alt Hacker News$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
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The visuals are good enough to be interesting. I just don't like the shot selection / story writing
The creative in me would rather take the cursed parts of of the cheap models and edit them together.
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?
Can I just say that they look awful?
Wow. These are horrible. Sort of refreshing. I thought video was better than this now, but I guess not.
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension. -Nikola Tesla
Embarrassing!
You can still delete this, there is time.
Pretty neat that the gallery of videos plays from where the previous one was paused. Nice UX.
Skip the Claude Fable 5 $25 video to 1:42. The disembodied Adams' Family hand is on the job.
How well do these models do producing a proof-of-life video? Asking for a friend.
Impressed by what utter shit this is. Music video creators are safe for a while yet
Truly impressive that we're burning trillions of dollars for this abject garbage. I'm so glad people can't buy RAM anymore so that we can shit out some more soulless slop - and this really is the definition of slop - like this
This is my favorite AI generated (or assisted?) music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctBpVI6lRyo
The future is pretty obvious. People spending thousands of hours honing the skills of being able to create visual art will dwindle. The same will be true for many creative endeavors. Artists will still exist and some will be able to make a living from it but it will rare. Slop will prevail. Most people will lose the ability or care to try and tell the difference. The attention wars have a lot of time to go. The addicted are kids and teens and young adults at this point and I see little to make me think they break out of it any time soon.
The interesting irony of using Bruno Mars, who, for my taste, really is something like Human AI.
Uptown Funk is a very enjoyable track -- but if you're familiar with his influences, it can make his music generally stale and unenjoyable. Like Silk Sonic has the technical sound of that era, but it feels like they're treating it like a joke.
Passable as an episode of Robot Chicken.
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.
I mediocrity was a visual style.
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.
id like to see AI dance & sweat and sing on stage...
Feel like a lot of comments are missing the point here - the authors weren't trying to make a great music video, they were trying to test independent tool use.
Despite how awful the end result may be, the models did successfully plan and execute a moderately complicated generation and editing process.
These videos are awful.
GPT is missing a beat
happy to see this is still ugly unwatchable dogshit
Wow, I hate all of it
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.
The AI slop humans always look they are amazing by the fact they can move around, in slow motion.
Recurring characters drift between shots, and none of the videos hold a coherent storyline from start to finish.
Stuff like veo 3 can't always hold a coherent storyline for 8s. It's asking too much to expect a whole, coherent music video.
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
claude’s is bad and chatgpt’s is horrific
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.
Wow. These are all terrible. Music video producers can breathe a sigh of relief.
Awesome! Other commenters are negative but I'm very excited to welcome AI into the artistic community. The more the merrier. Can't wait to see what they come up with!
I hate AI slop as much as the next Hacker News reader, but I thought these were just fine. Any one of these would have thoroughly entertained me during the 80s MTV era.
They're all pretty bad lol
The videos are lame as fuck. This is what they’re spending trillions of dollars on, absolute madness.
Absolutely horrendous and devoid of any value whatsoever.
Please stop using AI for creative work. This is utterly abysmal.
Slightly off topic, but earlier today I was bored, having a kibitz with Claude, and I asked if it played chess. I was surprised when it confirmed, with a humble yes and disclaimer of its mediocre strength. I then asked if it happened to also play Go, which has been my preference for many years now. I was surprised when it again confirmed yes, but admitted it was even weaker here.
Where I began to feel delightfully uncomfortable was when it asked me if it should build a Go board and start a game. Surely you jest, Mr Claude... I thought.
No. The crazy bastard built a beautiful HTML/SVG board, and before I knew what was going on, there it was. I thought for a moment that fraud rhymes with something. Then before I knew it, I was black (that's courtesy!) and I made my first move expecting nothing, kind of astonished by what was happening. Mind you, I was on a phone. Then it made a move in response, and lo and bloody behold, I was playing a game of Go with Claude, on a 19x19 board made in a few seconds, with formidable aesthetics.
I was enamored enough to overlook that Claude does need some practice. But wow. I guess everyone is impressed by something, but that got me.
I don't care that the results are technologically impressive, the automation of creativity is dystopian. As I watched these videos and tried to compare what different AIs can do with similar budgets, is struck me to how utterly soulless and unenjoyable this whole thing is.
AI has plenty of utility, but this isn't one of them. If anything, I want to see AI automate all of the tedious stuff so that human beings can focus more deeply on art and culture. Automating art and culture is anti-human.
No effort went into that. No talent went into that. The creator doesn't care about the outcome. Nobody wants to watch it. Fucken A, brilliant. The intelligence is artificial.
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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These videos have the "karaoke" vibe to them