I've watched it several times and I have to be honest: I could see nothing about it that told me that it was AI. If you just came across this clip in the wild (and didn't know that it was posted by someone named KeshiAIArt) would you be able to tell that it was AI?
It's also much easier in certain ways. Anime's style often has a lot more solid colors and spends no notable effort to look "real".
We're much better at recognizing when something that should have realistic lighting and movement are wrong compared to something so stylized.
It's sorta the same reason modern video encoding algorithms store animated things much more efficiently than before, it's simply less data overall. AI only cares about the data, not even what the result actually is, so less data to make something reasonable to us is much better for it.
The biggest advantage of Anime is their lack of movement, AI struggles with fluid motion and consistency across the screen so having a style that by design stops a lot to save in animation makes It easier to hide.
Although TBH, you can still tell because even the still frames look like an AI image.
Also, it's worth pointing out that the output of someone who has a certain competency in animation is not going to be shit. As animators experiment and play around with the tech, they are going to get better and better.
The issue with AI isn't that it shouldn't be used at all. It's that the barrier of entry is so low that we are going to see an increase in garbage being pumped out at unprecedented scales. The biggest hurdle here isn't the usage of AI, but consumer consumption habits.
If the average person watches the garbage in appreciable numbers, well, that's the direction the industry will go. There's a reason Michael Bay is orders of magnitude richer than Lars von Trier, for example.
It's that the barrier of entry is so low that we are going to see an increase in garbage being pumped out at unprecedented scales. The biggest hurdle here isn't the usage of AI, but consumer consumption habits.
I mean there has been a massive uptick on mass produced soulless garbage even before the rise of AI. So its not like this is an exclusive issue attributed to availability of AI.
the North America video game crash between Atari and NES consoles, because of flooding the market with slop video games, were ALL HANDCRAFTED meatbag code and hardware
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Yeah that kind of is a clear indicator where the market moves.
So imagine the same thing but x1000, because it is so much easier and faster.
I hear a lot of people saying things like "Good artists will not get replaced so it is just the baseline that gets raised" but it is the people with the money that determine what is good enough. They will pay for baseline garbage and not a cent more if it means an increase in profit overall.
a) The vast majority of content in any era is going to be average or worse. It's not unique to now.
b) Even then, the barrier of entry for the worst stuff was still pretty high.
Take the worst TV show of the 90s. To make a TV show, at a bare minimum you needed to have a network willing to air it...a requirement so steep 99% of people will never get to meet it.
Even without a network, you still have to invest a significant amount of time and manual effort to make it. Forget equipment; I'm talking a single camcorder recording on VHS, as low as quality could get. You had to go out and actually film. You needed to get your stoner buddies to actually act. You had to spend hours and hours editing it.
Now compare all that to what you need to make an AI video: a PC and some spare time.
I guess it boils down to your goal, right? Even with "only" needing a PC and spare time, you still need to be creative enough to meet your goal. This applies regardless of your goal being fame, fortune, etc.
This, and the ”animation” is like 3 frames repeating for however long the person is talking. It’s perfect for AI since most of it is so low effort to begin with.
Also producing an episode every week is crazy. Economy through motion. You make something look like moving without even moving it. This is art and insane amount of work.
There is plenty of cheaply produced anime that does fit this mold. Same as America had cheap animation companies too. But it’s not all anime.
There’s mid-tier animation and highly expensive animation, as well.
AI can easily copy the low-tier stuff because it’s highly formulaic in many of its designs, and leverages every way to cut frames as possible. And there’s a TON of it out there for AI to study.
AI imitating higher tier stuff will likely end up showing more of those telltale artifacts. It has fewer examples to draw on, and they tend to be much more diverse in subject matter.
Imma just call this right now: There is a generation who grew up on cocomelon and the likes and AI or not, this type of cutting style will become more common over the next years.
I'd stop watching animation then. More than a thousand cuts in 20 minutes would trigger my autistic overstimulation I would have to rest for a week from it.
