New AI Model? Generate Will Smith Eating Spaghetti (Truman Show Meme)

New AI model released? Great, now generate Will Smith eating spaghetti

This meme uses a screenshot of Christof, the controlling director character from the 1998 film The Truman Show (portrayed by Ed Harris), who has an intense, focused expression while resting his chin on his hand. The top text asks, "New AI model released?" and the bottom text delivers a satirical follow-up: "Great, now generate Will Smith eating spaghetti". It humorously satirizes the common internet behavior of immediately asking generative AI models to create absurd, trivial, and random content—rather than using them for practical or productive purposes—whenever a new AI tool launches. The character's authoritative, monitoring posture plays into the idea of directing an AI to fulfill these silly requests.

The base image is a scene from the 1998 live-action film The Truman Show, where Christof is overseeing the reality show he created around the main character Truman. This is a remixed/edited meme, created by adding text overlays to the original movie screenshot. It likely originated on social media platforms like Reddit (subreddits like r/memes or r/ChatGPT), Twitter/X, or Instagram, where AI-related humor and movie reference memes are widely shared. There's no visible watermark, so it's a user-created edit of the original film footage.