Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes would look like if they were animated? Well, no more surprises. Thanks to advances in AI technology, you can now see how these still images come to life. And they look absolute crap.
X user Blaine Brown recently shared a long series of AI-generated videos that use Luma AI to convert previously still images into moving images. Brown’s thread used some of the most popular memes on the Internet, including Your confused friend, Chloe looks aroundAnd that Children of success.
But it was Picard facepalms That meme really caught our attention. The picture is from a TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 3, Episode 13. The video made with Luma captured a screenshot of Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, moving his hand to reveal a face. But there is something very wrong.
As Brown tweeted, “Who is this hypocrite??!” And the Antichrist is right. The new video looks nothing like Patrick Stewart, while the animation shows many of the problems AI is currently facing. For example, the hand has evolved into something twisted, some fingers are extremely long. Suddenly, Picard’s thumb is bent so that it looks like his right thumb is somehow jumping over his left hand. Everything is random.
The strange thing about this meme’s animation in particular is that it comes from an existing video. Other memes in the thread come from still images that were not captured from a source video But we know what Picard really looks like when his face is revealed.
The original 1990 episode of the series was titled “who is deja“When Picard looks up his hands don’t move much, his eyes open and his face shows. In the AI-generated version, he obviously doesn’t look like the real actor, but he also expresses completely different emotions.
All of this brings us back to one of the key questions facing users of consumer-focused AI technology: What are we using it for? per? Some people are convinced that such practices reveal some truth behind the images we know so well. We’ve seen this argument over and over when AI image generators first hit the market in late 2022.
as The New York Post In other words, “AI now lets you unlock the hidden secrets of legendary works of art.” We learn nothing about the true story behind the classic painting, or in this case, the original TV show. We are currently looking at a computer animated animated website.
AI videos are fun to spread around the internet, especially when they create something horribly wrong. he remembers Will Smith Spaghetti Last year? The whole appeal of this video is that he exists as a kind of flaw, annoying and inhuman, just like the clever Picard.
But where does that leave us when the novelty wears off and these tools seem more real? Would anyone be interested in seeing an AI version of Picard that is a little different from the real TV show and not as corrupt?
Oddly enough, rumors coming out of Hollywood suggest that studio executives are convinced that there is a future in media designed specifically for this purpose. Totally unique To the person who sees it.
It remains to be seen if anyone really wants a medium that only represents their most specific desires. Part of the fun of consuming media—whether it’s books, music, movies, or television shows—is that you experience a story that someone with a vision for that story wanted to tell. If everything was made up for what I use to inspire the story, it would be an experience that would arguably be more isolated from the rest of society. By trying to create something perfect for yourself, you fail to connect with others and create a media bubble that becomes impenetrable.
However, we are reluctant to predict how AI will be used to create different types of online media in 10 years. Who do you know? Highly personalized movies and television shows can be a lucrative avenue for media managers. Stranger things must have happened. But like many modern innovations in consumer technology in the world Last 15 yearsIt seems unlikely that people feel good about the world.
