People Are Using AI to Turn Memes Into Videos and It’s Low Key Terrifying

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An AI video tool called Dream Machine, developed by the company Luma Labs, transforms still images into moving pictures. As it should, the internet quickly started using the AI to turn famous memes into videos — and a fair share of the results are nothing short of nightmare fuel.in this compilation of horrors, as shared to the subreddit r/aivideo.

In the original meme, several firefighters are pictured in the background. In the AI's version, these firefighters wriggle around, morphing and moving with a dreamlike sensibility as they pitter-patter about the disaster scene. One of them then approaches — but, horrifyingly, her face changes several times as she draws nearer.

While some of these AI clips might keep us up at night, other AI-animated images that gained traction online were decidedly more mundane. And in some cases, netizens wondered why someone would need to use AI in the first place. "Burning down the Amazon to harness the magic of AI in order to finally find out what Captain Picard from Star Trek looked like," one X user — referring to generative AI's massivein response to someone using AI to animate a meme of the "Star Trek" franchise's Captain Picard, even though the meme was originally taken from... a video.

burning down the amazon to harness the magic of ai in order to finally find out what captain picard from star trek looked likeWe're also a little obsessed with this AI animation of the Beatles' Abbey Road cover art, which inexplicably adds a fifth band member to the iconic quartet.Anyway. These are freaky as all get out, but we have to admit that they do make us laugh — as long as they're not making us shudder in fear, of course.

 

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