Bad AI Ads (ft. Gabi Belle)

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @kirkhodges1946
    @kirkhodges1946 Месяц назад +2459

    I work in advertising (storyboard artist) we try to gently warn these advertisers that this stuff looks off, but they're just so pysched about saving money (and having more control). You should see the stuff we see on our end.

    • @kirbybie
      @kirbybie Месяц назад +340

      do they ever consider how much people hate ai? do they just not see it in their bubble or not believe most people hate it or don’t care cause money?

    • @ArturGlass.C
      @ArturGlass.C Месяц назад +168

      Yeh if this is what ends up getting approved, you have to wonder what the shit that gets rejected looks like.

    • @moth.monster
      @moth.monster Месяц назад +283

      ​@@kirbybieThey're out of touch and don't care. They won't care until they start losing money because everyone's tired of stupid gimmicks.

    • @eldritchzora
      @eldritchzora Месяц назад +81

      @@kirbybie Selling ads is really more about selling the real estate that the ad is on, like a billboard for example. It doesn't really matter what the ad is as long as the company commissioning the ad likes it. And sadly that has a lot to do with dollars and cents I think, so creative people like our OP here are shoved to the wayside. It sucks!

    • @theworldmushroom2581
      @theworldmushroom2581 Месяц назад

      I'd pull all my hair out in that job so hard

  • @emolgana
    @emolgana Месяц назад +3649

    there is something so foul about toys r us making an AI-generated ad. it makes sense for the tech bro companies, but for something that is supposed to be so full of joy and whimsy being replayed with soulless GARBAGE is so sad

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 Месяц назад +65

      The audacity

    • @Tiny_Koi
      @Tiny_Koi Месяц назад +107

      Most companies shareholders are tech bros these days

    • @chungawumba2637
      @chungawumba2637 Месяц назад +56

      right, because there is nothing souless about a giant corporation that preys on the attention of kids, right?

    • @peachy_lili
      @peachy_lili Месяц назад +141

      I thought Toys R Us went under. is this another example of a zombified company that has been dead for a while, but we all forgot and now it's being puppeted around by ghouls and profiting off nostalgia and expectations? like EA and Maxis?

    • @ryan7032
      @ryan7032 Месяц назад +58

      Have you seen the recent Toys R Us store locations? They're all sad and beige and in a lot of them you just order toys off a screen 😢

  • @Myr642
    @Myr642 Месяц назад +721

    Toys R Us putting out atrocious AI ads feels like seeing the zombified corpse of your childhood best friend during the zombie apocalypse

    • @NFSBeast2365
      @NFSBeast2365 Месяц назад +3

      😬

    • @strawzulusansundertalehorr7624
      @strawzulusansundertalehorr7624 Месяц назад

      Because it is. TOYS R US went under years ago. They have no physical stores, operate entirely online, bought out, being used by greedy managers.

    • @_deadFish
      @_deadFish Месяц назад +25

      It's especially ironic since the founder is dead and his name is "Charles Lazarus."

    • @z-meister6366
      @z-meister6366 Месяц назад +3

      Oooh you're right!
      ​@_deadFish

  • @kitterbug
    @kitterbug Месяц назад +982

    the toys r us bit is so disgraceful to charles's legacy. it doesn't help that the current toys r us is not the original company. just some bastards who bought the IP after the og went bankrupt.

    • @nihilisticpancake308
      @nihilisticpancake308 Месяц назад +77

      Oh! I always wondered why my local Toys ended up not fully closing but opened again.

    • @heyimneverland8451
      @heyimneverland8451 Месяц назад +12

      @@nihilisticpancake308Me too I was so confused

    • @jamesbezecny7745
      @jamesbezecny7745 Месяц назад +65

      Digital necromancy on top of corporate necromancy. In a way it's almost fitting.

    • @HopeIsADrug11037
      @HopeIsADrug11037 Месяц назад +6

      oh i thought they did!!

    • @PedroBenolielBonito
      @PedroBenolielBonito Месяц назад +26

      Oh, so THAT's how come it's still around. I saw their shops all close a couple of years ago during or just before the pandemic, and was really confused about how some locations still had them.

  • @lemin0u
    @lemin0u Месяц назад +2454

    AI ads are just such a slap in the consumers' faces, companies are basically admitting that you aren't worth the money for actual ads

    • @perfectheart7010
      @perfectheart7010 Месяц назад +125

      So _that's_ why it feels so insulting. It's like they'd think we'd fall for these as replacement for actual ads (as annoying as they were beforehand)

    • @goldensloth7
      @goldensloth7 Месяц назад +10

      odd take. of course they'll cheap out if they can, like literally everyone else.

    • @goldensloth7
      @goldensloth7 Месяц назад +35

      ads are already a slap in the face. adblock, people. (sorry gabi and pinely).

    • @sabiha.sayeed
      @sabiha.sayeed Месяц назад +29

      I've been reading Carmilla (set in late 19th century), and in one of the scenes a travelling peddler carries a fiddle and sings an advertisement boasting of his skills and credibility and listing the services he provides. From well-constructed fiddle songs that showed personality (because how can art not be self-expression, quite literally in this case) to generative AI. You're right, there is absolutely no effort, and it is insulting. Ads are annoying, but I will stop to watch a creative ad.🎉

    • @OneMansHeretic
      @OneMansHeretic Месяц назад +1

      If you are kind and/or naive enough to be "slapped in the face" by a corporation, that's your fault.

  • @oddlem
    @oddlem Месяц назад +483

    it's insane how posters have basically turned into those filler props in games you're not supposed to pay close attention to

    • @JaxontheOkay
      @JaxontheOkay Месяц назад +49

      that's the most baffling thing to me. often the ai is so distracting or basic that it's lost on me what i'm even being sold. it defeats the whole purpose of being advertised at

  • @noizyme
    @noizyme Месяц назад +652

    Growing up my mom used to mute every commercial break with her remote. Now that I'm older, I completely understand why adblockers exist.

