He’s back again! AI Jay Sherman is still reviewing movies. While “The Critic” may have been cancelled decades ago, AI is keeping his spirit and trademark snark alive. So today, I had him review another movie. This time, he reviews Jurassic World. It was a very successful movie. But let’s see AI Jay tear it to shreds on TikTok. Enjoy!
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AI Jay Sherman AI Jay Sherman Reviews “Jurassic World” On TikTok
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Google Just Created An AI That Makes Videos And The World Will Never Be The Same
In recent years, it has become routine for tech companies to overhype up their latest artificial intelligence technology. Ever since the rise of ChatGPT, the market for this technology has expanded faster than anything I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. It’s not unreasonable to surmise that AI will be a multi-trillion-dollar industry in the coming decades.
But I’m also old enough to remember the dot-com bubble. I haven’t forgotten what happens when hype exceeds capabilities. And, as remarkable as these emerging AI systems are, their capabilities are still limited. Whether it’s large language models or image generators, these AI systems are a long way from becoming Skynet. They’re certainly part of the ongoing development to create Artificial General Intelligence, but that leap is not imminent. That would be like jumping from rotary phones to iPhones.
However, AI is different from the dot-com bubble or any other overhyped product for that matter. I’ve said before that AI has the potential to change the world in ways we literally cannot imagine. That potential is far from being realized, but there’s a good chance people my age will live long enough to see it play out.
Well, recently a bit more of that potential was realized. Google, a company that is very active in the development of AI, released a new generative AI tool called Veo3. Like other generative AI tools, this particular tool specializes in creating full videos from text prompts. It’s not the first tool of its kind. However, based on some of the videos that have come out from Veo3, it’s definitely a step forward in terms of quality. If you need proof, check these videos out.
Remember, the content in this video is entirely AI. It never happened.
I’m not gonna lie. I did not expect these videos to look this realistic. With other AI video generators, you can usually tell it’s not real. Between the glitchy movements and the uncanny valley effect, not many people would mistake those videos as real.
But Veo3 has taken it to another level. If I didn’t know ahead of time that this content was fake, I might have just shrugged and accepted it. And that’s a major threshold that we cannot uncross with this technology. Because when it suddenly becomes possible to create videos that look as real as anything taken in real life, how can we trust any video?
Make no mistake. This won’t just be used to flood the internet with advertisements and mindless entertainment. Someone is going to use this technology maliciously. There’s a good chance someone is already doing so as we speak.
At this very moment, you can use Veo3. It is expensive, as many advanced AI tools tend to be. But if you’re determined to make a certain video for a certain purpose, be it malicious or altruistic, is $250 really that high a price? I know people who have spent more on skins in Fortnite.
And Veo3 is not the apex of generative AI. It’s going to keep improving. The incentives are too strong. Google might have the best video generator now, but other multi-billion-dollar companies who want a piece of that AI market will fight to take that title.
Maybe OpenAI will upgrade Sora.
Maybe Microsoft will upgrade its Copilot AI.
Maybe a company like Apple will make a big leap, just like they did with smartphones years ago.
But no matter which company makes the next best AI video generator, the technology will improve. It’s going to become increasingly difficult to tell when something is real or fake. There are likely going to be laws and policies that attempt to regulate this kind of AI. But governments have been historically slow at keeping up with technology. And the advancement of AI is likely to accelerate.
I certainly don’t claim to know what kind of impact Veo3 will have in the short-term. I already make YouTube videos on my own. Will my kind of content become obsolete or unable to compete? Will video sites everywhere become overwhelmed or bloated because of content generated by Veo3?
Then, there’s the long-term impact. What happens to major studios once this technology allows them to make movies and shows faster, cheaper, and without paying actual people? That’s an issue I once thought was decades away. Now, it might be relevant within a few years.
Only time will tell what sort of changes this technology will incur. But if what Veo3 has demonstrated is any indication, these changes are coming a lot sooner than expected.
