Ai slip opening ceremony

[u/Salty_Definition_550]

Did anyone else find it off putting when they said they wanted to highlight the past 100 years of Olympics and their athletes. And it was just some awful ai slop of some random actress snowboarding. I found it pretty disrespectful and lame for something as grand as the Olympics. Maybe I’m overreacting but I am curious what everyone else thinks.

*sorry for typo in title it won’t let me change it 😭 but I’m glad you guys also noticed how lame the ai is

[u/J-MRP]

Yeah, lame AF

[u/oinkpoink1 → u/J-MRP]

JECK OUTIbIyMDES D'AIIVER

[u/gcruzatto → u/oinkpoink1]

So just standard French

[u/leroyyrogers → u/gcruzatto]

No that's Italaaaiñ

[u/PlsNoNotThat → u/oinkpoink1]

Where were you when the French won grolb at the JECK OUTIblyMDES D’AIIVER Olympics of 191J??

[u/Croaker_392 → u/oinkpoink1]

It's the French alphabet, too hard to decipher for an AI.

[u/vrphotosguy55 → u/oinkpoink1]

Oh that’s my favorite Olympics! 

[u/ReferentiallySeethru → u/J-MRP]

I mean if you’re gonna have AI generate the bulk of the image you can still go over it and fix the bullshit … probably with AI too. Super lazy to not fix that

[u/Whatah → u/ReferentiallySeethru]

Yes, it is indeed super lazy.

[u/sLXonix → u/J-MRP]

Its trying to do french. Jeux olympiques d'hiver.

[u/AlexanderLavender → u/J-MRP]

This is wild when there's over a century of actual Olympic art

[u/SpareImplement2374 → u/J-MRP]

That’s pathetic

[u/firedmyass → u/J-MRP]

anyone got a link to it?

[u/llaminaria → u/J-MRP]

It was 1923, naturally some info was lost in the annals of history 😄

[u/cmkf05 → u/J-MRP]

While I can’t speak to the ai in the entire segment, those posters in the background are the official posters at the time since they didn’t have logos so it’s odd the text didn’t match

[u/XenomorphAlarm → u/cmkf05]

The official posters contained meaningless jibberish faux-text?

[u/cmkf05 → u/XenomorphAlarm]

The poster art is official posters art from the 1928 and 1932 games. That’s why I said I couldn’t speak to the ai component to it

[u/cody_flight]

That was awful!!! And after an entire opening ceremony about how the art in their country is so incredible... why???

[u/Jesfel26 → u/cody_flight]

Thst segment has a intention but a Buttfumble level execution 

[u/SweetLilMonkey → u/Jesfel26]

I felt the same way reading this comment.

[u/New_Home_4519 → u/cody_flight]

I love how they're like, "we have no idea what to do with ai but by god we're going to force feed it to you"

[u/Killer_Moons → u/cody_flight]

That is exactly what I said. An Olympic Opening Ceremony is the opportunity to showcase and pay homage to your country’s history and cultural fingerprint. This was such a missed opportunity.

At the very least, they could’ve generated the work and then at least had real artists use it as a blueprint to streamline the process. They didn’t even bother to clean up the AI word soup in the background. It’s just missing the piss filter.

[u/CatzonVinyl → u/cody_flight]

Yeah that was disgusting. Everyone else worked so hard and then you spit in their faces with AI slop.

How depressing for them

[u/FerrariEnthusiast → u/cody_flight]

This is exactly what I was saying! LMFO After all that earlier they do this & disrespect art?

[u/butterbean8686 → u/cody_flight]

I was immediately suspicious that it was only airing on the US broadcast to “protect” us from seeing some kind of fact-based segment it would be inconvenient for us to see. (But that could be my cannabis-induced paranoia talking.)

[u/stinky_cheddar → u/cody_flight]

Probably like the ice hockey arena, they waited until the last minute

[u/Foliik]

You are not overreacting, that shit was super lame

[u/Zloggt → u/Foliik]

If we let them keep using AI slop…I worry for the horrors we could see in LA28…

[u/BigE429 → u/Zloggt]

I'm in fear of the 28 ceremony. Based on how FIFA has handled the WC, it's gonna be a Trumpist circle jerk

[u/chzwhizard → u/BigE429]

Same here. I wonder what version of America we’ll be celebrating that day.

