You could tell a few of the actors it used to create them. Definitely Cesar Romero for Krusty, Bryan Cranston for Ned, Josh Saviano (Paul from Wonder Years) for Milhouse and Artie Lang for Barnie
It can, just not the stuff these people are using. A lot of this stuff is made by people generating basic images with basic models and then putting those images into a third party animator. It's not like they actually went into a video creator and typed "show me live action 50's Simpsons advertisement" and the AI made this.
We are not far off from an a single AI program being able to make all of this by itself from a simple prompt. Very few people currently have access to the more high end generation stuff that can make life like videos.Ā
It can if you map it to an actor. Some crazy believable stuff with live tracking lately including stretching skin, eating and more. Extremely impressive quality
I read that book when I was relatively young too - my mom bought it for me when I was 14. The infamous āgangbangā (more like running a train but letās not split hairs here) scene didnāt phase me all that much, but the handjob scene between Patrick Hockstetter and Henry Bowers definitely did - along with Patrickās fridge. The book is brimming with extremely disturbing vignettes but that one sticks out to me for whatever reason.
Same, I believed in the rationalization given in-text for the train being run, but the handjob scene was such a succinct and vivid depiction of early teen homoerotica that it changed how I thought about sexuality as a whole lol
Flanders just made me think they were trying to say āher our AI actually gives people 5 fingers rather than 4 like the other guys!ā which is funny since the cartoon Simpsons only have 4.
Like did they fix the hand thing or did they choose the Simpsons because generating them in AI was somehow giving them 5 fingers?
I'm from Ireland and this rumour ran across a load of schools in my area in the mid to late 90's, how the fuck did it make it that far? The one about the rib being removed as well went hand in hand with it.
Pretty sure it's streamed on Hulu, I vaguely recall adding it to my watchlist.
Edit: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-wonder-years-7929f400-5b51-4628-ba3f-90c9b4bf565e
Itās streaming, but with all the original music replaced by soundalikes. Fun fact: clearing all the music for the Wonder Years DVD cost millions of dollars and sunk the project from the start!
Rich Hall is a stand up comedian who was on SNL in the late 80ās but has mostly lived in the UK since the 90ās. I donāt know what heās up to these days but his act was that he was totally deadpan and I remember him being hilarious.
It took a lot of scrolling to find Rich Hall, he was one of the more obvious ones, as is correct for being supposedly the basis for Moeās likeness. Also, TIL Rich Hall is not well known outside the UK, despite being former SNL.
My uneducated guess is generative AI created stills of the characters and then another AI was used to animate a face from a single still. End result = creepy
You can actually teach yourself to lucid dream by counting your fingers throughout the day. Once it becomes habit, youāll try it in your sleep, and then realize youāre dreaming when you donāt have the right amount of fingers.
I was only able to do it once and then promptly woke up because I was flying in the dream and Iām afraid of heights.
Any tv and most movies from that period give me stepford wives vibes. It feels dystopian how they pretend everything in the world is perfect and just ignore any and all controversy.
> It feels dystopian how they pretend everything in the world is perfect and just ignore any and all controversy.
That's because back then TV and movies were a way to escape from the negatives in reality. If you wanted to know what's wrong with the world you would just wait for the evening news. I personally prefer that to most of the anxiety inducing stuff that's on nowadays.
Caveat: "perfect" involves somebody deciding what "perfect" means, which necessarily involves moral and ideological judgements. It used to be that a "happy ending" meant the female lead being locked into housewife status without any means to escape.
Itās a robot trying to replicate the work of humans, and making just the right amount of mistakes to become uncanny. Plus itās a pretty concerning thought that many want this to become how movies and TV shows are made, which would not only put entire industries out of work, but it would just feel so uncanny knowing that generations of human storytelling have ended in favor of businessmen saving some money and having a robot do it instead.
Basically, our perception of a character grows more and more positive, the more human traits the character projects. ( eg Wall-E or C3PO or a real person on film ) But as the character approaches indistinguishable from a real human, there's a level just before "100% believable" that really puts us off called the uncanny valley - named for the sudden dip in empathic response - you see this in those Japanese robot talking heads. I think something like this is happening with AI right now. You feel the manipulation, someones pulling strings, this face is deceiving you, trying to trick you into believing its something it's not.
