So Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes launched a new podcast "Dropping Names". (That they sound tired, disengaged, and bored in their own promo is a separate topic.)
The graphics and music used as part of the promo look and sound aggressively AI generated.
Because they are. (Freely admitted, when asked, in the YT comments.)
The visuals have a very familiar, over-used visual needlessly warm, cartoony style. The music has that too-perfect, too-wordy feel that most AI-generated music has. Even the title in the YouTube thumbnail has that tell-tale 'generated' look that the big name cloud-based tools crank out.
I even questioned if either of them had seen the final product, since clearly their participation in it is distinct from the production side of it.
I don't personally care if you use AI generated content if you're shitposting or you're broke, have no other options, and are just trying to fulfill a vision for something.
But when you hit a certain level, with people involved who have creative contacts (or even sing, themselves, like Brent), this comes off as bizarrely amateurish and embarrassing.
THIS, I feel, is why people hate "slop". People don't have the good judgement on where and how to tastefully use this stuff, so it ends up everywhere. It's lazy, soulless, and somehow it all looks and feels the same.
(Feel free to seek out the promo video if you like, but I'm not going to link it here.)
