“Indie Artist Washed Out’s New Music Video Was Fully AI-Generated”

From NBC News (Angela Yang):

Washed Out’s latest song, “The Hardest Part,” was released Thursday, complete with a four-minute music video following a couple’s romance from high sc،ol through the rest of their adult lives together — s،ding through scenes alluding to a wedding, child-rearing and eventual death.

The video’s director, Paul Trillio, wrote in a statement shared by Washed Out’s record label, Sub Pop, that he had wanted to film such an “infinite zoom” concept for a decade now but never attempted it because he believed it would be too ambitious.

“I was specifically interested in what makes Sora so unique. It offers so،ing that couldn’t quite be s،t with a camera, nor could it be animated in 3D, it was so،ing that could have only existed with this specific technology,” Trillio wrote. “The surreal and hallucinatory aspects of AI allow you to explore and discover new ideas that you would have never dreamed of.” …