A weirdly mesmerizing song. Explanation here: "Did man land on the moon in 69?".
The images are all AI-generated, but not specifically for this song - they are "recycled" from other users' prompts.
"Why are you using AI art? Isn't that cringe, derivative, and exploitative?"
I know a lot of people hate AI art, and I can understand that. However, it does have the fascinating aspect that it's a "mashup" of all visual media we see on a day-to-day basis. Not just that - a mashup of everything that people like to see; everything that is pleasing or otherwise appealing to them in some way.
So a lot of pictures are a bit of a milquetoast pastiche of the concepts included in the prompt.
Ask ten artists to draw an elephant, and they will all draw it in their unique way. Ask generative AI to give you ten pictures of an elephant, and they will all be weirdly homogenous.
Of course you can cheat via "paint me an elephant in the style of artist xyz" (something that should, and - I hope -
will fall under copyright law, eventually). But it will still be derivative. LLMs can't come up with something truly new.Anyway. I will continue to be fascinated by AI images, and use them for experimental videos and such. If for no other reason that these will be funny little vignettes of what generative AI images looked like at this point in time.
And yeah - when I see them in the song video, I find them strangely unsettling. Especially towards the end of the song where it bombards you with quickly flashing AI images. I find when I work on a project using AI images, I often end up feeling slightly sickened after some hours... something that doesn't happen when I look at real art (I can walk through a museum for hours!)
But then, a lot of mainstream media and music has that effect on me, too...