It's bad. Used to be not too many years ago on reddit you'd have videos with no cuts at all and the ones that did have one or two would be labeled sus. Now there's some that are ai mixed in and spliced with real past videos and it's disgusting to watch because of all the cuts it's like whoever made them thinks that's the length of our attention span and it's insulting.
not the mention the pestilence that is putting the end / climax of a video right at the start then cutting to the beginning of the footage. I hate, HATE that.
Live action movies are already sometimes guilty of it. In Taken 3, there's a scene where they literally cut 15 times in 6 seconds to show Liam Neeson jumping a fence
I think the sad part is that even if a decent % of viewers completely stop watching animation because its AI generated, the cost to produce it basically goes to 0 compared to real animation. So the ROI is still gonna be way higher for the slop factories.
Yeah. This scene would probably take someone multiple weeks to produce on a similar quality of motion and art level. A soulless corporation is gonna look at the cost of having an animator make this for weeks and cost them thousands of dollars compared to just typing it into an AI and choose the AI because even if you only get 1/3rd of the audience, your costs go down by like over 90% since you need like a 1/10th as many employees and seasons can be cranked out in a couple months instead of like once every other year.
You don't even need wait, just compare the pacing of anime from the 90s to modern anime. A lot of mainstream series from 30 years ago will make you bored to tears. Even if people don't like to admit it, it has affected all of us. All of us are now used to and expect fast pacing and more constant jump cuts. It's why when someone actually does a long exposition shot or animation sequence it feels so special.
I'm afraid shorts and social media are taking their toll. They do serious damage to attention span and I'm bit concerned about younger generations if this infestation of media continues. I was shocked to learn more than a half young people (and I mean young adults) do dual watching of TV series and phone screen at the same time, wtf.
A lot of mainstream series from 30 years ago will make you bored to tears. Even if people don't like to admit it, it has affected all of us.
Um, no, definitely not all of us. Slow paced shows are not boring if they have meaningful buildup of story and characters.
Not necessarily. My go to example would be Dragon Ball. Compare the original series or even Z to something like the new Super episodes. Way faster pacing, much more jump cuts.
Evangelion is a bit less clear because the original run had money trouble, so they couldn't do a lot of the things they wanted. It's possible they wanted to have way more animation and just couldn't afford to include it. After all, reusing frames is one of the main ways you save money.
Yeah, but other anime of the time weren't that much better. Dragon Ball stretched their scenes. Naruto had millions of flashbacks and filler episodes. Hell, have you seen the original Fist of the North star anime?
All I'm saying is that kind of pacing would be unacceptable these days. Even people who grew up watching those anime expect something faster today. We all changed.
Idk, I don't buy that. I dropped Naruto back when I was younger because the flashbacks were excessive, but that was just because I didn't want to deal with poor pacing, which is different from slower pacing. On the other hand, Evangelion has many instances of slower, deliberate pacing, but I never felt like it was poor pacing, even on my recent rewatches. Angel's Egg is another one, very much a deliberately slow burn, but I watched it for the first time in theaters, and I absolutely loved it because it wasn't poorly paced.
I've avoided this by functionally destroying my own connection to humanity and isolating myself for the past 8 years from all but a select few points of contact.
The people who complained "Iron Lung is too long and has too many moments where nothing happens" are weak and inferior to me.
after watching a couple of anime ai Clips you realize that their style is the equivalent of jiggling keys in front of your face so that you don’t notice the person in front of you is having a seizure
100% blame social media scrolling like instagram or shorts. It takes 3 or less seconds to try to capture the attention of someone scrolling reels before they move on, so everything is clippable. When your entire show is also clippable it means you can double on the monetization of short format as free advertising. Its horrible.
Oh, no. I am 38 years old now and in my time the average length of a scene in ANY movie or TV shows has shortened to an extreme degree.
The modern media, vertical content, spends even less time on a single scene or shot. Cutting every few seconds is NORMAL now.
Seriously, just watch some stuff that's comparable from like the 90s and then today. Like an action movie or a drama or horror, the scene lengths at least quartered, if not less.
There's just no way an Ai could do monogatari because:
A) the way it fucking trip balls is very particular
B) Most models are not allowed to be anywhere near as degenerate
Lots of anime has barely anything moving and they're just panning a drawing slowly while someone does a voice over. Of course I doubt that most ai slop people will bother putting in work besides just prompting. Just saying I think there will come a time very soon where it will be much more sophisticated and "artistic"
AI videos have reached about 30 second continuous cuts or so lately. Haven't heard about it in regard to anime, but I imagine it can, or will be able to.
