I find this medium is one of the best to showcase what people _can_ do with AI, because it requires manual integration of so many different techniques and inputs.
When more real artists start doing this (and fewer early adopters / hypesters), the future is going to be explosively indie. A Cambrian explosion that will cater to the long tail of super niche interests. I'm all for it. Less boxed Disney/Marvel/Star Wars spam, and more super edgy and innovative drama and fantasy.
Hollywood hasn't really given us much good sci-fi or fantasy. Now all of the world's creatives can start visually articulating their ideas.
A good set of analogs to predicatively compare this to might be the overwhelming number of amazing YouTube creators, or indie game designers. That's what will happen with "AI" art.
"AI" art is 99.9% of the time ephemeral art, see it once and throw it away. Who's got the time to see my AI art shit when they could be generating their own? It's more of a personal exploration tool, closer to imagination than to publishing.
Most digital photos are garbage, too. It doesn't discount the medium or the technology.
Perhaps you're not a part of the growing community that spends entire weekends making a singular "AI" art pieces. It's a growing creative medium, and the things being created can't simply be "prompted".
You might generate a photo of a consistent character, pose them using DwPose / 3D IK, extract them, comp them into another scene. Do the same for two other characters and a prop. Then use that composition as a single shot from a shot list for your AI film. Animate it, then rinse and repeat for a few hundred shots. After the shot list is complete, record the lines, capture facial performances, fix the errors, fix lighting, upscale, and publish. Easily a week of work for one person.
AI can be used in workflows by actual artists. It's a tool.
Unfortunately it is a tool that is also used to generate a lot of content for the sake of views capture. For this to work it needs to be created with lowest effort possible. As a result the bulk of AI stuff I have seen so far was not worth my time to consume it or the hardware cycles to generate it.
Or digital photos. Or digital illustration.
AI film isn't great right now, but people are still finding their legs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1ihq048/i_was_ai_l...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SgA6ymPuc
I find this medium is one of the best to showcase what people _can_ do with AI, because it requires manual integration of so many different techniques and inputs.
When more real artists start doing this (and fewer early adopters / hypesters), the future is going to be explosively indie. A Cambrian explosion that will cater to the long tail of super niche interests. I'm all for it. Less boxed Disney/Marvel/Star Wars spam, and more super edgy and innovative drama and fantasy.
Hollywood hasn't really given us much good sci-fi or fantasy. Now all of the world's creatives can start visually articulating their ideas.
A good set of analogs to predicatively compare this to might be the overwhelming number of amazing YouTube creators, or indie game designers. That's what will happen with "AI" art.