"Indie Artist Washed Out's New Music Video Was Fully AI-Generated"

From NBC News (Angela Yang):

Washed Out's latest song, "The Hardest Part," was released Thursday, complete with a four-minute music video following a couple's romance from high school through the rest of their adult lives together — speeding through scenes alluding to a wedding, child-rearing and eventual death.

The video's director, Paul Trillio, wrote in a statement shared by Washed Out's record label, Sub Pop, that he had wanted to film such an "infinite zoom" concept for a decade now but never attempted it because he believed it would be too ambitious.

"I was specifically interested in what makes Sora so unique. It offers something that couldn't quite be shot with a camera, nor could it be animated in 3D, it was something that could have only existed with this specific technology," Trillio wrote. "The surreal and hallucinatory aspects of AI allow you to explore and discover new ideas that you would have never dreamed of." …

Comments

[Noscitur a sociis]

It should perhaps be noted that, at least as described in the article, there would have been some substantial and presumably human-performed editing of the AI generated clips to produce the final video. And there are definitely some artifacts of the AI generation process that probably aren’t what an artist would have wanted. Still pretty impressive.

Now they just need to combine is with AI generated music…

[John F. Carr]

Does any person own the copyright on the AI-generated video?

[AmosArch]

If they do decide to grant copyright to AI generated works I hope people are smart enough this time to come up with a better solution than the idiotically long terms we have now.

Its kind of scary to think how with enough resources you could have a supercluster of computers running through every permutation in the dictionary and theoretically may be able to lock everyone else out of broad topics or severely hinder them for a century or more

[myself]

There was a '1950s style Hobbit Trailer' that definitely would have violated Peter Jackson's trilogy, so that might be one concern I'd have with this tech.

I do agree with the artist however, this is the one case I've seen where the AI is actually able to make a piece of art that would be very difficult for a human to replicate. Dream sequences in shows and movies generally suck, but the hallucinations of the generative AI, which are a problem in most contexts, actual help nail the feel of a dream.

[Currentsitguy]

Man, that Uncanny Valley is getting shallower and shallower.

[mydisplayname]

Unsimulated is better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id63iSuprDs

[santamonica811]

Cool. As someone already has noted; this technology lends itself well to depictions of dreams, fantasies, etc..
The idea of a music video highlighting drug addiction is nothing new (or particularly welcome, IMO), but I love seeing how creative people use new techniques.

[JonFrum]

Repetitive and not particularly interesting without the AI hook. Maybe if it had better music with it.