r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lilketchup3105 • 1d ago

Stunning scrap metal sculptures

Credit: @jordanspriggsculptures

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u/Solid-Search-3341 1d ago

I know there are a lot of people who do things like that, but this specific video feels AI as fuck.

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u/Caracalla81 1d ago

Those nice curvy sculptures are definitely not made of the rusty bits of scrap on those tables.

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u/hot4belgians 1d ago

Isn't this the guy in western Australia? If so his things are real. Real talent beats AI.

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u/DjRipNickMcNasty 1d ago

Yep, AI hasn’t hit the western part of Australia yet

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u/hot4belgians 16h ago

It's a dry kind of deep learning neural network.

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u/AJ3TurtleSquad 1d ago

Never heard of tools huh?

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u/Caracalla81 1d ago

I suppose if you totally melted those scrap down and recast them into the parts we see in the sculptures... But that's not really a "scrap metal sculpture.'

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u/AJ3TurtleSquad 1d ago

Or just sanded them, hammered them, and if needed repainted them to keep the color.

And also if the metal was originally scrap metal, then why does it matter if he melted them at all? I think you should stop getting hung up on semantics.

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u/FawFawtyFaw 1d ago

Well this isnt a standalone art style. Plenty of honest hobbies to point to. This one reeks.

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u/AJ3TurtleSquad 1d ago

Taking other peoples' junk and turning into art... it's not new and has a massive following, but sure you can just be a pesimist about it if you want. This guy has been doing this for a very long time and has made a living doing it. By the way this is a very niche thing that even fewer people master.

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u/mamafish21 1d ago

You can polish metal...

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u/JoeyJoeC 1d ago

It does, I thought so too, but real person with real sculptures. https://www.jordanspriggsculptures.com.au/

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u/fedoraislife 1d ago

This guy's the real deal, he's Aussie and I've seen his artwork at an art exhibition in Hamilton, NZ.

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u/Solid-Search-3341 1d ago

The guy can be real and this video be AI slop or "ai improved" video. The two things are not mutually exclusive.

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u/IncomprehensiveScale 1d ago

i like how you literally have someone testifying to see this guys work in real life with his own eyes and you’re still like “could be AI tho, you never know these days”

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u/Solid-Search-3341 1d ago

I like how you have ne reading comprehension. 

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u/freudian_nipps 1d ago

People with no life experience who declare everything they havent experienced as AI, like yourself, should be banned from commenting. Especially when you double down like an idiot.

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u/Apart_Animal_6797 1d ago

Its real 

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago edited 1d ago

Have you considered actually finding the source that is listed in the post above?

The video is real, the sculptures are real. But we sure are cooked if people just claim AI on shit without even searching for a source.

If you go to his instagram his posts go back to 2016

It really sucks that people like yourself are taking credit away from exceptional artists and claiming AI without the tiniest bit of research. Do better.

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u/michiganstrange 1d ago

There’s a six year old video featuring a glimpse of some of the larger sculptures you see on his YouTube.

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u/EffortlessBoredom 1d ago

Looks completely legit. If you zoom in you can see that all the details make sense... The shapes match what you'd expect and the weld joints are accurate. There's none of that scribbly texture stuff you see in AI videos under close inspection. Even the small logo text is legible.

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u/peak_incompetence 1d ago

He's posted a very similar video on Instagram. Maybe someone recreated that video with ai?

https://www.instagram.com/jordanspriggsculptures/reel/DNGAmEvzvAw/?hl=en

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u/Huge_Science7186 1d ago

This is real

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u/Hevnaar 1d ago

When people think your IRL art is AI, thats nextfuckinglevel.

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u/Zealousideal_Step709 1d ago

Don‘t know if it is AI. But either way, I am not too fond of the style. Everything looks too smooth and clean. It‘s impressive for sure. But I prefer the sculptures that have that scrapyard feeling.

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u/RoxStoneOcean 1d ago

The first one looks way to clean and make me think it's AI

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u/NotYetMashedPotato 1d ago

It is.

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u/tv_48 1d ago

Nope go look at his instagram he has stuff like this that predate AI.

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u/madsvestg 1d ago

Looks so ai

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u/three-plus-shakes 1d ago

Very likely his works have been stolen to train AI. While it’s true this looks like AI the opposite can also be true.

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u/NotYetMashedPotato 1d ago

Make me.

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u/StoneRivet 1d ago

bro this isn't a fight, if you want to be ignorant i guess you don't have to but what an odd way to live my guy.

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u/NotYetMashedPotato 1d ago

It's okay.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

The sculptures are real, this guy has been doing this since at least as early as 2016. He has 1,500 posts on his instagram. He also sells these sculptures.

It would make no sense for him to fake these with AI when he can clearly create the art himself, and likely makes a good living selling those sculptures.

