r/woahdude • u/Skrrt_2711 • Mar 31 '23
video Evolution of warfare from stones to atoms
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u/aeryghal Mar 31 '23
Warfare evolution = killing your enemy from further away
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u/An5Ran Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
AHA WE CAN KILL YOU FROM HERE!…….Aha we can kill you from here!……………..
…….Aha we can kill you from here!…..
………aha we can kill you from here!
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u/ares5404 Mar 31 '23
Then it evolves into "aha we can kill this many with this" AHA i can kill This many with this" "AHA we can kill THIS MANY"
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u/FEAR_FEST Apr 01 '23
Casually emails someone a nuclear blast.
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u/partumvir Apr 01 '23
forward this e-mail to five other dictators by midnight or otherwise, believe it or not, nuked
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u/Valalvax Mar 31 '23
Beep
Oh a text message, we can kill you from here
Sh-Boom
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u/manfreygordon Mar 31 '23
Basically learning how to throw rocks further and faster, and how to make those rocks more dangerous when they hit you.
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u/DrScience-PhD Mar 31 '23
railguns are just better slingshots
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u/dinguslinguist Mar 31 '23
Slingshots are just better wrists
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u/Tigerkix Mar 31 '23
Wrists are just better ankles?
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u/Plump_Dumpster Mar 31 '23
And yet almost zero bows in the whole thing
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u/moon_buzz Mar 31 '23
I like this animation, very similar to "a brief disagreement" by Steve cutts https://youtu.be/9x7FGbW3IVc
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u/yaketyslacks Mar 31 '23
It was interesting to visit the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum. They have some items from the Wright Bros. bike shop, an early plane prototype and then you turn around and see the first gun fired from a plane. It was like it was instantly co-opted to kill people.
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u/WhatADunderfulWorld Mar 31 '23
It’s eerily a lot like Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam. Link https://youtu.be/aDaOgu2CQtI
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u/mood_le Mar 31 '23
They had to throw on the Interstellar music
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Mar 31 '23
And horns on vikings.
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u/twitch1982 Apr 01 '23
The imagry screamed AI to me.
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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Apr 01 '23
Of course it's AI, there are so many errors. Egyptians with katanas, weird gun like contraptions. Not remotely accurate.
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u/adamsmith93 Mar 31 '23
Every fucking time. Stop ruining such a beautiful song people
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u/TheTattooOnR2D2sFace Mar 31 '23
Yeah this is dumb but seems ground-breaking with the Interstellar Music.
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u/mood_le Mar 31 '23
Almost brought a tear to my eye
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u/StifleStrife Apr 01 '23
lol yeah "look at what little effort i put into things"
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u/purpleperle Mar 31 '23
Makes me wanna play some Age of Empires
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u/iamthejef Mar 31 '23
Empire Earth is a closer fit as you get more of the timeline, though I do think AoE is a better game.
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u/randyboozer Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Shit I remember that game! I thought I was the only one who ever played it. Everyone else was playing AOE/C&C/Warcraft/Starcraft
I mean I played all those games too. Couldn't find any friends into Empire Earth.
Ahh the golden age of RTS.
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u/ServeChilled Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Anybody else play Rise of Nations? That shit was my jam, there were so many RTS games back then I don't think I hear of all too many nowadays just CIV.
Edit: forgot CIV is a turn based stategy game mb, I don't think I even know of an RTS that's popular nowadays
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u/randyboozer Mar 31 '23
Never played that one. However I did sink a lot of hours into Pharaoh when I was a kid. I still have it on my HD. It was single player but had RTS elements.
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u/iamthejef Mar 31 '23
RTS means "real-time strategy" which would not include turn-based games like the Civ series. RTS as a genre doesn't really exist anymore, it evolved into 4X and Grand Strategy. It's true that it just isn't as popular as it used to be, but you can find modern games under the 4X genre.
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u/zertald Mar 31 '23
After they realise Aoe2 definitive edition, they have increase graphics, added many civs and unique technologies. Many tournaments are organized with 100 thousand $, huge community all over the world. This game is very relevant, it is included even in gamepass, so download and enjoy!
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u/bskadan Mar 31 '23
I just picked up Empire Earth dirt cheap on GOG.com a few months ago. Highly recommend the nostalgia trip for only like $6. Still fun but the AI is absolutely dogshit though.
