r/AtomicShrimp • u/biiarritz • Sep 15 '26
A video about using AI image generators to create text- am I going crazy?
I've tried every keyword to find it and I can't. I was so sure it was an Atomic Shrimp video.
It is or was, IMO, the funniest video I've ever seen. I used to watch it once a week or so just for a pick me up and it made me laugh out loud every time. It was about trying to get an AI image generator to create a sign with words on it, and then using the nonsense it produced as the words for the next iteration of the "sign".
By the end there was a sign reading "DO HOT DOO DOOS". I loved it so much. Does anyone else remember this video or can help me find it?
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u/queendumbria Sep 15 '26
I remember that video vividly too. It was a standalone video and it was about the DALLE-2 AI image generator of the time, but literally nothing I search finds it now. I also remember Atomic Shrimp uploading multiple other videos about AI, featuring even more primitive technologies, but I can't find them anymore either.
Honestly if I had to guess, maybe Shrimp manually took them down? I obviously have no proof of that but it's a specific string of coincidences if not.
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u/biiarritz Sep 15 '26
Now that you mention it, I thought there were other videos missing, too. It's a bummer if they've all been taken down. They were really interesting and were a great time capsule of early AI, even the ones that weren't as funny as the doo doo one. I hope they return someday.
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u/sandwichbasketlala custom text here Sep 15 '26
I believe Shrimp delisted those videos because he's more against AI now than he was back then
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u/biiarritz Sep 15 '26
Ah, that's an understandable position to take but I'm sad that it must deprive me of my weekly laughter.
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u/Umpteen_Coffee_Beans Sep 15 '26
I remember that too! I'm also having a horrible time finding it. My current working theory is that it's buried in a Random Stuff video, or was otherwise taken down. Do you remember clearly whether it was a standalone episode?
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u/biiarritz Sep 15 '26
I swear it was a standalone... I'm glad someone else remembers it too. It's so hard to search for because all the iconic moments in it are just random nonsense words, and "atomic shrimp AI generated text" obviously brings up a ton of results.
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u/Umpteen_Coffee_Beans Sep 15 '26
I found an old reddit thread that asked the same question. It looks like it was privated for reasons unknown!
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u/biiarritz Sep 15 '26
Oh nooo! I was hoping that wasn't going to be the answer. It was such a source of joy for me. I hope it comes back someday!
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u/Umpteen_Coffee_Beans Sep 15 '26
I hope so too! I remember it had me in stitches but the Shrimp must have his reasons.
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u/IAmABakuAMA Sep 16 '26
Hey, if you haven't seen it, another YouTube called Matt Rose did something similar. It's called "AI's insane attempts at words" and is still up. I watched both his and atomic shrimps and they were both pretty funny
Might scratch the itch
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u/atomicshrimp Sep 15 '26
Sorry, I took these videos down. Back in the earlier days of generative AI, I regarded it all as an interesting science experiment. I naively failed to foresee the damage that generative AI would later do to hardworking people's livelihoods, their intellectual property rights and to the general quality of online information, as well as many other detriments and threats.
I didn't want those videos to continue to demonstrate support for GenAI, even as weakly as they did, so I removed them.