Maybe now we can get a good ending to Game of Thrones…
No, soon all AI will be paywalled and feature locked. Right now we are just getting a free taste so we get hooked while they refine it. There is no way capitalism will let us have so much power as individuals.
Hopefully FOSS can catch up or become even better than what they have.
There’s more to making movies than generating moving images.
Of course, but remember where the tech was a year ago? Where would it be in a year from now?
The chair video feels like an SCP. I love that they included some failed generations for some nightmare fuel.
Porn, fake political videos, and avoid paying for stock clips.
These are the main use-cases.
Also, killing time while waiting for the edibles to wear off.
As someone who has studied cinematography, I’m not worried about tools like this. Visual storytelling requires intention that AI can’t provide. This will probably be fine for improv comedy with simple reaction shots, but those tend to lack photographic intent anyway.
Films like Children of Men and Drive, that tell their stories through visuals more than exposition, will still require a trained eye to craft for the foreseeable future.
I mostly agree with you, except:
Visual storytelling requires intention that AI can’t provide.
It should be “that AI can’t provide yet”. The intent can be provided via elaborate prompts. It is just that the output from current generative AI isn’t up to that level yet.
Give it 5 years, and AI might be able to do what you mentioned.
I don’t think an AI will ever achieve new things like the dolly zoom or bullet time. AI can replicate these things once they already exist, but humans are brilliantly absurd and we make strange new art all the time.
Your perspective is very black or white. This tech can have a HUGE impact on human and our endeavors without needing to replace us.
