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May 4, 2023 9:59 PM

Inspired by Pepperoni Hug Spot, AI Lost Media gives you: Pizza Nuggets (cw: pizza)
posted by They sucked his brains out! (16 comments total)

did i miss the part where meatcat flies away on his skateboard
posted by Bwentman at 10:18 PM on May 4, 2023 [1 favorite]

I'm fond of this terrifying beer commercial as well.
posted by whir at 10:35 PM on May 4, 2023 [4 favorites]

this is your captain, folks, if you look out the windows on either side of the plane, you can see we're passing thru the creepy section of the uncanny valley... ummm we should be through this turbulence in approximately seven months, and then we'll begin our descent into singularity international, where the temperature is 72 degrees and sunny we know you have a choice in airlines and we thank you for flying WTF
posted by not_on_display at 11:23 PM on May 4, 2023 [13 favorites]

Whew I was first thinking "content warning? For pizza?"... Then the body horror started......
posted by Hicksu at 12:59 AM on May 5, 2023

I've been having vivid dreams ever since I started taking anti-depressants. Pleasant ones, I get to see my dad who died 32 years ago, which is just wonderful. Anyhow one common theme is that architecture keeps morphing. The neo-classical buildings in my city become kaleidoscopic, the veins in the marble swirl and pulse. Windows merge together or split like amoebas.

These dream landscapes are so similar to this kind of AI weirdness I'm convinced there's some kind of correlation, like the resting brain with consciousness and perception turned off is doing something like these AI are.

Don't worry about me - my dreams are quite pleasant. This is a fucking nightmare.
posted by adept256 at 2:18 AM on May 5, 2023 [10 favorites]

Had the thought the other day that both image and text neural models have a chronic problem with hallucination. Humans, in general, hallucinate far less, except while dreaming. What if the evolutionary purpose of sleeping/dreaming is an optimization regimen to train hallucinatory neuron-patterns out of our brains? Like, while digesting the day's memories, the brain does some test runs to see what erroneous patterns spontaneously arise on their own with no external input, and then downweights those pathways.

I guess what I'm saying is we need to figure out how to give these poor machines a chance to sleep.
posted by NMcCoy at 3:52 AM on May 5, 2023 [5 favorites]

I guess people are working on the simulations that AI from Roko's basilisk is going to need to be able to run to punish people. That's what we're seeing here, right?
posted by aubilenon at 4:05 AM on May 5, 2023

Oddly plausible, because, once upon a time, this was a real ad for a real restaurant.
posted by Halloween Jack at 4:56 AM on May 5, 2023 [7 favorites]

Ah, 1993, when TVs and TV ads were widescreen.
posted by emelenjr at 5:07 AM on May 5, 2023

I dunno, I thought the breakdancers flying up into the air and merging into each other were genuinely cool. The Cronenberg School of Dance has arrived and I am here for it.
posted by phooky at 5:09 AM on May 5, 2023 [4 favorites]

It is too early in the morning for my brain, I had to nope out halfway through. And that’s saying a lot, I’ve been on the internet for far too long and I’ve seen things.

Will try again later once I can fully steal myself to the horror.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 6:05 AM on May 5, 2023

I did OK until the shot where the guy is eating a pizza nugget (??), which appears to be eating him back. That was enough.
posted by 1adam12 at 7:15 AM on May 5, 2023

Pizza the Hut could not be reached for comment
posted by BungaDunga at 7:23 AM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]

Pizza Nuggets make Omega Mart commercials look tame
posted by olopua at 7:32 AM on May 5, 2023 [3 favorites]

These are not all truly just AI doing its thing, right? I mean obviously the results are filtered and maybe even augmented with inputs by humans in order to maximize the funny lol aspects while eliding the more boring nonsequitors?

I got a suspicious feeling looking at a similar product, the Goosebumps series "as imagined by machines," and it turns out that the inputs really were just a human thinking of random humor text and pairing that with Midjourney images. They are funny, too. Just not as machines doing their own thing and coming up with CrAZy and hilarious results, randomly!!!!!!

Also, maybe everyone has known this all along and that's part of the bit and I'm just catching up late ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
posted by knotty knots at 11:27 AM on May 5, 2023 [1 favorite]

For once, the hands are not the most disturbing part of the images.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 4:24 PM on May 5, 2023