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'It's no secret that despite significant investment from companies like OpenAI
and Runway, AI-generated videos still struggle to achieve convincing realism at
times. Some of the most amusing fails end up on social media, which has led to
a new response trend on Chinese social media platforms TikTok and Bilibili
where users create videos that mock the imperfections of AI-generated content.
The trend has since spread to X (formerly Twitter) in the US, where users have
been sharing the humorous parodies.
In particular, the videos seem to parody image-synthesis videos where subjects
seamlessly morph into other people or objects in unexpected and physically
impossible ways. Chinese social media users replicate these unusual visual non
sequiturs without special effects by positioning their bodies in unusual ways
as new and unexpected objects appear on-camera from out of frame.
This exaggerated mimicry has struck a chord with viewers on X, who find the
parodies entertaining. User @theGioM shared one video, seen above. "This is
high-level performance arts," wrote one X user. "art is imitating life
imitating ai, almost shedded a tear." Another commented, "I feel like it still
needs a motorcycle [that] turns into a speedboat and takes off into the sky.
Other than that, excellent work."
While these parodies poke fun at current limitations, tech companies are
actively attempting to overcome them with more training data (examples analyzed
by AI models that teach them how to create videos) and computational training
time. OpenAI unveiled Sora in February, which is capable of creating realistic
scenes if they closely match examples found in training data. Runway's Gen-3
Alpha suffers a similar fate: It can create brief clips of convincing video
within a narrow set of constraints. This means that generated videos of
situations outside the dataset often end up hilariously weird.'
Via David.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
