Imagine getting stoned and making some memes, forgetting about it, and then seeing your memes grow into a professionally produced comedy segment on HBO. I love this show.
Insane how one man’s high search history got HBO to spend thousands of dollars into a whole marriage just to complete the story. That’s any persons dream
I fully braced myself for some depressing story on how A.I. images were killing the environment or democracy but instead I got a heartwarming tale of a love between a man and his cabbage. Life ain't so bad.
There is a serious problem with AI-generated art, which is how the programs behind it have been shown to carelessly rip off real human artists’ copyrighted works
I was expecting this to be about the endless pit of legal confusion that is IP assignment on AI generated images and fair use of copyrighted images in public image banks, and instead got a beautiful wedding.
I love that this undoubtedly started with Julia just killing time on a lunch break browsing the internet on her phone and ended with HBO being asked to pay for a wedding chapel and a giant fake cabbage. That progression of events is glorious and one of the reasons why this show needs to go on forever
Shows you how big the internet is, we may never have known about the work of these two of it wasn’t for this episode, I hope they are both loving the recognition of their silliness
Should do a clip on toxoplasmosis, complete with Usa navy research, and ALL of dr Flegr findings . Also , how the misguided veterinarians cover it up (the eggs live 2years in bleach water and still hatch , cats constantly re-infect themselves) . Effects: miscarriages, birth defects, headaches, flu symptoms, eye floaters, detached retina, cysts(often misdiagnosed) , schizophrenia , Parkinson’s, mild to severe depression, wild behavior
When you make 1 show a week and you take 2 week breaks every month, it's not that hard to come up with a 10 minute video that's entertaining. He's not being forced to churn out episodes 5 days a week for weeks at a time. So, cut late night shows some slack.
It's honestly not fair because John is on HBO. He has such little restrictions on content and he has an expanded budget, a budget that isn't run on ad revenue. But if you look at Seth's show, it has done some amazing things since covid started. They really leaned into their internet audience and have continued to lean in. Like Seth's corrections isn't even on television and was nominated. Not even the show lol, the segment lol. So things are changing. If we really do get Conan on HBO I'd like to see that wild ride.
The least believable part of John marrying the cabbage, was the ease with which he lifted the cabbage to kiss it. It was at that point, I knew the cabbage had work done.
Florals: stunning. Groom: dapper. Vows: heartwarming. Overall, a beautifully put together wedding. Though, considering the plain tulle of the veil, I think the cabbage might have waited until the last minute to order their attire. I can understand favoring simplicity for whatever reason; maybe it didn't want to be a bridezilla, or the elaborate beaded lace styles just don't reflect the cabbage's personality, or wanting to keep costs down; but it's your wedding day. You're going to want to remember this for the rest of your life. At least have the veil hemmed instead of leaving the edge raw.
Theres a certain kind of "cool" that comes from committing fully to even the silliest possible prompt. John Oliver somehow manages to avoid even this level of "cool" by being British. Never change John, we all love you to death
Last year with no place left to turn I prayed to God in repentance then begged for help with all my heart, "I was until then a lifelong Atheist." I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed because I've never read the bible", and the love I felt from Jesus was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of joy every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life forever. I've had other miracles since, a few being a light turning on in answer to deeply needful prayer 6 times, seeing a orb of light hours before a major surgery, seeing an Angel in a dream the night my mother prayed for me to see one, "Without telling me", and so much more. Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you love and forgive them and I believe we should do our best to follow, "I've failed many times", the 10 commandments. Always have hope. I believe that love is the answer.
@@narsakucanada154 When I have slain god and cast him down upon the rocks as payment for all the evils he has created, I will be sure to send you my condolences for your loss.
I can already hear tucker carlson screaming “is this what the leftists want to normalize? First it was gay marriage, now we’re falling in love with groceries? Is this the America we want for our children?”
John's Wife: "So, what did you do on your show tonight?" John: "Nothing much really. I just married a cabbage." John's Wife: "That's so sw- Wait, what was that last part?!"
3 million years of love, hate, battles, cathedrals, temples, bloodshed, synagogues, religion, spirituality, drugs, crusades, politics, economics, technology, revolutions, trade, expeditions, daring ventures into the unknown, genocides, prophets and mindblowing art, so that we reach this point where we collectively ascend as a species into postpoopzoomies' weed high
I was expecting this to segue into a story about AI ethics and concerns about how this may impact copyright law and job security for visual artists, etc., but I can appreciate where it ended up.
