Love it or hate it, AI technology is reshaping the world we live in.
Need proof? This Facebook page that used to post crude Photoshops of Betty Boop and a minion doing their “Good Morning” dance now posts crude AI videos of Betty Boop and a Minion doing their “Good Morning” dance.
Wow. We may not have flying cars, but we have this.
The “Minions and More Bright and Early Wakeup Club” Facebook page built a dedicated following of over 70,000 fans based on its reputation for having the most delightful, if crude, Photoshops of unlicensed characters such as Betty Boop and Minions doing their “Good Morning” dance with captions like, “Good morning dance,” “It’s our good morning dance,” and “Watch us do our good morning dance!”
But times are changing.
The advent of AI technology means that the host’s admin, 68-year-old retired truck driver Rodney Paris, can now deliver his page’s fans crude, typo-laden good morning dance posts in crappy brain-rotting AI video format instead of a crappy brain-rotting Photoshop format. While this major leap into the future of technology does not seem to have affected the fans’ appreciation of the page—with most comments still simply saying, “Good morning, cuties” or “God…bless you,” with no mention of the massive technological upgrade—this is definitely AI’s Oppenheimer moment.
Will the new AI “Good Morning” dance videos be more devastating to the environment than the old Photoshopped versions? Sure. Are they still very crappy? Of course. But once you’ve seen Betty Boop and a Minion put their arms around one another and sort of merge into the same character for a few seconds before abruptly pausing their “Good Morning” dance while a flower inexplicably grows out of one of their legs, you know there’s no going back to the old way of doing things.
The future is here.