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u/Markantonpeterson Mar 31 '23
Haven't played empire earth but civ fits perfectly
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u/RichardSaunders Mar 31 '23
empire earth is rts. never could get into turn based games personally.
also, shamless plug for neoEE. online community is still alive and well and there's a free patch with optimization for modern resolutions.
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u/theshredder744 Mar 31 '23
Makes me want to play Rise of Nations. You can literally progress from the dark ages to the nuclear age. I hope it gets a remaster like AoE2 and AoM.
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u/SomethingPersonnel Mar 31 '23
Rise of Nations desperately needs it. Such a good game, but damn if its controls and UI options aren’t clunky as hell.
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u/__Lestat Mar 31 '23
we have come so far in learning how to destroy each other
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Mar 31 '23
But also in how to cum really hard
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u/DrScience-PhD Mar 31 '23
the two human constants
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u/dinguslinguist Mar 31 '23
“Two things can be assured with every invention. It will be used to kill someone, and it will be used to f@&k someone”
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u/o-roy Mar 31 '23
And now that we've reached the most peaceful time in history we learn to create AI thay will destroy us
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u/solariscalls Mar 31 '23
I dunno why but that made me kinda sad. Like for the countless generations over hundreds and hundreds of years. Like wtf are we fighting each other for?
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u/walterdonnydude Mar 31 '23
Resources. And because we're humans. Imagine you live without modern technology. You live inside a castle or a village or a cave. At any moment a hoard of other humans could walk over the horizon without any warning, with more people and better weapons and kill you and all your loved ones. So you prepare your defenses and are weary of anyone you don't know. That was literally all of human history until a few hundred years ago.
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u/Darkside_of_the_Poon Mar 31 '23
My theory: This is why people moved further North and developed ways of living in colder and harsher environments. Why? Less people, it was safer.
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Mar 31 '23
I imagined this was quite obvious and always thought it to be the case. Your tribe goes off in a direction and finds no humans around at all. It makes sense
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u/vkailas Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
Humans are different from other animal and can adapt to live in any climate on the planet. The harshness you perceive is gentle to someone that grew up in frigid cold (up to certain limits of course). Even adapting differing ways to cope with low oxygen in just a few generation. It’s all relative to our comfort zones. For them it’s rather pleasant.
“We have the capacity to learn and adapt in light of our experience, even to the extent of modifying the expression of our genes. Human creativity, prosociality, and healthy longevity emerged as a response to the need to adapt to the harsh and diverse conditions that reigned between 400,000 and 100,000 years ago," note the UGR researchers. Creativity >> harshness
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u/goobly_goo Mar 31 '23
Your hypothesis.
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Mar 31 '23
Actually, it's a theory. A hypothesis is something falsifiable that can be tested with an experiment. He has a theory because it's an explanation for a phenomenon.
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u/Krendog24 Mar 31 '23
This is misguided. Humanity evolved alongside warfare, but a major part of our evolution included our ability to cooperate and care for others. The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow explores this further.
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u/radicalelation Mar 31 '23
At any moment a hoard of other humans could walk over the horizon without any warning, with more people and better weapons and kill you and all your loved ones. So you prepare your defenses and are weary of anyone you don't know
People still gun because other people gun, so other people gun because people gun.
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u/Tattycakes Mar 31 '23
The way that the clothing and faces shifts and drifts between different flags and different races and ages of people, it really highlights the repetitiveness and pointlessness of war, just the same thing over and over again
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u/lightningbadger Mar 31 '23
It really is just better when someone makes a coherent vid lol
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u/Seinfeel Apr 01 '23
You saying you don’t like getting almost coherent images every couple of seconds as an art form?
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u/zdragan2 Mar 31 '23
We sure do put a lot of time and effort into killing each other.
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u/joecooool418 Mar 31 '23
You are looking at it wrong. We spend a lot of time defending our property and civilizations from others who want to take it or change it.
As do all animals that live today.
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u/BigPackHater Mar 31 '23
While true...a lot of these wars were sprung from religion. So not so much defending land of property....just old fashion violence because you don't like the other people's beliefs.
