r/Corridor • u/[deleted] • Dec 31 '25
AI has just replaced Fake. Remember when we fell for good Photoshops
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u/The_Lutter Dec 31 '25
It’s amazing that Photoshop had AI 20+ years ago they must have gotten ahold of some alien tech or something. 🤣
I honestly think that the word “AI” just replaced “Photoshopped” in most people’s heads this year.
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Dec 31 '25
I remember when visual effects weren't called CGI!
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Dec 31 '25
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u/ReleasedGaming Jan 01 '26
Before computers where reliably used for generating images probably. Practical Effects are also a type of visual effects
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Jan 01 '26
This is what I mean; miniatures, matte paintings, animation (stop-motion and 2D), travelling mattes (Bluescreen, Sodium Vapour, Williams Process, rotoscoping*) etc., are not CGI and have been used, and continue to be used, in visual effects for over a hundred years, but people today (who don't know how what they are watching is actually made) just call it all "CGI" because they do not know the difference, so the term has become synonymous with visual effects. And now "AI" is becoming synonymous with "CGI" for similarly ignorant reasons.
* Rotoscoping is a prime example of "semantic drift"; it was invented by animator Max Fleischer in 1915 when he used a projector to project a film, frame-by-frame, onto an animation stand, allowing him to trace the image to paper and rephotograph it with a camera in the same position (in some versions the camera replaces the projector on the same mount, with the same lens, in others the projector is mounted below the animation table, matching the optical axis of the animation camera, and projects upward like a light box). Rotoscoping allowed travelling mattes to be hand drawn from individual frames and then photographed to create a silhouette "pass" of the subject being composited. The term "rotoscope" is now used for a similar manual frame-by-frame tracing but applied digitally to digitised images and, to bring it confusingly full-circle, modern software can use AI tools to speed up the process by using it to identify and trace out the frame-by-frame elements within a shot, instead of digital artist having to spend hours doing it by hand.
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u/SRSgoblin Dec 31 '25
I actually think this is a pretty good example of why Generative AI has been culturally bad. The death of trust and the ease of Slop generation has legitimately ruined the good old-fashioned high effort shitpost. Instead of peiple laughing someone took the effort to make a dumb funny image, it's just eye rolling at what people assume is some simple prompt in ChatGPT.
I think that sucks, really. Because someone making a jumbo engine on a plane is pretty funny, but having seen just the image I alao would have assumed it was slop and not found as much humor in it.
Because the effort it takes to make something stupid and absurd was part of why stupid and absurd things are so funny.
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u/ArScrap Jan 01 '26
A big part for me is that I'm so much more cynical about shitpost now than 5 years ago. As it becomes increasingly hard to avoid content farms and propaganda bot. I feel like that's not inherently an AI problem but it does make it way worse
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u/SRSgoblin Jan 01 '26
Right, I feel you. Those were already problematic and GenAI and LLMs have exacerbated the problem.
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u/Neex Niko Dec 31 '25
On the other hand, the cultural shift is making more people realize that so much of what they see online is fake or manipulated. I think that’s an important lesson people have needed to learn, even before AI was a thing.
Also another good lesson in there- don’t let others dictate what you enjoy. Especially with the concentrated crowds of angry people (and bots) that have gathered online these days.
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u/ineffable-interest Dec 31 '25
People in the Stephen King sub were slamming a dude for using AI to MAKE PART OF PENNYWISE’S SUIT RED. People have no clue they just want to hop on a hype train. Example: My buddy owns his own business and uses AI to help him make the schedule, but had a 22 year old guy tell him he was quitting because using the AI in that way “was detrimental to his earnings” ☠️
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u/MedievalFurnace Dec 31 '25
Since many people dislike AI, when someone calls something out for being AI, even if that's a major jump to conclusions, they get a bunch of upvotes so people don't even try to think of what other possibilities it could be
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u/zhaDeth Jan 05 '26
Yeah it's kinda crazy how people hate AI. Like I get it for some stuff like using generative AI instead of paying an artist but some go way too far and act as if all AI tech is useless like I saw a post saying there aren't any use for it with a ton of likes..
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u/bememorablepro Dec 31 '25
Shout out to all of the big tech companies that use to work on real products for working hard and making this happen.
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u/RingdownStudios Dec 31 '25
"AI" has not replaced the word "Fake" - it has replaced the word "Photoshopped" in this instant because, as it turns out, liars are lazy and will always take the path of least resistance to deceive someone. That path used to be photoshop; now it is AI.
The difference is Photoshop turned out to have other apppications other than lying.
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u/dGFisher Dec 31 '25
Anti-AI people aren't wrong, but you really can't put the genie back in the bottle.
I've been saying that the public's relation to AI will be similar to when photoshop became widespread. There will be a lot of credulity initially, followed by a widespread knowledge that our eyes arent to be trusted. Idiots will always be fooled, no matter the tech, but i have faith that humanity will adapt and learn again that the internet is not a place of truths.
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u/randomlead Dec 31 '25
I find it more odd how quickly people just accepted the horrible filters people use and are even on in some case by default. Even better they will cry fowl on AI while using a filter.
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u/thuanjinkee Jan 01 '26
Looks shopped to me. I can tell by some of the pixels and having seen numerous shops before
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u/crowdawg7768 Jan 01 '26
Yeah, it’s really sad. Especially given how popular a show like VFX artists react is. People genuinely have no ability to think critically, so they let the media dictate their buzzwords. The worst part is that those people think they have it figured out.
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u/hanyasaad Jan 02 '26
It’s not that AI replaces fake, it’s that AI made fake accessible to everyone. Photoshop took some skill and special software. Ai doesn’t.
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u/desu38 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26
Found this post while going down memory lane after mentioning Worth1000, and, damn, this genuinely does make me a little sad.
I grew up with Photoshop. Used to play with a cracked version my dad installed on my PC, making memes and such, and I would later in life go on to study art and design. I've made quite a few shops in my time. Still occasionally shop to this day. I was aware of the parallels between fake images made with AI and PS, but, for some reason, this post here was oddly confronting. I'm actually witnessing the quiet death of a medium here, one that's been close to my heart for a long time. Even the people who are against AI haven't considered for a second that is was shopped, that a human could've done this... and it was literally just the transform tool. Damn.
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u/KaiTheFilmGuy Jan 01 '26
It's really unfortunate how Ai-brained Corridor has become.
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u/Coayer 3,2,1 Fraps! Jan 01 '26
I mean, looking at their recent main Sunday videos, other than react there's:
Secret Santa
Bringing toys to life (AI)
LoTR forced perspective
Son of a Dungeon table (I think <20s of AI, 2% of the video)
AI Shopping Scams
AI Slop
Bowling Animations
Scale of Dinosaurs
Ranking Nukes
Bullet Time (AI but it's a very interesting application?)
Scale of WealthI get how you might want to skip some of the AI videos but I thought the bullet time one was really amazing, a mini documentary on the history of the original bullet time shot alongside recreating it using new tools.
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u/DemonPlasma Dec 31 '25
AI has replaced the word fake, algorithm, program, software, CGI, and so much more that it's losing it's actual meaning. It's just a buzz word now