    • @randomtinypotatocried
      @randomtinypotatocried Месяц назад +7

      Same with my parents

    • @DARKredDOLLAR
      @DARKredDOLLAR Месяц назад +30

      Hah, we used to switch channels during each commercial break. And the breaks were pretty short actually.
      Later local channels added a timer in the corner so you'd know how long the break is gonna be, but they also got longer.
      Then they got even longer and the timer is gone. Suffice to say, we don't watch television anymore. The antenna isn't even plugged in.

    • @Jartran72
      @Jartran72 Месяц назад +4

      TV can go to hell. I am sure that within the next two generations dying off it will have disappeared. It might be replaced by watching other mediums on the same devices like streaming services but convetional TV with one linear program and a Tsunami of ad breaks that kills all enjoyment.. that will be gone.

    • @Shroomflies
      @Shroomflies Месяц назад +2

      My mom did the same thing! Completely understand now

    • @ameliaduncan3236
      @ameliaduncan3236 Месяц назад +1

      @@Jartran72 The only way TV will survive, is if they completely restructure their ad times.

  • @pixelhotdish
    @pixelhotdish Месяц назад +596

    Gabbi asked why these companies are using AI for shots that are super easy to get otherwise. Upper management is obssessed with AI right now, and will push it at every opportunity. My team and I presented a video we made for a potential client to our leadership, and the feedback they had for us was to basically avoid using stock footage, even if it perfectly fits what we need, and to implement more AI into our workflow to speed up the process. Thats it. Do it faster, dont license stock footage when we can just use AI to generate some haldf assed looking stuff because then it gives off the feeling we are on the cutting edge of tech... or something. Its fucking frustrating.

    • @oddlem
      @oddlem Месяц назад +129

      what's wild to me is that it doesn't even seem THAT much faster. you'd still have to sort through AI garbage and make sure it's consistent, so might as well just use stock photos. it's SUPER annoying how every single company is obsessed with AI, sometimes it's a really old feature rebranded as "AI" and they don't even notice. it's so dumb lol, it's all just buzzwords and not actual comprehension on their part

    • @pixelhotdish
      @pixelhotdish Месяц назад

      @@oddlem Perfectly said. Its also odd because some of the shots we included were the typical "low angle shot looking up at two white collar looking guys wearing hard hats holding tablets pointing to something off screen", and we animate some green energy data on screen, and have some AI voice over (company refuses to pay a voice actor, of course) talking about how... "amazing the company is" or whatever... and leadership points to the footage and says "can we use AI to rework this shot?" Mother fucker... You want us to take a shot where we already have branded hard hats on two actors we have already paid, and replace it with an AI shot... what are we going to replace this with? The shot is done, it has everything marketing told us to add... we are now just wasting so much time replacing shots with AI garbage. Holy fuck I am frustrated. lol. Sorry for the rant.

    • @ruthie8785
      @ruthie8785 Месяц назад

      @@oddlemfucking EXACTLY like what are they talking about? Oh yeah get one weird image that looks like a nightmare every 5 minutes, so much faster than looking through stock footage.

    • @ryanwillingham
      @ryanwillingham Месяц назад +99

      "insert more ai into your workflow to speed up the process" you mean... slow down your workflow for a worse result?? cause that's all i've seen ai do

    • @shiguriyamamo6730
      @shiguriyamamo6730 Месяц назад +59

      That's unfortunately late stage capitalism for ya.
      Everything for profits, ignoring mortality and individualism.
      And there's literally nothing the common person can do about it since there are so many people that just Blindly buy into whatever they see in front of them

  • @civilsky4261
    @civilsky4261 Месяц назад +326

    i saw an ad for a mobile game called zen word yesterday
    ai person talking about how she was diagnosed with alzheimers the year before and was cured by zen word
    its absolutely ghoulish, even by advertising standards

    • @floweyseed
      @floweyseed Месяц назад +35

      I’ve seen this one too, it’s awful. It’s a new low. Though to be fair, my standards for mobile game ads were low to begin with.

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 Месяц назад +4

      @@civilsky4261 WTF

    • @whyisthomyorke
      @whyisthomyorke Месяц назад +8

      Oh hell no that needs to be shut down

    • @rabbadoodles4522
      @rabbadoodles4522 27 дней назад +10

      I got that ad too. And I was like "How can Zen Word improve Alzheimers when brain cells are literally dieing

    • @AShatteredDragonsSpirit
      @AShatteredDragonsSpirit 10 дней назад +4

      I've seen many from Zen Word, and another app about mahjong using the same script. It starts with a picture of a woman, then an AI voice introducing herself as older than she appears (generally claiming 50). It then goes on to say the app will "cure Alzheimer's", and "even make you look younger". The gameplay previews (which probably aren't even real previews) are full of spelling errors too. Kind of insane, but I've blocked it out by now.

  • @hazey_dazey
    @hazey_dazey Месяц назад +758

    I work at a home decor store and was jumpscared by an ai "painting" of flowers in a vase. It jumped out at me immediately and when i looked closer there were freaky petal placements. Just made me respect my workplace even less

    • @rizgriz3956
      @rizgriz3956 Месяц назад +26

      Hobby Lobby or Michael's?

    • @Lightning_bugs
      @Lightning_bugs Месяц назад

      @@rizgriz3956I’d bet a whole lot on hobby lobby

    • @Emmycron
      @Emmycron Месяц назад +55

      saw a generic AI cyberpunk car "painting" with the classic garbled Faux-Japanese text in The Range one time 💀

    • @RadeonVega64
      @RadeonVega64 Месяц назад +18

      ai flower painting jumpscare

    • @Karlstonjones47
      @Karlstonjones47 Месяц назад +13

      In my schools activity room, they just have Ai generated images of video game stuff on canvases.

  • @MochaMage
    @MochaMage Месяц назад +383

    AI ads immediately make me distrust the company. There's this RV place in my town that very clearly has been using that AI Disney-esque style in their billboards, and it makes me think. If they're willing to cut corners on something as simple as paying an artist, or hell even just buying stock images, then I dont even want to know how theyre cutting corners on their RV's or the maintenance and upkeep they do on them

    • @Scinadier
      @Scinadier Месяц назад +26

      Exactly this; I agree with this sentiment.

