I was messing around with img2img and I created this monstrosity
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This isn’t a limitation of neural nets, as early as 2018 we’ve had stable style transfer for videos, see https://medium.com/element-ai-research-lab/stabilizing-neura...
People who grew up and want more out of culture will do what they always have done, which is look for alternative media.
Thankfully, there are still youtube channels with shows and cartoons we grew up with, so parents can show those to their kids instead of today's trash.
(It's a joke.)
Wonder Pets seemed relaxing and amusing to me; there was a song “you have to la-la-la-la-love yourself”. Paw Patrol seemed high dopamine action; with pets either hustling hard to do what a human told them to do, or providing comic relief.
Human creativity is still fine and kicking, it’s just that the curator/gatekeeper were removed, so parents are left on their own to select shows for their kids. Which sucks if your parents can’t be bothered.
I can't bear hearing the overused "sling" from a sword getting move one cm, or the "click" of a gun pointed in one direction.
I hate the blue + yellow + actor face template for half movie posters.
I get bored when I saw in the 80' the same "boy saves girl" cliche, then in 2000, "you are secretly the one, your destiny is saving the world", then now, "look they are all from a minority, how subversive!"
AI is just going to industrialized copy/pasting in a industry that have created the concept way before we had GUI.
Only half joking. Arguably, the point of media is connection to the collective consciousness. But, something to be said about exploring the personal imagination.
The tools in the hands of ordinary people has proven to result in an infinite firehose of ordinary expression. Those ordinary people are reduced to copy-machines that reproduce what algorithms amplify.
I'm not in animation but I assume there's still plenty of that content being made, it's just in its own subculture somewhere
The "superficiality" is perfectly unrelated.
Unless your AI takes all that into account.
Praying stuff like this feels... Not crass, exactly, but like... Unrefined and ersatz in a way. It's like buying a mall katana and displaying it like it's something of cultural value.
The "tens of thousands" is an overestimation for 1min. And my guess is it took substantial time to plan and animate the original Witcher sequence as well. Also modern anime utilize similar conversions (such as sourcing photographs) and 3d software.
Is that a very large dose or just a regular one?
This was honestly a great waste of compute power.
To the downvoters, do what you want, but it doesn't change the apparent reality of what we're seeing. AI image generation is an exciting and growing technology but this isn't a remarkable or successful application of it in any measurable dimension. The system lacks temporal and spatial context and that is going to be a hard blocker for this application.
But wate of computer power? No, not at all. You are missing the novel creative aspect of this. This level of wonkiness is absolutely perfect for music video producers, and I am betting it will not take long before we see videos in this “style”. Some time ago there was a short trend of data moshing videos. They were certainly trippy and stood out, albeit short lived. Digital artefacts as a way of creative expression can work great, and will too in this case.