Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence technology, you can now see those static images come to life. And they look like absolute dogshit. X user Blaine Brown recently shared a long thread of AI-generated videos that use Luma AI, turning previously still images into moving pictures.
All of this brings us back to one of the central questions facing users of consumer-facing AI tech: What are we using it for? Some people seem convinced that exercises like this reveal some kind of hidden truth behind the images we’re so familiar with. We saw this reasoning frequently back in late 2022 when AI image generators were first taking off. As the New York Post put it, “AI now lets you expose unseen secrets of legendary artwork.” But that’s obviously nonsense.