Friday Fun: AI music videos are here

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1. September 20, 2022 at 12:56 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   John Herrman / New York Magazine:
   An in-depth look at AI image-creation tools like Imagen, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney; Midjourney users are making concept art for clients and using stock art less — How we work — even think — changes when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.

   AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different How we work — even think — changes when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.
   https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/ai-art-is-here-and-the-world-is-already-different.html

   Artificial-intelligence experts are excited about the progress of the past few years. You can tell! They’ve been telling reporters things like “Everything’s in bloom,” “Billions of lives will be affected,” and “I know a person when I talk to it — it doesn’t matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head.”

   We don’t have to take their word for it, though. Recently, AI-powered tools have been making themselves known directly to the public, flooding our social feeds with bizarre and shocking and often very funny machine-generated content. OpenAI’s GPT-3 took simple text prompts — to write a news article about AI or to imagine a rose ceremony from The Bachelor in Middle English — and produced convincing results.

   Deepfakes graduated from a looming threat to something an enterprising teenager can put together for a TikTok, and chatbots are occasionally sending their creators into crisis.

   More widespread, and probably most evocative of a creative artificial intelligence, is the new crop of image-creation tools, including DALL-E, Imagen, Craiyon, and Midjourney, which all do versions of the same thing. You ask them to render something. Then, with models trained on vast sets of images gathered from around the web and elsewhere, they try — “Bart Simpson in the style of Soviet statuary”; “goldendoodle megafauna in the streets of Chelsea”; “a spaghetti dinner in hell”; “a logo for a carpet-cleaning company, blue and red, round”; “the meaning of life.”

   Through a million posts and memes, these tools have become the new face of AI.

   This flood of machine-generated media has already altered the discourse around AI for the better, probably, though it couldn’t have been much worse. In contrast with the glib intra-VC debate about avoiding human enslavement by a future superintelligence, discussions about image-generation technology have been driven by users and artists and focus on labor, intellectual property, AI bias, and the ethics of artistic borrowing and reproduction.

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2. September 20, 2022 at 12:56 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
   OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after first banning photos depicting real people such as celebrities and public figures

   OpenAI begins allowing users to edit faces with DALL-E 2
   https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/openai-begins-allowing-users-to-edit-faces-with-dall-e-2/

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3. September 21, 2022 at 10:06 am

   krogereschedule says:

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4. September 22, 2022 at 4:39 am

   krogereschedule says:

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5. September 29, 2022 at 8:19 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   AI Dreaming Of Time Travel
   https://hackaday.com/2022/09/28/ai-dreaming-of-time-travel/

   We love the intersection between art and technology, and a video made by an AI (Stable Diffusion) imagining a journey through time (Nitter) is a lovely example. The project is relatively straightforward, but as with most art projects, there were endless hours of [Xander Steenbrugge] tweaking and playing with different parts of the process until it was just how he liked it. He mentions trying thousands of different prompts and seeds — an example of one of the prompts is “a small tribal village with huts.” In the video, each prompt got 72 frames, slowly increasing in strength and then decreasing as the following prompt came along.

   https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463219712

   Voyage through Time – a Generative AI journey
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3VZCjDhGI&t=146s

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6. September 30, 2022 at 8:27 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   James Vincent / The Verge:
   Meta details its text-to-video AI generator, Make-A-Video, which can produce up to five-second videos without audio; Meta is not giving access to the AI model

   Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video
   https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378210/meta-text-to-video-ai-generation-make-a-video-model-dall-e?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

   AI text-to-image generators have been making headlines in recent months, but researchers are already moving on to the next frontier: AI text-to-video generators.

   A team of machine learning engineers from Facebook’s parent company Meta has unveiled a new system called Make-A-Video. As the name suggests, this AI model allows users to type in a rough description of a scene, and it will generate a short video matching their text. The videos are clearly artificial, with blurred subjects and distorted animation, but still represent a significant development in the field of AI content generation.

   Introducing Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
   https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/

   Today, we’re announcing Make-A-Video, a new AI system that lets people turn text prompts into brief, high-quality video clips. Make-A-Video builds on Meta AI’s recent progress in generative technology research and has the potential to open new opportunities for creators and artists. The system learns what the world looks like from paired text-image data and how the world moves from video footage with no associated text. As part of our continued commitment to open science, we’re sharing details in a research paper and plan to release a demo experience.

   Generative AI research is pushing creative expression forward by giving people tools to quickly and easily create new content. With just a few words or lines of text, Make-A-Video can bring imagination to life and create one-of-a-kind videos full of vivid colors, characters, and landscapes. The system can also create videos from images or take existing videos and create new ones that are similar.

   Make-A-Video follows our announcement earlier this year of Make-A-Scene, a multimodal generative AI method that gives people more control over the AI generated content they create. With Make-A-Scene, we demonstrated how people can create photorealistic illustrations and storybook-quality art using words, lines of text, and freeform sketches.

   https://makeavideo.studio/

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7. March 27, 2023 at 1:35 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Chat gpt-x (Jean Michel Jarre style)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hayw5rsWhI

   Old-school synthesizer music in Jean Michel Jarre style

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8. April 25, 2023 at 7:24 am

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Chloe Xiang / VICE:
   A look at AI Hub, a Discord community focused on AI music that released an entire album featuring original songs using AI-generated vocals from famous artists

   Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
   On Saturday, they released an entire album using an AI-generated copy of Travis Scott’s voice, and labels are trying to kill it.
   https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wdj7/inside-the-discord-where-thousands-of-rogue-producers-are-making-ai-music

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9. December 12, 2023 at 8:43 pm

   Rick says:

   Advances in GPU-accelerated AI applications bring enormous benefits, from mining information into data to enhancing security alerts or even monitoring ecological factors such as bee populations. Recently, there has been an intriguing trend using AI to generate art through carefully crafted inputs, as well as generate images via api. A standout project is midjourney, where AI interprets textual input to create sometimes frightening but captivating images. Now this AI art craze extends to music videos. By feeding song lyrics with AI tools such as Midjourney, images are generated and stitched together, creating music videos. It’s a fascinating fusion of AI, art and music, transforming lyrics into visual narratives, showcasing the creative possibilities AI brings to various forms of expression.

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10. April 4, 2024 at 12:15 pm

    NCEdCloud says:

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