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AI babies and humanity are locked in a high-stakes dance battle.
What’s Happening
Listen up: AI babies and humanity are locked in a high-stakes dance battle.
Your socials feed is probably showing you something totally different, but this week in young-people-land, Humanity is locked in a high-stakes dance battle with AI, food is yelling at everyone, and we’re learning a lot about “young hos. ” Viral video of the week: human vs. (yes, really)
AI baby dancing This week’s viral video is more of a viral video trend, and it involves a battle of dancing babies.
The Details
It starts with the post below, from @mindalchemy0236 , which I apologize for in advance. An ad for the “Baby Dance” app, this video has been viewed over 100 million times.
It became so overplayed on TiKTok that users fought back in the only way they could: Through dance. In a modern re-enactment of the American myth of John Henry vs.
Why This Matters
The Steam Engine, users on TikTok are locked in dance battle with AI. People responded to the annoying ad with videos of their human children doing the same dance for real, joking that it was to save $1. You May Also Like Kids got into it, throwing shade at AI at the same time.
This is part of the broader shift happening across the tech industry right now.
Key Takeaways
- And celebrities like Lisa Rinna got into the act.
- Is this how the robot-human war will be decided?
- How does it relate to the original dancing baby, one of our first the internet memes?
The Bottom Line
AI food yelling videos: brain rot that’s good for you I’m always trying to find good things about AI. So far I got: Helping to cure cancer Finding Waldo But I’m adding videos of food yelling at people.
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