Stop blaming AI slop vibes on Bright Data. They are a *Data Collection Company*, not a *GenAI* company.
I'm not here to defend GenAI slop nor Bright Data, just dispel the most inane blaming of the direction/presentation of BattleBots on them as a sponsor.
Bright Data is NOT a GenAI company. Bright Data is NOT a GenAI company. Bright Data is NOT a GenAI company.
Bright Data is a data collection company. I'm not going to defend/sell you on that, but I will draw the line that Bright Data is not a GenAI service. They provide data for any client who is willing to pay that can be used for analysis, research, and yes, fed into AI models, but they aren't like Anthropic or OpenAI or such actually providing the models or services to generate photo or video content. They supply the data that it is trained on. They do provide likely GenAI-powered analysis but its not being used to generate videos/images/thumbnails for BattleBots promo.
Bright Data did NOT influence Orbitron and Nemesis to use AI.
Orbitron and Nemesis were NOT nudged to have their AI integration due to having a Bright Data as a sponsor. Orbitron was conceptualized long before anyone in the builder community knew about Bright Data as a sponsor. And, gasp, some builders actually want to advantage of using automation and AI to drive their robots. I'm one of them. Nemesis and Orbitron are some of them. Its not like every builder in the world hates AI and never wants their robots driven by it. Degrees of automation are already being used by teams like Beta (their electromagnet and hammer drop cycle, for example) and for meltybrains, long before the AI boom even started.
The direction for editing and presentation is NOT held by Bright Data. It is held by the BattleBots organization themselves.
There's not much I feel comfortable revealing, details wise, about who influenced which decisions and which specific changes they have been trying to sell the builders onto for how BattleBots is presented. But with the pivot away from television and towards YouTube, they are looking toward how popular YouTube and short-form channels are edited to adapt to the younger viewers. I saw their explanation of strategy and changes at the builder meeting at Pro League. We have had some back and forth with the BattleBots production to let them know how we feel about certain things such as our likeness being generated by AI or how we feel about "Mr Beast style" editing. Make your opinions about the new direction of editing to them directly. They're the ones in the driver's seat and make the final calls to accept the edits and post it on the channel.
If you're going to complain about AI slop and/or Bright Data, at least know what you are talking about or else you are not helping the situation.