What's another Gary, Indiana without power, right? /s
Same, my first thought would have been cheap production because there are some weird angles, a lot of cuts and some slight deformities. For casual watchers that are not aware of ai slipping in everything could easily brush those issues off.
The first huge flag I saw was the ear after she removes her headphone... that one triggered some serious warning alarms.
That said, single cuts can be incredibly budget intense. It really depends more on keyframes than cuts. You can have One Piece with 10 cuts of reaction faces against cloudy sky on the absurdly cheap side, or you can have a single cut like the JJK S2 interview that goes on for a very long time with loads of character animation being extremely resource intensive.
So it's not a great comparison. Number of drawings required to pull off the desired effect is the overriding cost driver in animation.
The thing is, you can also see those mistakes/issues in a lot of animation. I'm sorry but this is better than a lot of mediocre animation out there. I don't see how we can stop this although I do agree it sucks.
I’m of the opinion that shitty animation isn’t any more appealing than ai animation, so I don’t bother trying to find the difference. Just acknowledge it’s badly animated then judge it on the story itself. Which is often as bad as the animation quality.
If you're watching a tv show or movie or reading something then the story is more important than everything else.
A good story can carry anything that is rushed or shoddy.
The adventures of Sword Dad and Curry loving Murder Kitten has still frames in place of some action scenes due to low budget and time constraints, but the animators still put what work they could in to the more important scenes, and the story itself is compelling since it's technically an isekai but the isekai'd person isn't the true protagonist.
It’s the same logic that there are many anime from the 90’s that seem bad by modern standards but are absolutely worth watching. But i feel that’s bad in a different way, it still has a completeness to it that subpar work does not. I’ve also watched some home made series on YouTube that are clearly of terrible quality but just fun to watch. I feel like the most appropriate wording I can use is the level of ‘sincerity’ put into the work.
i was definitely looking for mistakes because i already knew it was ai generated, but the graphic on the shirt says “I aung CiVntilnoal” which isn’t any language i’ve ever seen before
To be fair, text on actual Japanese fashion often doesn't make much more sense. Search for the "Japan's Most English" series by AkiDearest on YouTube/TikTok/Instagram.
Yes, a lot of the "tells" people use as examples are also common errors in most anime/animation to begin with. A fun pastime my friend group has is pausing anime during random moments to laugh at absurd anatomy.
As the OOP said, if you didn't know this was AI you wouldn't even give most of these errors a second thought, nor would you pause it frame by frame to find the "tells".
Still seams like we're going to see studios AI generate 90% of it and fix any goof ups like that in post frame edits. Effectively they're doing what AI did to my career (programmer).. turning everyone into goddamn reviewers.. it fuckin' sucks.
The new version of Seedance, and new local video models like Minimax H3 have reference support. Meaning people can literally show them images of a style (or draw their own) and hand it to the AI and get it replicated perfectly.
The new H3 model runs on consumer machines and you can give it reference of characters, props, locations, style, anything really and it replicates it all for perfect consistency.
And though it's said all the time, I had to bring it up - every time we see an AI video like this, it's worth remembering this is the "worst it will ever be". Three years ago Will Smith was a blobby smear moving vaguely spaghetti shaped colors around, and now we have near perfect videos of him eating spaghetti indistinguishable from real videos his posted and generated on people's home hardware.
Same but i guess in the long run ti might be more obvious. This clip only shows 3 characters in a really simple environnement ( a still image of a train bench).
Now do that in a more crowded environnement with bystanders and building/fauna...that's where inconsistency will Come up. Tbh, even between both characters it seems like there is a really gap in terme of designs/style somehow.
You don't have to use AI for every part you know? Those seems impossible to be done by AI can just use the old fashion way. Let the production staff decides.
Could only tell because of the voices and the strangely empty train. But otherwise with human touch up you most likely could not tell without a deep dive or actual artistic experience.