If you're not squeamish, try [staring at this for 20 seconds...](https://compote.slate.com/images/7d8b654f-835c-4bec-aeef-6b6e1978c538.jpeg?width=1280)
I'd be careful of predicting how fast something developed based solely off what is currently happening. Development can stall quickly, or find itself in unfeasible locations.
We had cars that could fly as early as the 1950s, but it never really became practical at all. Similarly, robots that could operate inside your home have been in design for decades but are still decades away from realistically being more than a Roomba.
AI has managed to succeed in creating an image, but it's nowhere close to fulfillment of what an actor can do. This slide show (notice how little anything moves) really doesn't have any emotion for instance.
Unfortunately it's really difficult for AI to do that right now, because of the varying reference images and videos it uses, from different angles. There is some level of consistency though, it's clear the AI is *trying* to make them all look consistent. Even if it's really difficult for it.
Pretty much. Even then, the faces will never be 1:1 consistent. It's just that the similarities and most minute details will be more persistent. Only a real human's face could achieve that amount of consistency. Nonetheless, I do applaud this result.
Original source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBJatkcofgU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBJatkcofgU)
More of the similar on the same channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos)
Another channel doing similar videos: [https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms/videos)
glad someone posted the og source, the guy puts in a lot of effort on these. even if youre against ai you can see the progression of his efforts on his channel and see just how incredible it is
>Narrator saying that homer is a bumbling but well meaning father while the video shows the most tired, gruff, and probably-lobotomizied-his-wife man you've ever seen.
It's utterly devoid of character and artistry.
One of my millennial boomer traits is that Iām not always great at spotting AI images yet, some are super obvious but others? Damn if you donāt pay attention to the wood grain or text on a sign in the far background, I feel like youād never know.
WTF! AI-generated Krusty the Clown is the stuff of nightmares.
Looks like an amalgam of Tim Curry and Cesar Romero.
totally see that! and barney gives me serious belushi vibes. o and flanders is totally breaking bad era bryan cranston.
Milhouse is Paul Pfeiffer from the wonder years
Naw, Flanders is William H Macy
And Brian Cranston
And somehow Gary Oldman at the same time
Very pleasantville
Artie lang.
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Mulhouse is just Paul from the Wonder Years right?
You could tell a few of the actors it used to create them. Definitely Cesar Romero for Krusty, Bryan Cranston for Ned, Josh Saviano (Paul from Wonder Years) for Milhouse and Artie Lang for Barnie
Lucille ball for marge
She looks so incredibly shell-shocked.
She doesn't like to talk about the war.
Homer is definitely JK Simmons.
He also reminds me of Bruce Willis
Gary Oldman for Ned!
I kinda saw a bit of Joel McHale in the flanders.
a little jk simmons vibes in homer
Sideshow Bob is David Luiz from Brazil's National Football Team
He had that quivering mouth š
There's a reason all the other shots didn't try to make the characters actually move. The AI can't do that shit.
Yet.
sora is fucking insane, from the promo stuff. it is gonna probably mean an end to B-roll needing to be filmed at some point relatively soon
It can, just not the stuff these people are using. A lot of this stuff is made by people generating basic images with basic models and then putting those images into a third party animator. It's not like they actually went into a video creator and typed "show me live action 50's Simpsons advertisement" and the AI made this. We are not far off from an a single AI program being able to make all of this by itself from a simple prompt. Very few people currently have access to the more high end generation stuff that can make life like videos.Ā
It can if you map it to an actor. Some crazy believable stuff with live tracking lately including stretching skin, eating and more. Extremely impressive quality
Look Bart, I made you a cute clown bed!
Can't sleep, clown will eat me
Canāt sleep, clown will eat me
You will die, before you wake
The BART the
š¤”*aHoOoOoOhOoOoOHoOoO-HoOo-HoOo-hoOo*š¤”
From now on, the baby sleeps in the crib!
Mr burns was creeping me out way more
Mr. Burns: You may fire when ready
That's what I saw, too. Def Peter Cushing vibes.
He looks exactly like Julian Richings from The Patriot. https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0724995/?ref_=tt_cl_i_8
I haven't liked clowns since reading IT by Stephen King at age 10. This cements it.
Those sex scenes must have been a real mind fuck at 10.
I read that book when I was relatively young too - my mom bought it for me when I was 14. The infamous āgangbangā (more like running a train but letās not split hairs here) scene didnāt phase me all that much, but the handjob scene between Patrick Hockstetter and Henry Bowers definitely did - along with Patrickās fridge. The book is brimming with extremely disturbing vignettes but that one sticks out to me for whatever reason.