This was actually the 3rd act of the LWT from 2 weeks ago (8/14) about Afghanistan. After that main story, he did this 10 minute segment. It looks like they are taking a break this week, and likely taking a break next week for Labor Day weekend, as well.
"Could I have waited for an off week and done this as a web exclusive? Yes, I probably should have done that. But I decided to instead spend a third of a main show episode setting up my wedding to this cabbage and I think that, more than anything, proves my devotion to this marriage."
“I think I want the same color scheme as John Oliver and the cabbage’s wedding.” “… John Oliver the late night host, or is this an olive and Veggie Tales went really wild since I was a kid?”
When my gf and I get married, I'm definitely sending this to the wedding planner. Now I need to find someone who can make a dress that looks like cabbage for me
The good thing is, now the AI can be trained with the actual footage and images of this prompt, allowing for more accurate cabbage-related content, and that's something we all needed in the MJ community
I just love how the fact that this A.I. is unable to depict a marriage between a man amd a cabbage precisely pinpoints the reason why there are no self driving cars yet haha
@@killmenowprettyprett AI deals better than humans with situations it has thousands of examples to learn from, yet fails catastrophically on edge cases. Marrying a cabbage is certainly an "edge case" :) ...
AI can't drive cars yet because interpreting a 3D environment in real time takes about 5 or 6 multi-core blade servers. Its not impossible, it would just be at least the size of the engine, and about the same cost as the rest of the car. This is why Google and GM's practical attempts have both focused on mapping just the ground, a tech that was developed for those video parking guides and proximity alert systems you see now. That can be done with cheap CPU in a much smaller space. It works fine at low speeds on an empty road, but when Google tried to put their auto-driving car on a real road it got overwhelmed trying to map other car movements and slammed into a parked car trying to deal with other cars turning at an imperfect and unanticipated angle.
5:25 I've actually watched that TED talk on how to tie your shoes. I'm an elementary general music teacher who does kindergarten lunch duty and has to tie ALL of the shoes. That TED talk legit changed my life. Nary a shoe knot on my watch will come loose until you pull it, and no double-knots are necessary anymore.
OK you've convinced me, I know what video I'll be now watching. Thanks. Edit: I'm back! Went down a rabbit hole. ADHD brain 🧠 got distracted, but now I know what a granny knot, square knot, grandpa's knot, Ian knot, and Turtle Turquoise knots are. I've mastered them all, but will stick with the Ian knot as it takes less than a second and I feel like a magician! A 3 min video ended up being an hour long journey. I do not wish my time back. I've learned much, I am now a new person with perfect shoe bows 👟🎀
Which is a real fucking shame because there's so much to talk about regarding the future potential for revenge porn and fake criminal evidence on this subject.
Since I became a widow you have managed to not only make me laugh until I cried, but also to realize that I have a chance at love again - even if it's a cabbage. ♥😂❤
Cancer (🖕🏽) took the love of my life and I just want you to know that it never goes away, but it does get better. A time will come when you realize you haven't thought about them all day/week, and you'll be flooded with feelings of guilt.... but it's crucial that you process that emotion and realize that they would want you to move on and be happy. 🙂 God bless you and good luck.
As an artist this has been so exhausting. I’m honestly grateful for something about it that isn’t extremely depressing. I hope he revisits it more critically in the future, but I suspect that would be a main piece and there’s still a lot going on with it that needs to happen before they can get super in depth about it
If you had told me that in 5 months, John Oliver would go from blackmailing congress with legally obtained personal information to having Steve Buscemi ordain his marriage to a cabbage... I probably would have believed you, because that is completely on brand with this show, and I'm all here for it.
when John Oliver makes an entire 10 minute segment to prove just why he has almost 500 hits compared to all the other late night hosts with less than 20
@@stanleywtang exactly what i was thinking. lol. like, oh how convenient for john, he has all this to materialize into a segment. definitely could just be some goofy hardcode fans, but... i kinda dont think so? still super funny though.
My favourite thing about all this is that John is now father, and we live in the perpetual age of the internet and this will all be immortalised forever on here most likely. One day, John's kids are going to sit down and watch this.
This wasn’t a web exclusive so I assumed this was actually going to be an in-depth analysis of the horrors and terrifying potential of AI, but this is honestly so much better than I could’ve ever imagined.
also can we just take a moment to appreciate the absolutely stunningly gorgeous setup for that wedding set? someone got to have a great time designing that part of things. (not that whoever designs the side set pieces don't always have fun, but still!) seriously beautiful work, they deserve all kinds of compliments for it. and I bet it'll inspire more than one or two people for their own wedding layouts, heh!