    • @molly.matilda
      @molly.matilda Месяц назад +3

      this is a very good point!

    • @Thiswhat22
      @Thiswhat22 Месяц назад +1

      Where is this RV place?

  • @bluetiger2468
    @bluetiger2468 Месяц назад +1054

    It's a great advertisement when you have to use a fake child to play with the toys you are trying to advertise. I know they did it because it's cheaper, but I like to believe their toys are so terrible, they couldn't find a real child to smile and play with the toys.

    • @themindfulmelodiesclub4603
      @themindfulmelodiesclub4603 Месяц назад +5

      😊

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 Месяц назад +4

      Damm

    • @rainebows
      @rainebows Месяц назад +16

      help ik this is supposed to be like a sick burn, but toys r us is just a retailer for toys created by mattel and hasbro and disney and all that 😭😭

    • @artyb27
      @artyb27 Месяц назад +13

      Doesn't really make any sense given Toys R Us are just a retailer. They seem to have been hit pretty hard by the "death of the high street" so this is almost certainly just a financial decision - not that it's an excuse.

    • @evansblackparade
      @evansblackparade Месяц назад

      this is so funny thank you

  • @gamerliliturra7434
    @gamerliliturra7434 Месяц назад +394

    Hey look at all those human actors, directors, editors, and crew they didn't have to pay! The savings!....That's gross and I'm going to make a list of all the companies using ai ads so I can skip buying from them.

    • @lrgogo1517
      @lrgogo1517 Месяц назад +1

      Good luck with that /s

    • @Mrhellslayerz
      @Mrhellslayerz 25 дней назад +5

      Share the list with the rest of us on the internet. I would love to see a massive blacklist of companies doing this crap.

  • @_ikako_
    @_ikako_ Месяц назад +115

    i hate the paranoia AI has induced in all of us. the fact that we have to apply such a high level of scrutiny to anything and everything to try and detect if it's AI or not is fucking horrific. i would just like to consume human made art but every time something seems even slightly off i have to get a goddamn magnifying glass out and analyse every frame to spot if something seems off. you're forced to suspect everything of being AI and i hate it

    • @abc.6223
      @abc.6223 Месяц назад +11

      This, exactly yeah, and as if existing in modern day isn't anxiety inducing enough as it is...

    • @mrziiz6893
      @mrziiz6893 Месяц назад +7

      The fae are back the fae are back the fae are back the fae are back the fae are back the fa

    • @warmoaran3
      @warmoaran3 Месяц назад +1

      and if you make art or are an beginner photographer (like me) you just question yourself, can you really beat the ai?

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ Месяц назад +11

      @@warmoaran3 as someone who's done photography for 10+ years and been to uni multiple times (I dropped out both times cos of mental health it just sounds more impressive) for photography, yes you absolutely can beat the ai. AI is good at the most generic, boring bing wallpaper photography and even then it's terrible. If you have even the slightest creative styling in your shot composition and editing (which every human photographer does have subconsciously), you will be miles ahead of ai

    • @zoekix
      @zoekix 10 часов назад +1

      A - Anxiety
      I - inducing

  • @vrapbrap
    @vrapbrap Месяц назад +122

    That Trivago thing made 19 people not have a gig. The corporate dream. The reaching for unlimited profits and infinite growth truly has no limits. The ambition their rotted corpo husks have makes Icarus look like a chump.

  • @pixeljurnee
    @pixeljurnee Месяц назад +209

    I recently saw an AI generated ad for an AI program that animates still photos. One of the women grew a 3rd arm in the middle of the AI generated hug. You'd think at least an AI company wouldn't screw up the AI generation for their own commercial 😅

    • @PaulMDavidson
      @PaulMDavidson 22 дня назад +2

      Maybe it's like how email phishers use bad spelling and grammar. They only want stupid people to fall for their pitch. Similarly, those AI companies don't want people with discerning tastes and high standards to use their product, because they'd never be satisfied.

  • @datboilou
    @datboilou Месяц назад +502

    as someone who knows very little about video editing, it's scary to notice video editing tricks used to make the AI look more real like skin smoothing and glow around the head and eyes
    edit for clarity: I'm not trying to say that video editing tricks were intentionally used, but that the AI incorporates those factors in such a way that makes it harder to notice that it's AI and not just digitally altered

    • @GuyGamer1
      @GuyGamer1 Месяц назад +64

      One of the complaints about AI images is that they generally look *too* smooth and "glowy". Those likely aren't video editing tricks.
      Getting natural looking images that don't look overly polished and professional is the difficult part, because it's been fed a bunch of professional / stock photos and videos.

    • @seaofmadness420
      @seaofmadness420 Месяц назад +22

      lighting, composition, and colour theory are the backbone of real artists’ careers, yet ai can’t possibly understand the significance or importance of them. if it uses these concepts then its by accident and not in a consistent manner.

    • @datboilou
      @datboilou Месяц назад +7

      I wasn't trying to imply that the AI uses actual editing tricks (I see the wording issue though) just that it uses elements that we're used to dismissing as digital to hide things it struggles with, like edges and color inconsistency. the human eye is more likely to accept AI art because we're so used to digitally altered art being the norm. it's like people not realizing when artists on TikTok use serious pitch correction because we're all used to some amount of pitch correction in music

    • @the-postal-dude
      @the-postal-dude Месяц назад

      that's just the ai, that's not video editing

  • @0live0llie
    @0live0llie Месяц назад +78

    this feels genuinely so dystopian. and as an artist its been so demotivating.

