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  BLKNSLVR
  This is how you do AI music videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njk2YAgNMnELean into the not-quite-but-almost uncanny-valley-ness. Make it a feature, not a bug.
• dialogbox
  The results are pretty bad for a top stars music video. But it's pretty impressive for not very important short clips like insert shorts of cheap Ads.I'm scared because that's the most labor intensive area. Top talents will survive but all the volume industry will collapse.
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  maerF0x0
  Unsure if it's just the way they prompted it / coded it, but the output is far too much a literal direct copy of the lyrics. The best music videos have a story arc on the theme of but often not litearlly the lyrics, and start with obscurity and reveal something (following all the literary/story mechanisms)Consider Amber Run - Found lyrics versus the video, and the story arc of the videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6V_a1-EUA
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  walrus01
  I wonder how much worse this would be if instead of starting with a human-created song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptown_FunkStart from an entirely AI generated song, and have an AI generated video. We apparently already have an example of such:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLLIjOTqkE
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  saaaaaam
  These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.
• willmeyers
  It's an interesting experiment and the results are surprising. I will say that if you're a musician I'd bet anything you can make a way cooler and better music video for $25 and 45 minutes with your friends.
• RealStupidity
  I think that a lot of posters here are missing the point - this is just the tip of the iceberg, and even simple improvements in prompting (infer the meaning of the lyrics, then generate footage related to that) would create a better result.There is no going back from this, only forwards, for better or worse.
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  nzoschke
  > None of the music videos were greatGlad they acknowledge this.Curious how much time in addition to tokens this costs. If you have to spend $25 and wait 45 minutes to get a basically unwatchable video, I'm not worried about indie film makers being replaced just yet...
• beezlewax
  This absolutely is the opposite of what I want to see in a music video
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  deebosong
  No need to take any pot shots at this trash in terms of aesthetic efficacy in earnest, if y'all know what I mean. But as an experiment, it's interesting. There seems to be an odd consistency to all of them, which reveals a kind of internal logic & coherence of sorts that courses throughout any iteration.Aesthetically, where can you place these? I feel like the late David Lynch could have used some tropes in his unnerving, unsettling dream sequences (a la the intro dream in "Mulholland Drive" where people are so cheery and upbeat that it feels viscerally disturbing).That's the consistent feeling that I'm left with watching each one, is just a deep, deep unsettled and uneasy feeling. A scowl on my face the whole time trying to make through each one.I did crack up seeing a martini glass presented to the camera, then float in place on it's own and the presenter resumes holding it with his other hand.Everything else made me nauseous.
• lattalayta
  It's interesting how literal (and boring) the final visuals are. Each shot is a manifestation of the lyrics: "ice cold" show ice cubes. "make a dragon want to retire" show a dragon lounging around. Not to mention the weird artifacts and motionDoesn't feel like the best use case to throw $100 at
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  adverbly
  When the line was "don't believe me just watch"And then the clip was literally just an arm wearing a watch!That's freaking hilarious!It's like someone playing charades
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  Scubabear68
  It is jarring to me that most of the dancing seems slightly out of sync with the music. It is like a music video uncanny valley - images look good, but the lack of sync to the sound shatters the illusion entirely.
• donbox
  Liked the 100$ Fable one \m/
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  victor9000
  These videos are far from good, but it's possible to create a decent AI music video if you use a human-in-the-loop workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Km88uAZ4M
• zhinit
  Seems like if you build some more scaffolding around it, it wouldn't be bad. I think AI video isn't quite there yet so you probably would want to lean into that. For example you could ask for an animated or cartoon music video so the real shots don't look weird. Also if you gave it some guidance on what a good music video is like it would probably help as well. But yeah idk may be that's not the goal here.
• dayvid
  There's definitely still room for innovation in custom use cases with AI. I like to write and draw comics, but it's very time consuming to make a finished product. Working with tools in default and you'll have a bad time. You have to really guide it and if you're using a longer story to adapt, it'll compress things and lose context during Thinking. Luma labs was the most interesting tool I've seen so far, but there's still a lot of room for growth
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  xoxxala
  Interesting article, but those videos aren’t. Not even pre-MTV quality.While checking out the gallery, came across this image:https://www.tryai.dev/gallery/d3725e9b-1df9-4c10-8a23-2fc705...There’s something wrong with it, but I just can’t put my paw on the problem.
