AI image generation keeps getting better. Not just images either - AI videos and films are keeping pace.

Despite its rapid progress, it's not ready to replace anybody yet.

Take this short film made entirely with AI by YouTube user MetaPuppet. It's surprisingly good. It has the beginnings of a story, characters, mystery, and decent visuals.

Watching it makes you realize that AI really is powerful.

But watch it again. Listen to the dialog -  lines are flat and emotionless. Feel the pacing - it's stiff and manages to convey the story, but nothing else. Look at each scene - the visuals are inconsistent and the composition is lacking, every camera move is the same, and each frame just screams AI.

It's good, but just only. Compare it to almost anything, and it falls short. The nuance and human element in art goes a long way, and you can feel it. Or in this case, not.

Let’s flip the camera over to Google, where they just dropped a powerful new AI model called Genie 3.

It’s related to their Veo 3 video model, but instead of just videos, it generates entire worlds, generating a continuous video feed in response to realtime user input.

Like a video game, but generated on-demand. Not pre-programmed, not using 3d models and assets from artists. Just an infinite (actually, it’s limited to just a few minutes of history) world to explore.

Does this spell the eventual death of the video game?

Probably. But eventually is probably a lot further away than you think. And people will always, always enjoy human-only art.

Perhaps simpler non-generative games will always have their place and their fanbase, too.

Read a lightly technical overview here [link | interestingness level: 4/5]

When the day comes (and it will) that the internet is flooded with feature length films of pure AI…

Some of them will be good!

And 90% won’t.

Try to keep yourself, yourself. Watch some human-made stuff too, from time to time, to remember that we still can.

This movie (It’s A Wonderful Life) almost defines the word “classic.”

Or, come to think of it, “oldie.”

It captures a lot of the essence of this newsletter. Humanity. It is full of vibrant, realistic performances by the best acting talent of the time.

It’s also something that AI won’t be replacing for a long time. AI fanatics might say that AI movies are just around the corner, but that corner is years away.

Watch it! More of a Christmas movie really though, so we’ll remind you then.

Old one, but still hilarious.

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