  • @goob4145
    @goob4145 Месяц назад +117

    The Statue of David walks into a bar. The bartender says “oh my god how did you do that”

    • @alexv3372
      @alexv3372 Месяц назад +9

      @@goob4145 the woman was too stunned to speak

    • @juanramiro2290
      @juanramiro2290 16 дней назад +1

      The statue, then, answered: "They animated my walk with AI, help"

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 Месяц назад +648

    I remember showing my mother the Toys R Us ad a few weeks before she passed away and she was actually offended as she was an artist

    • @kirbybie
      @kirbybie Месяц назад +96

      sorry to hear hope you and your family are holding up well buddy

    • @patrickracer43
      @patrickracer43 Месяц назад +69

      @@kirbybie she passed away in August of this year, I'm holding up

    • @sigasaurusrex
      @sigasaurusrex Месяц назад +28

      and i mean this so much love... im so glad she wont have to keep seeing this. sorry for your loss though 💛

    • @patrickracer43
      @patrickracer43 Месяц назад +30

      @@sigasaurusrex thank you, I just wish she never saw that slop to begin with

    • @firdabd_2170
      @firdabd_2170 Месяц назад +8

      You should avenge

  • @bishielurfer
    @bishielurfer Месяц назад +178

    If you're curious, James Welsh did a video in which he discussed the company that makes the ads where the people are dubbed over with AI.
    The more unsettling thing is there have been cases of these ads using influencers without permission or their knowledge.

    • @zerodollarbird
      @zerodollarbird Месяц назад +16

      There's AI ads using Joe Rogan and Mr. Beast on RUclips all the time.

    • @wildmooseking
      @wildmooseking Месяц назад

      I was going to mention the joe rogan youtube ads​@@zerodollarbird

    • @mrziiz6893
      @mrziiz6893 Месяц назад +1

      @@zerodollarbirdSame with Biden and trump

  • @lydiagalantmotherf
    @lydiagalantmotherf Месяц назад +363

    I used to be excited about the development of AI, expecting something like KITT, or WALL-E. Instead, we get REALLY bad summaries of stuff with lies in them, people getting butt hurt that they're still not on the level of people who have learned how to make art for years, and crap ads that just creep you out. But at least I know now that Toys R Us is alive. I wish it wasn't, though.

    • @gamerliliturra7434
      @gamerliliturra7434 Месяц назад +56

      That's not alive, that's undead

    • @randomtinypotatocried
      @randomtinypotatocried Месяц назад +27

      Toys R US isn't doing so hot here in Canada. Also, same on the use to be excited about the development of AI, but over time it was just used to replace people like me and make dealing with customer service even more of a hassle

    • @artyb27
      @artyb27 Месяц назад

      At least GitHub Copilot slaps. That's generative AI's only saving grace for me at the moment.

    • @klenstdp1737
      @klenstdp1737 Месяц назад +14

      It’s more undead, the IP was bought after the original closed down

    • @Milesprowerboy5
      @Milesprowerboy5 Месяц назад

      WHP Global bought toys r us

  • @Maria_745
    @Maria_745 Месяц назад +195

    23:25 I'm signed up for user testing/surveys/etc and one I get asked to do all the time is "upload 100 selfies" with no other explanation lol like I'm pretty sure it's to make AI people for advertising and the pay is FORTY DOLLARS

    • @whowhy7554
      @whowhy7554 Месяц назад +48

      That's scary imagine seeing yourself in a random ad😭

    • @lemin0u
      @lemin0u Месяц назад +22

      @@Maria_745 that seems illegal

    • @Maria_745
      @Maria_745 Месяц назад +29

      @@lemin0u i didn't go through with it obviously but you usually sign your rights to the images away and allow the company to do whatever they want with them for something like this

    • @sadmermaid
      @sadmermaid Месяц назад +13

      It's 100% for training AI software

    • @ww3196
      @ww3196 Месяц назад +12

      I mean... hypothetically, you could take the selfies, glaze them, then upload them...... just food for thought.

  • @mythcat1273
    @mythcat1273 Месяц назад +178

    Charles Lazarus did NOT die for an ai generated toys r us ad

    • @saffron584
      @saffron584 27 дней назад +2

      Absolutely nothing to do with this comment but is that vampire jerma as your pfp

    • @mythcat1273
      @mythcat1273 27 дней назад +2

      @saffron584 yeah and it's staying that way until he does the jercula stream

  • @The_VHS
    @The_VHS Месяц назад +369

    21:01 Dear god no that is not SnoopDog that is EavesdroppingPuppy.

    • @plumbum8284
      @plumbum8284 Месяц назад +98

      Girl we already been knowing how to draw
      Eavesdropping Puppy
      Huh?

    • @lydiaaman3116
      @lydiaaman3116 Месяц назад +57

      For some reason I thought of beatboxingpuppy

    • @crazyluigi6664
      @crazyluigi6664 Месяц назад +3

      Snoop Lion (a.k.a., Snoop Lyin') is back with a vengeance...

    • @rx500android
      @rx500android Месяц назад +5

      Beatboxing puppy!

  • @LoFiAxolotl
    @LoFiAxolotl Месяц назад +387

    Hello from Berlin.... There's no such thing as "the Berlin Market" Berlin is about the size of NYC... we have around 700 markets none of them look like that as far as i know

    • @l0rf
      @l0rf Месяц назад +56

      I also don't think we'd call it market instead of Marktplatz.

    • @kitkatkk2
      @kitkatkk2 Месяц назад +19

      @@l0rf I'd assume that a city in Germany would write in German

    • @Caldella
      @Caldella Месяц назад +47

      There is a town called Berlin in New Jersey, USA that has a "Berlin Farmers Market." The letters on top of its building look similar to what's in this ad, just a different color and above the roof instead of on the facade. I wonder if it was based off that instead? Extra funny if they literally used the wrong Berlin as inspiration.

    • @l0rf
      @l0rf Месяц назад +4

      @kitkatkk2543 we do a lot of anglicised names, if I'm being honest.

    • @chrisball3778
      @chrisball3778 Месяц назад +1

      Berlin's the biggest city in the EU, but it's tiny compared to NYC. Less than 4 million inhabitants compared to over 20 million. London's also much bigger than Berlin, with 8-14 million inhabitants, depending on how many suburbs you include, but it's no longer in the EU, obviously.

  • @Varinating
    @Varinating Месяц назад +227

    The AI translated ads where they save money on not hiring native speakers is so slimy to me. A foreign company comes to the country, then refuses to pay for even just a single actor from that country. In some languages acting jobs are exceedingly difficult to come by.