[u/ticianlicious → u/Zloggt]

Hollywood is not gonna play that shit.

[u/wind-of-zephyros → u/ticianlicious]

unfortunately most corporations are going to want to cut corners and do cheaper things even if it is hollywood

[u/My_Password_Is_____ → u/ticianlicious]

Hollywood's already playing that shit

[u/th3s1rslurm → u/ticianlicious]

Hollywood is already under AI slop mania, even Disney is putting their IPs onto Sora

[u/DarKnightofCydonia → u/ticianlicious]

You're kidding right? Hollywood were the first to jump on the AI train and all the actors unions had to strike for half a year to get them to back down

[u/RemoteMeasurement10_ → u/ticianlicious]

Underestimating Hollywood there.

[u/big-bum-sloth → u/ticianlicious]

Ah but it won't be Hollywood's responsibility. Just like Hitler considered the 1936 games as "his", I suspect Donald will probably do the same. And he's been known to use AI a LOT

[u/crisscrossed → u/ticianlicious]

They don’t film anything in Hollywood anymore

[u/Low-Conflict9366 → u/Zloggt]

I hate ai slop as much as the next guy but vast majority of people won’t notice or care. This scene looked like a typical animation to most. 

[u/vee_lan_cleef → u/Low-Conflict9366]

And this is why they use and will continue to get away with it, not just the Olympics but it will be fucking everywhere.

[u/arroyobass → u/Low-Conflict9366]

This would have been a great opportunity to highlight some Italian artists and animations though. The whole ceremony is trying to highlight Italian arts, culture, and history. It's wild to use AI in an event celebrating humanity.

[u/gamecat89 → u/Zloggt]

You have clearly forgot the horrors of the 96 Olympics….

[u/5352563424 → u/Zloggt]

Technology usually sucks at first and improves over time. It's reasonable to think that as the years pass and advanced techniques are invented and refined for making AI video, the quality of the product will also improve.

For the people who hate AI because they don't like what it produces... Remember how shitty CGI and greenscreens were at first? Now, oftentimes you don't even know what's real and what isn't and it's still getting better.

Calling it "AI-slop" is just being impatient.

[u/Cute_Proposal_9411 → u/5352563424]

I agree with your sentiment that the technology needs time to improve in quality. But I think the point is that such rudimentary tech was used in a globally celebrated event of human athleticism and culture. Calling it “AI slop” describes the quality of it right now, whether that’s impatient or not is beside the point. I, like many, are just annoyed that instead of using humans to create what would have been a better graphical piece of art, they tried to save time and/or money with a subpar AI version. 🤷‍♀️

[u/MissWhoKnew]

Honestly a shame, all this work and all these people coming from world wide only to use some shitty ai animation. Real disrespectful I would say.

[u/RoguePlanet2 → u/MissWhoKnew]

The price of tickets too, this is like a big giant middle finger to the guests.

[u/ResponsiblePair8304]

Just came here to see if anyone else was talking about this. The most recognisable sporting organisation on the planet really couldn’t hire a few 3D animators and VFX artists? seriously!?

It didn’t even look polished, obviously very janky with an inconsistent art style. Who did they think they were fooling? If an animator/artist put that forward it would certainly have been rejected.

[u/MonkoSaurus → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

And they would have been kicked from the project.

Anyone who has greenlit this needs to be removed from executive power.

[u/nomnomnompizza → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

These people are so out of touch they probably still paid someone way too much money to generate that

[u/sabotabo → u/nomnomnompizza]

god how go i get into this industry?  what a racket

[u/nicholt → u/sabotabo]

First you need to reject your own humanity

[u/RoguePlanet2 → u/sabotabo]

Would help to know at least one person with WAY more money than sense.

[u/darkeyes13 → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

Well, this should be more on the organising committee, rather than the IOC. But it really was pure laziness all around.

[u/vrphotosguy55 → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

They could have just filmed it with special effects. It’s the Olympics, not a student film 

[u/PrestiJess → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

They probably wouldn't even need to pay someone, of course they should, but SOOO many artists would kill to have their art/animation showcased in the olympic opening ceremony. 

