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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Not a sneer, but I recently saw Ari Kās AI generated video of Trump in his golden ballroom. Itās quite good, here is the channel: https://m.youtube.com/@AriKuschnir
Looking at his other videos, he is a talented story teller. Most videos are about two minutes, has numerous short shots of a few seconds and a voice over or music connecting the shots. So presumably he generates the shots, splice them together and puts the soundtrack over the it. Most of the short stories are dreamlike. To the extent it has characters itās famous people (getting their comeuppance), so even though they look a bit different in each shot, itās easy to keep track.
I think itās interesting because by doing what can be done with the tools, it illustrates the limitations. In the hands of a good story teller you essentially get an illustration for a short radio play (and the radio play needs to be recorded separately, and you canāt show actors talking). Because of the bubble and investor bux, it can right now be done on a shoe string budget.
But thatās all! Are illustrated radio plays replacing feature films? No, so this remains a niche use case. And once the investor bux dries up, potentially an expensive one. Not something to build a billion dollar industry on.
Where are you getting ātalented storytellerā from? The whole thing is some heavy-handed ham-fisted fever dream that I would expect from some liberal engagement farm. And āillustrated radio play?ā What are you even on about.
The video looks like garbage and the rapid cuts are severely grating. The construction is lackluster and the content is garbage. It appears you have brought us a piece of the internet to throw into the garbage bin.
Yeah. I think thereās definitely something interesting here, but itās mostly in how badly compromised the final pproduct ends up being in order to support the AI tools.
What Iām on about? I think the english term is ādamning with faint praiseā. If this is the best that can be done, which I am arguing, there isnāt much use to it.
The latest one is an outlier, in that it doesnāt have a voice over, so it isnāt a radio play. Most of the other ones I have seen has a voice track that tells the story. They are also more dreamlike which matches the prediction of what kind of story can be told from one of the comment threads here (from one of the pivot videos about VEO).
The latest one (and the only one to gone viral) is actually interesting in that he is trying to tell a visual story, but with the medium he has chosen he canāt have a novel character as protagonist really, or dialogue, which is why it is limited to a very simple story.
Iām interested in why it is so limited, because I think that tells a lot of the limitations of the technology as such.
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Iām sorry, I believe that there are legitimate artistic uses of neural networks (and theyāre never about cutting budget), but this is just fascist aesthetics repurposed to serve anti-Trump messaging. Do not like.
How much energy was used to produce that video?