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Show HN: Netflix for AI-Generated Videos

95 points by ringerapps 3y ago

ilaksh 3y ago
The videos are amazing but I am worried if I sat and binge watched too many of them like Netflix they might make me a bit crazy. Because many of them seem like drug trips too me.
chirau 3y ago
Is there any way of validating whether a video was generated by AI?
aantix 3y ago
These are beautiful. Right now, the biggest issue with AI generation seems to be lacking the ability to generate a visual consistency with backgrounds, character faces, etc. Without the consistency, it's really hard to a movie with any sort of narrative. Without that, you're stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds. I've seen some resort to face swapping for post processing, but it's very tedious at the moment.
- PrayagBhakar 3y ago
  > Without that, you’re stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds. Considering how many cuts are in modern movies, 4 seconds might be all we need.
  - jstarfish 3y ago
    Why is this downvoted? It's true. Modern cinema cuts every 3-4 seconds. String a bunch of those together and you have anything from a TikTok short to a full-length movie.
- bryans 3y ago
  There are some clever folks on gig sites (Fiverr, Upwork, etc) who are feeding stock video into AI just for the "artificialization" of each frame, while visually retaining the same actors' features, clothing and background scenes -- which also allows cuts that are longer than 4s. The results are surprisingly good, as long as you can find stock footage of the scenes you need.
  - angrisan 3y ago
    We are building a tool to generated animated videos from prompt. You can expect infotainment style 2d videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk-OMADxNzSFAH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk...
    - r0fl 3y ago
      Is the tool available to try yet?
      - angrisan 3y ago
        Yes. It can make infotainment videos. Connect with me @krznun
fourmajor 3y ago
I would love to sort by date added, as a way to keep tabs on how things are improving over time.
orsenthil 3y ago
I found voice based AI tools pretty expensive for anything practical (Elevenlabs), how are these videos getting made? Especially the wondercraft.ai one, backed by Ycombinator? Is that through investor money? And is the idea that if there are going to be enough buyers for these AI generated content, the initial expenditure is worth it?
- echelon 3y ago
  FakeYou and HuggingFace are free.
  - swatcoder 3y ago
    If you build a company relying on that, you’re going to have a rude awakening soon enough. Unless you think you think you’re positioned to raise VC money in a down market, you’d only want to rely on something like with the plan of it being a low-investment “pop up” business where you make some cash now and shutter it when the model breaks. Be careful!
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    They are VC funded, they will not be free forever.
jdeaton 3y ago
Always Break Time is an AI anime on twitch that is pretty fun and should be included here too :)
r3trohack3r 3y ago
Most of the content production industry is not going to survive generative AI. You can produce your own hyper-customized content on-demand and communities can form around sharing that content. From video games, to text based adventures, to porn - I'd be surprised if humans are going to be competitive with generative AI for much longer. Personally, I enjoyed going back and playing the old Pokemon games for nostalgia. Generative AI has completely displaced that genre for me. I can go on text-based adventures set in the world of Pokemon that have higher fidelity and degrees of freedom than any video game experience can provide. The prompt: > You are going to assume the role of a text based adventure game. The game is pokemon yellow. You will narrate the game and events and ask me for input to control the game. The gameboy was just turned on, go. A snippet from the adventure: (full adventure here: https://chat.openai.com/share/df0a1bef-229d-4f88-b25b-6e6af81132ab https://chat.openai.com/share/df0a1bef-229d-4f88-b25b-6e6af8...) > Although Professor Oak advised you to stay away from Mewtwo, you can't help but feel a sense of responsibility and curiosity about the enigmatic Pokémon. You decide to return to the cave and try to communicate with Mewtwo to understand its intentions. > Carefully making your way back to the chamber where you previously observed Mewtwo, you approach it with caution. As you get closer, Mewtwo seems to sense your presence and turns to face you. Its piercing eyes seem to stare straight into your soul. > You gather your courage and attempt to communicate with Mewtwo, hoping to understand why it's agitated and if there's any way to help. To your surprise, Mewtwo appears to be receptive to your efforts. Through a combination of gestures, body language, and psychic communication, you begin to establish a connection. > You learn that Mewtwo is indeed searching for something – a purpose and a place to belong. It feels isolated and misunderstood, and its immense power has brought it nothing but fear and mistrust from humans and Pokémon alike. > As you converse, it becomes clear that Mewtwo is not inherently malicious; it simply wants to find its place in the world. You offer your support and friendship, hoping that this connection will help Mewtwo find the understanding and peace it seeks. ... > You decide to invite Mewtwo to join your team and travel with you, hoping that together, you can help it find its purpose and place in the world. You extend the invitation, unsure of how Mewtwo will react. > To your surprise and relief, Mewtwo seems to consider your offer seriously. It studies you intently, as if trying to gauge your sincerity and trustworthiness. After a moment of tense silence, Mewtwo nods in agreement, accepting your offer to join your team. > With Mewtwo as a new member of your Pokémon team, you feel a mixture of excitement and responsibility. You know that having such a powerful Pokémon by your side could be both a blessing and a challenge, but you're determined to help Mewtwo find the understanding and acceptance it seeks. This is right after battling Misty, I go straight to Mewtwo, team up, and then steam roll the rest of the game and go on an epic quest of self discovery with Mewtwo. We find a bunch of ancient temples that are filled with manuscripts that talk about an ancient lost region. We go there and find it's the origin of all Pokemon, cut off from the world of humans and guarded by an ancient and mythical Pokemon Oriora. The game was an incredible experience - far better than playing the original cartridges for me.
