AI Can Imagine Anything, So Why Do Its Videos Keep Destroying Cities?
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-13
The author notices that AI video feeds are flooded with spectacle destruction — earthquakes, tsunamis, missiles leveling cities — racking up millions of views. As an AI creator himself, he marvels at the technology but questions why creators gravitate toward the same apocalyptic spectacle. He kicks off a thread asking what this pattern reveals about us: not what AI can create, but what our choices are teaching it about human taste.
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