Yeah till like....today....now open AI are most probably feeding DALL-E the images from this very video and it is going to be super accurate at images of weddings with plants from there on. XD
@Paul Calixte THEN....tell that story to GPT-3 then ask it to write a billion similar stories...THEN feed those stories to DALL-E to generate images out of them....THEN finally ask DALL-E "An image of an AI representing it's love to humans" pretty sure an image of a nuke would come out...or some other fiery and/or bloody image. LOL!
@Paul Calixte it's super easy to make weapons out of AI man. Our job is mostly to avoid that. it's a thinking machine with no love or consciousness or morals of any kind....we try to program all that in the process of machine learning. I'm so happy no nutty person somewhere attached some really large AI to a keyboard and a browser and a super fast connection and started it on a process of unsupervised learning "to see what is going to happen". That would be....a ticking armageddon. the AI would eventually learn language and then computer lang out of that....and all the human ways they use to kill one another and....I'm pretty sure at some point it will try something super world ending then!
Last year with no place left to turn I prayed to God in repentance then begged for help with all my heart, "I was until then a lifelong Atheist." I then had a dream of Jesus coming before God and he spoke of the Tabernacle in perfect context, "A word I didn't know existed because I've never read the bible", and the love I felt from Jesus was unlike anything I've ever felt before - A lifetime of joy every second - It brought me to sobbing and it changed my life forever. I've had other miracles since, a few being a light turning on in answer to deeply needful prayer 6 times, seeing a orb of light hours before a major surgery, seeing an Angel in a dream the night my mother prayed for me to see one, "Without telling me", and so much more. Know that God and Jesus ARE real and that they love us deeply. Let go of your hatred and Imagine yourself holding the people who've hurt you. Tell them you love and forgive them and I believe we should do our best to follow, "I've failed many times", the 10 commandments. Always have hope. I believe that love is the answer.
@@narsakucanada154 I'm glad some things worked out for you but.. wtf? Where did that come from? 😳 this thread is specifically dedicated to fangirling over Steve Buscemi, our one true lord and savior.
This is funnier when you remember that "mon petit chou", a common French term of endearment, literally translates to "my little cabbage", and that Prince Philip used to call Queen Elizabeth cabbage. Cuz cabbage = darling, apparently. So congrats to the newly wedded couple!
The Cabbage Saga is legitimately one of the best stories of our modern age. It had everything: Love, intrigue, hope, mourning, psychological torment at the realization that you've accidentally eaten your cabbage spouse and you will never know true happiness as long as you shall live. Beautiful. Simply magnificent.
"Oh, Interesting - Maybe John's gonna spend ten minutes talking about the ethical concerns to do with AI or how AI imagery might quickly end up outpacing human art as a cheaper, more accessible alternative." "Oh, nevermind. It's just a story about cabbage love."
I mean it's a good cabbage love story but I hope he actually talks about the ethical concerns, this was definitely made when Dall-E was used for funny images and meme generation purposes
@@dwixodoodles8636 There are no ethical concerns, it is an image generator no different from a paintbrush, just instead of painting manually a prompt is entered and an image is made. The only difference between the two is time and skill. MidJourney also has a lot of censoring and moderation to ensure things that could be offensive or pornagraphic are removed
@@lilfgaming6359 Okay, it's good that AI Websites have censorship like that But I'm referring to it replacing actual artists. Obviously what the AI generates won't be nearly as interesting as what an actual artist would make, but I'm still worried it might cost many artists jobs, that's all. EDIT: grammar
@@cat-le1hf AI won't replace artists unless it ever develops a sense of expression, it will be used by companies to shortcut their way into making movies that will probably be terrible. But the transition will cost artists their jobs unless they form some other media company to make their own stuff without AI
@@dwixodoodles8636 It isn't there yet. From what I've seen on the site, you have to know what your doing, such as knowing the correct keywords and even a little coding syntax, to get a good result and even then you'd probably want an actual artist to polish it up before presenting it as concept art or anything else. For example, for whatever reason it's terrible at hands and usually has excessively disproportioned symmetry in faces like missing nostrils/ears and different colored eyes (not that two colors can't happen in eyes, it's just the norm for the site). On top of that the eyes it produces are usually nightmare fuel like black worms swirling about rather than defined whites, irises, and pupils. All these little technical issues are easily remedied by a professional artist... so right now this is just a tool like any other in an artist's kit to get quick mock ups or baseline platforms to build off of. Even then, it'll still need wordsmiths inputting prompts... but that skill will be harder to justify prices for. That isn't to say these projects won't get that good though. Given 1-5 more years and I'd be surprised if the issue of genuinely replacing artists entirely isn't at hand. I remember people always saying that AI automation would never be able to replace human creativity, yet clearly AI will likely replace 2D image artists-particularly concept artists-first. Second if you count technical support bots.
