I am about 50 percent sure this was the sole reason some people pushed for more artificial intelligence… to create the most bizarre celebrity couples ever.
I’m sure the use of artificial intelligence has a whole host applications in the modern world, but while we figure those out, we can see entertain ourselves with some of the more unnerving stuff.
A video has gone viral on social media and it is terribly creepy. We aren’t talking creatures of the deep or some other Eldrich horrors but rather, celebs and famous people you simply can’t picture getting together, doing exactly that.
They look happy at least? (Defiant Ls/Twitter)
The clip, shared on Twitter on January 3, shows some of the oddest celebrity pairings, including North Korea’s Kim Jung Un and Taylor Swift and activist Greta Thunberg and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
On the still unbelievable but less creepy side, there is the pairing of Rihanna and Joe Biden as well as former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Cardi B.
And personally, I don’t really know how to feel about Pope Francis and Kim Kardashian getting together.
People on social media really did let their feelings known, however.
One person wrote: “This is hilarious, and horrifying.”
With another commenting: “PutingxGreta is the worst thing I’ve seen in a while. Bleach to my eyes!”
While a third simply wrote: “This is cursed.”
And another added: “And just like that, I’ve reached my level of ‘ewww’ for the day.”
With a fifth person writing: “Well you did it. You managed to gross out the entire internet. Congrats.”
While it might all seem like all fun and games right now, some experts have warned about just how artificial intelligence can shape humanity for the worse.
Many people even pointed out just how realistic the video looked in the first place.
Dr Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, who has worked for Google, recently reflected on the dangers of AI.
This one isn’t too far fetched, I’m sure Boris is a Nicki fan (Defiant Ls)
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Dr Hinton said: “You see, we’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than ourselves before.
“And how many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing? There are very few examples.”
He continued: “I didn’t think it would be where we would be now. I thought at some point in the future we would get here.
“Because the situation we’re in now is that most of the experts in the field think that sometime, within probably the next 20 years, we’re going to develop AIs that are smarter than people.
“And that’s a very scary thought.”
Featured Image Credit: Twitter/@DefiantLs
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Celebrity, Social Media, Viral, Weird, Twitter
It feels like memes have been around since the day of the internet, doesn’t it?
But artificial intelligence (AI) certainly feels like a relatively new development.
Combine the two together and you’re going to have a lot of people seriously freaked out.
Madni Aghadi, a content creator on X, created a thread to bring some iconic memes to life.
He did so using Dream Machine by Luma AI which, according to the site’s website, is an ‘an AI model that makes high quality, realistic videos fast from text and image’.
Let’s just say… the results were interesting.
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Recognize this photo? Of course you do. (David Roth)
First up was the ‘Distracted Boyfriend’ meme, in which a man is caught rubbernecking and checking out another woman in front of his girlfriend.
The meme is often used to convey the creator’s preference of one thing over another.
But once motion is brought into the meme, a little story begins to play out.
Safe to say, the distracted boyfriend is no longer just looking – he’s making a move on the other woman.
The outraged girlfriend seems a little defeated by the whole situation, as she turns away from her unfaithful partner.
This is the meme that shows a smiling girl standing ominously in front of a burning house.
It could be straight out of a horror movie, but is a humorous meme on the internet.
Go figure.
In the moving version, the firefighters working to tackle the blaze are seen talking among themselves.
But the creepy girl in the foreground?
She remains unnaturally still, never moving her eyes from the camera.
Spooky
2. Disaster girl with firefightersOther meme classics got the AI treatment, including Doge, GigaChad and ‘Side Eyeing Chloe’.
The ‘Facepalm’ meme featuring Patrick Stewart’s Star Trek character, Captain Picard, was an interesting case.
Once put into motion, it turned into… someone else.
The AI memes had some mixed results. (X/@hey_madni/Luma AI)
No matter what was put through the AI program, the reaction among X users was broadly the same – horror.
One user wrote: “Delete this thread.”
While a second wrote: “Incredibly creepy.”
Another disgusted user simply tweeted: “That is horrible.”
Someone else added: “Now that’s creepy. It’s learning and becoming self aware.”
Others branded the thread ‘pointless’ and ‘awful’. But there were a few supportive voices among the dissenters.
One fan commented: “The pace at which AI is evolving is completely mind-blowing.
“The real fun is yet to come!”
“Memes are about to get wild,” was the verdict of another X user, as a fellow fan said: “Luma’s AI output looks incredibly lifelike.”
AI isn’t quite taking over the world just yet, but in the meantime, it’s amusing – and angering – people online.
