"At first, Padilla was overjoyed to see her father (played by the night's host, Glen Powell, who threw himself into every sketch) smiling and waving, looking young again. But it wasn't long before things went wrong, as the next photo animation found Padilla's mother (Veronika Slowikowska) smoking a hot-dog-like a cigarette while Powell tried to roast Sadie, the family dog (which, incidentally, didn't have a head) on the grill."
"The grandmother was so distraught that she didn't want to see what would happen to the next photo, but her grandson insisted that he'd paid for the app and wanted to get his money's worth. So she had no choice but to watch as the very first photograph of her as a baby was desecrated: Half of her mother's body disappeared, her father stretched out her baby self like an accordion, the nude friend returned, and eventually, a nuclear bomb obliterated everything."
A sketch depicted an elderly woman whose grandchildren used an AI program to animate treasured childhood photographs. Initial delight at a revived, smiling father quickly turned to shock as subsequent animations produced bizarre, unsettling results: a mother appearing to smoke a hot-dog-like cigarette, a headless family dog, and a friend revealing a smooth, Ken-doll crotch. Attempts to explain the errors as AI confusion failed as images escalated into grotesque distortions and literal destruction, culminating in a nuclear blast that obliterated the photo. The sequence used sight gags and escalating absurdity to dramatize anxiety about pervasive, unreliable AI.
Read at The Atlantic
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]