Want to know how fast virtual worlds are going to appear? TikTok recently added a new effect called “AI greenscreen.” Users type a description, then the AI does its best to interpret the prose and output an image that can be used as a background for a TikTok video.
The filter is very primitive and it is nowhere near as powerful as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 or Google’s Imagen, but it is an amazing next step in the evolution of social video production tools. Just open your TikTok app, click the “green screen” filter, then click AI. Fun! Here’s why you should care.
The cover of this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine was created by a human/machine partnership, based on an image created by AI. The human (Karen X. Cheng) typed the sentence, “wide-angle shot from below of a female astronaut with an athletic feminine body walking with swagger toward camera on Mars in an infinite universe, synthwave digital art,” into OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. After a little editing by the human, here are the results:
We’re on the cusp of a new era of “movie magic.” The impact will be global. Kids will be born into a world where they can create anything they can imagine – no craft skills needed, just the ability to describe their vision. Deepfakes will evolve as well; there will be no more believing what you see or hear (yes, this works for audio too). A complete shift in the way we communicate and how we experience content is coming soon, and you can test it with a few taps on your smartphone.
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