    • @galaxyocicat5660
      @galaxyocicat5660 Месяц назад +29

      That's what I thinking. Now foreign companies will not pay native speakers despite trying to advertise to the same people. despicable.

    • @GizzyDillespee
      @GizzyDillespee Месяц назад +5

      The entire voice acting "industry" is about to get way more competitive.

    • @ww3196
      @ww3196 Месяц назад +1

      For real, ugh!

    • @mrziiz6893
      @mrziiz6893 Месяц назад

      Also not using a native actor means that now every ad is done by a white guy, possibly damaging the progress of inclusivity in the film and video industry that has been made. Why hire a person of color now when we can use ai? A perfect excuse for a bigoted ceo that was previously forced to at least have a diversity hire at the bare minimum.

    • @SoloAnima1
      @SoloAnima1 Месяц назад

      To be honest, in the case of anime, it’s different as the majority of translators are competitive on who can do the funniest translation, this also means inaccurate ones as well

  • @ivorminecraftstorymode
    @ivorminecraftstorymode Месяц назад +511

    i seriously don't think the founder of Toys R Us would want this, at all.

    • @h.r.9563
      @h.r.9563 Месяц назад +37

      And I don't think my dad, the inventor of toaster strudel, will take too kindly on this

    • @maxbracegirdle9990
      @maxbracegirdle9990 Месяц назад +24

      And I don't think Pinely, or Gabi, would approve of these ads either, though I can't be sure...

    • @cinnamonsparrowdesigns
      @cinnamonsparrowdesigns Месяц назад +2

      @@h.r.9563 lmao I say this all the time about stuff too haha

    • @LoserNamedLiam
      @LoserNamedLiam Месяц назад

      Unus anus pfp? In this economy?

  • @brormand_spyt
    @brormand_spyt Месяц назад +166

    yeah the danish version with the AI mouth man looked strange as hell. like he very clearly doesn't open his mouth enough to let out sound

  • @kris_the_shark_lover
    @kris_the_shark_lover Месяц назад +133

    One political party from my country used ai for posters, they were little bit racist

    • @cyndrift
      @cyndrift Месяц назад +83

      ai has a real racism problem; its kinda like a young child in that it absorbs information (a lot of implicit or explicit racism in our societies) but has not developed any sort of media literacy or filter for moral acceptability, and so tends to say the quiet part out loud.

    • @Just_Anzio
      @Just_Anzio Месяц назад +1

      I think I know that country
      Or maybe I'm wrong...

    • @cerebreuxs
      @cerebreuxs Месяц назад +18

      Mexico did the same, but it wasn't racist - just had a lot of colorful stuff, like if you had typed "drawing of a group of people cheering and celebrating unity and freedom"
      thank god they went through the cute drawing way and not the horrific real life human route

    • @havendasilli
      @havendasilli Месяц назад

      lmao AI has already been trying to be used as political propaganda and it's so disgusting a celebrity had to tell everyone she didn't endorse it

    • @theskydeity
      @theskydeity Месяц назад +11

      the czech republic mentioned! (unfortunately) those ads were so bad 😭

  • @sonia625
    @sonia625 Месяц назад +87

    I think in the case of the last one, where they show the ads that pretend to be tiktoks, I think those are faces of real people stolen from tiktok. I remember seeing a girl on tiktok talk about how her face was used to AI-generate an ad for boner pills. Gross

  • @abbeyurban7733
    @abbeyurban7733 Месяц назад +127

    is it possible, especially with some of the bigger brands, that the AI is so bad almost on purpose? an outrage marketing tactic, they are spending way less money, yet getting double the reach because everyone is taking pictures of it, sharing it, and commenting on it. It just feels so unbelievable to put out something so bad on purpose.

    • @sonia625
      @sonia625 Месяц назад +8

      true, I didn’t think about that

    • @ArturGlass.C
      @ArturGlass.C Месяц назад +55

      It's definetely possible but some people are also very delulu about ai, especially if they have whatever the equivalent of rose color glasses but for money is.

    • @lssmble
      @lssmble Месяц назад +22

      That's honestly still a bad strategy while it can make exposure, it could lead to Boycotts

    • @CoolMagmar
      @CoolMagmar Месяц назад +5

      I would agree with you if we didn't from time and time again seeing that this is just higher ups making bad investments and trying to prove they didn't waste company money on an obvious scam

    • @mrziiz6893
      @mrziiz6893 Месяц назад +3

      @@ArturGlass.Cgold colored glasses idk

  • @HumbleAshe
    @HumbleAshe Месяц назад +139

    The Pinely drawing sketches are making a comeback! (Vastly *superior* to the AI voiceover/edited ads!)

  • @OrgaNik_Music
    @OrgaNik_Music Месяц назад +58

    Oh cool, I didn't know I could hate advertising even more than I already did

  • @elle5509
    @elle5509 Месяц назад +66

    gabi's toys r us feelings are so real tbh. i mostly associate it with staring longingly at barbies trying to get my mom to acknowledge it bc i knew if i asked outright to get something i would be told no

  • @bleuumscarlett7977
    @bleuumscarlett7977 Месяц назад +109

    French canadian here, hard to tell with just half a sentence, but he looks so expressionless it's not very selling tbh. We're also very used to badly dubbed ads LOL like badly dubbed as in the voice doesn't fit the person, or there are weird pauses and intonations, just because they need to fit the text to how long the original speaks, so i guess this was better in that department, at least in the little snippet

  • @KT-Kaboom
    @KT-Kaboom Месяц назад +42

    1:26 It's even funnier when you buy it from Redd he says his usual line "Admiring the detail? It's very... detailed." 👀

  • @Joe90h
    @Joe90h Месяц назад +44

    I remember immediately knowing that Etoro advert was AI has soon as I saw Jurgen (I think that's his name) the redhead guy. No human looks like that... and the transition from the previous guy gave the game away.
    But yes, nothing says 'trustworthy team of investors that definitely exist' more than some faked images.

