by TheGamerUncle
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- >I am not the kind of person who thinks AI will replace actors blah blah blah. But I am glad these tools exist, because this video wouldn’t exist without AI.
>In no world would I ever have put together a real cast and crew to remake a 15 year old inside joke video for Googlers, but I was able to make it with AI.
BUT IT DID !! and part of the charm is that this involved real people talking, mutual understanding and a shared culture.
That world existed it can still exist unless we surrender to the depravity of conformity and comfortability.
- the deadpan emotionless delivery of the original memes are an important part of their humor. this remaster looks fancy but loses the entire spirit of the thing
- I would have kicked up the 4d3d3d3.
Maybe thrown in a hat wobble.
- I do wish they updated this to 2026 google! I don’t think it would be nearly as interesting though since they do get rid of most red tape but since everything is enterprise scale, it’s never easy.
- bless, but hearing people say this version is "better" makes me want to walk into the sea.
- I want to see MongoDB is webscale as a sequel.
by calmbonsai
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- I wonder if Broccoli Man was inspired by Paul Rudd's Celery Man.
by mcqueenjordan
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- The jankiness of the original had a lot of charm, almost selling the dystopian absurdity of trying to deploy a service via the janky voice and slightly desync'd audio and animation. I don't think it's just nostalgia, because I felt the same way watching it the first time all those years ago.
I think AI slop is decidedly different, because it just doesn't have the charm. I don't know if I can yet decompose exactly why that is.
- "No one has borgmon readability. Just me." is about a specific person at a specific moment and it knocks me off my stool every time.
by tomaytotomato
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- Could someone remake the "MongoDB is webscale" skit with AI gen please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- This didn't capture the emotional tone as I perceived it in the original. I thought Brocoliman was supposed to be someone who had drunk the cool-aid and truly believed in how easy all those steps were and just couldn't understand how anyone could have any issues at all with them unless they were an idiot.
by jesucresta
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- This is 100% AI slop, cool story and all but I'd 100 times rather see a very poorly drawn 2007 animation than any of this.
- This is very well done.
I wouldn't and don't consider this to be AI slop. The author's own reflection captures perfectly my own feelings on the matter... intent does matter.
I think what gets lost in a lot of the AI media discussion is that intent matters. I find auto-generated slop-farm TikToks just as dystopic as the most fervent doomer, but I also remember when I was a 10-year-old kid making movies with my parents’ VHS camcorder and how much fun I would have had learning how to make things if I’d had tools like this.
- Is the other character a fox because that's Meta mascot too?
by moandcompany
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- Does anyone miss Meatless Mondays?
by SpaceManNabs
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- Kinda shocked at how much editing they had to do.
You'd think AI would make it easier to splice together individual clips, but I haven't find a tool that does that well yet. Opus seems tailored for doing fine tuning on long form content like podcasts.
by alan-jordan13
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by Barry-Perkins
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by tonetheman
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- Very cool! I'd be perfectly happy to watch videos that combine human creativity and choice with AI. I don't consider this kind of video "slop". Once the glitches are eliminated, this workflow will be unstoppable.
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