I got in this argument about CG when the "live action" Lion King remake came out. Its not live action do you think they went out and filmed actual talking lions? It's still animated, just in a different art style. And imo that art style is much worse for the story.

Idk I feel like the terms "cartoon" and "animation" should be saved for things that were made deliberately.

Pretty sure what you're referring to is just called "slop".

Yeah even without AI and CGI at this point nothing on a screen is real anymore. We stopped having a 1:1 conversion of a photon hitting a media quite a while ago.

When you take a pic with your phone it's already digitally filtered and processed even before you start removing a trash can or an random person with AI.

What is even real at this point? You can't trust anything that's not real world meatspace any more.

Are most current blockbusters cartoons then? Because most of them are just cgi. Which percentage of computer generared graphics does it need to have to became a cartoon?

What's the practical difference after the point of which you no longer can tell them apart?

Same with CGI. Early reliance on it is painful to watch. Jurassic Park still holds up, but try watching Beowulf sometime-- made 14 years after JP.

/r/unpopularopinion would be a better place for this lol a cartoon is a specific thing and not all ai videos are cartoons.

And this matters because?