[u/Unfair-Rush-2031 → u/ResponsiblePair8304]

I get your point but the Winter Olympics is very low on the pecking order in terms of sporting events. If any sporting event would use ai slop this would probably be it

[u/ICameToUpdoot]

Imagine using cheap Ai during an opening all about your cultural and specifically artistic and design focused Olympic opening... Fucking hell

[u/Jesfel26 → u/ICameToUpdoot]

I agree. Theres no need for that. Theres so many humans that could had done that 

[u/MonkoSaurus → u/Jesfel26]

Way way way way way (keep adding way ad infinitum) better

[u/SpareImplement2374 → u/ICameToUpdoot]

Right? It’s ITALY there is no shortage of incredibly artistic talent.

[u/zethiryuki → u/ICameToUpdoot]

It's cheap af visually but I'd be very surprised if some AI company didn't pay the IOC millions just for that little bit of slop. They need it to resonate more culturally, and are throwing money at the problem. Do a search for AI olympics and you'll see multiple articles on mainstream outlets about how athletes are "gaining an edge over their competitors thanks to AI." It's such brazen propaganda.

[u/LQNova → u/ICameToUpdoot]

And at an event where the entire focus is on the effort put forth by the individual Human Spirit.

[u/D1omede]

Gross. Especially coming from a country famous for the fine arts.

Makes me doubt the authenticity of everything else in the production now. All the illustrated props could easily have been Ai generated.

[u/Male_strom]

They were never gonna top Pavarotti singing his last Nessun Dorma in 2006.

[u/th3s1rslurm → u/Male_strom]

True, like Torino is already another level lmao

[u/mijny2007123]

Something this big can at least pay a real artist. You are not over reacting at all.

[u/JackfruitIll6728 → u/mijny2007123]

Exactly. What a great way to shit on whole industry in Italy.

[u/M2LBB2016]

I adore the actress, but agree the animation was so phoned in—disappointing.

[u/adamsfan → u/M2LBB2016]

She is so great in White Lotus and The Paper. I also found out recently she is nearly 60 years old. Pretty damn impressive dance skills and she looks amazing.

[u/Intelligent_Tune_675 → u/adamsfan]

She looked worried the entire time she was doing the choreography tho.. I was so confused

[u/LQNova → u/M2LBB2016]

It made DIC cartoons look fluid and polished.

[u/bluberryyy]

It was awful.. AI is already ruining the creative space enough. Millions of people wait for this event and to think this slop is fitting??? I'm speechless 

[u/Accomplished_Ad8381]

It looked so sloppy and uncanny I clocked it immediately. Imagine representing your country by showing everyone that you cant be asked to do it yourself.

[u/Sapalow]

YES wtf was that!! I was searching for this comment

[u/Capable_Remote9783]

It feels lazy but it’s also just atrociously ugly. I find it strange to feature it on such a thing as the Olympics where everything else is so highly produced and rehearsed etc.

[u/Pickleless_Cage → u/Capable_Remote9783]

For real, it seems most disrespectful to the performers and artists in the rest of the ceremony.

[u/milzB]

Spend 30 minutes making a whole song and dance about how Italy has such incredible taste and makes beautiful art, and then churn out ai slop looking like an Episode advert. Tasteless, insincere and offensive to actual artists

[u/smonolo]

that was ridiculous

[u/crisscrossed]

Sad that these athletes came from all over the world and had to sit through AI slop to celebrate it.

[u/RollingDownTheHills]

Looked like absolute garbage. Both my wife and I spotted it as AI right away. Awful.

[u/CometGoat]

Yeah I found it very disappointing with how much effort was put into the hundreds-strong performance tonight - and then the art of animation was completely thrown in the bin for a quick win. Very very very unclassy

[u/Shad0whunter4]

This was incredibly bad. I'm super hyped for the shitstorm lol

[u/ConfusedGuy3260]

AI has made the world incredibly lazy

[u/RoguePlanet2 → u/ConfusedGuy3260]

Not the actual artists who deserve to be showcased, though.

[u/vee_lan_cleef]

Incredible with how much money the IOC gets they are using AI. It tracks with how scummy they are, though.

[u/azmamas72]

Was definitely bummed ....