more clear, well argued, coherent, and nuanced than any dall-e think piece ever written. bravo, and also, congratulations on your nuptials, and also, my condolence on the loss of yours cabbage spouse.
John Oliver didn't make it clear that the "search results" for other late night hosts are simply the prompts other people have already created. His examples of prompts were terrible at showing the creativity and flexibility of image generators: not one "in the style of" or "taken with a disposable camera". This was just a gag piece that riffed on AI image generators.
"Hey Steve, want to come back on the show for another segment?" "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to officiate a wedding between me and a cabbage." "You got it."
That’s a really fun story but I really would love to see a real full story about the problems of ai image generators in the art world. Between stealing art styles to ownership issues I think it would be a really good one to cover seriously
"steeling" suuure, those mutated body parts are such a threat, Have you even looked at the "theft". Because I'll bet your mutant hands and feet you haven''t
@@gorkskoal9315 Look at AI art from this year. Uncomfortably similar to real pieces and able to replicate actual specific artists' artstyles. It still has a long way to go, but it's developing exponentially, and so the theft aspect is an actual threat from where it was a year ago. Someone with a good enough computer could make a living stealing someone's art through AI
When Jon Stewart withdrew(2015) from The Daily Show I felt John Oliver had deserved the chance. Now seeing how Trevor has done incredible, and even better seeing John Oliver creating the, in MY opinion, BEST, most in depth reporting on relevant issues, combining it with hilarious jokes, great writing and story telling ... and I could go on praising, but will simply state this fact: "Winning 23 primetime Emmy awards and many more awards. Secure him all ready as an american comedy legend"
It is better this way. HBO allows him to do the ridiculous things other networks would have absolutely valid questions for (looking at you frog fountains!)
Fun fact: in the Hebrew Bible there is a singular instance of a word referring to the polyamorous familial relation of "other wife of the husband", and it is in I Samual 1:6. In most English translations, it was translated as "rival" or "adversary". My point being that somewhere in New York there is a woman who is, in the Biblical sense, currently a rival of a cabbage.
I said out loud while i drank my morning coffee watching this "Steve Buscemi.....sure. Why not." I mean at this point in the show I wouldn't have been surprised if Keanu Reeves came out as a the flower girl.
This is one of the reasons I love John. His very British ability to laugh at himself whilst sharing it with the world. Bravo, John, bravo! What a perfect ending! 🤣🤣🤣
"So, you wanna actually shoot the scene where you eat the cabbage in your sleep?" "Are my fucking eyebrows lying?!" John being on HBO is an absolute human treasure. I've watched since episode one and I can't think of even 1 episode where him and his team missed. It's always something depressing but needing to be voiced and a soft landing in a full circle joke payoff at the end for our time. Idk, this show just feels like a simple exchange of information for time. Like, "we got something to tell you, and all it costs is 30 minutes and some sore cheeks. Imagine which set at your convenience" wholesome af.
The key ingredient John's "sketches" and South Park have in common, which I love - they take a topic, exaggerate it to absurdity and run with it. Also, AI needs a learning material, so next time somebody asks it to draw a wedding between a man and a cabbage should yield perfect results :-) In other news, currently on John's Wikipedia Page in info-box: Spouse - Kate Norley (m. 2011) - Cabbage (m. 2022)
Fun fact; "post poop zoomies" is a term for when a cat jets out of the toilet leaving kitty litter everywhere. Everyone who owns a cat knows what it is.
