If AI Seinfeld didn’t terrify you enough, another beloved comedy series is getting the Twitch artificial intelligence treatment. Earlier this month, the channel ai_sponge launched on the video livestream service, introducing the world to a more demented version of “SpongeBob Squarepants.”
Like AI Seinfeld, which used the bones of “Seinfeld” as dressing for a rambling AI fever dream, ai_sponge takes the iconic characters of the Nickelodeon animated series — including SpongeBob himself, his best friend Patrick, his boss Mr. Krabs, and nemesis Squidward. It puts them in a series of wild meandering conversations. Presented with graphics from the cartoon’s 2003 videogame tie-in “Battle for Bikini Bottom,” the streams see an apparently AI-controlled version of SpongeBob say things like, “It has to be semen if we’re going to make that Krabby Patty stuff work” or talk about Jeff Bezos.
Making it more uncanny, the voices of the characters...
Like AI Seinfeld, which used the bones of “Seinfeld” as dressing for a rambling AI fever dream, ai_sponge takes the iconic characters of the Nickelodeon animated series — including SpongeBob himself, his best friend Patrick, his boss Mr. Krabs, and nemesis Squidward. It puts them in a series of wild meandering conversations. Presented with graphics from the cartoon’s 2003 videogame tie-in “Battle for Bikini Bottom,” the streams see an apparently AI-controlled version of SpongeBob say things like, “It has to be semen if we’re going to make that Krabby Patty stuff work” or talk about Jeff Bezos.
Making it more uncanny, the voices of the characters...
- 3/24/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
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