By G. Mudalige, Jadetimes News
Unless it's in the ever-cyclical landscape of the internet, there are very few things that catch the public eye as much as what could be seen with Chubby, an AI-generated cat now taking TikTok and YouTube Shorts by storm. In successive short films on sad and bizarre situations, Chubby and his AI-generated feline companions have collected millions of views and have their own devoted following, bringing a very important topic of art, tech, and social media together finally.
Suddenly, the combined AI-generated cat videos with Chubby in its featured cat can't steal from shops or is bullied at the schoolyards, and worldwide audience acceptance is captured. And no wonder: the convincing power of these videos is strong enough with thousands of comments and millions of people being interested in these online products.
The popularity and success of Chubby and other similar AI-engendered content show a major shift in the way online content is going to be made and consumed. At the behest of ever-advancing AI tools, creators are using machines to generate content in unprecedented volumes, often maximizing algorithmic appeal over traditional creative processes. This, in turn, has raised a question about the nature of online content in the future: is this really an innovation of a new art form, or is it only a flash in the pan—one that exists only to fulfill the demands of social media algorithms?
Either way, the solution is clear: AI-generated content, like Chubby's tragic tales, is here to stay—a preview into possible updates of an almost unnoticed future Internet, where machines shape the content we consume more and more.
