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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Blooper-Ridden AI Animations Are A Thing Now
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:54:16 -0000 (UTC)
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Quite a few YouTube channels have popped up lately, with a bunch of AI-
generated animations of a few minutes each, on SF-related themes: 
steampunk, retrofuturism, alien planets, fantastical costumes.

Of course there tend to be glitches, ranging from the disconcerting to the 
hilarious. Flying cars which inexplicably still have wheels; several 
1950s-style retrofuturistic videos with robots styled just like 1950s 
kitchen appliances -- I thought these were wonderful, much better than the 
actual robots we saw in 1950s movies.

People eating things in weird ways, walking in the wrong direction, an arm 
belonging to one character turning into an arm belonging to another 
character, and even more peculiar things.

One scene showed a bunch of people in swimwear relaxing around a centre 
area which looked like a cross between a swimming pool and a tennis court. 
It had water, it had a net. And it had somebody walking on that water ...

I wonder where we go from here? Will future advances fix the glitches? 
Then there is the high energy cost of running the computations to produce 
these images -- that will have to translate into actual money being 
charged to the users at some point. Will there be a crash in the 
popularity of AI once the free ride is over?

Whichever way you look at it, I think we are in a transitional era which 
will not last long.