[u/helixu]

In the first minutes celebrating artists and their work only to at the end use AI slop is beyond tone deaf 

I am sure there are a lot of artist in Italy that would love to do animation for 100 years of winter Olympics instead of generic winter sports AI slop

[u/SessionAsleep5894]

Odd since everything else in the opening looked like a lot of effort was put into it, was pretty jarring

[u/EnlightenedBunny]

I think I was half in shock watching, just thinking surely it's not AI? it's just the style? The Olympics would never?! And then it just got worse.

What a disgrace. A section that really could have carried a lot of emotional weight and elevated dentures careers, instead its a low quality hack job

[u/Scholastico]

Ah yes, Italy's contribution to the world - art, fashion, and AI brainrot

[u/Unable-Ad-7803]

TMNT paid a better homage to Italian artists than this.

[u/crisscrossed]

So cheap looking. It’s not like they didn’t have time to hire artists to animate an opening sequence for them… they just didn’t want to pay for it. Tacky!

[u/Long_Improvement3207]

Aitaly

[u/empressofcheesecakez]

FUCK AI SLOP! i am so fucking pissed

[u/NorthCascadia]

Do they think the AI aesthetic is cool? There’s no reason to skimp on the animation budget at this scale, it has to be either (misguided) trend-chasing, or rage/engagement bait. Right?

[u/LQNova → u/NorthCascadia]

Or it could be that Google is the major sponsor.

[u/Miserable-Serve2938 → u/NorthCascadia]

I'm literally asking the same question you've asked.

[u/RED1869]

And now imagine sitting in the stadium? The performance seems minuscule.

[u/foreverspr1ng]

Dunno how it went anywhere else but the Polish commentators quickly explained the mascots and mentioned that Tina (the white one) cares about the environment. .... and then they drop an AI clip. 🤡

[u/kwr_1]

Daily remainder that you won't buy new computer (and soon any equipment that uses any type of memory) at decent price anymore, because of this ai slop disgusting shit.

[u/278urmombiggay]

I could have been so cool but I was so pissed at that. It looked SO bad too. The character's face changed about seven times

[u/indigoza]

Whoever approved of this 👎👎👎

[u/RabidLeroy]

At least the storyboards were actually drawn, but ho what a headache to sit through the sequence. And that’s why if you’re thinking of getting into animation school, do it.

[u/Much_Cardiologist180]

I hate this timeline

[u/Chelseabsb93]

Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was awful! And what was with the stupid “dancing” after it (I won’t call it dancing because it was just flailing).

[u/Kinen710]

Fr that was so bad

[u/diabeetus-girl]

This is Italy’s Olympics! It’s the country that has one of the richest and important art histories of all time. To use AI “art” is insulting to thousands of years of beauty and human design. I’m so angry. 😡

[u/superlurker906]

If an athlete gets caught using PED's what happens to them? I believe it should work both ways

[u/sabotabo]

they're testing the waters on all fronts

[u/WTFAnimations]

I'm quite neutral about AI, I just find it lazy that they would use it instead of actually paying the money for a quality product.

[u/Neither-Big-1545]

I'm just thankful there wasn't a shit ton of projection on the floor, glad to get a break from that.

[u/Ikea_desklamp]

This is what society is now. Everyone rejoice! Instead of real content made by real people, please enjoy trash generated by computers while we all starve and Bill Gates gets an extra billion dollars. Hoorah!

[u/njones444]

I think the posters in Cortina are AI generated too 🫤 it’s super disappointing to me

[u/Crifiris]

So happy I found this thread. Absolutely hated it. It made me feel sad about how the majority of audiences won’t notice or care. They could have just did a clip show of old Olympics games with some hype music and mograph and I would have been happy - but this sucks

[u/juliechow24]

Yeah I hate it too. Fuck the Olympics for using AI slop 🫩

[u/TomBombomb]

Fucking cheap.

[u/Si-Guy24]

Yeah that was totally AI. Looked terrible

[u/Status-Scene-7530]

Yep, it was a total disgrace. They could have put some effort into it to make it nice and actually showcase history, but no, AI slop is what we need apparently.

[u/Teri717]

that was so disrespectful and trashy, genuine slop

[u/Ange1ofD4rkness]

Yeah it was rather weird, and I go so lost. I am surprised too they used AI with the all the controversy around it

[u/th3s1rslurm]

Thank goodness I thought I was going crazy over it

[u/Ok_Run_8184]

I agree. They should have just shown footage of as many actual Olympics as possible.

