Or TIWHBALYIIHBOS (Things I Would Have Blogged About Last Year If I Hadn't Been On Sabbatical) #2
With all apologies in advance (especially to C, who I know gets understandably hot under her exquisite collar about this), one more AI experiment. As ever, I'm doing this crap so you folks don't have to, okay?
So I've previously played with text-based AI, and image generation. Now onto video, courtesy of Minimax. For consistency, I've stuck with the same idea of trying to generate something you would never see for real. Specifically, my prompt to the AI was "Singer Morrissey eating a hamburger in an empty McDonald's restaurant, at night". This is what it came up with.
All very impressive, I'm sure. He looks nothing like Morrissey, and doesn't actually eat the burger, just holds it whilst his jaw is moving. Plus, it's very short and has no sound but other than that ... well, it looks like real, carbon-based creatives can rest easy ... for now, at least.
Anyway, with apologies (again) to all those who don't any more, here's the real McCoy with his northern outsider pals, when they were still pals, most decidedly not eating a burger.
Forty years ago though. Stone me.
Argh, where's the ice?!
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, slightly heartened to see a very sad looking non-entity who vaguely resembles Stan Laurel munching on nothing in particular while lines of empty tables and chairs are all clustered impossibly close together in a soulless environment, one of the best visual metaphors for turning us away from an AI-dominated dystopian future there could be, surely?!
Thanks for demonstrating it though, and let's hear it for our new combatants:
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html and https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
Ooh, I hadn't read about Glaze or Night Shade until now, thanks. There is hope, perhaps. Though reading about Apple's AI summation of new stories, in which "news" has been invented or real news totally contradicted, plunges me back into AI-despair. We're all doomed, I tells ya, doomed!
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