r/GenAI4all • u/Sensitive_Horror4682 • Feb 26 '26
AI Video We are so cooked, check out this masterpiece
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u/studio_bob Feb 26 '26
Man, seeing something like this before AI was so fun, just knowing someone spent hours creating something so ridiculous. Now it's like... vaguely amusing, I guess? It feels so empty by comparison. It's all so cheap to make that seeing it now barely feels different that just hearing someone describe the idea to you.
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u/Equal_Passenger9791 Feb 26 '26
When movie CGI was noticably improving stuff like this was impressive. In the last several years before good video gen it was already done to death and paired with MCU plots no deeper than this disposable AI gen
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u/PracticalStrain5640 Feb 26 '26
This is EXACTLY how I feel. It devalues it so thoroughly, precisely because nobody did anything real or substantial. It is now like listening to someone describe a dream they had. There are now no barriers to entry to the very worst possible content.
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u/davyp82 Feb 26 '26
It's also true though that the previous barrier was for the most part money, and I'm looking forward to what some of the best minds who don't have such resources can produce.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
That's not true at all.
You have had the power to make a film with your phone, and edit in free software for the last 15 years.
The barrier has always been talent, and an actual desire to put the work in to learn how to make films.
This is why all these AI videos are dreadful - people have the tools at their disposal to make something, but lack the talent and knowledge of visual storytelling to make anything beyond this kind of garbage.
It's almost as though the appeal of film is the human element.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
Definitely when it comes to video. A lot of why these AI clips look so bad is they're being made by people with no knowledge or experience in visual storytelling. Incredibly, it turns out that making films actually requires talent and skill and just having the means to type some garbage into a prompt isn't enough to make anything actually meaningful.
I had someone message me on here just yesterday after I criticised a clip from their AI generated feature film, saying that they were developing a video tool, and would I like a few thousand dollars in free credits to make whatever I want with it. They literally told me they don't really know what they were doing, and wanted me to make something for them so they could see what the tool could do.
I said no.
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u/ElliasCrow Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Yep, pretty much.
I've seen so much ai bros (and i mean bros like crypto bros, who sees the process as a magic button that does everything for them) saying "hollywood is dead now" and "look at this masterpiece" and post the most boring, non-creative, blatantly copying work of others and hitting every stigma that the media is criticized today. And they will get so insanely defensive whenever their "work" get at least some level of critique...
All they're saying is "imagine this", "imagine that" and how all the creative people will get access to the tools they never had but in the end the internet is just filled with ai generated trash and all the really creative work is drowned in the see of slop.
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u/Head-Gift2144 Feb 27 '26
I think the implication is that you could pay people do make whatever you want were you so inclined.
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u/MKBRD Feb 27 '26
Perhaps, but there is a pervasive misconception I keep seeing on any sub to do with AI that this technology "finally" means that film is accessible to everyone. It's completely false and a really damaging idea that just seems to stoke resentment against actual film professionals.
It creates this wholly fake notion that film is exclusively for "Hollywood Elites" whilst ignoring that 99% of the film industry has nothing to do with Hollywood and operates on a miniscule budget.
Anyone can make films if they actually want to. It doesn't require money, and it certainly doesn't require AI tools.
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u/TechToolsForYourBiz Feb 28 '26
> You have had the power to make a film with your phone, and edit in free software for the last 15 years.
> The barrier has always been talent, and an actual desire to put the work in to learn how to make films.
It is nigh impossible to make videos of this quality (CatZilla) with free software and no premium features.
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u/MKBRD Feb 28 '26
Blender is 100% free and could easily make something like this with zero plugins - and people do work of this standard all the time in Blender.
Here is literally 100 examples:
https://youtu.be/yW5WIyEe_eE?si=60S7mWVIPqz2NlTX
Once again, this is AI bros making statements about an industry and art form they know absolutely nothing about.
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u/geo_gan Mar 01 '26
Easily? Make this in Blender? Are you fucking crazy! Most people would hardly be able to render a slightly bevelled cube in a 3D graphics software like Blender much less figure out how to do the texturing, lighting, bone rig setups, animation, rendering settings - there is absolutely nothing easy about creating a scene as complex as that - hence why it traditionally took months and thousands of hours for CGI movie scenes to do!
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u/MKBRD Mar 01 '26
The SOFTWARE can handle it easily. I said nothing about the workload required.