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u/xd_Shiro 1d ago

People calling this AI without backing evidence is just so lame. There’s no way someone who’s been doing this for over 12 years would randomly upload AI content. Other than that, the shadows and even the bits and parts are very much visibly “right”.

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u/JoeyJoeC 1d ago

It's the modern day "this is photoshop, I can tell by the pixels".

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u/Aldoron 1d ago

People making accusations with no proof to back them up? Say it isn't so!

Real artists get fucked both ways now.

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u/Jeggu2 1d ago

Too good? You're ai. Too bad? Ai. Too generic? Ai. Too weird? Ai.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

This shit is genuinely ruining this website. I see AI claimed on an almost daily basis now and it has been wrong easily 50+ times over the past several months and correct... literally twice.

They will claim AI and then a simple google search shows the video predates AI video generation or the creator has been making the same content for a decade or more.

I see it most commonly on animal videos and art videos just like this. Which fucking sucks because both those kinds of videos require a shitload of effort by the photographers and artists to make/capture.

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u/DrSharc 1d ago

Every artist starting to work and post their work online post AI is cooked. The best defense is looking at their past work rn. Good luck to future artists escaping the rampant AI accusations.

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u/Modena89 17h ago

I'm more tired by people continuously telling "ai slop" than the AI itself

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u/Royd 1d ago

I've seen this guys work, he's the real deal.

I made a joke about someone bringing a "meth rhyno" to the scrapyard

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u/No-Cat-9339 1d ago

It's not AI.. but a lot of the sculptures are just curved sheet metal with a wrench welded on here and there.

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u/MaybeMidgets 1d ago

The only sheet metal I see is on the horns. You either need to put your glasses on or watch it at a slower speed because these are incredibly detailed and I was able to make out dozens of different tools and parts on each sculpture.

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u/xbiggyl 1d ago

The ordering and sorting of the scrap parts on these tables is next level for me 😂 let alone the sculptures.

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u/A_little_more_left 1d ago

This is what people think they're gonna do when they collect random junk lol.

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u/Feedback_Original 1d ago

Hate this fn sound clip

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u/goose_gladwell 1d ago

Same, and on top of ai slop?!

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u/IntravenousNutella 1d ago

It's not AI...

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u/Lahk74 1d ago

Someone threw away a perfectly good velociraptor? I doubt it.

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u/ligamedlem 1d ago

I do this too but in a much smaller scale.

Kitbashing my warhammer minis with stuff I found on the ground.

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u/Huge_Science7186 1d ago

This is real

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u/Awkward-Dog-9182 1d ago

Damn, these look incredible.

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u/thrownawaz092 1d ago

Steampunk ascthestic.

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u/FarseerEnki 1d ago

One man's garbage is another man person's good un garbage

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u/idkwhattoput122 1d ago

Me when I lie

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u/screwsloose24 1d ago

Place in my area makes transformers and other stuff from automotive parts. The gorilla made of spark plugs is my favorite

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 1d ago

We used to make DIY skateparks and when ever we had angle iron or metal, some scalper would jack our shit. It got so bad we just had to use a rub brick and wax the edges of the cement.

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u/aareen_29 1d ago

When I build a home I'm definitely buying some of this guy's stuff

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u/fedoraislife 1d ago

I saw a small dog of his at an art exhibit in NZ that was listed at 4.5k NZD.

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u/aareen_29 1d ago

How was it

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u/musqular6 1d ago

They look great.

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u/Budget_Difference_91 1d ago

I think calling it AI is a fair criticism. He takes scrap metal but, where a folk artist might place the items into the sculpture as-is. He manipulates each piece with sophisticated machinery. The horse manes metal strips , the polished panels, every piece of metal is being forced into its role in the figure. It creates an uncanny valley visually, because folk art is meant to be aesthetically imperfect due to the materials used. But when the materials are made perfect it is tricking us in a similar way AI does — Presenting the idea of art but devoid of a human fingerprint.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

Thank you for speaking out of complete ignorance and not actually checking the source that is listed in the post above.

This guy has been making art like this for at least 10 years.

The video is real, the art is real. Scrap metal sculptures are a common form of art because the materials can often be sources for little to no money and the result is obviously pretty fucking cool. Apparently too cool for you to believe is real.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

TRAIN YOUR EYES BETTER. The shadows make perfect sense, you can see where the sun is coming from in each short video and the shadows cast exactly how they should. He also has a numerous other posts of these same sculptures.

You have no idea what the you are talking about. This guy has 1,500 posts on instagram showing off his artwork. He also sells these sculptures, he is not using AI to fake his art.

It is absolutely awful that in your ignorance you are taking away credit where it is due, this guy has spent thousands of hours mastering this craft and you write it off as AI when you don't even know how to spot AI. AI does not have any issues with shadows anymore, you clearly do not follow its development at all.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

You are the one that is gullible, you think that AI still has problems with shadows? LOL... That has long not been an issue with AI. The shadows are literally perfect in these videos.

