StoryGEN1
Roope Rainisto.
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"A movie consists of a huge amount of creative choices. What happens when the AI makes all of these choices?"
Roope Rainisto
Early explorations on merging generative stories with generative video: what happens when an artist provides only a single sentence as a prompt for the entire video?
For StoryGEN1, Roope Rainisto is building an app that takes as its input something as simple as a single sentence, breaks it down into a story, specifies the elements of a short movie (video, audio, dialogue), then automatically generates everything and puts it all together.
People talk about "the Netflix of the future" where the audience member describes what kind of movie they want to watch. This will become a reality in several years. A movie consists of a huge amount of creative choices. What happens when the AI makes all of these choices?
People often dismissively talk about AI artists as "just writing a prompt." Roope has spent weeks creating a single AI video, so of course currently there's a lot more involved in creating one. But those comments and his experiences lead him down this path of thinking: "What would it mean if it is true—if one could just write a single prompt, and out comes a short movie?"
He firmly believes AI acts as a mirror—it has learned a model of us, and then when it reflects it back to us, the image it paints can sometimes be very revealing. Now that he applies this not only to the visual generative side but also the story side, more aspects start to emerge: how does an LLM tell the story of us? How do we behave? How do we feel when we see this portrayal? Ultimately what we see in StoryGEN1 is how AI as an artistic medium is offering important questions about our humanity.
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