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  kev009
  The GPT ones are strange. The $25 fable one to me is subjectively better than the others. The $100 fable one is too literal and robotic.The jevons paradox is you need auteurs to curate vignettes or effects and cut or mask them in etc. That's not really different philosophically when software entered art in other ways. I could see errors/glitches lowering in time but I doubt there will be much acceleration.
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  siwakotisaurav
  AI videos as in remotion based videos look much better imo since it can code much better than it can prompt for videos with a coherent narrativehttps://youtu.be/uDAeAuYyl0E (parody of Claude announcements) https://youtu.be/cSsVNtGPOIg (recreating a fireship video)
• NDlurker
  Spice 1 released an AI video for Jealous Got Me Strapped. Got a young AI Spice 1 and Tupac. I see on his channel he put out another AI video in 2024.https://youtu.be/j36hjNuAIWQ
• franze
  I did let Claude Code Opus + OpenRouter API Key (limited to 25EUR) create an an Arthouse Video about "Is AI art or can it go?"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XofKqFYeQI like the scene with the hands.
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  tantalor
  Embarrassing!You can still delete this, there is time.
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  LPisGood
  Regular music videos (including the writing/recording) can easily go into 6 figures. I wonder what the $200,000 AI music videos looks like.
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  throwa356262
  Please repeat this with models from MiniMax:https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-hailuo-23(No affiliation, I just want to see how well they work).
• stusmall
  Did it misunderstand "don't believe me just watch" and put a bunch of washing machines in on the Fable 5 $100 at about 1:20?
• arjie
  Pretty neat that the gallery of videos plays from where the previous one was paused. Nice UX.
• hasbot
  How well do these models do producing a proof-of-life video? Asking for a friend.
• coldtea
  I mediocrity was a visual style.
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  bubblegumcrisis
  Wow. These are horrible. Sort of refreshing. I thought video was better than this now, but I guess not.
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  gausswho
  Skip the Claude Fable 5 $25 video to 1:42. The disembodied Adams' Family hand is on the job.
• abstractbill
  These are pretty terrible, but for me there were at least a few moments where they genuinely became "so bad they're awesome". They actually re-enforced an idea I keep coming back to: sometime soon a real artist is going to use AI to make something amazing, not by aiming for flawless "realism" or some kind of pastiche slop, but by leaning into the weirdness that often comes out of AI.
• opengrass
  Passable as an episode of Robot Chicken.
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  valar_m
  I'm fascinated by some of the comments in here, that the videos are "awful," "far from good," "embarrassing," etc.This is technology that was unthinkable before just a couple of years ago. Photorealistic video generated by typing out a description of what you want to see is something from a sci-fi movie. I must be dreaming, this can't be real.I took a screenshot in the middle of a video, and it's indistinguishable from a photograph: https://imgur.com/a/TyNbd7EI don't know, maybe I'm just old. I remember hacking the hidden iframe trick to make ajax-style file uploads work in IE7. The advancements I've watched unfold in the past couple of years are still hard to wrap my head around.
• tedggh
  They are terrible. Perhaps if one on purposely prompts for a weird imaginary, the result could be less awful even acceptable, like that famous Gucci ad. These videos instead are common scenes with the super cringey AI artifacts.
• blueshoe
  The fable $25 version was the best.
• fragmede
  I don't know how much WickedAI is putting into creating their videos, but if you want examples that aren't terrible, https://youtube.com/@wickedai
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  aenvoker
  As a clanker-apologist I gotta say this is the strawman of AI slop brought to life. Letting the machine do literally everything without even supervision and see how it turns out? No surprise at all the results are so bad.My fav AI video is still Post-Scarcity Blues from a year ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_t3h2AZ0KY There have been others I've enjoyed since then. But, that one stands out in memory. Work warning: it is occasionally just a bit spicy.
• squidsoup
  Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.
• angrydev
  Wow. These are all terrible. Music video producers can breathe a sigh of relief.
• yapyap
  claude’s is bad and chatgpt’s is horrific
• Mistletoe
  Welcome to the Age of the Plateau. Enjoy your stay, everything is very mid, but it’s oh so cheap to make.
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• Jonovono
  This is my favorite AI generated (or assisted?) music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctBpVI6lRyo
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  apt-apt-apt-apt
  These are getting really good. Much more interesting than the average music video already.