I must say, it's quite nice hearing someone in the crowd who enjoys laughing and has very damn good one. Please invite this person more often. Now onto watch the other 8 min and 50 seconds of this video
As someone who’s walked dogs for 4 years…. And taken care of a not so insignificant number of cats…. I can say for sure at least on 1 occasion were i’ve seen this with a dog…. As someone who just stumbled upon this thread about cats doing this…. I’m very intrigued…. As i’ve never heard or seen this…. And this is coming from someone who’s had an inordinate amount of cats come to use the litter box…. AS I’M SCOOPIN’ it out…. 😵💫🫠😭
@@corxeth1177 My previous cat used to actually get pre-poop zoomies (I thought he was doing it to loosen things up), so I was surprised that post-poop zoomies are more common. My current younger one gets them post-poop. I've witnessed it many times!
@@Mother.Superior holy fucking shit if this is actually you then bravo, legend. so glad you exist, this is an episode that made me cry laughing and that is thanks to you
@@Mother.Superior Wow! The man himself! Best AI story ever! You or John should make a book out of it and sell it to fundraise for your favorite cause. I'd buy that book! Bravo, dude! Bravo!🥬👏😸
I was expecting him to make commentary on how AI Art is making it difficult for actual artists as more people call to use Image generators instead of paying artists to make actual art, but this is fine too
I was kinda expecting an educational piece on AI Images. I wasn't expecting to see a heart warming story about a man marrying his cabbage! This was definitely a better Love story than Twilight!
Yeah, some of the humor and " I'm right and you are wrong" approach is trite and stale. Raise your bar. The Adam Driver and other celebrities handjobs they do is really desperate and sad. It's unoriginal and lame. Sometimes they knock it out of the park though...but just calm it down.
@Van Bus I clicked and came back to say I don't understand. I was expecting John's face and voice pasted over the cabbage guy... but no. Just bottles of colored liquids... what?
Through an absolute torrential downpour of tears in the storm of emotionally charged bouts of abject loss and sweet sweet nostalgia, denial and fear and love ...in that instance yes i would agree eventually
John raises a very interesting point here 0:09. Considering the entire video is about AI manipulating pictures, it IS weird that web developers still believe that the best way to differentiate people from non-people on the internet is by presenting them with a bunch of, you guessed it, pictures.
At first I was wondering how expensive this truly ginormous cabbage plant must have been, probably custom grown with an forbidden amount of fertilizer, but then when he lifted it, as if it were air... and then when he kissed it and he could just push his head inside... I knew it was just an air balloon with some leaves around.
I'm thinking it was probably a beach ball inside. I am quite disappointed that the show didn't fly in a special ordered cabbage from somewhere far north like Alaska where the long summer days allow for huge produce like cabbages to grow. We expect more from you John!
I actually stumbled upon those images a week or so ago when a few people were trying to generate him marrying a cabbage and wondered what he thought about all this. I never dreamed he'd do a full video on it 🤣 This was the most satisfying conclusion to that saga.
@@GabrielPettier I'd be happy to use one sheet of paper to dry my hands if there was enough paper in that one sheet and not just a practically transparent piece of paper.
@@bikeny the trick is to shake your hands a dozen times before using the towel, to remove most of the water, and to accept that the very last of the water on your hands after you are done with it will evaporte in seconds.
Considering the normal fare I was expecting an interesting look at the dangers of AI driven image generation, and how it could be dangerous for things like scientific research. I was not expecting this. I have not *actually* laughed out loud that much in a long time.
Yeah, I thought the image of the wedding that prompted the sketch at the end was leading to a discussion about the dangers of AI biases, with the algorithm seemingly assuming “marriage” meant between a man and woman of the same skin color.
Hey John and the team! I was wondering if you could potentially do another Taiwan episode discussing the escalating tensions, evolving situation, and other countries' involvement (choosing to visit Taiwan or not, what that all means, etc.) I am an American who is living in Taiwan right now, and so I am very much so aware of everything that is happening and feel like it is increasing enough to warrant doing one of your trademark thorough dives into. Thanks for readin this :)
@@1hawtMetz Thank you. I think you might be the first person on the internet to comment on this name. I’ve been using it on every account of everything online since 2004.
Once in a while I think "John Olliver did some really weird things in his career, I doubt it can get any weirder" And then things like this come up. Marvelous.
I certainly was not prepared for this. I turned it on just when my girlfriend left to go to the bathroom, and at about 8:45 I thought "oh good just don't let her return just now". Beautiful story.
So much to say about this. "Boy, that escalated quickly." "ROFL, Steve Buscemi is using a restaurant credit card holder!" "I'm disappointed John Oliver's actual wife didn't interrupt the wedding." "Man, Steve Buscemi looks great in glasses!"