tsunamifury 3y ago
I think this sort of proves out that video is a fair bit further away than just text-based reasoning becoming mass market. When you use just text the mind is able to interpolate away and/or fill in some of the uncanny parts. With video, it's just not possible -- the uncanny valley is novel at first, but boring in the long run. Video will have a much much higher bar to pass than text and I think it will take some time still.
- dandigangi 3y ago
  Spot on. We're a long way away from mass market usage. Still a few levels down but above niche.
- mhuffman 3y ago
  >Video will have a much much higher bar to pass than text and I think it will take some time still. I am not so sure about that. The real hurdle at this point seems to be getting something like Dall-E to produce multiple angles and poses of a scene while maintaining characteristics of the elements in the scene. At that point it is an interpolation problem. I admit I am not an expert on these, but these do not seem insurmountable. I would not be surprised if we see something that can make very convincing short videos in less than a year. At that point, since a "short video" is really a scene, we are basically at film stage.
  - joshuahedlund 3y ago
    > At that point, since a "short video" is really a scene, we are basically at film stage. But silent films, no? Or where are things at as far as generated audio that syncs to the video? (sound effects, dialogue, music - each of which will have its own challenges)
    - swatcoder 3y ago
      I'm in the camp of "satisfying long-watch video is a long way off", but I don't think matching audio to video will be a big hurdle. Conceptually -- if you're generating the video from a script, you can feed the script and video into a foley and voice generator that recognizes "door slammed" and inserts the kind of sound associated with a door slam and that recognizes face changes and generates speech audio keyed to match. Those tasks will be solved independently on the way to long-form video itself getting sorted because you can exercise them with non-AI video along the way. I'd be shocked if somebody hasn't already made some good demos of the foley and lip sync stuff.
zoogeny 3y ago
I recall some controversy over AI generated kids YouTube channels. Some people here seem to assume the target market for this AI generated stuff is Hollywood blockbusters or AAA video games. But really, we're going to see an explosion of content made for toddlers. I'm imagining some kind of TikTok like algorithmic magic combined with this AI generated stuff is going to be a huge thing in the near future.
- ToucanLoucan 3y ago
  Can’t wait for that to happen with zero research into the long term effects that’ll have, but who gives a shit right, we can make money now and not give a fuck later.
  - cardosof 3y ago
    It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.
    - lawlessone 3y ago
      >Coke had cocaine We removed the wrong additive...
  - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
    What's the alternative? The government banning AI TV for 30 years until the long term studies are done? Young kids already have access to the internet at a young age and that's screwing them up royally anyway
    - kevingadd 3y ago
      Is this a serious argument in favor of doing nothing to protect children because they're already being screwed up? "Why not let it get worse"? Plenty of stuff is already restricted as "adults only", it wouldn't be unprecedented to also restrict this. I can imagine various arguments for it - for example, "since it's generated by AI nobody can be held accountable if the content is inappropriate for children and there is no way to ensure the AI adheres to content restrictions, so it can't be shown to children"
angrisan 3y ago
This short animated series is entirely generated (in a way) by AI, from prompt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk-OMADxNzSFAH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk...
bbor 3y ago
You need to add padding to the body of the site - hovering over items on the far left makes content overflow out of the viewport on my laptop screen. Great site otherwise, cool UI, love the restraint
- deleted 3y ago
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0x111 3y ago
Nice to have a directory for this kinda stuff! I've been an avid consumer of AI streaming channels, for example: - https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever (ex Nothing Forever) - https://www.twitch.tv/raycreationstv https://www.twitch.tv/raycreationstv (Space Trek Show) - https://www.twitch.tv/gptv_1 https://www.twitch.tv/gptv_1 (90s TV Channel) It would be nice to have that as a category on your site.
firechickenbird 3y ago
Cool idea, but why such an overkill website? You could've just created a youtube playlist
lawlessone 3y ago
That Sienfeld thing could use better AI voices. That tech has improved since they started this.
fatfox 3y ago
Congrats, interesting site and I really enjoyed watching the videos. I found it slightly annoying that navigating back didn't work as smoothly as on YouTube, for example: When the video is playing in the overlay, the URL does change when you attempt to go back, but the video continues playing. I'm not sure if that's intentional or something that could be improved.

