors or generates misleading statements that wouldn’t typically come from a human expert or from reliable sources.
  • Overuse of Formality or Neutrality: AI often refrains from expressing strong opinions or emotional tones unless explicitly instructed to do so. Consequently, its responses may appear overly neutral or excessively formal.

Images

  • Inconsistent Details: AI-generated images can sometimes contain odd inconsistencies, like extra fingers on a hand, distorted facial features, or mismatched lighting and shadows.
  • Unnatural Textures: Look for weird textures or blurry areas, especially in fine details like hair, hands, or backgrounds.
  • Strange Anatomical Features: If it's a portrait or human representation, look for unnatural body proportions, asymmetry, or strange eye shapes and placements.
  • Background Issues: AI-generated images may have strange or chaotic backgrounds that don’t quite make sense (like distorted or muddled objects that don't blend well with the main subject).
  • Confusing Letters: A lot of AI-generated images will have text that appears odd. This includes extra characters, characters being omitted, letters being fused together, blurry letters, and characters that look like two different letters merged together.

Audio/Voice

  • Monotone or Robotic Speech: AI voices might sound mechanical or lack the natural variations in tone, pitch, or emotion that human voices have.
  • Odd Phrasing or Mispronunciations: Sometimes, AI-generated speech will use awkward phrasing, or the pronunciation of certain words may seem off or unnatural.

Videos

  • Unnatural Body Movements: AI-generated characters might exhibit movements that are too stiff, repetitive, or lack natural fluidity. This can manifest in odd arm motions or unnatural gestures.
  • Facial Expressions: AI can struggle with realistic facial expressions, and characters may appear to have a “frozen” or overly simplistic facial expression.
  • Blurring or Distortion: Similar to images, AI-generated video might have blurry or distorted areas, especially when it tries to create complex scenes or backgrounds.
  • Lip Sync Issues: AI-generated video sometimes struggles with perfectly syncing speech and mouth movements, especially when the speaker is moving their face or lips quickly.
  • Inconsistent Appearance: In synthetic videos, particularly deepfakes, the facial features of the subject may change subtly over time. For instance, the shape of the face, eyes, or ears may appear inconsistent with other parts of the video or may change from one frame to the next.
  • Pixelation at the Edges: AI-generated videos sometimes show pixelation or blurry artifacts, particularly around the edges of the face or body. This is often seen in deepfakes when the software has difficulty blending the face into the original video.
  • Odd or Inconsistent Emotional Responses: AI-generated videos may display people reacting in ways that feel disconnected from the situation or the emotional context. For example, the facial expression might not match the intensity of the emotion or the environment.
  • Non-Reflective Responses: AI-generated content can struggle with realistic responses in a conversation, often lacking the nuanced feedback humans provide, like shifting attention, spontaneous gestures, or facial reactions.

Why It's Artificially Incapable of Making Works of Art

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Warning!
Due to the highly controversial nature of AI taking away people's jobs, no redeeming qualities are to be included in this article, despite AI not being illegal. We are not claiming that AI is inherently bad; as a tool, it can provide some assistance within the industry. However, its impact on employment has been, and continues to be a significant and contentious issue. Therefore, redeeming qualities are prohibited in this article. If you include any, your edits will be reverted immediately.
  1. Plagiarism: AI steals artwork from many artists and imitates their art style to become replicas that impose as many artists, which the AI creators could potentially take advantage of. This angered many artists and caused lawsuits.
  2. 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.
  3. Cloned AI voices using the text-to-speech feature, are emotionless, and the voices occasionally "crackle", making the viewing experience unpleasant.
  4. AI artwork also looks plastic and artificial which makes it distracting and uncanny.
  5. 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.
  6. The storytelling and dialogue are frequently lazily written, disjointed, lacking in originality, and riddled with inconsistencies and plot holes.
  7. The images are of poor quality when inspected closely with blurry details compared to authentic digital art.
  8. 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.
  9. Much like Non-fungible tokens, AI-generated content is usually produced with Ethereum, which harms the environment. Not helping that, as mentioned before, NFTs that are AI-generated have been produced.
  10. 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 add "without AI overview" to searches.
  11. AI models can sometimes perpetuate biases present in the training data, leading to the generation of images or videos that are stereotypical, discriminatory, or offensive.
    • AI-generated content that is targeted towards kids may also have inappropriate content that is unsuitable for children, such as foot fetishes, holocausts, and more!
  12. Some AI art can be very unsettling and disturbing to look at, particularly AI generated images that feature unnatural bodily proportions.
  13. Deepfakes: Deepfakes pose significant risks to individuals, organizations, and society. They can be used for malicious purposes, including misinformation, defamation, fraud, and harassment.
  14. AI-made work can never capture the heart and passion put into works made by human hands. And sure, many terrible, bad, or mediocre at best media exist out there, but as bad as they are, even at their most bafflingly awful, at least 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 the replacement of humans with AI-generated art such as the #NoAI movement by JellyboxStudio (better known as Animation Workers Ignite on X/BlueSky).

Important Steps to Take

  • Examine the Source: Check the origin of the content. Is it from a trusted, verified source, or an unknown platform? Authentic content typically comes from reputable outlets, while AI-generated content may appear on less trustworthy sites or platforms.
  • Look for Red Flags: Look for signs like unnatural speech patterns, distorted visuals, or inconsistencies in the narrative (as discussed earlier). These can indicate the content is AI-generated.
  • Purpose of the Content: Ask yourself why the content was created. Is it for entertainment, education, advertising, or something else? AI-generated content is commonly used in media, marketing, and social media. Understanding its intent can help you gauge its reliability.
  • Bias and Intent: Be aware of potential biases in the content. AI-generated content might be used to sway opinions or mislead people, especially if it presents information out of context or misrepresents facts.
  • Fact-Checking: If the content is informational (such as text, news, or social media posts), cross-check the details with other credible sources. AI often generates content based on patterns in the data it has been trained on, which may include outdated or inaccurate information.
  • Multiple Sources: Verify the facts with multiple reputable sources. This is especially important for news articles, scientific claims, or controversial topics.
  • Report Misinformation: If you suspect the content is being used maliciously (e.g., for misinformation, fraud, or harassment), report it to the platform or service where it was posted. Many platforms have mechanisms to report deepfakes, fake news, or harmful AI content.
  • Educate Others: If you find that others are unaware of AI-generated content, consider educating them about the potential dangers and how to spot them. Raising awareness can help combat the spread of misinformation.
  • Think Critically About the Content: Question the content’s credibility, relevance, and purpose. Consider who created it, why it was made, and whether it aligns with what you know to be true.
  • Avoid Immediate Reactions: Take your time before sharing or reacting to AI-generated content. It’s easy to be emotionally swayed by well-crafted deepfakes or persuasive AI voices, so being cautious before responding is key.
  • Stay Informed About AI: As AI technologies evolve rapidly, staying informed about the latest tools and techniques for generating content is crucial. Learning about how AI works and how it’s used can help you better assess the content you encounter.

Gallery

  • An example of a cartoon character made by AI.

    An example of a cartoon character made by AI.

  • Another example of an art made by AI.

    Another example of an art made by AI.

  • Example of Google's AI practices mentioned on WIAIOMWoA#10 Context: those so-called "workarounds" don't work.

    Example of Google's AI practices mentioned on WIAIOMWoA#10 Context: those so-called "workarounds" don't work.

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References

  1. ↑ https://news.disney.com/making-of-lion-king See the sixth thing in this page
  2. ↑ https://www.projectreylo.com/post/the-king-returns-inside-disneys-game-changing-mufasa-movie-and-the-ai-revolution-that-brought-him-to-life
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