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Anyone who hangs around the internet is familiar with the image: a man staring at a passing woman with a look that would make Joey Tribbiani blush, “How’s it going?” The “distracted boyfriend” meme, which projects various scenarios onto this stock photo, has been burned into the internet’s collective consciousness since it first appeared in 2017. Now, artificial intelligence has blurred our memory of this viral moment, along with dozens of other memes.
often”Time Traveler“Videos, particularly AI-generated clips currently circulating online on TikTok, take familiar memes and add context where they weren’t there before. In some cases, the action is “interrupted” or ghosts appear. In one “Distracted Boyfriend” animation posted in November 2015, About X (formerly known as Twitter) last month, a boyfriend is seen turning around and chasing a girl walking in the opposite direction while his girlfriend stands nearby.
This clip is Luma Dream Machineis an AI model that takes source images and text prompts and creates high-quality, lifelike videos. releaseBorrowing images and frames from well-known memes, social media users began creating visuals to test Dream Machine’s generative abilities, proving that while the AI model isn’t perfect, it’s capable of rewriting internet history by altering some of the web’s most enduring images.
As Dream Machines become more common, some common visual Limitations and drawbacks The unnatural characteristics of the generative AI appeared in the model’s output, including unnatural depictions of humans and distorted objects. Some social media users were frightened or concerned by the footage in terms of AI acceleration and its potential to generate false alarms, while others were amused by the model’s incoherent errors.
It may be unsettling to think that an AI-edited meme could spread faster than the image it was created from, but Know the memes Editor Philip Hamilton doesn’t think the trend poses a significant threat to digital media preservation — rather, reboots are successful because of the widespread availability of the originals.
“Generally, everyone knows the context,” Hamilton says of the edited viral image. “The symbolism of the video is at the heart of the trend, [time-traveler] Memes are something that only get more popular.”
Sharing memes on social media revolves around the user’s interaction with the meme, which is mostly a result of editing, so Hamilton said it’s fine to use AI to edit memes.
Luma boasts that Dream Machine can generate 120 frames of high-quality video in under 120 seconds, although it is experiencing significant delays due to extremely high demand. This fast generation, along with the availability of a “free” tier that allows users to generate up to 30 clips per month, makes Dream Machine much more accessible than OpenAI’s Sora, which was announced in February but has not yet been made publicly available.