The videos are real, the artwork is real. Nothing you say will change that reality.

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u/FlyingOnWings 1d ago edited 15h ago

This is AI Slop. The shadows are all messed up.

Edit I stand corrected. This guy is a legend.

All can go back to work and ignore this post

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u/thecanvas89 1d ago

The guy making these is an Aussie and he’s been making these for about a decade… not AI at all

Edit: https://www.jordanspriggsculptures.com.au

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u/Toad-a-sow 1d ago

The first antelope one or whatever had a random shadow right under it that looks like nothing is casting it

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u/Hot-Challenge8656 1d ago

Could be oil.

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u/Toad-a-sow 1d ago

Could he. Just looks an awful lot like a hoof shadow was attempted

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

You have no idea what you are talking about, this guy is genuinely just that good and his sculptures go back to at least as early as 2016

https://www.instagram.com/p/BBWgXd0MRn8/?hl=en

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u/Solid-Version 1d ago

This comment is AI slop

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u/jxf 1d ago

I don't see anything wrong with the shadows. What issues are you pointing out?

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago edited 1d ago

You are AI slop. The video is real, the sculptures are real, dude has been doing this for a very long time. Long before AI video generation.

This isn't even an uncommon style of art.

This guy has been making sculptures just like this for at least a decade.

Absolutely awful that people like yourself are taking credit away from exceptional artists who have honed their craft likely over tens of thousands of hours.

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u/redmongrel 1d ago

I feel so sorry for you people; in your world nothing cool will ever actually exist again all so you can feel like you’re part of a clic that says “I told you so” and are typically wrong.

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u/CyKa_Blyat93 1d ago

You tried acting smart but lost all aura.

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u/Huge_Science7186 1d ago

Dumb ass it’s not ai

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u/FlyingOnWings 15h ago

I stand corrected. This guy is a legend

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

Jesus dude the cart is not missing a wheel it is just blocked by the cart. There is almost certainly a wheel under it.

THAT was your proof it was AI? The least you could do is educate yourself on what AI struggles with today because it does not have any issues with details like cart wheels anymore.

His artwork goes back to 2016, he has been doing this for at least 10 years. Same skill shown off early on as he has today.

He also sells the sculptures, why would he fake shit he couldn't even sell to people?

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

He isn't faking it, the video is real, his artwork is real.

You have no idea what you are talking about. AI doesn't make nonsensical errors like a missing cart wheel anymore.

It is also clearly just blocked by the black part of the actual cart.

It is absolutely awful to be sitting her taking credit away from an artist who has spent thousands of hours mastering his craft, and has been making this kind of art for at least 10 years. Ages before AI video generation.

Since you have no clue, I will tell you one thing AI still actually struggles with, and that is consistency between generations. Tiny things often change from generation to generation, yet the pictures and videos he posts of these sculptures never change.

They are real, but your media literacy and common sense sure isn't.

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

Your brain is the slop actually.

The least you could do is actually educate yourself on what AI is capable of before you claim to know what is real or isn't real.

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u/Neutron-Hyperscape32 1d ago

u might want to learn what happens when u get blocked dummy

their comments are still there

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u/Neutron-Hyperscape32 1d ago

lol there is no shot that is the first time someone has blocked u

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u/DingoCertain 1d ago

Maybe it's AI enhanced, because I know for sure AI can't make accurate looking dinosaurs, like we see here. At best they look like JP copies, at worse its sauropods with t-Rex heads.

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u/MaybeMidgets 1d ago

It’s not AI enhanced. Stop spreading bull shit. This guy has been making these sculptures for over 10 years.

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u/JezusTheCarpenter 1d ago

ai;dw

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

You are lame as hell for not checking for a source before wrongly claiming AI on a video with real artwork by an exceptional artist.

His work goes back to at least 2016. The video is real, the artwork is real, but your medial literacy and common sense sure isn't.

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u/HankBuffalo 1d ago

AI. Open your eyes

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

It is not AI, open your brain. He has been making sculptures like this for over 10 years. They literally give you his instagram handle in the post.

His art goes back to at least 2016.

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u/BIayneRobinson 1d ago

AI SLOPPPPPPPP

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

YOU are AI slop. This video is real, the artwork is real, this guy has been making sculptures like this for 10 years.

At bare minimum check for a source before you claim AI out of your own ignorance.

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u/Educational-You9238 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/HZFxBu5dMqwA1cIB1k

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u/Icy_Agency923 1d ago

It is actually real and his sculptures go back to at least 2016.

Really sucks that exceptional artists can't get credit where they deserve it. Also sucks how many ignorant people have no idea how to spot AI and basically just see things they think are too cool and then claim AI without searching for a source.

His art goes back to February of 2016