While the real show for the Super Bowl this year might have been the Bad Bunny halftime performance, which was much more exciting (or, at least, polarizing if you hate fun) than the game itself, there were others out there who might have been too busy to notice any of the festivities.This is because they were hard at work creating their entries for the Grok Imagine Game Day Ad Contest, which was hosted on X. This game day ad contest was a quick turnaround contest that gave creators just 48 hours to create game day ads with Grok Imagine 1.0.The winners have been announced, with the top prize taking home a $1 million prize. If you’re curious to see the results, you can check out what they look like below.The State of AI Slop As we’ve covered in the past, the world of AI in the film and video industry is breaking down into some distinct buckets. There are workflow assistance AI tools, there are AI platforms, and there are generative AI image and video models. This is important to us as the “AI slop” term, which we use to describe the sloppiness of fully AI-generated images and videos, really only applies to the last section. And that’s what this contest is focused on. Similar to the results of Darren Aronofsky’s AI-slop revolutionary war show, even the best in the business are creating videos and ads that have all the characteristics of sloppiness, as the character models look awkward and...
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