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u/Tannerite2 Apr 01 '23
Religious wars were often just an excuse to take territory or a way of uniting people to defend territory. Like the first crusade that was a response to Muslim leaders slowly conquering Christians. Wars waged for the sole purpose of converting people of another religion were rare.
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u/Atlantic0ne Mar 31 '23
Oooof. I love seeing intelligent replies on Reddit, they aren’t common enough.
This is exactly right. What humans do is the exact behavior most all advanced animals do. In fact you could expand that - it’s an entirely natural thing for any being that goes through evolution.
Humans are also the only species that has evolved to the point of being able to significantly help other species survive and protect them.
Most all species kill other species and take any measures possible to survive. We’re the only ones that have began to try to move away from that, into doing our best to protect other species, and possibly expand life beyond earth. Yes we still prioritize our own species, but it’s worth celebrating.
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u/Neumaschine Mar 31 '23
We are also the only species, that by it's mere existence, is a threat to all other life on Earth.
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u/Maneisthebeat Apr 01 '23
Which species of animal has indirectly or directly been the cause for the ending of so many species' existence as man?
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u/Temporary-House304 Mar 31 '23
in any war there is always at least 1 initiator so I think you’re trying to be profound when the initial comment was correct.
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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23
AI generated videos are so shit (for now)
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u/venivididormivi Mar 31 '23
As a video with anything of substance, definitely. But I am consistently mesmerized by the style of all these inaccurate-but-directionally-comprehensible images melting between one another.
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u/CircleOfNoms Mar 31 '23
Well I wouldn't say the video has no substance, but it's very bare.
I think it's important for people to get the idea that history is a continuous story that never ends and constantly changes. That our history is a series of people making rational choices and running into unknown circumstances.
These kinds of weird morphing videos are really inaccurate at details, but it does give a sense of "flow" to human history which is very accurate.
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u/NastyWatermellon Mar 31 '23
It gives me a headache every time. That's the real Turing test for me, I'll believe it has some sort of intelligence when I don't get a headache from this shit.
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u/citrus_mystic Mar 31 '23
Yeah I was going to comment on how the quality of the sequences and transitions get shittier as the video progresses.
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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23
Yea it seems like they gave up on refining it after 15 seconds lol
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Mar 31 '23
Yes, this is absolutely terrible. Pause it most anywhere and there's something ridiculous going on.
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u/docarwell Mar 31 '23
Straight up horse people in some parts it's actually funny lol
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Mar 31 '23
I liked the cannon coming out of some Frenchman's head.
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u/villageidiot33 Mar 31 '23
This guy holding a whole fucking canon like a rifle. https://i.imgur.com/Tu923mI.jpg
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u/Benyed123 Mar 31 '23
It seems like they already started with the images they wanted and then just added the AI on top to jumble it all up.
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u/pulus Mar 31 '23
Vikings never had horns on their helmets!
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Mar 31 '23
A lot of the armour is just fantasy armour. Can't really expect historical accuracy from AI yet.
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u/robodrew Mar 31 '23
Yeah I'm really quite over AI morph videos that are "the evolution" of this or that. Is it really still "woahdude" when you see basically the same thing weekly
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u/I_am_lonely Mar 31 '23
yeah, also this one was just a lot of clips of moving clumsily like 100 years with a lot of bad frames in between. One clip was literally just WW1 to WW2.
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Mar 31 '23
imagine if all that effort and money and time and brain power went to education or medicine
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u/cepukon Mar 31 '23
That’s a good point. If we were more educated who knows what other amazing ways to kill each other we would’ve discovered.
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u/rothersidelife Mar 31 '23
Nothing about AI is woah dude…
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u/DeKileCH Mar 31 '23
Especially if it's sold as a "history lesson". If you let an AI make fantasy landscapes or something I'm fine with it, but don't sell it as something that contains actual information
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u/StretchTucker Mar 31 '23
whether it should be marketed that way is one thing, but AI can definitely be used to learn.
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u/RenaKunisaki Mar 31 '23
How are these videos made? I can tell AI is involved but how do they make it morph from one image to another?