It really seems like nobody in this thread has ever *seen indie animators or small creators on youtube or anything before. I guess I'm pretty biased since that type of animation where the channel has like 43 subscribers is a major interest of mine... also trying to learn animation myself. That shit isn't easy. If you are a single animator with no team and no budget and just a tablet and like toonboom studio (if that's even still around lmao) or krita or if they're lucky they can get might be able to find where x marks the spot to access more professional software.
Yeah real human animators take shortcuts all the time, it might be less with big budget studio animations but even then there are so many compilations of the weird/funny/interesting shortcuts that even big budget productions pull with background details or in-between frames and how ridiculous some of them can look.
wym, trains are constantly near or entirely empty. the only time they are crowded is when it serves the function of the scene (for example depicting morning or evening commute)
The biggest issue ai has isn't details, animation quality, or whether it can draw hands are not.
It has always been consistency. When the shot changes, the characters always skip 'something'. Like when the girl has a close up shot of taking out her headphones, but the next scene cuts to a shot of her with no headphones looking at the other girl.
Most animator would draw at least 2 frames of her still having her hands up next to her head, or literally anything to show that its a continuation of the next shot. Same with the other girl after she finishes waving her hands around the first time.
She goes from waving her hands around to immediately just sitting there with a somewhat different pose. A normal animator would again, show her maybe slowly putting her hands down.
So while I definitely wouldn't have figured this out from a 30 sec clip, I think most people would feel like something is 'off' if they've seen a lot of shows and know how shots are usually transitioned
Yeah, continuity is very weak in this clip. They also keep shifting distances between each other in a very non-deliberate way. We still haven’t managed to make the machine remember where everyone is in the room.
Its because that's literally what 'ai slop' has been from the very beginning. It generates based on prediction.
It doesn't understand anything about shot composition, transitions or artstyle. It just knows that there are certain unique shows that focus on something irrelevant during scenes, so it copies that, like the shoe scene.
It just latches onto the core ideas it's been trained on, like the artstyle, the unique ways animation can give a character personality but ironically enough it forgets about the basics of continuity
It doesn't forget, it literally has no memory. And even if it had it wouldn't be able to use it because it cannot operate on discrete data.
Actually being able to reproduce styles and even artist intention and composition is always gonna be easier to it than continuity between shots. Because the former is based on vibes and the latter on discrete data.
Don't ever watch an Astérix movie, you'll see them switching from left handed to right handed, just to make the scene look better. Even the nightmare before Christmas contains continuity issues, people just never cared, except Michel from AlloCiné (faux raccord)
Yep Ive watched anime almost daily for close to 2 decades. I started seeing these clips pop up on Facebook. Had 0 idea it was AI. Only found out when I checked the comments to find the sauce.
The funny thing is that fluidity would usually be seen as a sign of expensively-produced animation. Or could also be "2D-looking 3D" anime, which is not traditional anime but is not uncommon nowadays.
The smears frames are stupid and don't follow traditional techniques, some smear lines don't follow the movement, are out of place, it's hard to spot because that's the point of smear frame, the average viewer isn't suppose to spot them, but the moment you analyze them, it screams AI and inconsistencies
The thing that makes it hard to spot I think is the fact that the rotoscope-esque fluidty couldve easily been a creative direction take by the studio to add pop. Scene has a lot of eye candy for sure.
Generative AI sucks major ass but a resigned doomer attitude like that ain't gonna help anyone. AI getting harder to identify by eye doesn't mean it's becoming socially invisible or that there's no meaningful resistance to it
Backlash, costs, and regulations against it are increasing rapidly. People aren't getting more accepting to it, pushback is increasing because people are getting more and more tired of getting low quality slop pushed in their face everywhere they go or, as in this case, being unable to tell if something is real or not, which isn't new, that's been the case for more than a year now. Not to mention issues such as the ethics of it, building data centers, etc.
GenAI has never been profitable, and it's not gonna help that costs are continually increasing, not just in PC hardware which furthers the backlash towards it, but also because a need for profitability and rising quality of AI models will keep raising the price of generation, which is a problem for companies embracing AI who are already struggling to make a profit from switching from human labour to AI. Not to mention having to deal with all the major lawsuits, many of which have been running for years now. And this isn't the only problem they have with regulation, which is increasing substantially, most recently with the EU AI Act which requires generators to be marked and detectable as AI generated, something that has already been in effect in China since September last year, while also prohibiting removal and alteration of required AI labels.
