“A muscular barbarian breaking a CRT television set with a weapon, cinematic, 8K, studio lighting” “A scared woman in a Victorian outfit running through a forest, dolly shot” “Low angle static shot: A teddy bear sitting on a picnic blanket in a park, eating a slice of pizza. The teddy bear is brown and fluffy,… Read More »
On Wednesday, a video from OpenAI’s newly launched Sora AI video generator went viral on social media, featuring a gymnast who sprouts extra limbs and briefly loses her head during what appears to be an Olympic-style floor routine. As it turns out, the nonsensical synthesis errors in the video—what we like to call “jabberwockies”—hint at… Read More »
[embedded content] A music video by Canadian art collective Vallée Duhamel made with Sora-generated video. “[We] just shoot stuff and then use Sora to combine it with a more interesting, more surreal vision.” During a livestream on Monday—during Day 3 of OpenAI’s “12 days of OpenAi”—Sora’s developers showcased a new “Explore” interface that allows people… Read More »
On Monday, Adobe announced Firefly Video Model, a new AI-powered text-to-video generation tool that can create novel videos from written prompts. It joins similar offerings from OpenAI, Runway, Google, and Meta in an increasingly crowded field. Unlike the competition, Adobe claims that Firefly Video Model is trained exclusively on licensed content, potentially sidestepping ethical and… Read More »
In the spirit of not cherry-picking any results, everything you see was the first generation we received for the prompt listed above it. “A highly intelligent person reading ‘Ars Technica’ on their computer when the screen explodes” “A cat in a car drinking a can of beer, beer commercial” “Will Smith eating spaghetti“ “Robotic humanoid… Read More »
reader comments 36 In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called “prompts” into HD video clips without sound. We’ve since had a chance to use it and wanted to share our results. Our tests show that careful prompting isn’t as important as matching concepts likely found… Read More »
Enlarge / Snapshots from three videos generated using OpenAI’s Sora. reader comments 172 On Thursday, OpenAI announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that can generate 60-second-long photorealistic HD video from written descriptions. While it’s only a research preview that we have not tested, it reportedly creates synthetic video (but not audio yet) at a fidelity… Read More »