95 points by ringerapps 3y ago

The videos are amazing but I am worried if I sat and binge watched too many of them like Netflix they might make me a bit crazy. Because many of them seem like drug trips too me.

chirau 3y ago

Is there any way of validating whether a video was generated by AI?

aantix 3y ago

These are beautiful. Right now, the biggest issue with AI generation seems to be lacking the ability to generate a visual consistency with backgrounds, character faces, etc. Without the consistency, it's really hard to a movie with any sort of narrative. Without that, you're stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds. I've seen some resort to face swapping for post processing, but it's very tedious at the moment.

PrayagBhakar 3y ago
> Without that, you’re stuck with these small clips of 4 seconds. Considering how many cuts are in modern movies, 4 seconds might be all we need.
- jstarfish 3y ago
  Why is this downvoted? It's true. Modern cinema cuts every 3-4 seconds. String a bunch of those together and you have anything from a TikTok short to a full-length movie.
bryans 3y ago
There are some clever folks on gig sites (Fiverr, Upwork, etc) who are feeding stock video into AI just for the "artificialization" of each frame, while visually retaining the same actors' features, clothing and background scenes -- which also allows cuts that are longer than 4s. The results are surprisingly good, as long as you can find stock footage of the scenes you need.
- angrisan 3y ago
  We are building a tool to generated animated videos from prompt. You can expect infotainment style 2d videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk-OMADxNzSFAH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk...
  - r0fl 3y ago
    Is the tool available to try yet?
    - angrisan 3y ago
      Yes. It can make infotainment videos. Connect with me @krznun

fourmajor 3y ago

I would love to sort by date added, as a way to keep tabs on how things are improving over time.

orsenthil 3y ago

I found voice based AI tools pretty expensive for anything practical (Elevenlabs), how are these videos getting made? Especially the wondercraft.ai one, backed by Ycombinator? Is that through investor money? And is the idea that if there are going to be enough buyers for these AI generated content, the initial expenditure is worth it?