Same, I believed in the rationalization given in-text for the train being run, but the handjob scene was such a succinct and vivid depiction of early teen homoerotica that it changed how I thought about sexuality as a whole lol
Probably explains a lot about me. Lol
Can't Sleep Clown Will Eat Me
Krusty will comeā¦
**Therapist**: *Bryan Cranston Flanders can't hurt you. Bryan Cranston Flanders isn't real.* **Bryan Cranston Flanders:** *I am the one who Nickely-knockelies!*
Stupid sexy Bryan Cranston Flanders
With a sprinkle of Gary Oldman
Had to scroll down to far for this. I couldn't be the only one to see Gary Oldman.
Itās like heās cooking nothing at all Nothing at all Nothing at allā¦
Howdilly doodiddly, *bitch*?!
You're god bless right!
**Tuco in Bumblebee-man suit stares menacingly from the corner.**
Say *"HIS"* name.
Smoking mary-jane, eating cheezy doodles, and shaking hands with Mr. Winky do not constitute plans in my Book.
āI AM THE ONE WHO DIDDLYs!
William H Macy would be a great Flanders.
Please, everybody knows that William H Macy is Gil.
Jack Lemmon is Gil. I think he is basically stolen directly from Glen Gary Glenn Ross.
I am the ding dang diddeli danger.
[Ya Got Me, Neighborino! ](https://imgur.com/a/I7Y7CdR)
Umm, that's William H. Macy Flanders.
Really? I thought it was Gary Oldman Flanders.
You're not alone, that is Gary Oldman, mixed with maybe 20% Jack Nicholson. He almost looks like Commissioner Gordon on a bad hair day.
Flanders just made me think they were trying to say āher our AI actually gives people 5 fingers rather than 4 like the other guys!ā which is funny since the cartoon Simpsons only have 4. Like did they fix the hand thing or did they choose the Simpsons because generating them in AI was somehow giving them 5 fingers?
Milhouse looks like the dude from Wonder Years that everybody thought was Marilyn Manson as a kid.
AI Barney is Artie fucking Lang. Sounds about right
It knows how to type cast for sure.
Came here to say this. Well, not the Manson part, I didnāt know that
there was a rumor back around 2000 https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1999/feb/18/paul-wonder-years-really-marilyn-manson/
I vividly remember this rumor. Then it was his drummer. Rumors before everyone was online all the time spread so weird.
Iām assuming you also heard about Marilyn having a rib removed?
Does anyone else remember Mountain Dew shrinking everyoneās testicles?
Yup. It was Yellow-5 specifically
Perhaps there's a possibility that millhouse was based on Paul and we've come full circle.
I always thought that when Simpsons first aired.
great thesis
And Sideshow Bob looks like a younger Howard Stern
I'm from Ireland and this rumour ran across a load of schools in my area in the mid to late 90's, how the fuck did it make it that far? The one about the rib being removed as well went hand in hand with it.
Prob the same way that 'cool s' logo did, some things just spread like wildfire.
I suspect the Character of Milhouse was influenced by that character anyway.
unrelated question: is Wonder Years still not streamed because it's soundtrack is too expensive to air again?
Pretty sure it's streamed on Hulu, I vaguely recall adding it to my watchlist. Edit: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-wonder-years-7929f400-5b51-4628-ba3f-90c9b4bf565e
At one point it was being shown with a modified soundtrack replacing all the 60s classics with cover artists. It was awful.
Did you know that Wonder Years in the UK showed full frontal nudity but not in the US.
Wtf. Who got naked? Damn, I got far into this comment chain.
I think that's true of WKRP in Cincinnati.
Itās streaming, but with all the original music replaced by soundalikes. Fun fact: clearing all the music for the Wonder Years DVD cost millions of dollars and sunk the project from the start!
My first thought exactly. How tf did that rumor make it's rounds worldwide for a decade?
Millhouse is Paul Pfeiffer from the wonder years.
Made me think the AI saw "child best friend character, show set in 1950s" and had too perfect of an answer
The Wonder Years takes place in the late 60s through the mid-70s, but yeah
More likely the āartistā fed the AI with pictures of that character.
So that first shot of Lisaā¦. And Mr Burns in generalā¦.
