Another week, another "mind-blowing" example of AI's progress that has social media divided on whether it looks good or bad.

Just a week after home appliance company TCL promoted a short film generated entirely with AI video tools, a Twitter / X user has drawn attention for showing off his "1950s Super Mario movie" prompt, heralding it as a harbinger of the incredible things to come from artificial intelligence.

The fact that AI can generate a realistic 1950s Super Mario movie with just a few prompts is mind blowing. We are so not prepared for what AI can do. 📎👀AISafetyMemes</a> , <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">elonmusk pic.twitter.com/hFo6SdFvkO

— Adam Lowisz (@AdamLowisz) April 22, 2024

Adam Lowisz's creation casts Mario as a Robin Hood-type figure in the Mushroom Kingdom, while monsters Bowser and Donkey Kong appear to be rendered in period-appropriate stop-motion.

The "trailer" focuses on mainly slow shots with little movement, akin to the Wes Anderson Star Wars AI trailer that went viral nearly a year ago.

While some shots look fairly passable, there are still moments in which a significant amount of "smear" typical of AI-generated clips is visible, particularly when it comes to the mustaches, which at times seem to operate with minds of their own.

As has become typical when an AI-generated clip becomes popular on social media, viewers are divided on its quality, as some think it looks incredible and is a sign that AI will take over the world and others think it looks like garbage.

It seems unlikely that an AI-generated Mario movie is coming to Hollywood anytime soon, nor an entirely AI feature film in general, based on AI's trouble with movement and animating realistic humans.

However, another short AI clip supposedly heralding the death of jobs in the film industry is very likely to appear again soon.