{"id":265892,"date":"2025-11-01T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265892\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T23:59:13","slug":"this-ai-generated-sitcom-is-actually-unsettling-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/265892\/","title":{"rendered":"This AI-Generated Sitcom Is Actually Unsettling to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video that went viral this week<\/a> shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom \u201cFriends\u201d that\u2019s so bizarre that it\u2019s uncomfortable to watch.<\/p>\n

While the set appears to be largely recognizable, the cast members bear almost no resemblance to the show\u2019s actual human actors.<\/p>\n

Performers also sprout random limbs, their hands teleport through doors, and at one point, towards the end of the video, one sloppified cast member mysteriously sheds a clone of herself, who immediately takes a seat on a nearby couch.<\/p>\n

Ironically, while it fudged the faces of the show\u2019s well-known actors, the sounds of the voices of \u201cFriends\u201d stars, including Courteney Cox and the late Matthew Perry, are far more believable \u2014 if it weren\u2019t for some seriously stilted and nonsensical delivery, that is.<\/p>\n

In short, the video is nothing short of a Lynchian nightmare, a surreal and unnervingly inhuman reconstruction of an extremely well-known franchise.<\/p>\n

The clip highlights the many shortcomings of AI-powered video generator apps. That\u2019s despite many billions of dollars being poured into the tech, as the gap between an AI future we\u2019re being promised and the current state of AI tools continues to balloon.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, AI evangelists continue to prop up these tools as the future of entertainment, prompting widespread skepticism. Just last week, an AI investor was raked over the coals<\/a> on social media for claiming that \u201cAI games are going to be amazing,\u201d appending an unintentionally hilarious clip of an AI-generated first-person shooter.<\/p>\n

The person who posted the latest \u201cFriends\u201d video, an AI tech enthusiast who goes by TechHalla, similarly argued that \u201csitcoms will never be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

But given the overwhelmingly negative reactions his post garnered, he was largely alone in that belief.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah man, this is great stuff if you have the brain of a lobotomized golden retriever,\u201d one user tweeted<\/a> in response.<\/p>\n

Others pointed out the irony of claiming that the rehashing of a show that wrapped up its last season over 21 years ago was the future of the medium.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting aside the incoherent nonsense of the clip, it\u2019s funny to say \u2018Sitcoms will never be the same\u2019 while slavishly recreating (or attempting to) a sitcom that already exists,\u201d another user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis must be amazing if you\u2019re not really into the whole \u2018jokes\u2019 or \u2018storyline\u2019 aspects of sitcoms, and the thing you like about TV is just seeing all the colours and shapes moving around,\u201d one user joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many criticized TechHalla for celebrating the destruction of human creativity, with AI slop becoming an inevitable part of our daily lives. Besides, what did the sloppified \u201cFriends\u201d clip even demonstrate in the first place?<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of comments dunking on Friends for being slop in the first place, which I\u2019m not gonna argue with,\u201d one user tweeted<\/a>, \u201cbut what I would question is whether training AIs on the vast quantity of s*** sitcoms that exist already is likely to generate better and more inventive sitcoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans have the creative ability to dream up actually new and innovative ideas to push the genre forward,\u201d another user agreed<\/a>. \u201cRobots can\u2019t and can only regurgitate data based upon what they\u2019ve already observed.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI slop videos: We\u2019re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video that went viral this week shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom \u201cFriends\u201d that\u2019s so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-265892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}