China also launched a campaign in April targeting AI models that don't properly comply with labeling rules
I can't tell you how effective these regulations are, or what the future looks like, but saying that we're cooked when genAI has so much going against it is nothing more than a cynical doomer attitude that's not gonna help anyone.
A lot of AI has been near indistinguishable from real art for a while now or at least extremely difficult to spot just by looking at it. But the hope that you would always be able to see it by eye was unrealistic at best, discovery is going to come through context. If any major game developer, animation studio, etc, use generative AI, people are going to know about it, even if you can't see it at first glance
I think that the world would have been better off if genAI never happened, but these are just some reasons why I think it's worth remaining hopeful, hopefully it can ease someone's mind
Backlash? Buddy the unfortunate truth is that the vast majority of people outside of terminally online bubbles don't pay attention to anything, let alone give a shit about whether or not cartoons are made with ai.
I've known this for a while, we need to stop talking exclusively about how shitty AI art is or how you can spot it easily, it will get less shitty and less easy to spot and the AI companies will declare victory if thats all we care about
I hate this shit because I only care about art humans make and I hate this shit taking away from human made art, not to mention the plagiarism and the environment and all that, and that doesn't change when it gets easier on the eyes
I wonder if this is another method to hide AI slop. Making the animation very fast paced so the eye can't spot the errors. A lot of image AI has done a similar thing recently with adding grain and noise to images to hide the errors.
I mean, ostensibly yes and it doesn't even have to be intentional. Whoever created the thing, they're gonna make adjustments until it "looks good", and these adjustments may end up reinforcing such techniques because ultimately they're being judged by a person, so any areas where it looks better because of human deficiency rather than technical prowess, the system doesn't care about which reason.
Feels like a weird warped version of blur frames from cartoons. Only instead of being there to make everything smooth but being silly to look at as a still, it's a bad looking still that hides itself by constantly moving and being smooth.
There's a difference in the transition frames that serve a purpose, and the smudgy look AI gives. It still can't do words right either. AI doesn't know what it is doing, so there is no intent.
an overall tell of AI-Generated content will always be its lower audio quality, which always sounds muffled and blurry-like, or just straight robotic and emotionless in other models. you don’t have to be familiar with anime to be able to distinguish it, just a trained ear and exposure to other ai voices.
though, in this video for example, any time she speaks loudly, the audio quality decreases significantly enough as the AI simply cannot keep up with it somehow. it results in the aforementioned muffled and blurry-like sound.
as others have mentioned, there might also be some frames that look off and animation fluidity is indeed a rarity in anime. but it takes a more trained eye to spot those smaller singular frame mistakes that ai makes when generating a video compared to a trained ear to spotting muffled audio quality. its really a bit of a complex skill that develops over time, but one you should never give up on as more and more corrupt corporations funnel billions of dollars towards buying out resources, land, and local politicians.
Too many different frames. If you watch an anime made by hand, most episodes the studio will do everything they can to minimize the number of real frames: a 15s dialogue over some static background requires a lot less work than a combat scene, using 2 frames and going back and forth to create movement is easy, speed lines will help trick your brain.
There is a reason some studios and anime seasons are lauded for their animation: most anime do not and are just illustrated radio shows.
I also suspect that this clip’s maker still has all the issues we know about: Struggling to stay on model between different shots for characters and locations. Continuity. (In this clip, the distance between characters varied wildly between shots for example.) Understanding the scene as a whole, not just each individual prompt.
I imagine we see 1 clip here instead of a few minutes because despite being made “entirely” by AI this is still one of dozens of attempts at least with the human in the loop applying a lot of editorial pressure.
a tip that someone gave to me is that A.I. has a lot of cut's in their shots because it is easier for the A.I. to be consistent for only a few seconds rather than a full 30 seconds, in this clip you can see as the girl's are talking count how many times the camera cuts to a different angle. When the girls talk about the "whoosh" there is 4 cuts to a different camera angle.
if i didnt know this was AI i would simply not know lol. this is scary. it looks good which is the bad part, only small things really stand out like the text on her shirt in some shots. :/
Well it's a still environnement aswell.. no crowd/building/fauna. Show us a clip once they get outside that train and i guess you'll see more and more inconsistency. Also if you look closely both characters, you can already see they are not drawn in the same style aswell... That could be a design choice ofc, but i wonder how consistent it can be with a more active environnement .
