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I’ve been trying out (in a very limited way given my lack of generation credits) converting photos to videos. I’ve only tried it with photos I own so far but the results have been impressive.
I’m wondering if members would like to see themselves naked in situations they could not or would not be able to experience in real life?
It would involve sending me a good-quality, well-lit nude frontal photo in landscape format. I could then post one or two variations
The results are NOT perfect, but the over effect can be stunning. These would have to be in the age-verified Patron-only area, as there would be nudity and a small cost involved.
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Gary very kindly volunteered a suitable photo, so here’s a quick example of the sort of thing that can be done. And, before you ask, we can also work with full frontal nudity.
This is a first attempt and very low res as I’m trying to conserve credits. There are glitches but I’m mostly pleased with the result.
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I’ll have to see how things go, and how much interest there is. I’d love to experiment more with the whole area but my hope of getting free credits through a small flow of referrals, hasn’t panned out. It seems no-one else wants to give Pollo a try.
Maybe after August, I’ll (hopefully) be able to afford a proper subscription so I get an amount of credits to work with each month. In the meantime, I’ll create some more examples.
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Not quite “AI generated” and they’re not naked either … but the idea that robots could be programmed to play football intrigued me. Some of the results are even funnier than I expected.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5ylkyrkjnzo
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I have used AI to make pictures but so far I haven’t actually tried videos but that will be my next new distraction I suppose!
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I thought there would be more interest in this. It would have been interesting to explore.
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It looks interesting as a demonstration of the technology, but (due only to my bad overthinking habit!!!) I found it quite hard to watch.
- I couldn’t see where Gary had consented to it (though obviously if he’d objected it would have been removed.)
- I struggled to think of a story that would include this episode. I settled on the guy having two friends who have entered an event. The friend in red has done well and is being congratulated by her two friends (the guy and the one in green). Looking at it that way, are we thinking unkindly of the friendships, as if we’re being encouraged to see them flirting and therefore doubt their sincerity in the relationships? I know that mixed-gender friendships can include flirting, but (again overthinking) I wonder if that would be a barrier to really close platonic friendship.
Looking at it again now, though, I see it more as a piece of street theatre and problem 2 has gone away completely. I once saw an odd. situation unfold while I was having coffee at the South Bank Centre, and it later dawned on me they were performing a show.
Another possible story would be that the women had dared each other to do this. The lesson for me is to be less lazy and try harder to work out what could be happening I didn’t like my first explanation and then it stuck in my head.
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There were discussions in the forums for a week or so before when I began asking for volunteers. Three people showed some interest but Gary was the only volunteer – HE sent me the source photo to be used to make the video. Why would I use someone without consent?? Apart from the moral element there, it would probably upset a long-time and valued member of this community.
There’s no story for the test video. I was just trying out what was possible. With more work and a little imagination, there are all sorts of possibilities. Currently all the AI video sites I’ve seen are limited to 4-10 seconds per video, probably to save on workload but also, the longer the videos run, the more distorted they tend to become. I believe a thirty-second-long video would be incredibly unlikely to remain coherent and not introduce scenery and events which make no sense. Of course, I can splice together a string of 5-10 second generated videos to tell a story of sorts, or at least to explore a scenario.
What you see in that video was the third attempt. In the first, one of the AI-generated characters ran behind Gary and failed to come out the other side. In the next, two of the characters merged into one near the end. There are glitches in the one I published in this thread.
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Yes, it’s definitely technically interesting. Also interesting that it would still take significant human effort to make a longer story out of AI clips.
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Unless you are super lucky, it takes some human effort to achieve anything with generative AI. Crafting the prompt takes a while (usually a few iterations) and experience helps enormously. Any details you fail to specify may come out as random nonsense. Even when you get the prompt “right”, it might take a few goes before it comes out as you want it to. I wasted most of my free startup credits because I didn’t know what I was doing. I’ve found image=>video MUCH easier to control than text=>video.
I spent a surprising amount of time making my prompts mean the same while being shorter, as there’s a character count cap, so fitting everything you need to say can be tricky. You also need an awareness of how much action or movement can be achieved in the number of seconds you choose to generate.
There’s definitely a skillset to it.
Also, so I’m acutely aware that we are still essentially in the early days of this tech being available to the public. It will get better, and it’s not going away. I think of it like computers replacing typewriters, silent movies progressing to sound, broadcasting’s far-reaching effects on live productions. You don’t have to like the technology, and where it is now may not be the same as where it goes over the next few years, but it’s here and we either get involved or get left behind.
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