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What would be a really cool music video if made by real artists becomes completely vapid uninteresting shit because it's made by AI.
There's no asking how it was filmed or how a special effect was achieved, no spotting small human errors, no soul whatsoever.
Hopefully this creates a larger market for the live music scene. Imagine being able to make a living doing live music.
Not sure what I find worse though... the song is also just two old songs mixed together which at best has some nostalgia value.
Yeah, it’s a Fatboy Slim track…
I think the worst part is that 90% of that could've been filmed with absolutely no visual trickery. Like, its mostly just people doing people things.
I could see them trying to fill in a couple of the trickier shots with some AI assisted shots, (like the one where they're at the turn table and it flips between animation, puppets, and "Real Life").
But there's so many AI-isms in here that it legit distracts from the whole vibe. The pinball bouncing before going in the hole and the hair bounce when people turn their heads grate my vision like nails on a chalk board.
I think this is always the worst part, if you have a concept that would be incredibly complex or time consuming if done by hand then AI becomes a more justifiable option, so why choose AI when you could film it instead?
Back once again with the ill behaviour.
This video seems very low effort. If your going to waste vaste amounts of vital resources, at least generate something unusual. And clearly tag it as Gen AI.
"Video by Tom Furse" - Don't know why this annoys me the most. At best he edited the output of a selection of prompts to fit the music.
The only AI music video I've actually enjoyed watching is this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIvO4eh190
In the description they clearly state the reason for using AI (plus they also used some 3D tools.)
Gen Ai is good for generating horrible nightmarish visuals.
I think I hate Gen AI so much because by default it generates dream-like/nightmare imagery, hallucinations. We try and force it to produce real-life representations.
It's an uncanny valley generator, used incorrectly.
It's a lab-grown meat, that no matter how it's manipulated, just doesn't taste right. But companies try and pass it off as it's from an animal.
For Christ-sake, if people want to use this abomination of a tool, use it to generate abominations.
Low effort video fitting such a low effort song. I could not listen to it past the middle, it's so fucking repetitive.
I'm not going to argue if either is good or bad but that seems like a really arbitrary line to draw in the sand. You could argue that AI was necessary in the OP video to make a young Mick Jagger. You could also argue that your linked video used AI in the worst way - that it wasn't a tool to realize an artistic vision (clips they didn't deliberately generate were funny so they used them)
This video is a MUCH better example of genAI as a tool for art. I don't have the link handy but the Making Of video is crazy. They utilized AI to create the exact look they had in mind
Hot take incoming - Fat Boy Slim was always making slop music so it makes sense that their new music video is AI slop.