AI artist Mario Klingemann has used GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and specifically NVIDIA’s StyleGAN2 to create NeuralFace, a deepfake video that morphs a collection of artificially generated faces pulling a range of increasingly unsettling expressions in sync to Kraftamt’s 2014 track “Triggernometry”.
The results are fairly disturbing and the bets are open on whose next edgy promo this aesthetic will feature.
At the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing last weekend, Chinese startup Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University unveiled Vidu, a new text-to-video model to compete with OpenAI’s Sora that generates “realistic” 1080p clips up to 16 seconds in length (compared to Sora’s 60 seconds) “with dynamic camera movements, detailed facial expressions, and natural lighting and shadows”.. The […]
There’s no escaping it, generative AI is getting right under everybody’s skin at the moment. Its widespread use in advertising is leading some brands to issue demands and warnings hither and thither in a bid to contain it and stop it, as they see it, from threatening their businesses. Following on from discussions and advice […]