Recently, AI-generated images have been wreaking havoc across the internet, and now AI-generated video clips are going viral, with a deeply unsettling clip of “Will Smith eating spaghetti” viewed on Twitter more than 8 million times.
The clip depicts a hideously malformed Smith shoveling handfuls of spaghetti into his mouth, with a terrifying gusto. Unlike “Trump’s arrest” and “Balenciaga Pope,” the “Smith eating spaghetti” clip certainly isn’t fooling anyone; it has spread across the internet by force of sheer malevolence, with some Twitter users describing it as “demonic.”
Words cannot express the psychic damage conjured by the video, as every single aspect of it is deeply, profoundly wrong; the facial expressions, the movement, even the spaghetti itself, which exhibits a life of its own.
Originally posted to Reddit by a user known as “chaindrop,” the clip was made using a new Modelscope Text2Video generator, which turns text prompts into short video clips. As viscerally unpleasant as the original post is, it just kept getting worse, as another Reddit user added “meatballs” into the original prompt, which plonked Smith’s smiling head onto a horrific “body” composed of a pulsing, slimy pile of meatballs, which he happily gorges on.
On Twitter, another user generated a clip of Will Smith eating a spaghetti monster, which might be the moment the meme peaked, as Smith is now chomping on strands of a living entity, seemingly against his will, his teary eyes put into focus by weird, intrusive close-ups.
Will Smith’s hellish meals sparked a surge of AI-generated clips that depict celebrities eating spaghetti, a race to the bottom to generate more monstrous mouth movements. Scarlett Johansson and Brie Larson soon joined the cursed spaghetti club, along with Pope Francis, who has emerged as one of the most popular archetypes of the AI explosion; that puffy jacket transcended the Holy Father to digital immortality.
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‘Demonic’ AI-Generated ‘Will Smith Eating Spaghetti’ Clip Goes Viral (forbes.com)
The clip depicts a hideously malformed Smith shoveling handfuls of spaghetti into his mouth, with a terrifying gusto. Unlike “Trump’s arrest” and “Balenciaga Pope,” the “Smith eating spaghetti” clip certainly isn’t fooling anyone; it has spread across the internet by force of sheer malevolence, with some Twitter users describing it as “demonic.”
Words cannot express the psychic damage conjured by the video, as every single aspect of it is deeply, profoundly wrong; the facial expressions, the movement, even the spaghetti itself, which exhibits a life of its own.
Originally posted to Reddit by a user known as “chaindrop,” the clip was made using a new Modelscope Text2Video generator, which turns text prompts into short video clips. As viscerally unpleasant as the original post is, it just kept getting worse, as another Reddit user added “meatballs” into the original prompt, which plonked Smith’s smiling head onto a horrific “body” composed of a pulsing, slimy pile of meatballs, which he happily gorges on.
On Twitter, another user generated a clip of Will Smith eating a spaghetti monster, which might be the moment the meme peaked, as Smith is now chomping on strands of a living entity, seemingly against his will, his teary eyes put into focus by weird, intrusive close-ups.
Will Smith’s hellish meals sparked a surge of AI-generated clips that depict celebrities eating spaghetti, a race to the bottom to generate more monstrous mouth movements. Scarlett Johansson and Brie Larson soon joined the cursed spaghetti club, along with Pope Francis, who has emerged as one of the most popular archetypes of the AI explosion; that puffy jacket transcended the Holy Father to digital immortality.
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‘Demonic’ AI-Generated ‘Will Smith Eating Spaghetti’ Clip Goes Viral (forbes.com)