  • @jjuIiana
    @jjuIiana Месяц назад +18

    I even saw a restaurant online using ai to show their food , like that has to be illegal? 😭

  • @somstan
    @somstan Месяц назад +60

    I wish companies would realize that if you put more effort into your ads, you’re more likely to get people to buy. Why would I want to purchase anything from someone with AI slop for advertising?

  • @whowhy7554
    @whowhy7554 Месяц назад +29

    23:07 for these tiktok ads they're really creepy and deceptive because they essentially just take a random popular creators vid and put it into AI to make it seem like they're promoting this product when the creator has no idea about it at all. It's so gross and it's also happened with real licensed doctors.

    • @warmoaran3
      @warmoaran3 Месяц назад +6

      feels illegal too.

    • @whowhy7554
      @whowhy7554 Месяц назад +1

      @warmoaran3 pretty sure it is cause yoyr taking someone who people trust and putting their face over an advertisement of a product they don't even know about😭

  • @nosleeptilsunday
    @nosleeptilsunday Месяц назад +17

    I see an AI ad and I automatically assume whatever company made it doesn't offer anything good enough to actually make money, since they obviously can't (or won't bother to) pay for one.

    • @warmoaran3
      @warmoaran3 Месяц назад +2

      or that theyre incredibly cheap and arent worth anything. because if they didnt bother paying real people to make the ad, what chance is there that they have quality standards??

  • @AwsomenessRain
    @AwsomenessRain Месяц назад +31

    as someone who’s used to god awfully dubbed Vanish ads, i wonder why they put in all this effort when just badly dubbing seems to have been working fine for all these years. also i forsee them using AI to make somehow even worse dubbed ads

    • @themischief420
      @themischief420 Месяц назад +1

      tbf they were dubbed because they were in a different language, the AI vids are just..... they're not even saying anything

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz Месяц назад +33

    I find the most depre ssing thing is you'd think AI would be used to do something just impossible with human actors or CGI, yet it's just replacing adverts that a just a person with a prop and a graphic behind them. The lack of creativity is so fitting.

  • @datboilou
    @datboilou Месяц назад +539

    this video is clearly AI generated

    • @briankaslewicz6130
      @briankaslewicz6130 Месяц назад +27

      Evil AI-nely

    • @axelo255
      @axelo255 Месяц назад +12

      no its clearly pine generated

    • @perfectheart7010
      @perfectheart7010 Месяц назад +6

      P-AI-nly

    • @LordmonkeyTRM
      @LordmonkeyTRM Месяц назад +3

      The AI did Gabi dirty with that zit

    • @datboilou
      @datboilou Месяц назад +7

      @@LordmonkeyTRM it's going for realism so we don't realize it's AI

  • @ZeepAtomic
    @ZeepAtomic Месяц назад +33

    I'll never understand why companies think that literal slop that came out of the rear end of a robot is better than real graphic design done by humans.

    • @lucymorrison
      @lucymorrison Месяц назад +4

      because muh buzzwords and muh workfluh autuhmatiuhn. god capitalism pisses me off so much

    • @elenahaya1195
      @elenahaya1195 Месяц назад +7

      Well,It may be soulless and ugly,but It's cheap!
      Who cares about art and talent when you can make a bunch of Washingtons?!
      Aaaaaah,corporative greed,my "favourite"!

    • @Thunderbolt18367
      @Thunderbolt18367 25 дней назад

      1. Money
      2. They’re nut jobs
      3. They somehow think having less people in the workforce is better
      4. They’re money-hungry corporate hacks and nut jobs that think having less people in the workforce is somehow better for the collapsing economy

  • @MouetteRoquefort
    @MouetteRoquefort Месяц назад +32

    as a french people i see the trivago ad at tv and i get no clue it was ai

  • @NoFuqinIdea
    @NoFuqinIdea Месяц назад +16

    I never thought it was possible but AI actually made ads feel even more dehumanizing somehow.

  • @SeanEP666
    @SeanEP666 Месяц назад +15

    that ai standup is a funeral for comedy

  • @shamalow1819
    @shamalow1819 Месяц назад +13

    At a mall close to my place there's a cotton candy vending machine that is completely covered in ai slop, one of the thing on it has 4 eyes

  • @LunarEleven
    @LunarEleven Месяц назад +56

    Pinely's backdrop is CLEARLY created with AI

    • @carultch
      @carultch Месяц назад +1

      It looks to me like it was hand drawn on a used pizza box.

    • @LunarEleven
      @LunarEleven Месяц назад +1

      ​​​@@carultch oh yeah well where's the grease? That's how you detect this high level of deception... no GREASE! Classic giveaway of AI 🤓
      Seriously that's definitely not a pizza box, wrong type of cardboard, wrong shape, why are there flaps on opposite sides 😂 It's just a box something flat came in. Or it would be, if it were real! Man you don't know AI OR pizza, smh

    • @jvgreendarmok
      @jvgreendarmok Месяц назад

      The same AI that generated The Bull and the Crystal. Well, hot damn!

  • @gspoiler
    @gspoiler Месяц назад +8

    The reason snoop is featured on so many songs and albums, is that it's "relatively easy" to hire him for a feature. It's like 50-60k to hire him for a couple of hours he come in does his bars and then is out. And then he'll often vary the price on depending on how much he likes you. Its a little extra dystopian when the AI claims to be "the original"

  • @sienihemmo
    @sienihemmo Месяц назад +8

    I would be so terrified of having my likeness and voice free for anyone to use as they wish. Like bruh, I bet there's barely any safeguards against making them say some heinous shit, and I bet there's no pulling out after you've signed away the rights to that stuff for the company that can then change owners or anything.

  • @quinnperry3197
    @quinnperry3197 Месяц назад +7

    Recording a guy standing there and then editing on moving lips is literally what they did for the movie Baby Geniuses in 1999. The difference is that in Baby Geniuses it was CGI, whereas for this it's AI, which I guess it more efficient but even with the 25 years of tech progress it looks just as uncanny now as it did then.

