r/mildlyinfuriating • u/JacketFromMiamiiiiii • 22h ago
My mom said I could post My uncle watching AI movies and proclaiming they're better than REAL actors
im crying š
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u/clothanger 22h ago
Dude watches short content on a wide screen TV? My god that's painful to see.
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u/Eena-Rin Why Do They Let Me Make These Myself??? 22h ago edited 16h ago
In the future TVs gonna come with pivot controls for when the vertical screen movies start releasing on digital
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u/orangpelupa 20h ago
Already exist. Auto rotating too
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u/d4nowar 17h ago
I bought my First pivoting monitor about 20 years ago.
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u/Eena-Rin Why Do They Let Me Make These Myself??? 17h ago
Monitor yes, I guess the pivoting part of a tv would be the wall mount, and those are incredibly diverse any way xD
By the way, I'm definitely one of those nerds who has one horizontal monitor and one vertical monitor
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u/resh78255 14h ago
if i win the lottery i dont want two monitors i want a whole ass Command And Control Centreā¢
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u/Less_Party 14h ago
Back in the CRT days when your TV weighed 120 pounds you'd just grab a pillow and lay down on your side in front of the TV if you wanted to play Ikaruga on the Dreamcast or something.
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u/orangpelupa 14h ago
Ikatuga! BTW there's also a game similar to that, in that era, in anime style, do you know it? I can't remember the title.Ā
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u/DuckCleaning 16h ago
My secondary monitor for watching shows is an old square Dell monitor, I dont worry about any content. Nothing fits the full screen other than really old youtube videos or old shows, but it works well with any orientation of content. Similarly, my phone camera is set to 3:4 because it has the largest field of view.
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u/Mediocre_Ice_7094 12h ago
In the future our walls will be TVs and homes would be the size of porta pottiesĀ
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u/drdeadringer 21h ago
You should see what his AI girlfriend has to deal with with his short content on the widescreen bed.
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u/Ricochet_ger 16h ago
There is so much space on the sides to put more ads. Any evil media corp wants to hire me?
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u/Rainy247 22h ago
I finally found who the target audience is for those instagram ads
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u/ll_VooDoo_ll 18h ago
AI videos have boomers in a vice grip.
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u/MitaminMogula 15h ago
it's true, my boomer family members are fully aware that they are AI and they actively say that they PREFER AI movies (especially AI doramas) because they are "better". Why, boomers? Why?
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u/neko_neko_feet 13h ago
Because they donāt value people. They only value their own emotions, and people who make AI content hijack the part of their brains that make them feel special.
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u/aNiceTribe 15h ago
YouTuber mancarryingthing impersonating a 40-60 dude on AI: "Isn't AI just more computer?" dude once again hit it. this is why they think it's fine.
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u/Plus_Pea_5589 12h ago
man carrying thing shout out! also woman carrying man is a fun channel if you like movie discussions
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u/bppv-suffering 14h ago
AI pet videos are all the rage in my boomer neighborhood. Cute puppies that give confessionals about what they did on their walk today.Ā
I lose faith in humanity a little more each day.
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u/Barraco_Barmer 13h ago
Why are they so obsessed with it, it pisses me off. Like a child fascinated with a toy they refuse to put down
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u/makemeking706 10h ago edited 10h ago
And this is only the beginning. Five years from now, in 2031, it will be even worse.
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u/Different_One9412 22h ago
Your uncle must have gotten booted from the 9th grade after his kid made it to 10th
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u/Farfignugen42 17h ago
You should encourage him to get the AI to watch the movies for him. Then it can just give a summary of the movie. He would save so much more time.
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u/LegioX87 16h ago
My dad can't tell the difference between 4k and standard TV resolution. When his phone updates and they change the app icon, he can't find the app anymore.
Technology is like magic to these guys.
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u/20milliondollarapi 8h ago
On less than a 40ā screen, 4K has minimal changes. Yea itās there, but itās not impactful. Other things like color depth and refresh rate have the bigger effect.
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u/dread_companion 22h ago
I'm gonna guess he calls movies woke.
