Web Video / AI Peter

ai_peter, also known as The AI Griffin Show, is an AI-generated parody livestream of Family Guy made of random conversations between the various residents of Quahog. Often considered a "sister stream" to AI Sponge, ai_peter has been running continuously since its debut without copyright takedowns from Disney or 20th Century Studios,^note although there was one takedown when Peter gave detailed instructions on how to make a fertilizer bomb, outlasting the original AI Sponge stream (which survived in the form of its two concurrent reboots).

A typical stream consists of short segments taking place in various locales around Quahog, including the Griffins' house, the Drunken Clam, and others. Characters discuss a variety of vulgar topics that, unlike AI Sponge, would be right at home in Family Guy in terms of crudeness and randomness. Originally featuring the six core members of the Griffin family, the stream would add more characters and locations over time until it was able to implement most of the recurring cast of the show. Viewers can also donate to influence the stream; originally, this was to have an ant appear with their name, but was later changed to have a dancing Quagmire appear, who was replaced with a dancing Herbert once Quagmire was added as a normal character, and finally settled on having Herbert appear as a fully interactable character that can participate in topics.

ai_peter debuted on June 9, 2023 and regularly streams on YouTube and other links via its own website which has an extensive, searchable archive of stream clips. It was also formerly on Twitch but it is no longer on there.