  • @chrisball3778
    @chrisball3778 Месяц назад +5

    That London Underground ad has really got me overthinking it. 'It's good to be the king' is a catchphrase in the Mel Brooks movie 'History of the World, Part 1', that is repeatedly spouted by Brooks himself in character as Louis VI every time he does something outrageous. It's advertising cheap travel from London to the city of Tours, which was formerly a royal capital of the Valois dynasty. I don't think the poster's supposed to represent the late Queen Elizabeth II. It's trying to say that any random woman off the street can feel like she's ancient royalty by visiting this wonderful historic city. Basically, the human generated idea behind the ad is sound, if a little too reliant on being familiar with the history of France and an old comedy movie that hasn't aged too well. If they'd just got an artist to make a picture of an everywoman feeling like royalty in Tours, it would have been an OK (if forgettable) ad that would have got a few people googling those cheap flights. But they decided to pinch pennies and got AI to do it. The AI made the woman look a bit like Queen Elizabeth because she's what comes up most when it searches for reference images labelled 'the Queen'. Then it made a really disgusting gloopy image of her with mutant fingers, wearing a stupid Game of Thrones villain crown, riding a confusing bicycle in front of a generic, Disney style French chateau. The AI has single-handedly turned an OK idea for an ad into, surreal, incomprehensible gibberish. Because it's not actually intelligent, it just recycles visual elements based on the tags applied to them by its programmers.
    Also 15:30 is just David Pakman playing a teenage tearaway in a 1980's High School movie.

  • @filip_reznicek
    @filip_reznicek Месяц назад +29

    The line between ADS and SCAMS is ever closer thanks to AI... "Deepfakes are unethical! But they are so cheap!" says the out-of-touch head of marketing and laughs with his boss in his office in the delulu tower.

  • @randomtinypotatocried
    @randomtinypotatocried Месяц назад +13

    Every once in awhile I forget Toys R US doesn't exist in the US anymore (live across the street from a Toys R US that makes me question if they'll go under eventually here in Canada)

  • @Pickledmacaroni
    @Pickledmacaroni Месяц назад +20

    You can listen to this video in the background while ordering food to an AI menu board cashier at your local fast food restaurant in your car that drives itself. This is not a speculative future it's just Taco Bell.
    Obv. the car drives through pedestrians and the menu board doesn't know what sells

  • @basils669
    @basils669 Месяц назад +7

    the only target for ai generated ads is people who wont recognize it. so old people and children, which is only a little sinister

  • @donbom_arts
    @donbom_arts Месяц назад +10

    Every time I see a commercial made with AI, I immediately start thinking it's a worthless creator, in the vein of Milano: "Oh, you don't even have the money to hire actors and crew, but you want me to use you as a place to store my money?

  • @pixeljurnee
    @pixeljurnee Месяц назад +12

    10:42 you think its not bad? Try watching that Trivago guy in Dutch. We see this commercial all the time in the Netherlands but his lips look weird. It is CLEARLY Ai. Even if you don't know what Ai is, his lips look weird

  • @fadedlikeastar
    @fadedlikeastar Месяц назад +6

    12:08 I’ve never been to the Netherlands, but I’m almost certain that speaking Dutch doesn’t require “Elvis lip”. Dude’s upper lip raised up on one side and stayed there through the duration of the ad. 😂

  • @natperhaps
    @natperhaps Месяц назад +13

    I'm so glad I didn’t go into advertising cause seeing shit like this would make me question life

  • @linnhuman
    @linnhuman Месяц назад +15

    is it just me or is every "toy" in the toys r us ad just Emojis turned 3D??

    • @LittleMissLounge
      @LittleMissLounge Месяц назад +3

      They look nothing like the vintage toys they're meant to suggest, that's for sure.

  • @the_homun_system
    @the_homun_system Месяц назад +6

    artificially generated visuals and vocals set something in my brain shivering like scooby doo.
    there was a study that showed peoples brains are processing and reacting differently to at least deepfake audio (im not sure if i came across any about visuals) even if the person themselves is able to normalize over it.

  • @AliveisKip
    @AliveisKip Месяц назад +6

    When Pinely started the video with "hello Gabi Belle" I thought to myself "lol he's calling me Gabi Belle." Then I saw Gabi and was like "oh my god, Gabi Belle!!!"

  • @YearoftheKitsune
    @YearoftheKitsune Месяц назад +12

    'you can't de-age a dead guy' if only that were true lol

  • @OceanCat
    @OceanCat Месяц назад +7

    Today I saw a food truck that was essentially plastered in AI "art", especially their logo. Pretty gross.

    • @warmoaran3
      @warmoaran3 Месяц назад +1

      never buy from them. and hope others follow.

  • @castroshan4
    @castroshan4 Месяц назад +13

    nooo way this colab is amazing I watch both of you and love the content

  • @datboilou
    @datboilou Месяц назад +31

    4:30 who's evil Pinely?

    • @philipculturespod
      @philipculturespod Месяц назад +12

      The Thanos of the RUclips world

    • @carultch
      @carultch Месяц назад +3

      It's his alter-ego channel.

    • @666liwia
      @666liwia Месяц назад +3

      pinely but evil duh

  • @els1f
    @els1f Месяц назад +9

    Why are the people that rise to the top in Corporations so empty? Mind, heart, soul, every way one can be vacant

    • @elenahaya1195
      @elenahaya1195 Месяц назад +2

      Well,you know...
      💰🪙💶👛💴💲💵

    • @LittleMissLounge
      @LittleMissLounge Месяц назад +1

      They have no incentive to be human.

    • @warmoaran3
      @warmoaran3 Месяц назад +2

      for them, theres no reason to be human, its aaall about the money, all morals gone. they need to be number 1 corporate or something. its sad.

  • @Gustoberg
    @Gustoberg Месяц назад +3

    "They would not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will" is a quote that works way too well to talk about advertisers and comoanies never caring about artists but still relying on their work

  • @camille1324
    @camille1324 Месяц назад +9

    Oooh that does not look good. The memories the toys r us ad evokes in me are of chugging cough syrup as a teen

  • @rosiejl2798
    @rosiejl2798 Месяц назад +3

    I have started to get AI ads for women's clothing stores on youtube. The "models" are all distorted and it comes off as a unsettling horror like ad.