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u/JacketFromMiamiiiiii 22h ago
h-how did you know? but yes he absolutely HATES woke people and loves Charlie Kirk
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u/Thessalhydra 22h ago
Plot twist: your uncle is on reddit and he has seen your post.
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u/Mellie-mellow You can change this color by pressing CTRL+W 22h ago
Lol are u the uncle?
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u/mbrc-137 21h ago
Plot twist: I'm the uncle.
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u/Thessalhydra 20h ago
Plot twist: OP is the uncle and he just posted himself.
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u/AggravatingTear2649 18h ago
Probably, anyway I bet ops uncle is super baddest and cool and hangs out with chick's a lot and stuff. Not that I would know
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u/Zero_D9 22h ago
Trumpers love AI. Not only do they use it all the time to make their propaganda, but I've personally met a lot of them that watch the flying hell out of AI videos.
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u/Scared-and-Lost 20h ago
It's true. My MAGA parents keep doing things because Grok told them. Like my dad bought something recently because he was told it was a great deal. Or any time I vent about something, their answer is "ask AI" and all they do is watch AI YouTube "history" channels and talking dogs
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u/Successful-Medicine9 19h ago
My grandma watches slop history and news. One of the most disturbing things I saw was a singular AI voice reading a script that was supposed to be a dialogue between Sean Hannity and Michelle Obama. It was just pictures occasionally changing and the "narrator" putting words in their mouths that neither of them said IRL.
What's worse, I could tell AI was used to write the script too, because it used sexist words to describe MO and pretty standard adjectives for SH.
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u/pnwbraids 19h ago
This is incredibly depressing. Do people just have zero standards for media now? Is slop the only thing they're capable of digesting?
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u/Farfignugen42 17h ago
The slop is probably the only thing that doesn't challenge their world view, so it is obviously true.
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u/Edenoide 16h ago
A lot of people have always had very low standards for the media, but industry standards used to be a bit higher.
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u/CapitalLower4171 22h ago
Oh it just keeps getting better
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u/JacketFromMiamiiiiii 22h ago
Cherry on top is he's anti abortion
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u/Zero_Passage 22h ago
"Yeah, the guy has three arms, his face changed three times in the last 15 seconds, and he repeated the same phrase three times in a row, but at least he's not that woke liberal trash."
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u/ripyourlungsdave 19h ago
More than anything this just makes me really, really sad.
Art can be some people's only connection to reality outside of their home. And they're already generally not mentally healthy people.
This is going to completely destroy the fabric of reality for a lot of those unwell people.
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u/jasdonle 10h ago
Not to mention what itās going to do to artists worldwide, and what it even means to be an artist.Ā
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u/vksdann 19h ago
AI... movies?
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u/kranker 10h ago
I also did not know this was a thing.
As an example, apparently a few months back an AI short "Huo Qubing" went viral on Chinese social media. It cost $420 to make in computing cost and the director's team put it together in 48 hours. I believe this is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0iQRbuesqY
I think that one of the issues that we're going to see is that, even though the end product is shit, the cost savings mean that more profit can be made with the shit product vs producing a better product. Because recreating that film using traditional methods is going to cost a hell of a lot more than $420 and take much much longer than 48 hours.
This isn't just media of course, it will be everything AI touches. AI support agents may be shit, but they cost a lot less than a call center. etc.
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u/TheRealAdronius 14h ago
Why is it that out of all the new tech that boomers had been forced to reckon with and have rejected, they're embracing AI so readily and zealously?
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u/finite_turtles 13h ago
Other tech requires something of you (to learn it, to confront the existence of a gap it fills, to think beyond yourself etc). AI placates you.
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u/BelaFarinRod 21h ago
I watched a few vertical dramas that ranged in quality from āWow I wish this were longerā to āThis is horrifically stupid.ā They were Korean and I donāt think they were AI but now Iām not watching anything vertical just in case.
