{"id":2259273,"date":"2026-01-31T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259273"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:58:15","slug":"critics-notebook-darren-aronofskys-on-this-day-1776-demonstrates-that-high-end-ai-slop-is-still-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/critics-notebook-darren-aronofskys-on-this-day-1776-demonstrates-that-high-end-ai-slop-is-still-ai-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Critic\u2019s Notebook: Darren Aronofsky\u2019s \u2018On This Day\u2026 1776\u2019 Demonstrates That High-End AI Slop Is Still AI Slop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201cSoup not slop.\u201d Such is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004716\/\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a>\u2019s stated intention for On This Day\u2026 1776, a shortform <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0202446\/\">YouTube<\/a> series recreating pivotal Revolutionary War-era moments with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0611542\/\">SAG<\/a> voice actors and AI visuals courtesy of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0123378\/\">Google<\/a> DeepMind \u2014 and were you to catch a thumbnail for its trailer on a social media scroll, you might initially presume he\u2019s succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Its topic is respectably weighty \u2014 a far cry from the cruel and puerile jokes generative AI has so often been used for, like that 2025 video of Trump literally dropping shit on protesters. Its sets and costumes appear, from a distance, to evoke prestige projects like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3080055\/\">John Adams<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1906031\/\">Franklin<\/a>. Its faces are realistic enough to pass muster, at least some of the time.<\/p>\n<p>But keep watching for more than a few seconds, and it quickly becomes apparent that slop is slop, no matter how it\u2019s gussied up. On This Day positions itself as a well-funded,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSoup not slop.\u201d Such is Darren Aronofsky\u2019s stated intention for On This Day\u2026 1776, a shortform YouTube series recreating pivotal Revolutionary War-era moments with SAG voice actors and AI visuals courtesy of Google DeepMind \u2014 and were you to catch a thumbnail for its trailer on a social media scroll, you might initially presume he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2259273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Critics-Notebook-Darren-Aronofskys-\u2018On-This-Day\u2026-1776-Demonstrates-That.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259273\/revisions\/2259275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}