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More specifically, if you claim to be able to “animate anyone”, why wouldn’t you demonstrate a diverse set of characters? A mix of ages, genders, skin colors, body shapes, and abilities, a well as a mix of photos and various illustration styles.

This exactly. An in reply to GP -- I enjoy showing tech demos like this to my teenage boys and did also feel slightly embarrassed sending them this one. At least it's the opportunity this evening for a conversation about it.

These shitty dances are all over TikTok, more than 90% of which are women (in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a man doing one).

There are a ton of men doing dances on TikTok. They just don’t get shown to you because the algorithm knows what keeps your attention.

I'd love to see how this imagen works for some of the complex footwork or acrobatics videos that trend. Testing the limits with extreme poses would be quite interesting.

Yea they definitely should've thrown in some ugly ones in there