Juggalosi bijesni zbog AI u teaseru
Fanovi Insane Clown Possea, dugo poznati po odanosti Violent J i Shaggy 2 Dopeu, burno su reagovali kada su u teaseru za novi album The Naught primijetili elemente generativne AI. U nekoliko kadrova uočeni su nerazumljivi tekstovi i predmeti koje odaje glatka, neprirodna estetika tipična za AI, uključujući pješčani sat i stari sat sa besmislenim zupčanicima.
Mnogi juggalosi su ostali razočarani upravo pred Gathering of the Juggalos. "That AI clock looks dumb as f**k," napisao je jedan korisnik. "WHACK!" "I was REALLY hoping that wasn't the official design... Oh, well. Hopefully it still slaps."
Kontroverza je dodatno rasla zbog sve veće uloge digitalne umjetnosti u radu benda i saradnje sa dugogodišnjim fan-umjetnikom Tom Woodom. "I try so hard but just can't connect with Tom Wood's style or this newer approach by ICP by going completely digital with their art," žalio se jedan juggalo.
Shaggy 2 Dope je i sam eksperimentisao sa AI, uključujući govorna i vizuelna izdanja na svom podkastu, pa je zajednica podijeljena. Rekao je juggalo reper Humble Among iz Vermonta: "I know Shaggy has gotten a lot of heat for using AI on posts. He’s seemingly very open to using it and has defended it. Tom Wood just had to come out and show sketches for the promo flyer for the Naught because so many people [assumed] that it was AI, when it wasn’t. Meanwhile the very same day ICP drops a commercial that uses AI heavily. Strange times."
Mnogi komentari osuđuju korištenje AI umjesto angažovanja umjetnika iz zajednice: "Kinda lame they used AI instead of one of the many talented jugg artists," i "AI art is lame, when there’s many artists in the community that would be honored to be paid to draw amazing things," glase reakcije. Drugi prihvataju rad kao dio modernog izraza, dok treći i dalje odgovaraju sa tradicionalnim pozdravom zajednice: "whoop whoop!"
