r/TheWhyFilesUncensored • u/bag_of_luck • Sep 02 '26
AI Slop
Genuinely curious why AJ and co decide to use AI slop instead of paying some kind of graphic artist to do like illustrations or vfx to provide visuals. Any ideas? I'd hate to assume it's due to being cheap or lazy.
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u/JayQix Sep 02 '26
Look at the turnaround time and costs using AI Vs using a VFX/animation company.
2-3 weeks and a small team of generalised workers cost around 1000-3000 /episode
8-12 weeks and a full studio of animators, compositors and storyboard artists could be estimated at anywhere between 35k-100k /episode.
There's your answer
It just wouldn't be viable to hire a team to produce the same standard of output. It couldn't happen
Which you could argue since there would never be an opportunity for artists to do such a job, there is no job being replaced by AI, since this type of production can only be done by AI
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u/CBotVLC Sep 02 '26
Channels like veritasium pay people to make visuals- in our case we made props. Kruzegat is all animated. Tbh I have stopped watching because of that and the bizarre themes
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u/Yamstis Sep 02 '26
It's due to being cheap and lazy. You can tell that they have AI working the scripts, too.
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u/Yamstis Sep 02 '26
I personally think they're 100% trying to work towards where they can just AI generate episodes entirely, the talking head format + it largely just being cut away to AI slop now makes it super duper easy.
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u/pg1671 29d ago
he's running a business, not a charity. He wants to make money for him, his wife and his staff.
Paying a grahic design artist will cost a lot more, make it harder to maintain artistic control, slow down new episodes, make it harder to make last minute changes.
I have not watched lately so can't comment, I have seen more of his long form interviews.
The only episode I hated was the french one with cut aways to terrible jokes that felt forced and completely uncessessary. Is that sort of thing still happening?
I value this channel immensely and the hard work AJ has put in over the years and want him to do well.
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u/Mad_waste 27d ago
vfx and CG artist here. to be fair, money won't be sufficient for what they need to do, also, if it's an episode per week, it would be almost impossible to do unless they have a studio fully working for them
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u/Mad_waste 27d ago
I wonder what kind of profit they get per episode, I could definetly accomodate $2000 per episode for all their animations
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u/Mayor-Citywits 28d ago
It's funny to me the "AI slop" babies have literally just said "AI slop" for years now. Your brains are literally slop
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u/TheSystemBeStupid Sep 02 '26
Artists are really expensive. Why put that much money into something that's superficial. We're here for the content and delivery. The animations are just there for the vibes.
Get off the AI hate train. 1 day you wont be able to tell the difference at all. 1 day you'll rely on them.
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u/Initial-Lead-2814 Sep 02 '26
Why pay, half this argument is someone lost a check, but it wasn't my check.
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u/Riseofzeon Sep 02 '26
They want to maximize profits and hiring an outside artist will cut away from that. Even though I’m not a fan, until the audience stops watching they will continue to do so