They started off innocently enough.
A fat orange tabby, off on some adventures. AI generated nonsense designed to keep you from reading the news or your friends feed or doing something, anything more productive than this. Facebook, or Meta.
Fat Orange Tabby pulling vegetables, cooking dinner, going on a date.
Hundreds of these videos, more than I could watch if I sat at the computer or on my phone 24 hours a day.
The cut-scenes give it away, different cats (same Fat Orange tabby, but if you look you might spot differences), different kitchens, different and occasionally nonsensical vegetables, backgrounds. The models aren't preserved, the videos are just generated 1 scene at a time and then stitched together with a "Plot".
The plot has been growing darker. The cat, as you might guess, gets tired of eating vegetables. Orange cat befriends chicken, then gets in fight, sharpening knife upon a whetstone (or AI's poor imagining of this), Orange cat eating chicken.
Same again, this time with mice, orange cat throws a bomb into a hole in the wall, mice pour out, orange cat rides home on a bicycle with a basket full of mice, makes dinner. Mice swimming in the soup. Orange cat rescues rabbit, eats rabbit. Or catches fish (with a bomb) or a thousand other trivial details, the story the same, Orange cat finds pig, cow, etc, etc, and finds ways to eat it. Every prompt is reused a thousand times, and the results are stitched together in a narrative.
The plot thickens. All is the same, only Orange cat - when he has dinner made, calls a friend with his cellphone and invites them over for dinner. Here comes rooster/lion/tiger/panther with a case of beer. They toast the beer before dinner and then rooster/lion/panther etc falls over, clearly drugged. Orange cat whets the knife again and cooks them up for his next dinner...
Or skins them and pretends to be a lion....
There are thousands of these, every one different, every one the same. Sometimes they have subtitles, in English, Chinese, most often they don't.
They evolve in the course of days, Lion/Tiger/Panther get muscular, ride motorcyles with sunglasses and lots of gold chains.
Same story.
Now the story takes a twist, all the animals begin protesting, "Arrest Orange Cat", "Orange Cat to Jail", duck as prosecutor, lawyer, or doctor after Orange cat takes a beating.
Orange cat in jail in chains, Orange cat sobbing.
The sound effects - the same music, every video, the “guffaw” you hear in a lot of the “comedy” videos, or a psychopathic baby laugh at the end, or maybe something a little generic, but it’s always the same.
I’m coming to the conclusion that they are encouraging some sort of revolution, Fat Orange Cat is a metaphor for US Politics, devouring strangers and then his friends, that somehow, subliminally, entire populations are being groomed to revolution by inane AI videos on Facebook. There's no other explanation.
In the end that's how the war will be won, by a population so dumbed down with distractions, AI nonsense, that it won't be common sense or decency that leads them to revolution, it will be a dumb AI Orange Cat video when everyone decides Fat Orange Cat needs to get what it deserves...