"Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day... 1776. The year-long series of short-form videos features short vignettes describing what happened on that day of the American Revolution 250 years ago, but it does so using "a variety of AI tools" to produce photorealistic scenes containing avatars of historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin."
"Outside critics were decidedly less excited about the effort. The AV Club took the introductory episodes to task for "repetitive camera movements [and] waxen characters" that make for "an ugly look at American history." CNET said that this "AI slop is ruining American history," calling the videos a "hellish broth of machine-driven AI slop and bad human choices." The Guardian lamented that the "once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop," calling the series "embarrassing," "terrible,""
An AI studio and a major magazine released a year-long short-form video series recreating daily vignettes from 1776 using AI-generated photorealistic avatars of George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Benjamin Franklin. The project frames AI as a tool to expand storytelling possibilities rather than replace craft. Early episodes attracted harsh negative reactions describing repetitive camera movements, waxen characters, and ugly visuals, with descriptions of the results as embarrassing and machine-driven "AI slop." Production of usable footage is time-intensive, requiring weeks to yield minutes of usable video, and creators expect quality to improve as tools and techniques evolve.
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