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AI Jay Sherman Reviews James Cameron’s “Avatar” On TikTok
He’s back! AI Jay Sherman is still at it. While “The Critic” may have been cancelled decades ago, AI is keeping his spirit and trademark snark alive. So today, I had him review another movie. This time, he reviews James Cameron’s Avatar. It’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Now, let’s see AI Jay tear it to shreds on TikTok. Enjoy!
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AI Jay Sherman Reviews “The Minecraft Movie” On TikTok
Recently, while dealing with the drama surrounding my YouTube channel, I decided to explore some other creative endeavors. One idea that I’ve been contemplating recently has to do with TikTok. There are certain ideas I’ve had that just wouldn’t work on YouTube, either due to format or content. But I thought one idea might work well with Tiktok’s format.
It has to do with AI and one of my favorite shows of all time, “The Critic.” I’ve been experimenting a bit with AI on numerous endeavors. But I wasn’t sure if there was anything worth refining into an actual video. Then, I discovered some AI tools that allowed me to mimic the voice of Jay Sherman himself. And since we may never get more content from “The Critic,” I figured why not use AI to keep the spirit of Jay alive?
So, with the help of AI, I created my first TikTok of an AI version of Jay Sherman reviewing the Minecraft Movie. It’s a new and different kind of content. But let me know what you all think.
Is this something you’d be interested in seeing more of? Is there a movie you think AI Jay should review? I’m very interested to know everyone’s thoughts here.
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Why People (Wrongly) Claim AI Art Is “Soulless”
This is a video from my YouTube channel, Jack’s World.
There have been many concerns and criticisms regarding artificial intelligence. One area that has been impacted more than most involves art.
Generative AI has caused serious disruptions to the world of art. And in 2025, this became a much larger controversy with “Ghiblification” trend that began with Open AI. This has led to more vocal criticisms about AI art being “soulless” in nature.
However, that criticism is worth scrutinizing. And in this video, I attempt to offer what I feel is a more balanced perspective on this issue. Enjoy!
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My Experience (And Plans) Using AI Writing Tools
Since I started this website, I wanted it to act as a hub for my writing, particularly my novels and my sexy short stories. I still want this site to serve that purpose. I see from the regular traffic this site gets that my sexy short stories do have an audience. And I’d like to continue providing that audience with new content, even if my efforts to write larger novels have stalled.
Now, if you’ve been following me over the years, you might have realized I haven’t been putting out as much writing as I used to. For that, I apologize. I promise, there are reasons for that, some of which are personal and prefer not to share. Others simply amount to lacking time and energy.
And once I started my YouTube channel, Jack’s World, my time and energy became even more divided. My channel has actually grown faster than expected, having eclipsed 1,000 subscribers in late 2023. And the videos I make for my YouTube channel generate considerably greater traffic than most of the content I put on this website. As such, expect me to continue giving my YouTube channel priority.
However, I still want to make time for writing sexy short stories. I don’t want to completely abandon that audience. It has just been incredibly difficult to make time to write those stories. And making that time has become even more difficult with each passing month, it seems.
Then, I discovered some new AI tools that could possibly help with that. And after spending the past month experimenting with them, I’d like to share my experience. I’d also like to present a disclaimer of sorts so that those who look forward to my sexy short stories aren’t caught completely off-guard.
Now, if you’ve been following me for any length of time, you probably know I have a keen interest in artificial intelligence and its many implications. Recently, that interest became a lot more real with the mainstreaming of major AI tools like ChatGPT. Like many others, I’ve experimented with ChatGPT and many other tools. It’s been quite an experience. But for the most part, I haven’t really found a use for them beyond simple novelty.
That changed when I discovered some AI tools that specialize in helping people write. These tools aren’t just spelling and grammar checkers like Grammarly. They actually “read” what you wrote and attempt to complete the next few sentences using a model similar to those like ChatGPT. The main difference is that this AI is calibrated to help with writing.
