Absurd Tiktok trends allow AI to finish your photos

New trends in Tiktok use cap cut templates and AI to animate photos.

This trend changes your normal photo from your most illogical dreams to something, and instantly falling from your real life to something that falls from the deep edge. In one photo, a man sits a dog on his lap. Ai turns the dog into a man wearing a dog suit (for some reason?), and the police arrest him when the man screams with three (?) arms.

“To get faster with laughs at the whole house,” one user commented under the video.

“Well, that's my nightmare tonight,” another user said.

In another photo, a woman is left fully dressed in an empty tub. As the photo brings back to life using AI, the water quickly fills the tub, she stands up and miraculously walks through the porcelain enamel tub, and returns to the tub when she notices a robber coming through the bathroom door.

Editing is often pointless. Still, there are several patterns that have appeared. These videos usually result in someone kicking the air and someone else having someone kick someone else with too many hands. In many cases, police officers and robbers are involved in one way or another.

To try out the trends yourself, you will need to download Capcut, the Tiktok editing app, and use the trending template. Like most CapCut trends, there are multiple templates, each linked to a specific Tiktok video itself. Ask the question specifically, “Who will be taken to the police?” Others simply promise that “AI will guess what will happen next.” Using most versions of the template, you'll have them choose a photo in Capcut – I chose a photo of my cat at the dinner table – and then AI effects will be applied automatically. In the AI ​​version of the video, my cat wears a purple blazer and a white dress shirt and goes to him He kicked him in the air, transforming him into an old man, and raining vegetables on the screen.

People trying out the trends say it shows just how ridiculous AI is. Always add hands, walk through solid objects, or draw the true confusion of a dream. In one video where a dog turns into a truly scary person, the commenter shared, “What do you know, it's my own fault for having the internet.”

Beyond the relative stupidity of trends, few users have absolutely doubted the ethics involved in it.

Using AI has a lasting impact on your environment. A group of over 130 civil society organisations, including Amnesty International and Defend Democracy, have issued an open letter urging the AI ​​industry and its regulators to mitigate the environmental impact of the technology, TechCrunch reported in February. We don't know how much energy it will take to try this particular Tiktok trend, but a survey by MIT Technology Review found that the new AI model is creating a 5-second video using “more than 700 times the energy needed to produce a high-quality image, about 3.4 million joules.”