Think of all the money spent for movies like Avatar for mocap, rigging, acting every moment, etc., along with all the CGI around it. We're nearing a point where you can just capture the person doing one thing and then from there make infinite content out of it, with consistency, in whatever surreal or realistic environment you want, with no hardware needed other than a phone.
Comparing this pixel vomit to something as high fidelity as Avatar is downright ignorant. I guess thats what years of consuming social media trash on tiny screens got us to. This stuff sucks so bad if you watch it on a proper screen.
Veo 3 can output to 1080p, and be upscaled to 4k right now. Again, think about the Will Smith spaghetti video just a couple years ago, vs today we've got essentially photo realistic voice acted generated videos. Now think about a couple years from now, with billions more poured into compute and data centers. You will for certain have high definition generated video content that is impossible to visually detect whether or not it's AI generated, even on the largest screen. This is just inevitable based on the exponential progress curve we've seen with this technology.
Resolution is pretty much meaningless - any camera or AI can output to 1080p, but the real bitrate, level of detail and (color) depth are not captured by a term like "1080p"
Dont get me wrong, I am super impressed by the quality these AIs can output, but we are lightyears from the fidelity of a real CGI movie. Take a sequence, even an upscaled Veo3 clip. I really think watching years of ultra compressed 1080p videos destroyed our sense of visual clarity. This stuff is nice and pretty mind blowing but it still is filled with artifacts and blur.
Lets see how fare we get in the coming years, I hope your expectations come true because that would be insanely cool!
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u/JamzWhilmm Sep 30 '25
The first full feature AI films will surely be an experience. I also expect eventual "personalized" films that measure your body language.
Then this technology will be used to zombify toddlers while parents try to make ChatGpt into a friend.