Getting Tired of AI Slop Default Stance just because something is made with AI. Its gotten a bad rep but it doesn't have to be this way.
I produce AI content, but its with my own characters that I design myself with basically illustrator (actually clip studio paint vector layers with a digital pen, inked and colored) then initially I trained a LORA (using my gpu) with my images for Stable diffusion, transitioned to flux, so that I could basically direct images of my characters as a sort of comic for making content and then do cleanup afterwards, but write all the dialog etc angles, facial expressions designed by hand.
I've since moved on to seedance 2 and video rather than comic images, which can take my images/videos of my characters made prior and art assets I've made and direct them rather than rely on ai's imagination. I think AI has gotten such a bad rep from all the lazy people reusing the same prompts that are popular like the cat in the doorbell cam with a gun type stuff.
If you are creating something with assets you created ahead of time, I don't see the problem with ai generated content. If you use your phones camera to record yourself making pancakes and are funny and it does well or whatever your fame is (good for you!), the amount of effort for that though vs what I do feels like the opposite, where my AI generated content is max effort (and pancakes are low imo), I've spent over a full work week producing a single 3 minute video that contains mostly ai generated video. I've spent money to do it too.
However, I've written all the dialog (basically a tv script), all the camera direction along with describing character facial expressions etc. I recorded my own voice to use as audio and changed it with filters (to make my voice sound more male or female for instance for my variety of characters) to assign to my characters for consistency. I have consistent props, backgrounds (interior exterior, day/night/snowy etc).
I find it painful when just because something does use AI that it is automatically put in the slop bin, its just sloppy human behind the keyboard and unfortunately as strange as it is, I feel like the accessibility of AI tools ruined everyone's opinion on it. These companies should have made it more expensive and not let anyone with a computer make a video with it (I feel bad thinking this way but I also just feel so frustrated that everything that is made with ai is automatically considered garbage) Get a real creator using it and things are a bit different.
I showed my own brother who I love, a video I created painstakingly that is 3 minutes (for shorts) to ask for his opinion on the dialog to see if he thought it was funny - a normal person whos liked adult cartoons like rick and morty or futurama, he really likes bobs burgers etc. I am an arrested development fan so I tried to have all the lines have multiple meaning, witty type stuff. Worked on the dialog for quite a bit of time. He just kept saying things like 'how long is this, what is this garbage' and checking his watch. It was painful to have someone I love dearly DESTROY my final product and not even paying attention to it, not because of the content itself but because of his AI bias or whatever was going on in his head.
I've luckily had other people (friends and family) watch and laugh at all the right spots thankfully. Anyway, as a creator I feel like AI can be such a godsend to allow us normal people to basically be capable of making anything we can imagine in a tiny team (1 person over here) and I personally feel like my content could compete with real production company content out there. (feel free to message me if you are curious of my content but I don't think its allowed here so not posting link to my channel)
search for "Whats Hiding in Grandmas Pickle Jars Will SHOCK YOU" on youtube if you want to see my last creation, if you check it out, thank you appreciate the view, but also hopefully someone will see the amount of effort of the human was put into something made with AI in the end.