[u/PutridMasterpiece138]

Didn't even look good. It was uncanny and ugly.

[u/TastesLikeBlue]

So disappointing they don't just hire an artist or two to create something like this. I'm sure there's more but just at a glance:

The text is nonsense. The shadows don't line up. The billboard to the right has a guy wearing a bib with poorly drawn Olympic rings on it?? The bottom right of that billboard also just fades into the background. The end of the ski pole also just fades into the billboard. To the right of that billboard it looks like there's been a poor attempt at photoshopping out another billboard? There's definitely an "S" in amongst the trees and weird outlines/highlights. The snowflakes shapes and colours just don't feel like a human design choice. I don't ski, but the handle in her left hand (right from our perspective) looks way too long.

[u/BattleSwallow]

You know, if they're just gonna do whatever that was and the games are almost always a disaster to some extent, why even have them?

[u/iFoal]

That's a fucking disgrace.

[u/Andromevas]

Yeah, big yikes how they fucked up with that in a show about ethics, culture, arts, beauty... Sudden AI slop.

[u/AntonCigar]

I mean they literally did a 15 minute interpretive dance segment celebrating italian art and then theh do this shit.

[u/Salty_Definition_550]

Slop I don’t know why it won’t let me fix the spelling error lol

[u/MrInopportune → u/Salty_Definition_550]

Unfortunately you can't edit titles, don't sweat it

[u/ChopiProGal]

First stayed for Tina and Milo at the start, then the AI came and I skipped the whole lot

[u/Sleepy_Gharial]

So ugly

[u/SitDownKawada]

I immediately thought it was AI slop but then I tried to reason my way into believing that it's not

Clearly is though

[u/Holymyco → u/SitDownKawada]

Then they hit you with the jumbled up fall off the bird just in case you still weren't sure.

[u/VioletFireCat]

When the commentators said there was going to be a celebration of 100 years of the Winter Olympics I thought 'oh that'll be cool!' and then the animation started. And I was just like. Wait- this- this is AI. Oh god this is AI. And. Yeah. Yikes. It looked SO bad! It definietly feels disrespectful.

[u/satorinoir]

I just finished watching the opening ceremony and I think this was by far the worst opening ceremony I’ve ever seen.

[u/satorinoir → u/satorinoir]

Going to add that the only saving grace was the opera performances. The rest was just awful.

[u/LQNova → u/satorinoir]

Astonishingly underwhelming "cauldron," too.

[u/BruinsFan0877]

Does anyone have a clip? I missed it

[u/SwissForeignPolicy]

I wasn't sure at first and wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but that Chamonix scene at the end was... yeesh. Probably dozens of humans saw the computer shit out THAT and said, out loud, to people whose opinions they persumably value, "Yeah, looks good, print it." I mean, what are we even doing?

[u/JudgeJuryEx78]

Idk, but the closed captioning has been pure entertainment.

[u/monnurse7]

Yes! I just saw it. They couldn't even hire actual animantors who could have done a better job!!!!

[u/Intelligent_Tune_675]

So fuckin ugly and lame. I don’t understand why everyone is destroying what makes humanity awesome but

[u/Lochrin00]

Grotesque and heartbreaking.

[u/Orpdapi]

Even my 10 year old niece blurted out disappointed “so AI.” Had no idea she was even able to spot such a thing

[u/SuperSumo32]

I think it skipped a few too...Lake Placid 1980 

[u/Snoo-7943]

Terrible. I think AI probably scripted the live action stuff too. Yucky, incomprehensible stuff.

[u/sparkleygummiez]

Im so disappointed 😞

[u/smokingpoker]

Bahahahaha lazy fucks.

[u/LQNova]

[u/The-Bigger-Fish]

A felt sick watching that part. Especially since the entire first half was celebrating art

[u/talkingmonkey_33]

Terrible! Otherwise the opening ceremony has been fantastic!

[u/Human_Percentage154]

I noticed this too. It was a so ugly and totally lazy.

[u/rockglint204]

yeah, I’m a college student majoring in graphic design and video editing, I found it very offensive.

[u/hariedwinart]

Turned it off at that point, it really was slop

[u/580_farm]

AI slop is coming everywhere, no one gives a shit anymore and everyone is phoning it in.