  • @originaozz
    @originaozz Месяц назад +6

    Poor ToyRUs Charles probably be rolling in his grave~ Imagine Walt Disney likeness becoming just a tool to sell his empire. Most of the soul has already been sucked out of that company, but soon they'll probably gonna keep reusing death people likeness in parks as well for nostalgia sake. Future scares me man.

  • @lotti696
    @lotti696 Месяц назад +9

    the trivago dude's shirt looks rendered af. idek how u would achieve that irl

    • @Farimira
      @Farimira Месяц назад +4

      It looks like he borrowed it from a Sim

  • @LittleMissLounge
    @LittleMissLounge Месяц назад +6

    That Toys R Us commercial is a goddamn disgrace.

  • @nightshade9184
    @nightshade9184 Месяц назад +7

    Where do cats go when they die?
    PURRRgatory.

  • @4per8
    @4per8 Месяц назад +7

    i was at my nan's house the other day. and on the telly there was an advertisement for one of the uk political parties, and most of the ad was entirely ai generated slander against the current prime minister

  • @rachelcookie321
    @rachelcookie321 Месяц назад +6

    8:18 today I learnt I’m apparently blind because they all look exactly the same to me except for the glasses changing shape 😭

  • @ItsNumber84
    @ItsNumber84 Месяц назад +9

    7:29 WHY DOES A CABOOSE HAVE A COWCATCHER

  • @prince_buer
    @prince_buer Месяц назад +12

    The long face joke at least made sense, it's a bait and switch of the assumption that the horse just has a long face but no his wife left him. I literally can't decipher the other two after that. Am I just dumb?

    • @harperwillow4734
      @harperwillow4734 Месяц назад +3

      The only thing I can think of with the shoes is that models have to keep their feet working together/in sync to walk the runway? It’s a bad joke because feet staying together means you’re just standing but that’s all I could come up with lol. For the donkey one I have literally no idea. I’ve consulted other people and the entire wikipedia for donkeys and still have absolutely no idea.

    • @pzkitty6783
      @pzkitty6783 Месяц назад +1

      I think the donkey one is also supposed to be a bait and switch, but does a much worse job. The shoe one is just nonsense I think. Might have originally been a pun on "walk-in closet" that the AI botched really badly

  • @Evanz111
    @Evanz111 Месяц назад +7

    6:00 - holy crap, how tall is that kid for his footsteps to make him go up and down that much? Also isn’t he meant to be floating at that point? Why are there footstep noises to begin with? 😂

  • @tonytins
    @tonytins Месяц назад +5

    I remember seeing the Toys R Us ad and watching the whole fallout of that. It was quite the train wreck, to say the least.

  • @SydneySortsItOut
    @SydneySortsItOut Месяц назад +6

    The least repetitive AI generated joke I've seen so far, from 🌸, was: What do you call a thief who steals both your heart and your wallet?
    A cardiovascular bandit.

  • @17thcentury_girl
    @17thcentury_girl Месяц назад +15

    I saw the first one on tv a few weeks ago and i couldnt believe i was actually seeing ai on tv Edit: I GOT AN AI AD WHILE WATCHING THIS VIDEO

  • @globalbutter
    @globalbutter Месяц назад +9

    can we just appreciate how pinely

  • @ronoc9
    @ronoc9 Месяц назад +10

    For a second I thought "Gabi Belle" was a cute nickname Pinely had for us. I'm sad now.

  • @dragonick2947
    @dragonick2947 Месяц назад +4

    10:19 WTF? Why are they bragging about that? "This new technology puts a tonne of people out of a job!" That's meant to be the quiet part!

  • @packman2321
    @packman2321 Месяц назад +17

    Honestly, I respect AI works more when they're melting into nightmarish dream worlds. But more than 'less than zero' is still a horrifyingly low amount.

  • @lakegroce685
    @lakegroce685 Месяц назад +11

    Hey Sony if you’re watching,you guys should release a sequel for Morbius that’s fully made by AI. I promise that it’ll make you a billion dollars just like the first movie. It would definitely not be a huge waste of money and the public would not ridicule you for it. Give me the Morbin time with the fucked up hands baby.

  • @skm184
    @skm184 Месяц назад +10

    Finally something I want to watch on RUclips

  • @Miami.grackle
    @Miami.grackle Месяц назад +4

    The makers of Animal Crossing should be commended for choosing not to censor Michelangelo’s masterpiece. It was probably a tough decision, considering the popular game has a large number of young players. If they veiled it, in a reasonable manner, I’d be unhappy, but not over-upset. The ad, however, is infuriating to me. How dare they, in a commercial made for adults, crudely deface a renowned work of art? What a tasteless move, done in attempt to make their lousy AI-generated commercial look more appealing.

  • @greenhowie
    @greenhowie Месяц назад +3

    Toys R Us still owns the rights to the greatest ad song of all time, this is like they've given up entirely and are actively driving the business under.

  • @Unchained_Alice
    @Unchained_Alice Месяц назад +3

    It's shocking how much AI is taking over on so many things. Ads, photos, videos, books even. I'm learning German and it's getting annoying seeing so many German tiktoks and youtube videos that are "teaching" but are just AI.
    The big problem with this is anyone who needs to use tts to be able to speak will now face accusations of being AI.

  • @Pallerim
    @Pallerim Месяц назад +8

    Speaker of the danish language here. It's just as creepy in dAInish.

  • @HeadsorTailors
    @HeadsorTailors Месяц назад +2

    I work for a grocery chain and they recently touted how the branding team is using AI to create more enticing descriptions for items and I'm just like.... THE BRANDING TEAM CANT DO THAT THEMSELVES??? It always blows my mind

  • @jostink8506
    @jostink8506 Месяц назад +7

    take a drink every time mr pine bumps the camera

  • @Herzfeld10
    @Herzfeld10 Месяц назад +5

    for the ai translation in canadian french, it's actually ok. Looks dubbed but seems real

  • @castle9165
    @castle9165 Месяц назад +6

    I like how 7:05 is so clearly AI generated. It’s so cheesy. Like no one talks like that.