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We are going to hit a point soon where even creators won't be able to spot all the borrowed animation elements due to the black-box nature of generative AI models. I imagine it's going to be like the Akira bike slide but for everything.

Things lifted wholesale from training data but plastered together to create new works will leave us in an uncanny state of semi-permanent déjà vu where our little pattern matching blobs constantly chirp out subtle connections.



Your last paragraph tickles the part of my brain that has read William Gibson’s entire Sprawl series. Thank you for that.




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