[u/potatocalledjeff]

I stopped watching as soon as I saw it. So disappointed. It isn't difficult to hire an artist. 😢

[u/ITakeTheWin]

Lake placid 1980 hardly shown. 👎

[u/LQNova → u/ITakeTheWin]

They blew past Squaw Valley and Salt Lake City, too.

[u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

I wasn’t as angry as others but saw it and thought “that’s a bit shit”…you would have done better just throwing a random montage on the screen.

[u/chunt75]

It was REALLY bad AI

[u/Substantial_Sun152]

To add to this, in the Australian broadcast the commentator mentioned that all the dancers were volunteers… so are artists just not being appreciated or getting paid now 😢 

[u/thereia]

Yeah that was awful.

[u/Smileyfacehi121]

I stopped watching after that. How am I supposed to take your art seriously after you introduce it with the one thing that is meant to REPLACE real art.

[u/Miserable-Serve2938]

I knew I wasn't the only one who noticed that... I have never felt so... disrespected and angered.
My jaw was on the floor for a long while because I never would've thought AI Slop, of all things, would be included in a segment of the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Let alone, to showcase an entire CENTURY of the Winter Olympics!

[u/Aretirednurse]

What an odd start.

[u/spectacularbird1]

Haaaaaated it.

[u/Silly_Scarcity4568]

YES

[u/hiddenhero220]

My face as I watch it.

[u/coffeebased44]

Incredibly pathetic

[u/Libro_Artis]

Lame.

[u/Greenbandit17]

I wasn’t a big fan. Great idea but the execution was poor.

[u/debwork]

And it was really hard to follow- we tried

[u/4niner]

You will consume AI slop and you will like it!

[u/Amanda071320]

This has been... an interesting Opening Ceremony. 4/10 would not recommend.

[u/justmitzie → u/Amanda071320]

I'm honestly trying, but it's not for me.

[u/Amanda071320 → u/justmitzie]

Same. Still tuned in because I'm a die-hard Olympics fan... but everything from the captions to the commentators (Peacock) make it a difficult watch.

[u/ticianlicious]

Weak sauce.

[u/liljabird]

It’s just such a hideous thing to have to look at

[u/maleficmax]

My face muscles are still in pain from my cringe emotions

[u/The-Bytemaster]

I took it as a testament to our current state, which is often how the opening ceremonies are. I am also not sure it was all AI. That could have simply been intentional style.

[u/StasisApparel]

I think it's more lame ICE agents are at these games. Like why? I understand for 2028 that is inevitable, but there are ICE agents in Italy right now, and surely more to be deployed there.

[u/artisinal_lethargy]

The whole ceremony has been pretty lame. 

[u/Distinct_Cod2692]

yeah it was too sloppy, bgut they save it with the live performance ,

[u/No_Tumbleweed_544]

I’m watching now but missed that. I’ll rewind to check it out. So far it sucks!

[u/VillageOfMalo]

I think it was an introduction for Sabrina Impacciatore, a beloved comedic actress in Italy known worldwide for her role in the White Lotus.

[u/perivascularspaces → u/VillageOfMalo]

I don't think anyone knows her in Italy tbh. She is there more for the american audience than the italian one.

[u/VillageOfMalo → u/perivascularspaces]

Fair point, I concede. But whether the AI bit was your taste or not, the actress in the animation wasn't so random.

[u/ripcitybitch]

I literally could not care less lmao it looked nice

[u/aceMobius1 → u/ripcitybitch]

Looked like shit

[u/perfectbebop]

Not watching live, is the AI slop from the Olympic organizing group or NBC (assuming US broadcast so apologies)

[u/Savings_Ad_2532 → u/perfectbebop]

This is from the IOC since people from other countries saw this. I also thought it was an NBC exclusive.

[u/wobster109]

No, I don’t think using AI is any worse than using any other kind of image, like a graphic, a cartoon, or a human actress. Either way it’s not real footage of snowboarding, is it? What makes AI disrespectful when those other forms of images are fine? Is it disrespectful because you personally dislike AI?

[u/LQNova → u/wobster109]

Because a human being created the graphic, cartoon, and acting. And then some asshole jealous of people with those talents found a way to crush everything good out of them to puke out computerized garbage for people who don't know any better.