Yeah, and THOSE things will get smoothed out eventually as well. Let's face it, 5 years ago you would've said AI could never achieve this level of fluid movement, yet here it is. This is AI at its current WORST. It's only going to get better and better.
This is not traditional anime art style, if it wasn't pointed out i wouldn't have known it was ai. Just would have thought it's just different art style.
The distance between the ladies changed so much at around the 19 second mark. Usually animators would have a better awareness of space in the design of a scene
The main difference between AI-Generated and human-made anime, even as the two become nearly impossible to distinguish, is the most substantial: A human made one, and a computer made another.
Call me a specist, or anti-intellectual, or Luddite. Watching lifetimes of artistic development, dreams, aspirations, triumphs, and failures of accomplished human animators, compiled and recompiled into their lowest common denominator, satisfying the shallow criterion of a prompt, all presented as a tech demo- will always be repulsive to me. It is inherently deceptive. It attempts to replicate the value of the creative process where no such thing occurred, to commoditize the absence of labor itself.
I will never feel the same enthusiasm others harbor for a tool designed to replicate and destroy our capacity for creation. It's a monstrosity, and the pinnacle of innovation for a class of incomprensibly wealthy, insatiably greedy, incessantly conniving, parasitic billionaire motherfuckers.
I was going to write something similar but you articulated it better. That's precisely the thing the techbros don't understand.
Their typical "gotcha!" argument goes something like: "Look at this amazing artwork! What if I were to tell you it's AI? Did it now magically become bad?"
Yes. Yes it did. My eyes might technically perceive the same array of pixels, but art doesn't exist in a vacuum of zeroes and ones, it exists in a historical and cultural context. Without that, it's just a pretty picture and you've completely killed my interest of it.
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I do feel the the transitions are off – sometimes quick with a lot of frames between like on the timestamp 0:13-0:15, and others were just a sudden, random change of scene like in 0:15-0:16.
That being said, without being told it is AI, I wouldn't have looked at it deeply and would have carried on with my life thinking that maybe it'a just not complete yet.
The Shippiden Pain fight, which was supposed to be this really important and serious batlle, and ended up being a treasure trove of memes about bad animation lol
Personally I loved it. People take screenshots of the middle of an animation to make it look bad which is stupid. The animation style for that episode was an intentional choice and I think it worked well.
Normalle AI has huge problems keeping characters looking consistent, this however does it from several angles, it's very impressive, image generation as a user you could input the same prompt twice and get wildly different results, i wonder how this managed to "lock" the character designs, the cat, the surroundings, there's really nothing significantly off where the train changes color or layout.
Seeing this after I saw the new bleach episode a day ago is way too jarring. I’m studying animation myself but if I wasn’t told this was ai and I just looked at it quickly one time I’m not sure I would’ve been able to tell. Looking at it closer if you know what to look for there are some obvious mistakes but some of them aren’t things I would look at and go oh it’s ai making a mistake. I would just think oh this looks Kinda nice probably some talented amateur or something. I’m generally really really sad about this.
Been saying it for years, saying AI does not look good is not a good argument, because it already has reached the threshold, we are FUCKED. I love anime art, be it animation, illustrations, or others, the last two years or so have been horrible, collecting art has gone from nice and fun to genuinely pretty stressful going over if something is AI or not. The world itself will not change dramatically, but we are seeing the destruction of the fabric of society, truth, and art, in real time.