echelon 3y ago
FakeYou and HuggingFace are free.
- swatcoder 3y ago
  If you build a company relying on that, you’re going to have a rude awakening soon enough. Unless you think you think you’re positioned to raise VC money in a down market, you’d only want to rely on something like with the plan of it being a low-investment “pop up” business where you make some cash now and shutter it when the model breaks. Be careful!
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  They are VC funded, they will not be free forever.

jdeaton 3y ago

Always Break Time is an AI anime on twitch that is pretty fun and should be included here too :)

r3trohack3r 3y ago

Most of the content production industry is not going to survive generative AI. You can produce your own hyper-customized content on-demand and communities can form around sharing that content. From video games, to text based adventures, to porn - I'd be surprised if humans are going to be competitive with generative AI for much longer. Personally, I enjoyed going back and playing the old Pokemon games for nostalgia. Generative AI has completely displaced that genre for me. I can go on text-based adventures set in the world of Pokemon that have higher fidelity and degrees of freedom than any video game experience can provide. The prompt: > You are going to assume the role of a text based adventure game. The game is pokemon yellow. You will narrate the game and events and ask me for input to control the game. The gameboy was just turned on, go. A snippet from the adventure: (full adventure here: https://chat.openai.com/share/df0a1bef-229d-4f88-b25b-6e6af81132ab https://chat.openai.com/share/df0a1bef-229d-4f88-b25b-6e6af8...) > Although Professor Oak advised you to stay away from Mewtwo, you can't help but feel a sense of responsibility and curiosity about the enigmatic Pokémon. You decide to return to the cave and try to communicate with Mewtwo to understand its intentions. > Carefully making your way back to the chamber where you previously observed Mewtwo, you approach it with caution. As you get closer, Mewtwo seems to sense your presence and turns to face you. Its piercing eyes seem to stare straight into your soul. > You gather your courage and attempt to communicate with Mewtwo, hoping to understand why it's agitated and if there's any way to help. To your surprise, Mewtwo appears to be receptive to your efforts. Through a combination of gestures, body language, and psychic communication, you begin to establish a connection. > You learn that Mewtwo is indeed searching for something – a purpose and a place to belong. It feels isolated and misunderstood, and its immense power has brought it nothing but fear and mistrust from humans and Pokémon alike. > As you converse, it becomes clear that Mewtwo is not inherently malicious; it simply wants to find its place in the world. You offer your support and friendship, hoping that this connection will help Mewtwo find the understanding and peace it seeks. ... > You decide to invite Mewtwo to join your team and travel with you, hoping that together, you can help it find its purpose and place in the world. You extend the invitation, unsure of how Mewtwo will react. > To your surprise and relief, Mewtwo seems to consider your offer seriously. It studies you intently, as if trying to gauge your sincerity and trustworthiness. After a moment of tense silence, Mewtwo nods in agreement, accepting your offer to join your team. > With Mewtwo as a new member of your Pokémon team, you feel a mixture of excitement and responsibility. You know that having such a powerful Pokémon by your side could be both a blessing and a challenge, but you're determined to help Mewtwo find the understanding and acceptance it seeks. This is right after battling Misty, I go straight to Mewtwo, team up, and then steam roll the rest of the game and go on an epic quest of self discovery with Mewtwo. We find a bunch of ancient temples that are filled with manuscripts that talk about an ancient lost region. We go there and find it's the origin of all Pokemon, cut off from the world of humans and guarded by an ancient and mythical Pokemon Oriora. The game was an incredible experience - far better than playing the original cartridges for me.

tsunamifury 3y ago

I think this sort of proves out that video is a fair bit further away than just text-based reasoning becoming mass market. When you use just text the mind is able to interpolate away and/or fill in some of the uncanny parts. With video, it's just not possible -- the uncanny valley is novel at first, but boring in the long run. Video will have a much much higher bar to pass than text and I think it will take some time still.

