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AI videos. Have you seen any good short films that were made with the use of GenAI tools, in entirety or in large part? I don't mean oneshot from prompt to full movie, it can be any kind of multistep process where the creator may generate character sheet images with one model, then use a video model to make videos, and any other steps with AI models can be involved. I can only find a handful, and they aren't great. Though YouTube's search is notoriously broken anyway.
The ones I could find are very flat storywise and are more like a techdemo, packed with action movie shots. I'd be interested in a more story and character-driven one or just anything where the filmmaker wants to tell a story. Less "I wanted to geek out with AI tools so I have to come up with a story for this movie now", more "I wanted to make a movie and now AI makes it possible and simple to realize my vision".
It seems that the story, the content is the harder part. Which isn't surprising, since having access to pen and paper / printing press / rich word processor software didn't suddenly turn everyone into a book author either. The bottleneck is having something to say.
Or perhaps the human acting performance is just too subpar for creative people to accept it as of yet. I mean that the people / characters in a generated AI video often seem to express emotions in an uncanny way etc.
Or perhaps all creatives who would have story ideas and execution capability don't use it because A) they are strongly anti-AI of the bluesky sort, or B) they anyway have access to friends who can act for their short films and it's more fun to do it with other people for such non-nerd creative types. or perhaps C) the latest generation of AI tools need more time to penetrate the creative spaces because they are still mostly present in tech-geek spaces only, i.e. creative types don't yet know about how good the latest models are and have dismissed them months ago when they were worse. or maybe D) creatives have very low tolerance of deviating from their vision, and current models are too random and too hard to control for them to be a good vessel to carry their vision and ideas.
Breaking Balenciaga is the best I’m aware of.
I watched some of it and it’s…mid. My problem with AI art is that it’s all mid. Although here the idea is also mid.
I feel that so far, even good GenAI is either an excellent idea or lucky (or trial-and-error) output, and in both cases a real artist could’ve executed better. Even for works where more effort would be wasted, like jokes and concept art, I prefer a simple handmade drawing like a sketch.
The one exception may be hidden images via Stable Diffusion ControlNet (e.g. text, QR code, spiral), because I haven’t seen any human-made pictures nearly as detailed and seamless. Also, GenAI is great for intentionally bad works, like memes making fun of AI.
GenAI is genuinely useful for routine tasks, forms, etc. where quality isn’t important; and with code, where quality is only important to an extent (nobody will notice your micro-optimizations or unnecessarily readable implementation) and there are decent objective metrics (lints and tests, and I still think AI code is hard to read). But art has no practical limit to quality, and good artists apply themselves to every noticeable detail. Also, art (like music, food, and attractiveness) is best slightly imperfect, in a way that human amateurs execute without trying, and experts learn (“learn the rules, then break them”), but AI seems to struggle.
You may like Harry potter by balenciaga
I think AI acting is getting better and maybe more serious stories could also be told, see for example this proof of concept (the actual content of what she's yapping about is quite boring, but the facial expressions and voice tone are getting more and more realistic).
I agree it’s getting better.
Although I think it will only surpass human art if/when the user has fine-grained control, because my favorite art is that I can relate to, and a general LLM isn’t relatable. I’d rather use AI to make art I really like (even with difficulty, as long as there’s a clear progression…I’ve wanted to get into art, but it’s overwhelming and I’m particularly bad at it), than have the AI autonomously make something I mildly like.
Or if/when we get ASI.
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