Comment by Animats
7 hours ago
Over on the image generation side, "frontier AI" seems to be coming along rather well. Watch this video, which was released eight days ago.[1] Can you find any flaws? Two years ago, just getting hands with the right number of fingers was tough. Last year, there were jarring errors in every scene. Now, very little is wrong. How much longer will anyone need Hollywood studios?
It is a LOT better than 2 years ago, but there are flaws and its unpleasant to watch. The most easy to spot is their shoes (which they weren't wearing 1 second ago) flying off their feet without being kicked off in the first 10 seconds.
But if progress keeps going I'm sure it will get to the point where my brain doesn't feel sick after watching it. I hope so, because I'm sure there's a lot of AI videos in my future, whether I want them or not.
>How much longer will anyone need Hollywood studios?
As long as they need shots longer than a few seconds, I suppose
>Now, very little is wrong.
You think culture is a matter of whether you've genned bass drums in front of or behind the drummer? (or to be a little more critical, whether you've remembered to add "sprinkle in some racial diversity" after the first prompt). You got the Coca-Cola trademark just popping up throughout, though, good job there
Still in the uncanny valley for me. Like watching AI the film. That said, it’s 3-minutes long and maintains the setting across many different angles, zoom levels, etc. pretty impressive.
And even if there weren’t any jarring errors, and rest assured there’s about a billion of them, there’s no appeal to this. It’s all context free short unassociated clips of pretty faces dancing on a beach. And?
There’s no narrative, there’s now sense of reality, it’s just a sense of here’s a million pixels of colours that have proven to go well with each other, it’s _slop_.
It’s been years and the only place AI has conquered in visual entertainment is as a subpar Photoshop replacement to fill in the B-roll gaps for those that don’t have the patience or money to do it the proper way.
How elitist of you to belittle 95% of all creators who are no better than that.
Well it is an ad, and all ads need to do is pump their "brand" into your head, so it was always slop.
The video doesn't even have to load to know it's AI generated. The channel profile thumbnail and the video description are dead giveaways. The first frame of the video has too many errors to be worth repeating here. The first 0.5 seconds of the video has implausible movement.
The thing that’s always missing from videos like this is how much prompting or manual editing it took. It’s always implied that it was a one-shot, when it almost certainly was not.
It is way better than some years ago but like every scene got something strange. Look closely. Look at them throwing shoes at 55s if you want something really obvious.
> Can you find any flaws
Physics.
I hear you. It is impressive technically but as far as finding flaws, I will just say this. This looks like something aliens would create in a dystopian simulation based on very odd understanding of old movies. I found it quite unsettling. Do you really think this would replace films with real actors and real writers (assuming they left the millennial talk and "modern audience" stuff)? I think the memes and parodies for AI video is more interesting than this kind of thing.