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[–] 90 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

油 is a clever double (triple?) entendre here. Yes it directly translated to oil and 石油 (crude oil) has the same pronunciation as 食油 (food oil).

But 油 also has the same pronunciation as 铀 (uranium). That is why he was talking about 炼油(refining oil/uranium) 来 (to) 炸 (fry/bomb) 鱿鱼 (the squid).

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  • [–] 84 points 6 months ago (12 children)

    That was certainly... A thing.

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    dude, at this point i don't care. there's enough care to detail that a human is doing something. it's being used as a tool rather than as a slop generator.

    there is a difference between ai art and ai slop and this my friends is ai art.

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  • [–] 57 points 6 months ago

    Meowatollah!

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  • [–] 54 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I know we're living in the backward world, but this isn't satire, its pretty much historically accurate.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    It's literally satire.

    Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

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  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago

    China's shitposting is fucking elite

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Straight up can't tell if this is ai or not. It feels too high quality

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago

    It is, 60's era Kung Fu is a common and flexible format. The rocks over the wall and identical real cats in robes is what seals it as AI to me.

    That being said, this is very well made. Good consistency, fluid motion. That's more to do with selective editing of 1-4 second good bits from 10 second clips.

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  • [+] 21 points 6 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I think that was too damn good for ai slop. But i understand your concern and I am also interested in the source

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    AI vids can be pretty damn hard to spot these days. My mom sent me a vid on silver investing and it even took me a minute to be sure. She wouldn't have spotted it if I didn't raise the question, we were spooked

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Gotta be. Camera cuts are 8 seconds or less. Which isn't a universal limit anymore but indicates a cheaper model or plan.

    Also things move wierd. Like the stabbing motion with the gun. Or the squid sitting in strange positions instead of "attaching" to the head like you assume it would. In a wierd way I feel like I can almost recognize what films this may have been trained on.

    Also over the last month there has been a deluge of ai videos being made from this perspective on this topic. Context is usually biggest evidence, barring everything else.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    The shots are way too consistent to be AI. If it was AI, we'd expect background details to change between each one. This feels like a high quality robot chicken production

    Edit: See my newer top level comment with source. It is indeed AI

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    OK what does the squid symbolize?

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    "Ai slop + Human editing" does that still equal to ai slop?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Well when you gather a bunch of different shit into a pile does it turn into something else or is it still just a pile of shit?

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    [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Pretty good. I want to know more about the creative process behind it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    yeah, and how many iterations did they do, how much did they storyboard, did the ai do the entire thing and if so did the ai use the traditonal concept to storyboarding to scene to etc. process to generate it.

    we have a specific process that is followed when folk make film

    does the AI do something different? could we look at the tree and arbitrarily pick a different fork if we didn't like a decision rather than having to ask an entirely new question?

    it's fascinating.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Afaik seedance only has like three modes of generation:

    1. Text to video
    2. First frame + text to video
    3. First frame + last frame + text to video

    From what I've seen you can do ranges of time in the text for certain things like 1-3s: slow pan in etc.

    People will use something like Google's nano banana to generate still frames in a storyboard-like prompt then have seedance generate the video for each 12 or so second portion

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Source from X (via xcancel):

    Indeed AI, parodying the official Chinese state broadcast videos they have been doing.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Ok, now I want to watch old Chinese movies. Suggestions?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    The Man GUY With Secret Kung Fu. Apologies, that can throw off a search. The best part is, you spend the entire time arguing who it is because THERE ARE TWO MEN. Also there's a frankenstein vampire robot. It is best to make fun of with friends.

    i remember it being on one of those free online

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I said Sartre is dead. I have a cold

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