Attempts

[smokingboot]

I don't know about using AI text to video prompts. The conflict for me is that while I can see how the use of AI may steal professional opportunities from writers and artists, I am not sure if it will do the same for film because no-one is ever going to make the little film clips that I would want to make. It's not the Greg Rutowski problem... is it? Not convinced at all, uneasy. But until there's a conclusion about this in my head, I won't damn myself for play.

So I tried.

For one I did use an image, the one discussed in my earlier post. The result was this.
https://www.vidu.com/share/2789332262460476/587502

For the second I did not use an image, and this is what I got:
https://www.vidu.com/share/2789340278447518/591624

This last I like, because I never asked for the wind, and it works. Of course it's nonsense; I am very lazy with prompts. I don't get exactly what I ask for because I don't really ask for anything. But that may be what makes it interesting. I don't need to create the eagle of my dreams like this because I can do that with words and trust people to see the eagle - my own personal sense of the perfect. But the gap between what one writes and what appears is exciting, as well as sinister and ridiculous. To put in something, get something uncanny out, add to that with the next prompt until one has built a whole narrative/piece of music out of a game of consequences, that's fascinating. Or less coherent than Wonderland. Or both.

Once again, for me it seems AI's most likely creative use is really about developing old principles of surrealism. Interesting. But I think it is fair to say I'm never going to be a Fellini.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

I like that second video!

Vidu is very painterly.

[bleodswean]

The issue really is going to be about creating something new, intellectually and philosophically. Surrealism IS about bending the known into an unknown triggering the subconscious to admit that the unknown is an impossibility but rather a discovery. AI does NOT have an unconscious or subconscious hence it will only ever be a variation of the wheel. I'm concerned, is what I'm trying to say. LOLL. We will stagnate ourselves, overfish evolution, if you will.