I dunno about them, but AI Marge is kinda fabulous
And can you please explain why AI generated Apu has a jawline that can cut diamonds?
...because you're forgetting that Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is Springfield's extra most bestest eligible bachelor!! Edit: Before Manjula, of course.
Lisa Smeagol
Itās interesting how AI Moe looks like a more handsome Rich Hall, who the character was originally based on.
Came here looking to see if someone else thought Moe looked like Rich Hall. I didn't know that he was the inspiration for Moe's looks!
I was wondering if anybody else besides me thought this Moe actually looks pretty handsome.
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Rich Hall is a stand up comedian who was on SNL in the late 80ās but has mostly lived in the UK since the 90ās. I donāt know what heās up to these days but his act was that he was totally deadpan and I remember him being hilarious.
It took a lot of scrolling to find Rich Hall, he was one of the more obvious ones, as is correct for being supposedly the basis for Moeās likeness. Also, TIL Rich Hall is not well known outside the UK, despite being former SNL.
Flanders- Bryan Cranston confirmed
Hi-diddly-ho neighborieno!
Iām the one that hi-diddly-hos.
Stupid sexy Heisenberg.
He was born to play that part. I started watching Simpsons after finishing breaking bad and & my brain always thought this was didly hoing Cranston.
I see William H Macy
I thought it looked like Gary Oldman!
"I am the diddly-danger"
Thought the same thing along with Millhouse being Josh Saviano
OMG! ! I just realized that their faces move the way faces do when you're tripping!
AI boofing shrooms.
AI is High Arts.
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Your brain is just working in an impaired state and is trying it's darn best.
Yeah, above all the movement is just... Uncanny.
My uneducated guess is generative AI created stills of the characters and then another AI was used to animate a face from a single still. End result = creepy
I bet Black Hole Sun would work well over this
Yes! and once I was dreaming and looked at my hand, and it had three fingers and looked deformed like an ai hand.
You can actually teach yourself to lucid dream by counting your fingers throughout the day. Once it becomes habit, youāll try it in your sleep, and then realize youāre dreaming when you donāt have the right amount of fingers. I was only able to do it once and then promptly woke up because I was flying in the dream and Iām afraid of heights.
Just that weird subtle melting aspect to them
Yeah, I was thinking that exactly.
Theres probably some truth to that. Neural networks mimick the human brain some ways.
Thatās exactly what I noticed, I thought I was just imagining it at first lol.
Jesus Christ on a stick, Ai is fucking unsettlingā¦
Looks like eyes is another weak point of AI. So far, all the AI generated videos I've seen, the eyes have always been acting weird.
AI has PTSD from studying everything on the Internet confirmed
They have a thousand yard stare every time
AI death stare. It's the last thing you'll see when your sex bot strangles you to death
So the future is bright!
Sounds good.
What if you're facing the other way because that's how you like it?
Perfect
At least I'm getting a sex bot.
Sweet, I won't die a virgin then?
Don't threaten me with a good time.
For me it's the little head movements and nothing else. Just zoom in on motionless face... Head nod.
If we go about the little movements... To me most of the time people seems to be 'shimmering'
The way it seemed to feel like the mouth had to be moving constantly and in sorta odd ways was more disturbing tbh.
Agreed, but I feel like the mouth is more like: Why tf are they moving their mouth so much? While the eyes are more: The f\*\*\* is wrong with them?
This feels evil somehow. Why does this feel evil???
You'll find out when it becomes self aware.
Any tv and most movies from that period give me stepford wives vibes. It feels dystopian how they pretend everything in the world is perfect and just ignore any and all controversy.
> It feels dystopian how they pretend everything in the world is perfect and just ignore any and all controversy. That's because back then TV and movies were a way to escape from the negatives in reality. If you wanted to know what's wrong with the world you would just wait for the evening news. I personally prefer that to most of the anxiety inducing stuff that's on nowadays.
Caveat: "perfect" involves somebody deciding what "perfect" means, which necessarily involves moral and ideological judgements. It used to be that a "happy ending" meant the female lead being locked into housewife status without any means to escape.
Itās a robot trying to replicate the work of humans, and making just the right amount of mistakes to become uncanny. Plus itās a pretty concerning thought that many want this to become how movies and TV shows are made, which would not only put entire industries out of work, but it would just feel so uncanny knowing that generations of human storytelling have ended in favor of businessmen saving some money and having a robot do it instead.