It may sound like a fancier version of autocorrect. I promise you it’s much more than that. I know because in using it, I found it to be surprisingly helpful. It didn’t just supplement my usual writing. It felt like having a personal assistant who understood what I was trying to do and offering unlimited suggestions or ideas whenever I asked.
The AI tool I used in this case was called NovelAI. It’s actually not the best or most well-known AI of its kind. I picked it largely because it was one of the first tools I discovered and it was relatively cheap to experiment with. I only paid for one month of premium use.
But within that month, I actually managed to write more short stories than I had in the previous 10 months. On top of that, I did those over the course of the holidays, a good chunk of which I was both busy and very sick. So, I probably could’ve written a lot more. But overall, I was impressed by what NovelAI allowed me to do.
In terms of actually using it, this actually took some adjusting. This AI program, and others like it, aren’t some magical computer programs in which you could just write a few sentences and have it write 5,000 words with ease to complete it. That’s not how they work. You, the writer, still have to get things going. You still have to establish the characters, setting, and tone.
For me, that usually meant writing three to six paragraphs to get the story started. That part rarely took more than a half-hour. But once I got that setup in place, the AI really helped accelerate the rest. From there, just pushing a button got the AI to spit out several sentences. Sometimes, they were good. Sometimes, they were not. Sometimes, it was complete gibberish.
But that’s actually not a bad thing. Because, like most programs, the more you use it, the better you get at maximizing its strengths. On top of that, the AI gets better at recognizing and adapting to your style. NovelAI even has various settings you can adjust to get different kinds of output. It took a few days of experimenting to get a feel for it. But once I did, I got into a great rhythm.
I managed to churn out multiple short stories in a fraction of the time it usually took me. Even with the complications of the holidays and being sick, I managed to craft over two dozen short stories. I’ll be sharing some of them in the coming weeks and months. I’ll be sure to disclose in the beginning that an AI helped me write them. But I’ll be very interested in seeing the response I get.
If the response is negative, then I’ll certainly take that into consideration with how I plan future short stories. But if it’s positive, then I’ll continue experimenting with other writing AI programs. As good as NovelAI was, it’s not the most well-known or well-regarded writing AI. Later this year, once I assess the impact of the stories I’ve written, I’ll try using another and see if that works better.
I’m also aware that there are those out there who don’t like anything made by AI on principle. Some of my friends and relatives have those views. To them, as well as anyone else who shares that sentiment, I only ask that you keep an open mind. The AI I used did not write these stories for me. I wrote large chunks of it. It just helped me fill in the details in way that saved me time and energy. It supplemented my creative efforts. It did not usurp them.
And if, in the end, the result is still a good, enjoyable story, then I think that made this experience worthwhile. It’s an experience I think many others will explore as AI becomes more advanced and more mainstream. In time, maybe I’ll use it to help me write another novel. Whether or not it ends up being good remains to be seen.
For now, only time will tell. I have plenty of more stories I’d like to tell and if AI helps me get them out there, then I genuinely think that’s a good thing.
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Revealing Attitudes Towards AI Art (When People Don’t Know It’s AI Art)
When I was a kid, there was a general attitude towards any movie or TV show that was animated. Unless it was “The Simpsons,” then animation was largely associated with kids. Even when there was a concerted effort to appeal to older demographics, animation was still seen as less mature form of storytelling. Even when it was exceptionally well done, this stigma persisted.
Eventually, animation and animated content, in general, matured to a point where the stigma really doesn’t work anymore. Cartoons aren’t just for kids. We now have shows like “Bojack Horseman” and “Rick and Morty” that have helped change the popular perception of animation. On top of that, the added influence of Japanese anime, from “Dragonball Z” to “Ghost In The Shell,” have helped attitudes about animated content evolve even more.
This shift all happened within my lifetime. It’s a simple recognition that attitudes, perceptions, and trends are always changing. And they’re going to continue to change, regardless of how we might feel about certain issues now.
This brings me to AI generated art. It’s a topic that, depending on where you discuss it, can generate a lot of debate, disagreement, and consternation. I’ve been in more than one discussion with someone who claims AI generated art can only ever be a bad thing in the long run because it enables trolls, assholes, grifters, and bad actors.
