My two sons are staying with their grandparents in Florida this week. Sweet folks, but they keep Fox News running nonstop—literally background noise from morning to night.
Yesterday, my 10-year-old apparently told his 15-year-old brother:
“These commercials look weird… like robots made them.”
That caught his older brother’s attention. A few minutes later, I get a FaceTime from the 15-year-old, who says:
“Dad, I think [10yo] is right. These Fox News commercials look totally fake—like AI-generated fake.”
I told him to show me what he meant. He flipped the camera and started recording a few of the ads.
And… he’s not wrong.
The people in the commercials? Their faces don’t move quite right. The expressions feel forced, like they were mapped onto a face rig. The voices have that slightly-too-even tone, like a text-to-speech engine trying to sound “human but polished.” The pacing? Off. The backgrounds? Way too clean. It’s like someone told an AI to make a commercial that “looks trustworthy to boomers.”
Now here’s where it gets unsettling:
What if this isn’t just budget cutting or lazy ad production?
What if they’re gradually feeding AI-generated content to older audiences on purpose—training them not to notice when deepfakes show up? Because if the audience gets used to watching synthetic actors, fake doctors, and generic-looking veterans… they won’t blink when an AI-generated political figure, spokesperson, or “breaking news” segment pops up.
You get used to the uncanny, and then it becomes normal.
I don’t think my kids were being paranoid. I think they caught something real—because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Anyone else noticing this on Fox or other networks?
EDIT: STORY IS 100% REAL! However it’s also 100% fed through ChatGPT. I’m super high and lazy. Also FUCK CANCER
EDIT EDIT: My 15yo said that the commercial would start saying something exclamatory then transition to real people having a different but similar conversation etc
EDIT EDIT EDIT: I don’t know what the edit protocol is here. I’ve added the video he sent me and when Imgur finishes I’ll upload the screen shots of our text convo.
If you’d like I’ll add screen recordings of my whole exchange with ChatGPT. This blew way up over night and I wish I could respond to you all. If you’d like some clarity about the cancer I have a post up over at r/airforce about it.
Posted by totalcontrol
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I notice this in movies, tv, & commercials. It’s everywhere. Stay aware so you can tell the difference. I’m afraid our brains will get lazy and start accepting the fake.
wait til you find out Netflix made a deal with an ai company to put the ads within the movie or TV show and I think their personalized and interactive
Everything looks fake….and what’s with all the dancing in every fucking commercial. It’s bizarre
Wait til you notice the ai songs
When I once watched a final fantasy cartoon/movie/anime whatever it was and couldn’t tell it was animation for a moment I knew we were extra toasted on a lot of things. I’m not huge on the AI movement. Especially when I saw a movie being created from a picture. Nobody’s safe from accusations now. I guess we will soon need AI experts/ ai legal defense and who knows what else .
Imagine how much worse it is in Idaho, Wyoming or Delaware. Ads are based on the savviness of the market. When Lady Gaga put out her Poker Face song the Los Angeles market was the only one that bleeped out “Fuck Her Face” lyrics that she tried to sneak in. Same thing happened with Britney Spears’ If You Seek Amy. The L.A. market let her play that song for a day before it was too obvious she was spelling out FUCK ME. A.I. is probably dominating all those markets and those people have no clue.
This is an awesome theory. I’m going to check out Fox News now and compare what I see to what your kids are seeing.
Regardless of that, AI slop will be everywhere before ya know it, spewing whatever nonsense the prompt-masters want us to see/hear. It’s Twilight Zone levels of ironic that in the age of information we’re losing our sense of reality.
The “news”, like jeopardy and wheel of fortune, are just vehicle to push big pharmaceutical corporation’s products on old folks. Every commercial is for drugs.
This looks like it was written using AI
Yes, I been noticing on YouTube. At least we can still kinda spot it. 🤷🏼♀️ They’re getting pretty good.
Tell the grandparents to turn off motion controls. Like smooth motioning causes the soap opera effect and makes everything look weird.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/how-to-disable-the-annoying-soap-opera-effect-thats-ruining-your-tv/
yup! we’re entering the singularity as we speak. AI video generation has crossed the uncanny valley and we are going down the rabbit hole. wheeeee
OP
Turn off motion smoothing on your TV
This really looks like an AI post haha
all commercials are gonna be AI soon, why hire actors and and crew when one guy with a computer can make a commercial that’s a couple seconds long
The irony of using ChatGPT to write this
I remember a couple of years ago Biden giving a speech and i swore his lower face was AI, and then when Tim Walz was campaigning there was one speech where I thought the same thing, regarding the lower face again
Like it was so uncanny that I was scared. Like why are they doing this
There are tone of AI generated commercials with better ones on the way. Would you rather pay an actor $25K a day or a prompt master with an engine $10K. This is part and parcel of why AI will kill so many jobs.
For a long time I’ve felt like plastic surgery is being pushed to make actual humans look fake when they talk, thus blurring the lines even further between human and ai.
I’ve long had the idea that media feeds us ideas and stories so when they pop up in real life we are desensitized. Not surprised at all and would expect this to start happening on a wide scale everywhere.
Ive been saying this for years!!! Ive scoured the jnternet for other people talking about this for years but everythibg was censored.
Believe it or not, in 2021 google would not allow you to sewrch for “weird commercials” or “why are commercials weird now” or anythibg related. It would alwsys return results for “super bowl funny commercials” NO MATTER WHAT and it would go back pages and pages. Thr commercis were actuslly weirder then……esp. Balance of nature. CNN and msnbc had different, but equally bizarre commercials with sickly looking strange people
Honestly, it went unnoticed but the whole entire news media got extremely bizarre immediately following jan 6
Check the tv settings. Old people leave motion tracing on and it looks weird.
I love that you ran your post warning about AI, through AI before posting
Fuck cancer 🤜🤛