Though my impulse is simply to show you all my short AI films of animals in my library, this space no longer supports video and never did very well at it when it actually did sort of support video anyway.
Also, I know that many of you aren't all that wild about AI.
Fair enough. I'm agnostic on it myself.
Nevertheless this use of AI is my current creative obsession, and I am burning through paid credits as fast as I can buy them. I am absolutely enthralled with creating partially fake pictures of my library and trying to bring them to life. It is complete magic to me.
When it works.
The delicious AI video maker I am using, which is the best one there is currently available, is a Chinese one called Kling. And like all good AI at this point, it is one part more than I ever dreamed of, one part deranged lunatic, and one part deer in the headlights simpleton.
It is a weird combination.
It is very capricious.
It may not understand English, but sometimes it might read my mind.
After struggling with two different AI photography programs I was able to put a decent Mastodon into the physical space of my library. When I put that picture into Kling to try to make it a movie, it produced very plausible video of the space, except it insisted on treating the Mastodon as a kind of 3D statue. Usually I give up on this sort of thing. Obstinately this time I burned through credits trying to get the AI to bring my Mastodon to life. After hours of tries the Mastodon walked.
"It's alive!" I cried with joy.
I post things like this to YouTube.
Every rare once in awhile I get a comment. It's usually something like:
"That is some great AI. I hate AI."
Fair enough.
https://youtube.com/shorts/zMzZB415YJk
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