I’ve also been in similar discussions with those who claim AI art isn’t even art. It’s, according to them, nothing more than a fancy calculator that crunches numbers on where to place certain pixels on a screen. While I think that’s a gross oversimplification, I don’t think it takes away from the end result. Whether it’s produced by a human or a computer, the end result is still the same. An artistic rendering is created. But regardless of what form it takes, we have certain attitudes about it.
As I write this, I think the prevailing sentiments toward AI art are negative. Show someone an AI generated image and they might concede that it looks nice. But they’ll still have an aversion to it, knowing it’s created by AI. And if you how them a human-generated piece of art, even if it doesn’t look nice, that same person will still ascribe more value to it than they would an AI generated image. That’s just where we are right now.
But in a recent study by Scientific Reports, an interesting insight was uncovered. When the researchers conducted a survey that included approximately 200 people, they found that when people weren’t aware that an image was AI generated, then their attitudes about it were more positive. In many cases, they could not discern between the artwork generated by humans and those generated by AI. But as soon as they were aware that something came from an AI, their sentiments changed.
It’s probably not too surprising, but it’s also revealing. It speaks to where we currently are in our perspectives on anything created by an AI. It still has this synthetic, uncanny valley feel to it. We still inherently ascribe more value to something that is created by a human over that of a machine. And while that is certainly understandable, given that human generated art requires more labor and passion, how much will that value persist in the coming years?
That’s not an unreasonable question because the quality of AI art has changed considerably in the past few years. And it’s likely to continue improving in ways we’re not ready for. Not too long ago, it was somewhat easy to discern when something was created by an AI. The issues it had with rendering hands and fingers are well-document. However, those issues have been addressed and improved considerably, especially with newer models.
As such, you don’t need to be a wide-eyed utopian futurist to predict that AI art generators will improve to a point where it’s genuinely difficult to tell if it was created by a human. This study already showed how close we are. The participants weren’t able to surmise on a surface level that they were dealing with a mix of AI and human-generated art. With improved tools, even the most discerning and tech savvy among us might not be able to figure it out.
At that point, our attitudes towards AI art will have to change. Think what you want about AI and whether it’s capable of creating real art, let alone appreciate what goes into it. But if it’s capable of making something we can’t discern from its human-made counterparts, then those negative sentiments we have are entirely arbitrary, as well as subjective.
And those same attitudes might not be shared by younger people who have grown up in an environment surrounded by the internet, AI, and AI generated content. They might not have any issue with seeing AI generated art as real art. And anyone who just despises AI art as a concept might find themselves in the same group as those who still think all cartoons are just for kids.
It’s hard to know where these trends will lead as AI technology advances. It’s already affecting how we see art, knowledge, and what it means to be intelligent. And how we feel today might not be at all in line with how future generations will feel in the decades to come. Only time will tell.
I’ll simply note that humans, in general, are a visual species. We seek to create, admire, and cherish art, regardless of the source. For that reason, I think there will certainly be a place for any kind of art, whether it comes from a human or an AI.
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How AI Art Could Upend/Destroy The Comic Book Industry
This is a video from my YouTube channel, Jack’s World.
This video covers some recent news surrounding accusations about major comic publishers utilizing AI art and the larger implications that this new technology will have on the industry. Artificial Intelligence promises to impact a lot of industries, but the comic industry is uniquely vulnerable. And it’s definitely worth confronting as the technology continues to improve.
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My Thoughts, Opinions, And (Mixed) Feelings About AI Art
This is a video from my YouTube channel, Jack’s World.
This video explores my thoughts, feelings, and overall sentiments surrounding AI art. You might have noticed that some of my more recent videos have been incorporating more AI art lately. I do so with the understanding there is a fair amount of controversy and concern surrounding this technology. I do my best to address that while offering what I hope is a balanced perspective on AI art and the use of generative AI. Enjoy!
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