A few days after the first season of Citadel arrived on Amazon Prime, said to have cost $300 million to produce, to put that figure into context, here’s a list, showing the cost per episode, of the Top 10 most expensive television shows ever made. 10 – The Crown – $6 million to $13 million […]
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Fast food commercials get the generative AI treatment
Following on from yesterday’s ‘Synthetic Summer’ spoof, AI-generated TV commercial, others are following a similar path to see how far the current technology can be stretched. ‘Pepperoni Hugspot’ was made entirely using the following generative tools: script – GPT4 images – Midjourney video clips – Runway Gen2 voiceover – Eleven Labs music – SOUNDRAW AI […]
Experimental AI-generated beer ad ‘Synthetic Summer’ is the stuff of nightmares
This is, as somebody said earlier, almost too weird to post here, but it marks something of a watershed – a commercial generated entirely by artificial intelligence with minimal human involvement. According to Chris Boyle, co-founder of the ad’s creators Private Island, it was generated from text prompts using a mixture of Stable Diffusion, Midjourney […]
Forbes’ side-by-side comparison of Midjourney 5 and 5.1
Midjourney 5.1 has arrived. It’s more “opinionated” in its image generation but also comes with a “raw” mode that removes that trait and is sharper and more accurate, with fewer unwanted borders or text artefacts in images. During testing, Forbes’ Barry Collins used the same prompts in version 5 and version 5.1, left all other […]
Stability AI and Peter Gabriel launch the DiffuseTogether Challenge
Stability AI and Peter Gabriel have got together to launch an animation competition – the Stability AI DiffuseTogether Challenge. It launched last week on Discord and invites participants to submit one animated AI-generated video inspired by and set to the music of Peter Gabriel, made using Stable Diffusion and applications such as DreamStudio (photorealistic imaging), […]
Meet Eva, the world’s first photorealistic metahuman supermodel
Though several fictional hyperreal 3D avatar models have been created to date, Eva Herzigová is making her catwalk debut as the the world’s first photorealistic metahuman supermodel. ”We are entering a new era for digital identity and fashion. Eva is at the forefront of this evolution, with her MetaHuman ready for super-stardom. 3D avatars offer […]