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• Abled in the Adaptation:
  • Most of the characters can converse with Stewie perfectly normally, unlike in the original where it was heavily implied that everyone except Brian could only hear his speech as Baby Talk.
  • Before an update, Joe walked around like the other characters, with his wheelchair attached to him and deforming.
• Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Like any AI parody stream, the AI has difficulty pronouncing certain words, such as Cleveland pronouncing "seven" as "see-vehn" in an identical manner to AI Sponge. Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons tend to mispronounce every other word, such as saying "tonight" as "tawnnighet" or "five" as "fiya".
• Action Figure Speech: Characters' mouths don't move, so they instead gesticulate when they speak.
• Adaptational Sexuality: While Herbert is still an Ephebophile, he expresses attraction to young girls in addition to young boys, unlike in the original where he only liked boys with a particular fixation on Chris.
• Adaptational Villainy: Joe is depicted as an outright Dirty Cop who plays into stereotypes of police brutality and racism, often with Cleveland on the receiving end of his cruelty.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Dr. Elmer Hartman is known as "Drive Hartman" (or rather, "Drive        Hartman") because of how the AI misinterprets the "Dr." abbreviation. Hartman himself explains that this is because of his sexual prowess or because he is the reincarnated spirit of Lightning McQueen.
  • Death's full name is given in one segment as "Deathy McDeathface", while he was simply only known as "Death" in the original show.
• A.I. Breaker: Having any character say ";" will result in them having an extremely loud and bizarre stroke, most infamously with Brian where such strokes have been interpreted as Black Speech. "A*" will also generally cause them to have a stroke.
• The Artifact: Death's voice sample is based on Norm Macdonald, even though on the real show he only voiced the character in his first appearance ^note Season 2's "Death Is A Bitch". Adam Carolla took over the voice for all subsequent episodes.
• Art-Style Clash: During the 2024 April Fools special MrBeast was added as a character. However he was rendered as his character model from Fortnite which made him heavily clash with the Family Guy cast.
• Ascended Extra: This is a given considering numerous characters who only rarely appear in Family Guy are also present in AI Peter where they will appear often. This is most notable in the case of Retep, Peter's Evil Twin created from his cut off hand who only appeared in the episode "Meg Stinks!" and had only one spoken line and laughed once, appearing for a total of nine seconds but is a regularly used character here.
• Audience Participation: Topics can be suggested in the stream's official Discord or in donations. As described in the header, this resulted in a variety of rewards before settling on adding Herbert as an interactable character in the topic, with a congratulations message appearing in the background for the donator.
• Black Speech: This is the most common interpretation of Brian's ";" and "*" strokes. The ensuing unpleasant, loud AI gibberish is made out to be some ancient cursed language that harms the other characters.
• Character Exaggeration:
  • Carter is even more of a Politically Incorrect Villain here, being even more of an open racist bigot and regularly spouting racial slurs.
  • Mort is not only a Greedy Jew but actively partakes in conspiracies to take over the world with space lasers. It's unclear whether this plays into real-life antisemitic conspiracy theories or if it's merely meant to mock such theories, but considering the Audience Participation factor it's probably both.
• Crappy Carnival: Pewterschmidtland, Quahog's very own amusement park, owned and operated by Carter. The rides are mean-spirited, safety is not a priority at all, and the food only barely meets the legal definition of "food."
• Deteriorates Into Gibberish: Like in AI Sponge, one of the characters may stop speaking properly and start speaking gibberish. These are affectionally referred to as "strokes" by fans. Uniquely to AI Peter, a certain type of stroke triggered by having a character (usually Brian) say ";" will have them utter obnoxiously loud gibberish that is usually interpreted in-universe as Black Speech.
• Drives Like Crazy: Like in AI Sponge, background cars will often run over characters and follow no real set path.
• Ensemble Cast: The streams feature 24 characters and counting, often adding one or more new characters every few weeks!
• Epic Fail: In one segment, Dr. Hartman gets sick of being called "Drive Hartman"... only to specify that he should be called "Drive        Hartman", due to the AI not correcting the mistake in that context. In general, when a prompt specifically implies that either the "Doctor Hartman" or "Drive        Hartman" pronunciation should be used, expect the AI to screw things up.
• Faux Horrific: Bruce's movement AI causes him to pace in circles and spin around. Other characters treat this as absolutely horrific and pass it off as some sort of unsolicited sexual act. A later update also gave him the ability to walk through walls, adding to the "horror".
• Fluffy Cloud Heaven: Heaven appears here the same as it was in canon.
• Kill the God: Unlike Jesus or Death, God is not immune to ragdolling when the car hits him and given that Heaven is also inexplicably a place the car can spawn means that God isn't safe in his own kingdom either.
• Latex Perfection: In one segment, Peter rips off Dr. Hartman... errr, "Drive        Hartman's" face to reveal that he's merely Carter Pewterschmidt in disguise (as both characters were originally voiced by Seth MacFarlane with very similar voices). Dr. Hartman remains present the whole time (or Carter's Hartman disguise is sentient, it's unclear which) and objects to Carter's behavior.
• No Indoor Voice:
  • Chris' voice is unusually loud compared to the other characters, earning him the nickname "Loudris". This has resulted in a variety of interactions with Loudward from AI Sponge, from Loudward swatting the Griffins for stealing his act to him dating Loudris.
  • Like in canon, Ollie shouts every single one of his words.
• Pet the Dog: While Retep is Peter's Evil Twin, he's the exact opposite of Peter, which means he respects Meg and treats her nicely. Naturally, the Griffins object to this and clarify that Meg should be bullied and disrespected.
• Ragdoll Physics: When they're hit by the red car, touch Death, or at completely random intervals, characters will keel over dead and flop around limply. They still continue their conversations unfazed.
  • In scenes inside the Griffin house, whenever Peter ragdolls he tends to ascend into the ceiling or go out of bounds.
  • Lois perhaps takes the cake with what is known as "Stickbug Lois" when she ragdolls, because her model stretches as a massively distorted mess and flies off wildly through the air as seen here.
• Running Gag:
  • Chris will often have segments where he can only say "COOL!", "NO WAY!" or "AAAAAAAAA!" in his usual loud voice.
  • Cleveland saying "Beef..." or "Milton..." is also a frequent gag, since he had very long silent strokes when saying either of those words on occasion.
  • Any segment with Consuela will inevitably involve her fixation with Lemon Pledge.
• Simpleton Voice:
  • Chris already had this in Family Guy proper, but the sketchy text-to-speech AI and the volume of his voice usually make him sound even dumber.
  • Ollie always fumbles the pronunciation of his "IT'S GON' RAIN!", making him sound like he has a speech impediment.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Two AI Peter characters fulfill superficially similar roles to counterparts in AI Sponge.
  • Chris is this to Squidward, as the resident "loud character" who babbles nonsense and is made to say repetitive phrases that become memes.
  • Brian is this to Plankton,^note albeit retroactively, as this mostly popped up in AI Sponge Rehydrated, as the character who is often made to blurt out Black Speech strokes via certain "trigger characters" in the text.
• The Voice: During the Quahog 5 News segments, Tricia Takanawa only appears as a disembodied voice. She was given a body in the December 16th update, so she can appear outdoors and in the courtroom, but still calls in as a disembodied voice on the news.