Utterly bizarre. I'm sure janky Voyager AI "episodes" aren't far away.
AI Seven/Voyager Music video
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Laughing too much at "Sevenescence" to form a real opinion on the video itself.
That looks like it was generated with Luma, it's impressive tech but still a way off from having enough character consistency for a full episode that doesn't look absolutely surreal when the characters and backgrounds change in subtle ways every six~ seconds.
That looks like it was generated with Luma, it's impressive tech but still a way off from having enough character consistency for a full episode that doesn't look absolutely surreal when the characters and backgrounds change in subtle ways every six~ seconds.
As this doesn't seem to be attracting many visits, and I enjoyed it so much, this is my attempt at increasing interest.
Even if you dislike noisy metal-ish music, I think it's still worth watching the video with the audio muted. It visualises the lyrics which tell Seven's story, from assimilation as a child, to her time as a Borg drone, to her eventual return to humanity abord Voyager due to Janeway's efforts.
But the best bits for me, are the numerous brief animated snippets of various crew members (from all series) after they have been assimilated into Borg heavy metal bands. Obviously it's a matter of personal opinion, but I was laughing for ages.
Judge for yourselves:
Even if you dislike noisy metal-ish music, I think it's still worth watching the video with the audio muted. It visualises the lyrics which tell Seven's story, from assimilation as a child, to her time as a Borg drone, to her eventual return to humanity abord Voyager due to Janeway's efforts.
But the best bits for me, are the numerous brief animated snippets of various crew members (from all series) after they have been assimilated into Borg heavy metal bands. Obviously it's a matter of personal opinion, but I was laughing for ages.
Judge for yourselves:
That's rather fun! I know they're probably trying to demonstrate a lot so it has a bit of a kitchen sink vibe to it. But imagine if they tightened that up to three minutes and made it more focused narratively... it's pretty impressive.
Although I think with that much crying the AI has been trained on Discovery.
Although I think with that much crying the AI has been trained on Discovery.
In some ways, it's very impressive. From what I understand, AI doesn't build actual 3D models of the characters and objects and such in these animations; it rather creates a 2D still frame, and takes guesses of what the next frame would be, which is why people and objects sometimes tend to gloop around... but the fact that these algorithms can produce moving images as convincing as they can without everything immediately turning into gloop is mind-boggling.
That said, there's a fundamental creepiness in having computers make photoreal artificial images of actors for their own scenarios that's a whole other kettle of fish from a person drawing an illustration of an actor to accomplish the same thing. Kinda like how writing a sexual fanfic of an actor is a lot creepier than writing one about a character, even if they're both purely fictional blocks of text invoking the same likeness. The thematic context of the Borg manipulating people to do stuff against their will just makes it even more awkward.
Ergo, even though a considerable amount of human time might have gone into writing certain lyrics of the song, experimenting with the AI prompts, and editing it all together, for all its impressive qualities, I can't say that the good outweighs the bad. When it comes to Trek fan music videos, I think I'll stick with the (delightfully NSFW) Star Trek Rap (feat. Prime Directive and Galaxy Class).
That said, there's a fundamental creepiness in having computers make photoreal artificial images of actors for their own scenarios that's a whole other kettle of fish from a person drawing an illustration of an actor to accomplish the same thing. Kinda like how writing a sexual fanfic of an actor is a lot creepier than writing one about a character, even if they're both purely fictional blocks of text invoking the same likeness. The thematic context of the Borg manipulating people to do stuff against their will just makes it even more awkward.
Ergo, even though a considerable amount of human time might have gone into writing certain lyrics of the song, experimenting with the AI prompts, and editing it all together, for all its impressive qualities, I can't say that the good outweighs the bad. When it comes to Trek fan music videos, I think I'll stick with the (delightfully NSFW) Star Trek Rap (feat. Prime Directive and Galaxy Class).
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