Are These the Dying Days of Human Art?

Aug 22, 2022

0h 1m

★ 0.0

Overview

Artificial Intelligence imagery is coming of age. In this short video director Alex Proyas "tricks" the AI mid journey into producing crude animation effects from still images. But what is the cost to human creativity?

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Heretic Foundation

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