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Earlier this year, TCL freed a trailer for Next Stop Paris — an AI-vivaciousd low film that seems enjoy a Lifetime movie on carry outance betterrs. The trailer had all the halllabels of AI: characters that don’t transfer their mouths when they talk, lifeless transmitions, and weird animation that produces it see enjoy scenes are constantly vibrating.
I thought this might be the extent of TCL’s experimentation with AI films, donaten the well dose of criticism it obtaind online. But boy, was I wrong. TCL debuted five novel AI-produced low films that are also destined for its TCLtv Plus free streaming platcreate, and after the Next Stop Paris debacle, I equitable had to see what else it cooked up.
Though the novel films do see a little better than Next Stop Paris, they serve as yet another reminder that AI-produced videos aren’t quite there yet, someskinnyg we’ve seen with many of the video generation tools cropping up, enjoy OpenAI’s Sora. But in TCL’s case, it’s not equitable the AI that produces these films horrible.
Here are all five of them, ranked from tolerable (5) to “I want I could unsee this” (1).
This futuristic low film fundamentalpartner has the same concept as Ray Bradbury’s low story “All Summer in a Day.” It chases a youthful girl who inhabits on a set upet where the sun only comes out every seven years, but equitable 10 people can see it at a time from the top of a produceing called the “Citadel.” Well, this girl triumphs a lottery to get a rooftop see of the sun, but two bullies lock her in a room to stop her from getting to the Citadel.
The AI-produced sequences become pretty difficult to chase as she tries to direct her way out thraw the sewers besystematich the school. She somehow gets in touch with her dad (telepathicpartner?), who equitable so happens to be a maintenance laborer who understands his way thraw the underground. There, she greets purple rats on her way to some benevolent of elevator (?) that turns into a rocket and blasts her to a rooftop (?) where she can finpartner see the sun.
The voice acting in this isn’t horrible, but the increateage of facial transmition was pretty chuckleable (equitable see at this scene).
Project Nexus is more enjoy a five-minute trailer than a low film, and unenjoy TCL’s other AI movies, this one is nastyt to depict vivaciousd characters, rather than trying to produce them see as human as possible. It commences enjoy this: a man finds what sees enjoy a radiovivacious rock and then set ups the arrest of a group of four teens, who then get some sort of superauthentic powers after the rock explodes besystematich their prison.
They participate these novelset up powers to escape the prison, and that’s where it ends with a “to be persistd.” I thought that maybe the facial transmitions would be better becaparticipate the characters aren’t nastyt to see brimmingy human, but that definitely wasn’t the case here. This film’s story is probably the most compelling out of the bunch — the AI-produced animation and askable voice acting equitable produce it difficult to watch.
This is a documyth-style low film, which has an actor take parting Dr. Warren Brown participate AI to reincreate the harrotriumphg story of how he lost his leg after getting trapped in an avalanche atop Chile’s Cerro Castillo mountain — and it’s difficult to increate which parts of the story (if any) actupartner happened.
Though the convey inantity of the film is an AI flashback, shotriumphg clips of Brown and his friend traversing the snowy mountaintop, it cuts between scenes with the authentic, human actor who take parts Brown and narrates the story. It’s fundamentalpartner enjoy watching an Investigation Discovery show, but with all the “emotional recreations” made with AI.
The story commences to disponder me after it shows an AI-produced image of a disjoined leg, chaseed by a trippy sequence of Brown’s “life flashing before his eyes,” which, for some reason, integrates a zebra morphing into a lion. I visibly cringed at the ending when Brown called this the “best day” of his life.
At first, The Audition didn’t seem that horrible. But what I thought was a silly skit involving an actor auditioning for a role in front of a picky casting honestor dgrowd into some weird and unamusing trys at comedy. After asking the actor to try on various accents, the casting honestor’s asks get more particular — he should be youthfuler, maybe see more enjoy Brad Pitt (with elf ears, for some reason).
