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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.
Not sure if it's what you're after (nor the creative process they're using), but the ongoing "Amelia" series on Brit-Twitter is producing coherent and effective political shorts on a fast timeline...
Political as in commenting on concrete British political events, or more like political drama as a genre?
To maybe specify better what I would like to see is stuff in the ballpark of this, just with better ideas: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bYW_7rWjQMs Or a good thriller, or something psychological, or a good scifi that makes you think etc.
I guess a good start for people with fewer ideas would be to do film adaptations of interesting online short stories or highly upvoted nosleep stories, or even just regular short stories that appeared in print over the last 50 years or more.
Very much the former -- it's an unabashed propaganda campaign that would be completely unsurprising if it were done conventionally by some government hiring actors etc -- indeed it's in response to just such a campaign by the UK government!
What's interesting about it is that it seems to have been put together in a matter of days, by (as far as anyone knows!) non-state actors with limited resources and strong government operations. (the videos are probably illegal in the UK on the grounds of promoting hate)
So more of a worked example of AI videogens to create impact IRL than anything with much artistic merit. Just as handheld firearms democratized warfare (for a while), maybe publicly available AI (plus social media) will democratize the mobilization of egregores upon the genpop?
https://x.com/LBC/status/2015894345770045489 (MSM backgrounder)
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2013157247820406995 (first video)
https://x.com/AmeliajakSolana (whoever's doing the videos -- I notice they've pretty much switched to images now, so probably Sora is indeed what they were using -- you'd need to scroll way down for the rest of the videos, they were coming out regularly a few months ago)
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