This creepy ‘live-action’ South Park deepfake is giving me nightmares By Joseph Foley printed 21 April 23 Digital Artwork Oh my God, they introduced Kenny to life!
AI picture era has superior a lot in current months that we’re really beginning to see the purpose of it. I imply, precise, sensible makes use of for artistic work, like testing compositions, rendering props and creating variations quite than merely realising weird experiments and horrifying mashups.
However, the work that will get probably the most consideration continues to be items that verge on the nightmarish. This terrifyingly unsettling ‘live-action’ South Park video, for instance (nonetheless not sure of how this all works? See our information to the right way to use DALL-E 2).
Sure, that is proper. Somebody has had AI create a South Park video with realistic-looking characters. Properly, after I say sensible…. Like with many items produced by AI there’s nonetheless that uncanny valley feeling that creates a profound sense of unease.
The video was created by YouTuber demonflyingfox (opens in new tab) utilizing the AI text-to-image generator Midjourney after which animation software program to attach frames to show them into brief movies. It is gone down a storm, with customers commenting on the accuracy of the main points when in comparison with the unique animated South Park crew. The colors and high quality of the video even give it a barely aged look, making it seem like it may even have been made across the time South Park first appeared on our screens in 1997.
“At first, I believed this was a mediocre try at a real-life South Park intro with actual actors, however then I noticed this was made with AI. That is insane,” one individual commented on YouTube. “This was creepy and bizarre…Are you able to do some extra, please!” another person implored.
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The pictures produced by AI picture turbines are actually so good that it is onerous to place your finger on what it’s precisely that makes them look unsuitable. However even though Midjourney can now produce palms with the precise variety of fingers and faces that are not contorted, it is usually nonetheless clear that there is one thing off.
A part of the uncanny feeling right here comes from the animation. AI-generated video continues to be a problem, so quite than text-to-video, this used text-to-image AI after which animation software program to animate the characters. Whereas it creates a superficially sensible consequence, the animations are brief and stilted, with lots of creepy, unnatural blinking. However even nonetheless AI photographs nonetheless are likely to have that uncanny valley really feel, past the truth that many individuals are creating deliberately bizarre AI artwork.
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