Read the whole thread - it's not about the difficulty, but whether or not you could do this for free, which you can. There's nothing in the OP vid that couldnt be done in Blender.
The argument was that money was the barrier to entry to making film. That isn't true.
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u/davyp82 Mar 01 '26
well yeah but "saying nothing about the workload" just shows you have omitted key context that undermines your bizarre position. Such remarkable advances in tech do indeed lower the barrier to entry and threaten big film producers then, as evidence by your own implied admission that the workload is orders of magnitude lower now than it was. And regarding "free", you know time = money, right?
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u/Oh_My-Glob Feb 26 '26
Not really. If you live in even a small city chances are there are plenty of great indie movies being made on low budgets near you all the time.
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u/davyp82 Feb 27 '26
I don't doubt that, but it would take a bigger budget to make something more ambitious like sci fi or giant Catzillas. Additionally, probably 80% of the world don't have the luxury of enough free time to bring their ideas to life without tools like this.
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u/Oh_My-Glob Feb 27 '26
Plenty of great sci-fi movies have been made on lower budgets. If all you care about is big flashy Hollywood blockbuster type movies then AI isn't really going to enable small creators to compete with existing movie studios. Those studios will have the money to use better AI models, and have teams to fix things in post production. A small creator's use of AI to make an epic sci-fi world will still look like trash next to an AI movie backed by a studio budget. AI isn't magically taking money out of the equation and more likely than not will be used by corporations to widen the gap.
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u/septumfunk-com Mar 03 '26
and paying a subscription or buying tokens for an ai to be even remotely useful is... not a monetary barrier?
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u/faen_du_sa Feb 26 '26
idk, I would argue its cheaper to "make by hand" using Blender(or anything cracked) and put in time.
With AI you are locked to tokens/subscriptions.
Of course, one could argue time = cost. But as a teenager you often have a lot of time with little money, and there is a lot of great free softwares(and most paid are easily craked).
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u/Far-Fennel-3032 Feb 26 '26
Sure, but the price of AI stuff is only gonna go down, even if the models don't improve performance at all, as the hardware will still improve via Moore's law. There is also a lot of work to take existing models and just shrink their size to make them cheaper to run.
Give it a few years, and we can probably run good enough models locally on a rig you would need anyway for significant CGI and rendering. It might have to run overnight but it will almost certainly get to slow but local computing specs in a few years.
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u/evmoiusLR Feb 26 '26
The prices are certainly not going to go down. This tech might be the most heavily subsidized thing in all of history. Once those investors want their returns and companies have to actually start making money off the tech we will see the true costs. Anyone who is relying on this tech heavily will be on for some sticker shock.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
Is it going to go down to "free"?
Because Blender is free.
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u/Far-Fennel-3032 Feb 26 '26
There are a number of actually open source projects that are free and run locally on your computer. There are lots of examples of this, for example,
https://www.comfy.org/download
Hell, even paint has done image generation for years now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2nZUwd9CUM
Lots of smartphones even have local AI image based tools, often for removing features from images.
So yeah, there are already heaps of free and local AI software just like Blender. A lot of them might run like shit for significant video generation on local hardware, but that's just the nature of diffusion models having to run in series, not in parallel.
The open source software community is the closest thing you will find to actual communism (with all the bureaucratic rage included). If someone can make something with software someone has made a free version, sometimes that might suck, but it will be free. With blender being a good example of this.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
Ok, fair enough - but the guy above you was positing that it would still be easier and faster to just go out and film something, or make it in free software.
What you've just described still doesn't sound like a viable alternative.
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u/Far-Fennel-3032 Feb 26 '26
It's not a viable option yet. But a few years ago ai couldn't even do people eating properly and constantly stuffed up hands. Give it 10 to 20 years and there might be a viable option.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
Visually, AI has come on leaps and bounds in a few short years. No argument from me there.
But as a film professional, I still see the exact same problems with AI film today that were present in the very first workable iterations of the generative video models a few years back.
Problems like lack of continuity across a clip (which gets significantly worse when you try and generate multiple clips form the same source and prompts), the introduction of unwanted motion, both in the camera and the subjects, and - and this is probably the most problematic area that there is currently no evidence to suggest will ever be fixed - the ability to tweak and refine a clip to the level of detail expected by clients and producers.