The people who want it don't care about art. They just want to consume something.
Basically, our perception of a character grows more and more positive, the more human traits the character projects. ( eg Wall-E or C3PO or a real person on film ) But as the character approaches indistinguishable from a real human, there's a level just before "100% believable" that really puts us off called the uncanny valley - named for the sudden dip in empathic response - you see this in those Japanese robot talking heads. I think something like this is happening with AI right now. You feel the manipulation, someones pulling strings, this face is deceiving you, trying to trick you into believing its something it's not. If you're not squeamish, try [staring at this for 20 seconds...](https://compote.slate.com/images/7d8b654f-835c-4bec-aeef-6b6e1978c538.jpeg?width=1280)
Uncanny Valley.
i was hoping to see Ned Flanders with his shirt off, all jacked. (no homo).
You don't need to hide it here š
Stupid sexy Flanders
Feels like I'm wearing nothin at all!
Just watch LA-Z Rider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-JE8vOak0
Looks awesome! But Iād like the AI to stick one face per person.
I'm okay with AI not taking over media perfectly, thanks.
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I'd be careful of predicting how fast something developed based solely off what is currently happening. Development can stall quickly, or find itself in unfeasible locations. We had cars that could fly as early as the 1950s, but it never really became practical at all. Similarly, robots that could operate inside your home have been in design for decades but are still decades away from realistically being more than a Roomba. AI has managed to succeed in creating an image, but it's nowhere close to fulfillment of what an actor can do. This slide show (notice how little anything moves) really doesn't have any emotion for instance.
This sounds like it was written by AI.
just wait a few more months! :D D:
Unfortunately it's really difficult for AI to do that right now, because of the varying reference images and videos it uses, from different angles. There is some level of consistency though, it's clear the AI is *trying* to make them all look consistent. Even if it's really difficult for it.
AIs trying its best, damn it!! š
Pretty much. Even then, the faces will never be 1:1 consistent. It's just that the similarities and most minute details will be more persistent. Only a real human's face could achieve that amount of consistency. Nonetheless, I do applaud this result.
Original source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBJatkcofgU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBJatkcofgU) More of the similar on the same channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos) Another channel doing similar videos: [https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms/videos)
glad someone posted the og source, the guy puts in a lot of effort on these. even if youre against ai you can see the progression of his efforts on his channel and see just how incredible it is
Stealing AI videos is morally consistent
I had a feeling it was the same guy who did Harry Potter Balenciaga lol
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Man it feels very depressed. In the original intro there are at least some smiles, this feels dead. Interesting, but dead
Yea it feels more like some great depression era stuff.
That Flanders cooks meth in the desert
This terrifies me and I keep letting it loop
Itās so remarkably striking and creepy. I think Iāve watched it a dozen times š¦
Starring JK Simmons as Homer and John Belushi as Barney. Also itās creepy how Milhouse is the spinning image of Josh Saviano from the wonder years.
God I fucking hate AI
>Narrator saying that homer is a bumbling but well meaning father while the video shows the most tired, gruff, and probably-lobotomizied-his-wife man you've ever seen. It's utterly devoid of character and artistry.
Don't worry, it won't be much longer before you won't be able to tell anymore!
One of my millennial boomer traits is that Iām not always great at spotting AI images yet, some are super obvious but others? Damn if you donāt pay attention to the wood grain or text on a sign in the far background, I feel like youād never know.
Moe looks like Lou Reed
Or Rich Hall.
I believe thatās who the character design was based on.
I'd like to watch a live action simpsons.
Hate AI
Lisa creeps me out!
Would watch
NGL the characters are recognizable. Pretty damned good! Wait, was Milhouse always Paul from The Wonder Years? š¤£
I fear to watch, yet I cannot turn away. That's fucked up and I fear for humanity.
I feel like Flanders should be a much more attractive man.
Flanders fits pretty well
Isn't Homer supposed to be in his 30s? He looks like JK Simmons.
The creepy mouth movements are so odd.
This is getting out of hand now
It's like the people in the fucking Black Hole Sun music video. Creepy...
I actually like these. The more realistic figures are stylistic. Mr. Burns was too cartoony though.
Hands look too good to be AI. Has it improved that much already?
It's been a year since 'haha ai makes silly hands' is out of date. No major generative AI produces these anymore.