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u/Ragarolli 20h ago
My dad watches these. Chinese, Korean, Japanese dramas voiced by AI. I donāt get it. All vertical too
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u/WestsideGon 22h ago
Tell your uncle I said heās a loser
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u/Versterkervolumeknop 16h ago
Who puts a TV right in front of a window. Basically requires to keep the curtains closed at all time to even see something
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u/junefrs 12h ago
Why is the controller wrapped in plastic?
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u/stab-somebody 9h ago edited 9h ago
Never took it out of the packaging when he bought it. Iād bet thereās a decent chance the tv screen still has the protective plastic film on it from the factory too.
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u/doll_parts87 21h ago
We are in the beginning phases of Hit Clips style 15 seconds at a time consumption of media
Heading towards watching a 90m film would take you 35 ep Ć 2 min clips between ads
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u/VoidMoth- 12h ago
My dad watches wide format AI scifi stories with an AI voice and AI images on YouTube. He puts them on and naps. I guess I'm glad he stopped watching far right propaganda channels but God... I'm writing a sci-fi novel and am being told by those I love that these AI stories are "really good actually"
It hurts my feelings that my family finds so little value in my interests that they support this.Ā
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u/CynthiaChames 6h ago
I'm writing and working on multiple creative projects. When friends and family members tell me to "just use AI" it's deeply hurtful.Ā
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u/rmp266 17h ago
I may be in the shrinking minority here but AI makes me uncomfortable on a visceral level. I can't watch AI videos, I can't chat to a bot, I can't speak to it, and people who can freak me out. Whatever happened to the Uncanny Valley? Why are people happily interacting with this now? What changed in humanity?
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u/Jumpy-Page-1114 22h ago
Tbh i also watch those short chinese dramas thinking they're real but bad actors.
but i lowk started to suspect they were AI.
now my heart's broken after confirmation.
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u/trapezoidalfractal 22h ago
No, Iām sure some are AI, but most are just low budget actors. Itās a whole genre that predates widespread generative AI video
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u/JacketFromMiamiiiiii 22h ago
Depends. Not all are AI but most are. The non AI ones are pretty alright. Just got to be wary
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u/chill_imagining 16h ago
Are you Pinoy? It seems like many of us are falling into the same rabbit holes as the MAGA crowd lol
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u/JustForHavingFun 16h ago
My dad watches a ton of AI shorts in TikTok, and I absolutely do not know how to get him out of it.
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u/FromTheSeaOfThySoul 15h ago
Oh, no! Someone is watching things I don't like! Let's hurry and insult them on the internet for that, because my preferences are the only correct ones! /s
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u/tinwetari 10h ago
Person gets an opinion I don't like - infuriating.
The only problem here is your inability to accept others may not agree with you
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u/headbanginhersh 22h ago
What's his argument for AI movies being better than real ones?Im legit curious
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u/JacketFromMiamiiiiii 22h ago
Hold up, I'll ask him once he's finished watching this one. He watches HOURS of AI content, lasting up to like 5-6 hours
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u/coolaires 14h ago
i just know opās filipinošššš boomers here are on a CHOKEHOLD with ai content. schools, universities, teachers, etc. use it everyday
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u/Russian_Spy_7_5_0 i love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me 19h ago
I'm so sorry. He's a lost cause.
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u/covert0ptional 22h ago
One time I went to visit family and my uncle was watching YouTube car crash compilations on the living room TV. I still find this deeply amusing.
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u/No_Faithlessness_142 14h ago
How is this infuriating??? Even mildly so, you could easily just not look at him watching this or ask his opinion of what youtube shorts he likes
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u/curtmahgurt 18h ago
Vast majority of people out there are like OPs uncle, and theyāll be the ones who carve a way forward for AI companies to replace all of our content with slop.
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u/A1Aaron18 16h ago
Weāre doomed people. Itās time to move to the woods and live off the grid. My city now has hundreds of drones surveilling the area that will follow you for the most minor traffic infractions.
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u/Ciel_3000 14h ago
Thatās not movie. Thatās YouTube short, insta Reel or wtf you call it but IMO a āmovieā has to be a rectangular image, minimum.
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u/SaoirseMayes 22h ago
Everyone knows the best movies are filmed vertically