See and hear synthetic actors talk about ‘AI-acting’, addressing many artists’ fears, namely losing artistic exclusivity because of emerging AI technology. Synthetic actors - generated with DALL•E 2, explain the differences between ‘traditional’ 3D-animated characters and them, ai-generated actors, as well as how artificial intelligence will affect acting careers in general soon. Some of the characters already appeared in Coenen’s earlier work, settling the record of being the world’s first-ever talking AI generated AI-characters.
In just a few seconds, OpenAI’s DALL•E 2 generated all the synthetic actors from a random set of pixel-noise just by resorting to its machine-learning model, following Arno’s and Rodger’s art direction in ntural language. However, DALL•E 2 is not capable of generating animation. Therefore, Werkhoven and Coenen resorted to an AI built by D-ID. That AI generated all the movement and voices needed for the many minutes of lip-sync synthetic chit-chat. Which also takes just a couple of seconds to generate. Except for the ‘after effects’, everything else in this work has been exclusively achieved by AI.
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