They used it for an inconsequential bit on purpose. This is a soft push to normalize the use of AI. And if the pushback is minimal, expect to see a lot more of it.
The town I work in uses ai slop for all of their social media posts. Parks and rec has something going on? Ai pictures. Superintendent sends an email, ai wrote it. It’s so fucking annoying.
It’s insane because didn’t Colin have a throwaway line during Jane’s song where he was like ‘isn’t this about AI?’ And she mentioned the water usage of AI data centers?
Ok? My comment is obviously there for people who watched that portion to contribute their thoughts, not to give you another opportunity to shit on Jane. Go do it on one of the million threads about it. This one is about AI usage.
The AI bubble requires it to be normalized, it's sickening. I can see now how every image will have that AI feeling because people won't care about how uncanny it looks. One day, when we trully don't see any difference (and I mean even the most experienced person) between AI and reality, they will be fully able to control everybody creating their own narrative, if not that already has happened.
Honestly with Amazon it really feels like someone up top tried justifying their job with AI rollout and it's been nothing but a disaster. They added AI english dubs to anime that already had english dubs which were immediately removed due to how low quality they were. Now they are rolling out AI summary videos/trailers with that fallout one showing scenes that never happened. Shit is wild
Shit is wild. I didn’t know about the anime dubs. People don’t want this and they are pushing it on us so hard. Thousands and thousands of full AI podcasts on Spotify now? WTF? What human beings would choose to listen to that?
I mean that the most likely answer is that the graphics team got a last minute change or was feeling pressed for time and used AI themselves. It's very tempting to use for low effort work and if you pay attention to what working at SNL is like, it gets super hectic and things change a lot last minute.
Everyone seems to think that a bit joke that lasts a few seconds is some corporate person trying to psyop us into AI or whatever but it feels like the most obvious answer is that someone in graphics thought "woman on oxygen at slot machine" was easy enough for AI and saved themselves some time and effort.
No you're right, that is probably what happened. But then to follow that logic, where is the line? Oh they were rushed for time so the writing department used AI to write that skit. Are you ok with that? Being rushed isn't an excuse to use AI in a show that focuses on human creativity, especially in a live setting and high pressure environment. Using AI defeats the rewards we get from those types of environments.
I'm a guy who works an office job and spends his time pretending to do work while surfing reddit, so I don't consider myself an authority on artistic integrity. So my default is to presume the creative people working at SNL are the people who can judge what is or isn't a good use of AI. If the company that pays for SNL starts reducing the budgets and replacing people with slop artists I'll be angry. Otherwise it only matters if it's funny and I don't think the decision to use AI to generate this image vs go find some stock art and photoshop it affected the quality of the joke.
The line is the AI itself. It's inherently exploitative of other artists and has no place in a show that is supposed to be made by humans. If you think it's another tool in a creatives arsenal like a brush or photoshop then I don't think you understand what it is that's happening. If a creative writer uses chat gpt to write a script "authentically" you would be fine with that? That's wild to me.
I do like it (democratization of creativity), and it's clearly inevitable. It reminds me of idiots in the 80s protesting/hating computers in offices and at home, and idiots in the 90s protesting/hating the internet. Eventually, they will fall silent because they'll look like dinosaur morons in the face of technological reality.
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u/MrFaversham Dec 15 '25
They used it for an inconsequential bit on purpose. This is a soft push to normalize the use of AI. And if the pushback is minimal, expect to see a lot more of it.