I was chatting with a studio manager at a post f/x house when he received a demo reel that immediately was relocated to the trash without viewing it. I called him on it about not even looking at it before rejecting it. He had me take it out of the trash to play it. Before it stared, he told me exactly what would be on the tape and the order of the clips, which is exactly what was on the tape. He said it was the fall semester with such and such teacher at the school, and every submission was exactly the same. They were just the class assignments made into a demo reel.

Everyone of these generative AI demo pages feels exactly like that. Nothing new other than we've done the same thing as someone else type of releases.

Now, I'm willing to say I'm jaded, so if this represents something we haven't already seen umpteengillion times already, where did they bury the lede? It's all still uncanny valley. The wheels on do not look real. The wake from the viking's vacuum does not look real. I'm not sure what the corgi is walking on, but it doesn't look like the ground.