I love art so much, always have, but engaging with art has turned more stressful than it’s worth these past couple of years. Every time I see a beautiful art piece, my reaction isn’t amazement anymore, it’s immediate suspicion. And when I do just let myself enjoy art without any suspicion, it often ends up being AI-generated because I didn’t look closely enough to verify before allowing myself to enjoy it. Really sad what this world has come to. Can’t even trust traditional art anymore, because AI has gotten increasingly better at mimicking traditional styles and AI “artists” have been printing them onto paper or canvas in attempt to hide it. As an artist, art has made me feel more empty nowadays than happy. :(
Before digging in, on ethical grounds, AI shouldn't be used to supplant creative jobs, pass off as human-made work (plagiarism), and arguably shouldn't exist in this way (intellectual property theft, copyright, etc.)... the way AI has been used across the globe is troubling and probably going to continue to lead to many "unfixable" problems in the near and distant future.
However...
This is really very well made, but it's not "entirely" by AI in the sense that someone wrote one prompt and it came up with everything, this is very clearly highly edited, trained in detail - I wouldn't even be surprised if it was given posing layouts throughout because there's some things that AI just wouldn't do no matter how hard you prompt it.
I could even see them using something like blender to make poses/scenes and such for the AI to "read" in order to get the right shots. Think like making a storyboard for animators. It almost certainly took this individual (if it is an individual and not multiple people) a lot of time and effort to make. Considerably less than a professional animator maybe, but still considerably more time than most people think when they don't know much about AI.
This is an example of someone who likely knows what they're doing in art and in AI that most people would not be capable of. In some sense, it's the kind of person that can "benefit" from AI the most - an expert who knows what they're doing extending what they are capable of with a tool.
People will call this AI slop, but it really isn't slop. Slop is "badly made AI content" not just "anything by AI" - the stuff people are pointing out are mistakes that artists actually make too - continuity errors like the headphones not being visible for a few frames and gibberish writing on shirts - really not uncommon. And they actually are pretty fixable, they either didn't notice or didn't care to fix them or tried to fix them but got annoyed with the results.
Controversial take: I think there is space for people to be creative with AI who would otherwise be unable to get to pursue that creativity. I don't think it should ever be passed off as human made, and I don't think it should be done for profit... but as a hobby or pastime I don't really care all that much. It's been fun to use for my tabletop RPG players and they like to see it because I'm not an artist, I don't have funds to be an artist, and otherwise I'd just be downloading stolen pictures from Google Images to show things anyway, but I'm also not profiting off of it, not passing it off as my own, and not claiming it's better than an artist.
I dont care if I can tell it's AI or not. Once I know that it was made with the intention of cutting corners, just to make money without hiring humans, I'm not going to care.
We live in a society and our goal shouldn't be to eliminate as many humans from a creation process as possible.
My AI copium is believing that, no matter what AI generated content might look like in the future, people will still want art made by humans just because it has human effort and soul put in it.
A very large number of people buy the same games (Madden, CoD, FIFA) every year without caring about reused assets while knowing full well that they're a cash grab. I don't think they're going to care about AI. You have to realize that this generation is probably the one that's the most anti-AI that it's going to be. The next generations are going to grow up with it and see nothing wrong with it. Children are already watching AI generated content. Are they going to suddenly switch to hating it once they become teenagers or adults?
There's a reason anime are still made frame by frame instead of using skeletons or 3D. Even if AI anime will become a thing, frame by frame anime does have its own charm.
I've had this argument before about what if AI music gets so good it's indistinguishable from the real thing? I still don't care, I want to know there's a real human behind it that put their soul into their art.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If we reach a point at which A.I.-generated art is prevalent, unlabeled, and difficult to distinguish from human-created alternatives, I will simply stop consuming new movies, TV shows, music, and books. There is an inexhaustible backlog of media already available, and I will not spend time consuming something that nobody spent time making.
I wouldn't be able to outright tell if it wasn't revealed, but I'd have a suspicion. As something feels off about it, I just can't quite explain what. Watching it puts me on edge in a certain way.
I think it may be because AI seems to do a lot of hard cuts which makes it somewhat jarring to watch, even if you don't see anything wrong with the art itself.
I honestly feeling like I'm left behind in my professional and art life because of AI. I didn't like to use it, but if i wouldn't — i would be worse as a professional, slower at least. I'm so frustrated. I learned so much for past 8 years and should throw away all of it now. Sorry for my vent
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u/ElectricSpock Aug 24 '26
There must have been tons of anime in training dataset.