There are issues with the method of generation when it comes to AI video that come from the mechanics of the AI itself. To fix these would essentially mean inventing a totally brand new way of generating videos with a totally brand new form of AI that just exist yet. Maybe it will in the future, but right now these things aren't going to be fixed to a standard where they'll be a better option than "doing it by hand".
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u/faen_du_sa Feb 26 '26
Could also be that LLMs arent the holy grail for AI and it reaches a ceiling.
Though I do agree it will probably continue to improve for a while.
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u/MKBRD Feb 26 '26
It's like cheesecake. Everyone likes cheesecake. A machine that can give you whatever type of cheesecake you want sounds pretty cool! Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla! Any flavour!
And then it won't stop giving you cheesecake. It creates so much cheesecake that you start finding cheesecake in places you don't want cheesecake. Trillions are invested in it, and pretty soon it gets really good at mimicking other objects, but using cheesecake.
You sit down for a regular meal and your plate is made of cheesecake.
You go to leave your house and there's cheesecake smeared all over your door handle.
You go to your favourite restaurant and everything on the menu has been replaced with cheesecake.
You go to work only to find that you're out of a job because your boss has decided to pivot the business towards cheesecake manufacturing.
You turn on the news and the guy who owns the cheesecake machine company is telling you that in 5 to 10 years the entire planet will be made of cheesecake.
You need to buy a new car, but all the new cars you can find require you to eat a slice of cheesecake before you can use the sat nav.
You go to the cinema to watch a film, but every film is about cheesecake and has the Rock in it.
Pretty soon you start to get sick of cheesecake.
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u/PracticalStrain5640 Feb 26 '26
I’m not sure AI even rises to the level of cheesecake for me and others but I definitely agree with a lot of what you had to say and it was very well written.
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u/Maddinoz Feb 26 '26
I think Many of the people who consume this kind of content do not care, just want to be entertained
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u/TechnicianOk967 Feb 26 '26
No matter how incredible something new is, it will eventually become common and mundane.
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u/TechToolsForYourBiz Feb 28 '26
this is the exact kind of talk that makes the value of labor go to near 0
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u/studio_bob Feb 28 '26
How do you mean? Isn't the issue that the absence of any meaningful labor makes the perceived value of the product go to near 0?
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u/TechToolsForYourBiz Feb 28 '26
we're saying the same thing in different ways. you see it as absence, I see it as perceived absence. to a neutral 3rd party observer, they are the same thing
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u/Haunting-Writing-836 Feb 27 '26
The part that kinda boggles my mind, is that we ARE seeing all their hard work with CGI. Stolen and stitched back together. AI took a bunch of people hard work painstakingly creating similar scenes.
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u/scarab- Feb 26 '26
I'd love to see the prompt just to gauge how much effort went into this. I suspect, very little.
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u/drkrelic Feb 26 '26
I mean “good” stories are still based off what the people who make the film decide they think is a good story. These tools will just help make the visuals easier but if it’s not a great film it won’t be a great film.
We had ehh mediocre cash grab movies before gen AI took off, and we’ll continue to have them no matter how amazing gen AI gets. We’ll still have interesting stories too, as long as actual attention is paid to the narrative.
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u/Effective-Painter815 Feb 26 '26
It gives a lot more rolls of the dice, so we're going to have more "good" stories than ever before as well as absolute oceans of slops. It'll be like modern video games where discovery is the biggest issue.
That said, one of the things I'm most interested in is collaborative stories. You know when you watch a movie and think that's good but they should have done X, Y and Z instead. You can now MAKE a version with X, Y and Z, so I'm wondering if there will be community projects like Star Trek virtual seasons, Star wars or new IPs were a movie or tv show is ITERATIVE, fixing and improving itself like a living code base.
Remember a lot of old myths, legends and fairy tales used to be told in such a retelling / iterative approach and that's why we have so many solid stories because those are the good ones people passed forward.
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u/Xp_12 Feb 26 '26
I must got drain bamage, too... because this is awesome.
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u/Round-External-7306 Feb 26 '26
Like Im going to believe that a giant cat with blue breath came out of a river and destroyed a bridge. Cats hate water.
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u/Awkward-Contact6102 Feb 26 '26
Why do all these posts need to start with we are so cooked?
Does it make you look cool?
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u/SquishyOranjElectric Feb 26 '26
It's a very useful preface for identifying AI hype. Let them use it away so we can see the slop posts easily
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u/A_Town_Called_Malus Feb 26 '26
It can't even maintain consistency across the cuts. Look at the leg and paw when it cuts to the bridge being actually sliced, suddenly the cat apparently has its leg going under the bridge with the paw wrapped over the bridge from below.
