These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.
The music itself is Uptown Funk... which was a very successful song in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0)
The videos are indeed awful though.
The intent and care is the whole point. It is the difference between slop and art whether generative or not.
This is the current era's version of these hit classics:
- "If you use autotune,you aren't a real singer!"
- "Programming a drum machine isn't really writing percussion!"
- "If you use Photoshop, you can't be a real artist."
- "No real artist would use duct tape as a medium."
- "Video games can't be art."
- "Sampling is just ripping off other people's music."
Art is simply a conversation between the artist and the audience.
The medium, tools, subject, content, or even size of the audience are all just metadata which accompany the art. It will happen with these tools also.
Using AI as part of your workflow? Possibly art. Using it as your entire workflow? Slop, not art.
It really all comes down to the effort and intent of the artist. I use AI tools in the creation of my art, but it would never occur to me to pass off something entirely generated as "my art". The AI tool is just another brush, instrument, or typeface in an assortment of tools I reach for when creating. The AI by itself has no intent. You need a human for that (at least currently). without the human? Yeah, slop like the videos in the OP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-baby-slop-9.7166873
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-videos-children-you...
Or for an "Adult" audience, I'm sure you could get an AI to create videos of "OW, My balls!" from Idiocracy.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dh4l!,f_auto,q_auto:...
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E22AQEqLntg_DW7vg/fee...
The industry haven't matured except until a certain point. Then it declined. Modern visual effects are worse than practical effects in their heyday. They are also worse done than 3D effects in their tasteful early days (like Jurassic Park).
VFX can be more subtle (e.g. how Fincher uses it), but it's rare. The industry (which is separate from the technology) didn't mature, it enabled crappy effects to dominate.
Oh, I hundred percent believe it. But did they spend the money on the vfx?
For example 1917 or Nolan movies I think have great VFX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRZbsk_wuA (last part)
Id say it’s definitely possible to get spoiled by high production quality - if I went back to the old Star Trek or even the first seasons of the Doctor Who reboot, I’d mostly have to try to enjoy it for the story (then again, Doctor Who has never been overly concerned with presentation, the most fearsome aliens in the galaxy being metal boxes with plungers sticking out of them is quite silly). Same with most CGI in the older movies or even the style of older anime, it can all be a bit hard to watch.
I guess I also experience the same with video games, though to a lesser degree - some like Hidden & Dangerous 2 can still be enjoyed whereas something like Operation Flashpoint would be quite frustrating, though more often due to controls rather than graphics.
Ehh, they did what they could at the time.
However, you could imagine that maybe with a decade of refinement they'll get better - the existing prompting and composition were okay, it's just that they were plain bad technically. Then again, so was Will Smith eating spaghetti.
Not disagreeing with you that these are unwatchable, but it’s a little rose-tinted to think that (non-AI) slop didn’t exist a long time ago.
All AI-generated content is the result of one or more humans who decided to use AI to create it.
> Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry matured.
The difference is intent. Watching an old movie, the effects are obviously janky and far from seamless, but the authors had intent and the imperfections are understandable. When an AI jumbles a basic walk animation, it's just weird and soulless. The prompter just didn't want to spend any time doing actual work, so used this slop as a stand-in, when better techniques exists.
They might do it for free if they enjoy it or for a class, but purely for the money, not even close to being worth their time.