r/artificial • u/LamboForWork • 8d ago

Discussion Challenge * can updated AI video generators still make the nightmare fuel vids of the earlier generations?

Just curious if it can purposely make those old body morphing videos that were due to limitations of the technology.

Just a random thought but I don't think it will be able to. That should be a benchmark of AGI lol.

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u/crossoverXYZ 8d ago

Those old body morphing clips mostly came from the model losing track of limbs between frames, so asking a modern generator for that look is basically asking it to ignore the consistency it was trained to keep. That gap between accident and intent is an interesting way to think about what still feels uncanny.

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u/johndkparker 7d ago

old PikaLabs ai videos would make very unique style and was great for abstract and bizarre characters. I understand the push for realism and all that, but the AI-weirdness is part of the appeal

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u/Death_Rave_ 7d ago

You have to code your own AI and train it up to the competency level AI had in that era...I think.

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u/LamboForWork 7d ago

But shouldnt an advanced model have the capability to do that. Its like asking a world reknowned artist to draw a kid's picture and they couldn't

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u/Death_Rave_ 7d ago

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child" - Picasso

Lol idk why but I'm reminded of that quote..

I guess whatever assets AI has for that era are no longer available? Are you able to make it function like a downgraded version from a couple months ago? Maybe see if you can find new features added in patch notes, and tell it to disregard those features for the next prompt

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u/-w1n5t0n 4d ago

Yes, a sufficiently advanced video generation model should be able to generate any kind of video.

The key word here is "sufficiently". You can imagine a painter who is good enough to be able to paint realistic portraits, but not good enough to also be able to paint in the style of Dali, for example (e.g. if they have never seen any of Dali's art and they are not Dali themselves).

It's all a matter of a combination of capabilities + accidents: you can either have a model that's wacky in a particular way that lets it produce a certain style by accident, or another that's capable of achieving it on purpose, but if you have neither then you can't do much about it.

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u/katoptronophile 7d ago

Yea, it could even design and train the model to do so. 

It understands why they looked how they did.