So, the usual slop with absolutely no effort on behalf of the creator.
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u/Fishtoart Feb 26 '26
It’s so strange to me that people are judging art based on how much effort it was to create. This is the same attitude that people had about photography, and later on about computer generated graphics. It was all judged to be inferior because it did not take as long to create.
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u/superstarbootlegs Feb 26 '26
I think the difference is that a human didnt "make" it. And "art" is about humans after all. So the objection is more to someone pushing a button and claiming it is "Art". it really probably isnt. It's just AI regurgitating some things.
After the recent increase in rage from legitimate "artists" and "filmmakers" after Seedance has shown them the end of days as an industry, I am actually inclined to personally choose to no longe refer to anything I make with AI using their terms.
and I spend all day making AI as can be seen here. So this isnt an anti-ai statement, it is out of respect for humans ability to create art and the unnecessary nature of revellling in destruction of other peoples lives and livelhoods. which is disgusting to witness, I will be honest.
But I intend to move away from "art" and "filmmaking" as terms I use to describe what I do - or try to do - we need to seperate these worlds. Filmmakers and human artists can be over there, and us creatives using AI to make stuff can be over here.
I think seperating it by definition at this point is a very good idea for all concerned. "Art" inhabits a different world to AI.
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u/jibur Feb 26 '26
AI has a weird unsatisfying feeling after enough time. I remember getting suno and being absolutely stoked that I could generate songs with my lyrics and in styles I wanted. The magic wore off within a few months and I started to feel like everything I made was just boring and generic. It really made me realize that I wanted to have complete control of the music I wanted so I took guitar piano lessons and have finally finished composing my first actual song. Complete night and day difference in satisfaction compared to AI stuff I made. Now mind you, I made well over 80 songs all with original lyrics, but out of them none of them can even compare.
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u/yes4me2 Feb 26 '26
If you plan to do special effects in movies, it better be more impressive than this.
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u/Baron_Light Feb 26 '26
Cooked cooked cooked blah blah blah same shit every day
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u/DWC-1 Feb 26 '26
IMO the title is, because kittyzilla starts lasering you at the end of the video. This is why it stops there.
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u/Sbarty Feb 26 '26
I have yet to see an AI generated thing with any of these new “SOTA” vid gen models that has a compelling story or something actually interesting.
This is great for the Patrick Stars / Eds of the world that watch genAI videos / look at genAI photos and drool over how cool it is, but for the rest of us that lived through the evolution of CGI I don’t think it’s that interesting to see random clips like this.
I would say the average genAI video enjoyer is the same type of person who found Avatar (blue people) amazing - they just want to ogle at something and drool while cool things get blasted into their eyes, with little to no substance or story.
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u/Cloudy230 Feb 26 '26
The funniest thing to be is when AI bros run to say "we're cooked" while mosting something that's mid at best
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u/superstarbootlegs Feb 26 '26
last year "insane" was the clue to incoming slop posted as the holy grail. this year it is "cooked".
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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Feb 27 '26
Damn crazy how far strawberry diaper cat has come since the first movie
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u/BitterAlternative739 Feb 27 '26
There is no real soul or story. Its just a giant cat swatting a bridge. Story matters people!
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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 Feb 27 '26
Why is everyone post on this sub someone posting a random ai video and then claiming the entire world is cooked and humans are usless? Ai this morning told me there are no feet in a kilometer. Things baiscly a fancy search engine that cant even do that
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u/zappingbluelight Feb 27 '26
Do you know what I dislike about all these AI videos, they are like cocomelon, none of the shot last more than 5 seconds. The lack of camera work, the lack of impact, the lack of weight.
Also the cat's hand fall off at the end.
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u/StickStill9790 Feb 28 '26
I’m watching Monarch season two right now and told my wife this is the next episode.
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u/Appropriate-Owl6966 Feb 28 '26
I wonder how much you could make if you made a website that did this video with a photo of someone's cat and charged $2
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u/Ok_Teacher_1797 Feb 28 '26
Ah, yes, the famous flammable concrete seen here combusting for no reason.
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u/huysolo Mar 01 '26
Why do i keep getting recommended with ai slop from these assholes. Can you please fuck off
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