alt Hacker NewsUnsure 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 video
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In an interview, an adult actress was asked about the things she says during scenes. She said she describes what is happening literally at any moment.
This is what LLM models do.
Genghis Khan
The entire thing was cringeworthy to the core. I kind of enjoyed it though because it perfectly epitomized "AI slop" in the first 30 seconds so wonderfully. "Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" - show a blonde woman in a gold sequined top! "Livin' it up in the city" - show a shot of a big city!
If anything, the absurd literalism of the video contrasted so perfectly with the (IMO) brilliant clever originality of the lyrics. E.g. "Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" is actually a not-so-subtle reference to cocaine. Imagine if the lyrics were as stupidly unoriginal as the video ("Now we're all snorting cocaine!!").
Weird Al videos are often totally literal and extremely fun as a result.
> The best music videos have a story arc on the theme of but often not litearlly the lyrics
If the music is crazy popular, you can still do it. See Land Down Under
Fun fact (if you care): Back in the '90s, pretty much every music video produced in Azerbaijan literally matched the lyrics.
Sometimes you can fix this by swapping one tracks music video with another, and letting the syncopation happen naturally.
Yes, LLMs are way to literal - it is a problem.
Claude can right great code, but it’ll throw comments into the code about why we chose this approach instead of the random one I discussed with it - when the comment is of no use to a future developer.
It points at some sort of theory of mind problem in LLMs imo.
Literal music videos are still fun and a valid creative direction, e.g., Vance Joy's "Riptide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k