{"id":1998991,"date":"2025-09-05T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1998991"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:54:01","slug":"the-backlash-to-lady-gagas-new-music-video-proves-ai-paranoia-has-gone-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-backlash-to-lady-gagas-new-music-video-proves-ai-paranoia-has-gone-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The backlash to Lady Gaga&#8217;s new music video proves AI paranoia has gone too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"f7474193-206c-42bc-a26a-01aba0c37e58\">These days, knowing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/ai\/ai-art\/how-to-spot-ai-images\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/ai\/ai-art\/how-to-spot-ai-images\">how to spot AI<\/a> generated content is indeed getting trickier. And the upshot is that just about everything can be accused of being artificially generated \u2013 which has perhaps never been better demonstrated than by the ridiculous response to Lady Gaga&#8217;s new music video.<\/p>\n<p>Gaga just dropped the music video for The Dead Dance, a song debuted in Season 2 of Netflix&#8217;s Wednesday. Directed by Tim Burton, it&#8217;s a suitably nightmarish black-and-white cacophony of monsters and dolls. But some are already claiming that parts of it were made using AI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\" id=\"1963333784633266586\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i didn\u2019t think we\u2019d ever be in a timeline where a tim burton x lady gaga collab would turn out to be AI slop\u2026 but here we are https:\/\/t.co\/mSffur61DQ<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1963333784633266586\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1963333784633266586\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">September 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p id=\"9748f4fa-ba13-4ef0-b8f6-9a3a8f78d4c8-0\">Despite Burton previously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2023-09-11\/tim-burton-ai-artificial-intelligence-robot-humanity\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2023-09-11\/tim-burton-ai-artificial-intelligence-robot-humanity\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">describing<\/a> AI as &#8220;like a robot taking your soul&#8221;, it seems users aren&#8217;t convinced by some of the CGI dolls, believing them to be artificially generated. The way some of the dolls&#8217; fingers appear to clip and melt into one-another has been highlighted as so-called evidence.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the music video&#8217;s animators responded to a comment asking whether the dolls were made with AI, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qBb4ThATb\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qBb4ThATb\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">insisting<\/a>, &#8220;Nooooo. Of course the ones moving were animated in a VFX Studio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video youtube-facade\" data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"xGaZBfJOyAc\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\">\n<div class=\"watch-on-iframe-xGaZBfJOyAc\" data-yt-video-token=\"xGaZBfJOyAc\" title=\"Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance (Official Music Video) - YouTube\">\n<span class=\"youtube-video-title\">Lady Gaga &#8211; The Dead Dance (Official Music Video) &#8211; YouTube<\/span><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"play-button\" viewbox=\"0 0 234.67 165.33\"><path fill=\"red\" d=\"M229.763 25.817c-2.699-10.162-10.65-18.165-20.748-20.881C190.716 0 117.333 0 117.333 0S43.951 0 25.651 4.936C15.553 7.652 7.6 15.655 4.903 25.817 0 44.236 0 82.667 0 82.667s0 38.429 4.903 56.85C7.6 149.68 15.553 157.681 25.65 160.4c18.3 4.934 91.682 4.934 91.682 4.934s73.383 0 91.682-4.934c10.098-2.718 18.049-10.72 20.748-20.882 4.904-18.421 4.904-56.85 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5.56 5.675 2.47 1.39 5.213 2.085 8.225 2.085 5.404 0 9.382-2.491 11.931-7.471 2.548-4.982 3.823-12.76 3.823-23.341V64.23c0-7.953-.484-14.17-1.448-18.65\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"fd64feea-56ea-4225-aead-90f0b538308d\">And then there&#8217;s the fact that production company The Roots has shared (below) the entire production credits on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/tag\/instagram\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/tag\/instagram\">Instagram<\/a>, featuring a huge list of artists and designers. In other words, it seems safe to say that this one was touched with the human hand.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b3d83597-b8a5-4a3d-94f9-c7caf35b01f6\">If anything, the accusations show that AI paranoia is going too far. It seems there&#8217;s no longer room for effects that look, deliberately or otherwise, unpolished and imperfect. Anything remotely disorientating is immediately slapped with the &#8216;AI&#8217; badge of shame. Sure, the rise of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/3d\/video-game-design\/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-is-testing-gamers-tolerance-of-ai-slop\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/3d\/video-game-design\/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-is-testing-gamers-tolerance-of-ai-slop\">AI slop<\/a> is real, but artists shouldn&#8217;t have to defend their work from AI accusations just because it looks a little bit weird. 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And the upshot is that just about everything can be accused of being artificially generated \u2013 which has perhaps never been better demonstrated than by the ridiculous response to Lady Gaga&#8217;s new music video. 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