This AI image-to-video from Pika Labs. You provide a single image and a text prompt and roll the dice. It's implemented as an online service via a discord bot so you sometimes have to wait a long time and there is NSFW filtering.
This was one of the only results I managed to get with a coherent movement that didn't morph into something strange. Most of the time you get the windy hair/fabric effect applied to random parts of the image or no animation at all.
Maybe if it could run locally, you could run it hundreds of times and cherry pick good results, but as it is now, it doesn't seem to have any use at all.
A pretty valid worry, I'd say. We're already well down the world to a post-factual world, and this kind of thing could easily take us far beyond any recovery point other than everyone becoming a Luddite and destroying tech. And of course, a million dystopian Sci-Fi novels have been written about how THAT turns out.
Right now I think we're getting the worst end of AI, where it's convincing enough on the surface to blow up social media, but not really practical enough for a big improvement in production.
There is a (bright?) future where a single person will be able to make a complete film using these tools. I don't know what it'll be like when there's a thousand or ten thousand new shows released every year but it sounds like we will live in interesting times.
My worry is that the best tools will remain proprietary and lawfare will be used to remove the open source alternatives.
Some people think that the current tech will cap out and never really be useful - I think this is cope. The capabilities are clearly already there, it's just a matter of controlling them.
It is unnerving for sure - especially when I go to deviantArt or rule34 or even google images and the entire page is destroyed with ai garbo. I've said this before but that's why I feel the need to mess with it, because I need to understand the threat and how to use it.
Oh I guess my other big worry is that we'll enter a completely post-fact world and it'll be impossible to find a verifiably real image of anything. Every book will be rewritten and every image repainted, all recently recorded history will be in doubt, etc.
It's a shame this is a "zero-skill user" tool as you called it. Definitely one of the best looking ones so far, AI often has a hard time keeping the iris / pupil consistent but it looks decent here! The hair bounces slightly and the blinking looks natural! I know the reason it looks good is because its barely moving the image, there is still a long way to go for tools to properly realize 2D images in a 3D space.
But I can see some uses for some of these tools now, you could add blinking eyes, animated hot breath, background weather conditions, any small thing that can flourish static images.
I am definitely not thrilled about the future of AI generation, I have a feeling it could get pretty dystopian. I am however much more excited for how these tools can ENHANCE art rather than how they can replace it.
Very nice look in the smoke (though highly inaccurate for actual combat, presumably even with lasers). Generally smoke is much more...active in a combat scenario, with wisps like the floor floating around more from the waist up, and billowing clouds of dust and smoke obscuring most of the girl in this situation. Of course, that is NOT the look you want, when you're highlighting the girl in question! ;-)
Pika Labs AI image-to-video does a pretty decent job at realistic smoke, water, rain, fire, that sort of thing. The intent seems to be to create cinemagraphs.
It's like her brain is having a huge Phantom-dick erection and she's switching between presenting herself and thrusting her phantom-dick into the sheets to get some relief. Fruitlessly... mmmmmm X3
I'm liking the look -- I could see Alison trying it on for size and then Torrin removing each item from her while explaining in detail what he likes (or doesn't like) about her dress. If he likes it, he rewards her. If he doesn't he punishes her. And think of the opportunities that gives Alison either way! :-)
Oh wow, this is nice. As a martial artist myself, I can deeply appreciate the leg triangle arm bar and figure 4 constriction shes got going on there! What a great way to transform: by squeezing the dominance out of him until theres nothing left but soft, submissive femininity! I love it!