dandigangi 3y ago
Spot on. We're a long way away from mass market usage. Still a few levels down but above niche.
mhuffman 3y ago
>Video will have a much much higher bar to pass than text and I think it will take some time still. I am not so sure about that. The real hurdle at this point seems to be getting something like Dall-E to produce multiple angles and poses of a scene while maintaining characteristics of the elements in the scene. At that point it is an interpolation problem. I admit I am not an expert on these, but these do not seem insurmountable. I would not be surprised if we see something that can make very convincing short videos in less than a year. At that point, since a "short video" is really a scene, we are basically at film stage.
- joshuahedlund 3y ago
  > At that point, since a "short video" is really a scene, we are basically at film stage. But silent films, no? Or where are things at as far as generated audio that syncs to the video? (sound effects, dialogue, music - each of which will have its own challenges)
  - swatcoder 3y ago
    I'm in the camp of "satisfying long-watch video is a long way off", but I don't think matching audio to video will be a big hurdle. Conceptually -- if you're generating the video from a script, you can feed the script and video into a foley and voice generator that recognizes "door slammed" and inserts the kind of sound associated with a door slam and that recognizes face changes and generates speech audio keyed to match. Those tasks will be solved independently on the way to long-form video itself getting sorted because you can exercise them with non-AI video along the way. I'd be shocked if somebody hasn't already made some good demos of the foley and lip sync stuff.

zoogeny 3y ago

I recall some controversy over AI generated kids YouTube channels. Some people here seem to assume the target market for this AI generated stuff is Hollywood blockbusters or AAA video games. But really, we're going to see an explosion of content made for toddlers. I'm imagining some kind of TikTok like algorithmic magic combined with this AI generated stuff is going to be a huge thing in the near future.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago
Can’t wait for that to happen with zero research into the long term effects that’ll have, but who gives a shit right, we can make money now and not give a fuck later.
- cardosof 3y ago
  It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.
  - lawlessone 3y ago
    >Coke had cocaine We removed the wrong additive...
- DoesntMatter22 3y ago
  What's the alternative? The government banning AI TV for 30 years until the long term studies are done? Young kids already have access to the internet at a young age and that's screwing them up royally anyway
  - kevingadd 3y ago
    Is this a serious argument in favor of doing nothing to protect children because they're already being screwed up? "Why not let it get worse"? Plenty of stuff is already restricted as "adults only", it wouldn't be unprecedented to also restrict this. I can imagine various arguments for it - for example, "since it's generated by AI nobody can be held accountable if the content is inappropriate for children and there is no way to ensure the AI adheres to content restrictions, so it can't be shown to children"

angrisan 3y ago

This short animated series is entirely generated (in a way) by AI, from prompt https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk-OMADxNzSFAH https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUYhiBehAnloAfgA4Nuvk...

bbor 3y ago

You need to add padding to the body of the site - hovering over items on the far left makes content overflow out of the viewport on my laptop screen. Great site otherwise, cool UI, love the restraint

deleted 3y ago
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0x111 3y ago

Nice to have a directory for this kinda stuff! I've been an avid consumer of AI streaming channels, for example: - https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever (ex Nothing Forever) - https://www.twitch.tv/raycreationstv https://www.twitch.tv/raycreationstv (Space Trek Show) - https://www.twitch.tv/gptv_1 https://www.twitch.tv/gptv_1 (90s TV Channel) It would be nice to have that as a category on your site.

firechickenbird 3y ago

Cool idea, but why such an overkill website? You could've just created a youtube playlist

lawlessone 3y ago

That Sienfeld thing could use better AI voices. That tech has improved since they started this.

fatfox 3y ago

Congrats, interesting site and I really enjoyed watching the videos. I found it slightly annoying that navigating back didn't work as smoothly as on YouTube, for example: When the video is playing in the overlay, the URL does change when you attempt to go back, but the video continues playing. I'm not sure if that's intentional or something that could be improved.