# Pepperoni Hug Spot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads, ai\ **Created:** [April 30, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384 "2023-04-30T20:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/1 "2023-04-30T20:29:02Z")
Anyone else seen this? A.I.-created advertisement. I know little to nothing about its origins. Simultaneously hilarious and _terrifying_. [Pepperoni Hug Spot](https://youtu.be/qSewd6Iaj6I) “Like family, but with more cheese” is brilliant. I may have to get some t-shirts made. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/2 "2023-04-30T20:33:22Z")
Love it. I can get behind that. Looks like an old Pizza hut commercial. WAG ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/3 "2023-05-01T00:18:07Z")
I’m very skeptical that it is real. ChatGPT has much better grammar than that. (They could have used an older, less capable system, but I’m betting on “lying about it”.) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/4 "2023-05-01T01:08:50Z")
I’m going to see those unholy distorted faces in my nightmares. Forever. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/5 "2023-05-01T01:47:14Z")
Next time I order a pizza, I’m going to ask for “more secret things”. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/6 "2023-05-01T02:04:32Z")
Hope you like anchovies! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/7 "2023-05-01T16:49:42Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > I’m going to see those unholy distorted faces in my nightmares. How long before someone dumps all the necessary data into an AI and it creates a totally synthetic K-Pop band, complete with “horribly distorted” videos? Maybe call them the New Sync Boys? ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/8 "2023-05-01T17:00:23Z")
Chat GPT was only for the text. The real story here is how far along text to video AI has come in such a short time. It’s Nightmare fuel at the moment but MidJourney V1 was nothing to write home about and was at this stage only a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/9 "2023-05-01T17:16:17Z")
“How it was done” article. > **[Here's how to use AI to make a commercial in 3 hours, according to the guy...](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-make-an-ai-commercial-with-video-3-hours-2023-4)** > > AI can now make nearly all the assets you need to create a commercial to sell your pizza. But it might turn out to be complete "nightmare fuel." ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/10 "2023-05-01T18:33:23Z")
Interestingly, in that article the creator says that he deliberately asked ChatGPT to create grammatically incorrect text for the commercial, which explains the crudity of the language compared to what ChatGPT usually produces. Also interesting is the link to the [Will Smith eating spaghetti video](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1244h2c/will_smith_eating_spaghetti/), which is even more nightmare-inducing than the pizza commercial. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/11 "2023-05-01T18:34:50Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > even more nightmare-inducing than the pizza commercial. That’s done it. I am never sleeping again. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/12 "2023-05-01T21:49:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Maybe call them the New Sync Boys? You probably want to leave off the maser, though. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/13 "2023-05-01T23:15:32Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > a totally synthetic K-Pop band Wait, all of those pre-pubescent singers are real people? I just assumed they’d been AI for the last three years. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/14 "2023-05-02T00:07:54Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > Also interesting is the link to the [Will Smith eating spaghetti video](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1244h2c/will_smith_eating_spaghetti/), which is even more nightmare-inducing than the pizza commercial. There’s a wole genre of “people eating things” AI videos. I made one that didn’t go well. [https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/127rrqu/i\_think\_i\_broke\_that\_text\_to\_video\_thing/](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/127rrqu/i_think_i_broke_that_text_to_video_thing/) ---
**Author:** ![Blindmellowjelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindmellowjelly/32/13920_2.png) [@Blindmellowjelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blindmellowjelly)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/15 "2023-05-02T01:49:22Z")
The computerized irony, entendre’, here is didatic, pneumatic, and cataractic. Such deep computer jokery snd irony. ---
**Author:** ![Blindmellowjelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindmellowjelly/32/13920_2.png) [@Blindmellowjelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blindmellowjelly)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/16 "2023-05-02T01:54:47Z")
Oh, it’s real. But reduced and programmed to search parameters and actions. cyberedited… yooman and program. ---
**Author:** ![Blindmellowjelly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindmellowjelly/32/13920_2.png) [@Blindmellowjelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blindmellowjelly)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/17 "2023-05-02T02:01:05Z")
I tell mys3lf, do I really want these AI programs to be the Editors of my life? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/18 "2023-05-02T02:09:15Z")
You prefer Robin Williams? > **[The Final Cut (2004 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film))** > > The Final Cut is a 2004 science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Omar Naim. It stars Robin Williams, Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Mimi Kuzyk, Stephanie Romanov, Genevieve Buechner and Brendan Fletcher. The film takes place in a setting where memory implants make it possible to record entire lives. Williams plays a professional who specializes in editing the memories of unsavory people into uncritical memorials that are played at funerals. > The film won the award for best... ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pepperoni-hug-spot/983384/19 "2023-05-02T05:54:36Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > That’s done it. I am never sleeping again. You’d better not. You might dream that Will Smith is devouring you like that, starting with your toes…