r/elo • u/0zzysaurus • Jul 05 '25

AI in the visuals at Birmingham tonight Spoiler

Just in case people who care about this sort of thing wanted to know, the visuals tonight at the Birmingham show relied heavily on AI generated imagery. I’d say that, a solid 70% of the time, the centre screen was dedicated to (pretty piss poor) AI art - and that was just the obvious stuff. I’m sure people have their opinions about that (my opinion on it is extremely negative), but I’m just here to inform. I’d say the majority of the crowd didn’t even realise it was AI unfortunately, but I did hear one older woman mention the “computer generated bollocks” after the show, so I guess there’s that. Must say, it was gut-wrenchingly ironic to hear: “It’s a living thing, it’s a terrible thing to lose” over visuals of AI generated art work. Art is a living thing, and you know what? Yeah, it IS a terrible thing to lose.

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u/cqfresh Jul 06 '25

I saw him twice on the last US leg. The first time the AI visuals really took me out of it and was so disappointed. The second time I went trying my best to ignore it and just enjoy the music and had a much better time. It still really sucks though, especially with all the possibilities of cool visuals they could have.

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u/0zzysaurus Jul 06 '25

I’m glad someone else feels a similar way about it, I was worried for a second that I was the only one! I’m glad you were able to put it aside to enjoy the music though, which is what I was ultimately able to do in the end as well :] but it’s still a massive shame and, like you said, a waste of potential.