A TikTok account dedicated to releasing an AI-generated series featuring animated fruit characters had a large number of its videos removed from the platform.
The TikTok account AI Cinema (@ai.cinema021), the creator of the viral sensation “Fruit Love Island,” has quickly amassed millions of followers since launching just two weeks ago.
One user posting on Reddit’s r/antiai forum questioned the account’s staggering pace of views.
“Maybe we’re watching the bots go down. The bots keep going down,” they commented.
The original poster agreed with that possibility, but still expressed concern about the number of people posting that they were enjoying the series.
“Yes, but I’ve seen plenty of videos of real people raving about it,” they replied. “It was mind-boggling.”
Even though the number of followers and views skyrocketed, the account faced intense backlash. The ethical and environmental implications of artificial intelligence, especially for entertainment purposes only, have given audiences pause.
As a result, many social media users reported AI Cinema’s accounts, citing some of TikTok’s AI-generated content guidelines, including fake engagement and unlabeled AI works.
The account has since had “half” of its videos removed from the platform, according to a TikTok story on Wednesday.
A screen recording of this story, posted by user @josiah_awkward on
One user commented, “Who would have thought that the AI user was the bad guy??”
Another user accused the creator of “Fruit Love Island” in a story post of running out of clean water in retaliation for the massive loss of the video.
“So they admitted to wasting clean water to bring in more AI out of malice,” they quipped.
Although AI has sometimes been successful in attracting the attention of the general public, public sentiment towards the entertainment and art produced by AI has generally been negative. And when the overuse of AI appears on social media platforms for a global audience, it’s at least reassuring to see people criticize it.
It’s not all that reassuring to see creators willing to deliberately waste electricity and water on video production, but as more AI image and video platforms battle profitability, companies producing AI media may have to pay more, as OpenAI shut down its Sora AI video app earlier this week, with some reports saying it cost $15 million a day to operate.
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