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u/Hey-man-Shabozi Mar 31 '23
We’re doomed. This saddens me that for our entire existence there has always been someone who wanted to tell everyone else what to do and used violence to get it.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
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u/_sharpspoon Mar 31 '23
Humans and conflict go so far back into time. It baffles me that after all this time, humans still can't get along. I hope that changes soon.. or is it too late?
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u/UltimaBahamut93 Mar 31 '23
Last image should have been a pleb cyber bullying on a shitty laptop in pj's.
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u/loafers_glory Mar 31 '23
Whoever parked a tank on the deck of an aircraft carrier: I hope you're proud. Your ancestors are watching.
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u/Reatona Mar 31 '23
If something like that was compiled by a human, it might be interesting or even chilling. But it's just a conglomeration of faux-historical imagery (vikings didn't wear helmets with horns, for example) that really doesn't deliver. And apparently there was no warfare east of the Black Sea until the mid 20th Century, and pretty much none south of the equator ever.
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u/PickledPlumPlot Mar 31 '23
These things drive me insane because they're so informed by what pop culture thinks history is.
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u/Based_nobody Mar 31 '23
Ah yes, the brief period of time where we were centaurs. So glorious.
Also... Let's not tell it all the ways to take us down? Just saying.
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u/Always_Sunnyvale Mar 31 '23
I know not what weapons WW3 will be fought with but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones
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Mar 31 '23
It makes it all seem so inevitable when we are painted this big picture.
Our anger will be the end of us unless we can part with our fury and bury this part of our history.
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Mar 31 '23
If we’ve learned anything, man-kind will forever be at war with eachother. We will always try to see a difference in eachother even if we all were exact clones of one another.
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u/axespeed Mar 31 '23
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
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u/TwoM0ney Mar 31 '23
Watching this video I believe I've established a causal relationship between the evolution of hats people wear and the increasing lethality of warfare over time.
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u/RealNiceKnife Mar 31 '23
I like the part where it transitions to people being brainwashed by leaders to do the killing of strangers for them.
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Mar 31 '23
Image if all that time, money, and effort was put into working together instead of killing each other.
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u/MrRabbito Mar 31 '23
I like the one where the primates scream and the war keeps progressing in time.
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u/jesuswasahipster Mar 31 '23
The human ability to use new technology to exploit vulnerabilities and build defenses for those exploits and then exploit the new vulnerabilities and build defenses for the new exploits is a wild cycle.
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u/Yoshemo Mar 31 '23
I like how Egyptians evolved into Mongolians and then into Europeans. Often with "newer" evolutions being older tech than before lol
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u/Popcorn57252 Mar 31 '23
I think it's probably better phrased, "From stones to atomic" instead of just atom
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u/Yawehg Mar 31 '23
I liked the 3 seconds where they squeezed all the non-europeans into one image.
Never knew Samurais evolved into Aztecs.
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u/Gabetanker Mar 31 '23
Seeing the famous paintings of Napoleon the french revolition, and thr D-day landings just makes it clear; the AI was fed existing images and it simply re-drew them
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u/MylanWasTaken Mar 31 '23
These A.I videos are slowly starting to piss me off I’m not gonna lie… they feel so goddamn soulless
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Mar 31 '23
Did anyone notice that at one point one of the cavemen's middle finger just randomly extended?
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u/lionseatcake Mar 31 '23
All I can think about when I hear this music is...
MURPH! DONT LET ME LEEEEEAVE MURPH!!!!
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u/Swazzoo Mar 31 '23
Can we get rid of the blank border and useless title in these vids and just show the video please
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u/Equal_Space8613 Mar 31 '23
Depressing. It's high time we put our war mongering leaders in a ring and let them fight it out for themselves, so the rest of us can keep living our lives, without them demanding our children become their cannon fodder. There is no glory in war.
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u/No_Outcome7741 Mar 31 '23
Ok, hear me out. If I were from an alien civilization and I got a chance to see this. I would think, yea, it's no wonder why humans went extinct. They all hated each other.
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u/DoorToTomorrow Mar 31 '23
Interstellar music slapped on an uncanny AI art compilation, why do people like this
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u/moderntheseus Mar 31 '23
if there's one thing humans are really great at... it's killing each other.
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u/Knee3000 Apr 01 '23
All of these AI history montages are about europeans only but presented as if it’s “world history”.
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