The rise of AI video apps promising innocuous fantasies, like kissing your crush or trying on different outfits, disguises their underlying tackiness and implicit biases.
The apps are the brainchildren of opportunistic developers and are sprinkled with subscription fees and microtransactions, offering tools to help you make benign fantasies a bit more tangible.
The results feel more cursed than magical, with awkward kissing and dubious limb and hand placements, and the apps are often created by unknown or suspicious entities.
There are no clear rules about these ads of these apps, as major tech companies have lagged in removing even sexually explicit AI generators, and the status of anything milder on their platforms seems nebulous.
While it’s fraught to create sexually charged images of celebrities, it overlaps with the existing territory of fan art and meme-ification, but there are also uncomfortable and upsetting uses.
The fun or arguably helpful use cases of AI video apps are mixed in inextricably with the creepy stuff.
Grieving people are drawn to using AI to reanimate their dead loved ones, and while scoffing at this previously, the reporter finds themself moved despite acknowledging that it’s just weird.