Washed Out - The Hardest Part (Official Video)
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- "The Hardest Part" by Washed Out
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First official music video made with OpenAI’s Sora.
#WashedOut #SubPop
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I want to make note of the intense debate going on here in the comments. It’s clear that the video has served as a jumping off point to discuss a range of topics as far-reaching as aesthetics, authenticity, ownership, and many fears about how AI will effect our lives.
My new album isn’t an AI-album and there aren’t any AI-focused themes, but as a big fan of science and technology, I’m very excited about the creative potential of these new tools. As I’ve said before, it feels like a natural extension of of some of the other experimental music videos I’ve done in the past.
I also want to acknowledge the serious concerns that people have shared with me through comments and DM’s - I feel more educated about both sides of the debate after reading them, and I realize there is an important distinction that needs to be made between responsible and irresponsible use of the tools. It’s clear that we are in the earliest stages of figuring that distinction out, and if anything, I hope that the video can play a role in amplifying that discussion.
Whether you’re scared, excited, or undecided about these new tools, they are here to stay. We just need to collectively figure out the most responsible ways to harness them.
@realwashedout , thanks for sharing this comment and including your thoughts.
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If I may ask, what was the script that was input into Sora in order to create the video? If it’s a long one, is there a URL one can visit in order to read it?
Nah, you’re actively damaging art with this. You’re part of the problem, you’re not “sparking debates” or “amplifying discussions”
@@rileygoopy8992 you are literally engaging in debate.
Seeing as I discovered this as "The first music video generated with a.i." I think its safe to say this will be interesting to look back on in 1 year... won't be nearly as scary/interesting/dramatic at the current rate of accelleration.
@@rproaudio1 no, you don’t know what debate means. Do you see him and I having a back and forth?
I’m quite literally not engaged in a debate, goon.
Sora was definitely trained on a dataset of nightmares
Yeah it wasn't like one of those nightmares for something that to you but one of those unsettling dreams where you're looking for a loved one and you can't find them. Where you've been with them throughout the dream but something happens in your separated and now you're just searching and searching. And nothing makes sense but everything sense.. where you're at places you've been in real life but everything is different yet familiar. It's unsettling.
And this video makes me feel sad for characters that don't even exist but I feel like they should. Like new people I've met in a dream.
I can’t feel for the characters. 😮
The result is very Jean Cocteau, 1948 director of Beauty and the Beast
The visual is like urban legend creepy pasta. At a glance it looks normal, at a second and third glance its looks like nightmare.
just like reality
@@MarquisDeSangExactly! Whats the difference?
This is an interesting statement because, at least for me, the ways things keep warping and changing is very much like how my actual dreams are when I sleep. Enough to be realish, odd enough to be a dream. Just not moving quite so fast.
it looks like a dream.
Nightmare fuel 😂
I honestly feel like this is what dreams would look like if filmed.
We are entering the necromodern era. The desire to find something new through the volume of a database on the old, but without deep human intervention
Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution.
Holy shit, that's a really good way of putting it. Necromodern. Everyone reviving the dead. My Spotify discovery is no longer new songs.. Just old songs and remixes...
Sure. Like there ever was.
@@murray1067 ever was new?
This is deep. I shall be quoting it
Why does ai video feel like I'm watching my dreams?
Because AI Is a reflection of human conciousness
나도 그래
@@williamheckman4597no, it's not.
what if you are sleeping and can’t wake up?!
The video doesn't adhere to our normal perception. For example, there's several scenes of them walking but their movement doesn't match with the motion of the ground, your brain picks up on this because it's not how the world your brain is used to works.
These constraints (unintentionally) are more lax in AI video generation, there's also blending of elements and generally the synthesis of what is real is imprecise. All of these features are shared with dreams. The not following physics, the blending of scenes that our brain pictures, the feeling that whatever we saw was almost real but not quite.
Exactly how I feel when I read an AI article written by AI.
If I ever need to explain what dreaming is like to someone who doesn't dream, I'm just going to show them this video.
It's heartless AI
@@jackstraw9635 It feels like a dream
imagine when the AI will wake up
Exactly. Been saying this for a long time. AI produces images just like dreams do. Add to the fact humanity still do not know why we dream. Stick 50 years future evolution of VR into the mix, you get The Matrix. Dreaming is just old ChatGPT-8. Reality is currently ChatGPT-15
perfect & spot on. thank you.
No wonder this is giving some uncanny valley chills. I just hope the industry of people who worked hard with their skills are not gonna get jobless and depressed because of this thing learning more and becoming their replacement.
You mean like Paul Trillo, who is an artist with years of work, including this video.
@@CoryWatson thanks! this comment literally made my day
When Sora clips came out I got depression. Also Adobe AI generative tools gave depression too.
@@fettyblap4436 Adobe AI is crap, Adobe is too stiff to innovate it seems. But what makes you depressed about Sora?
@@CoryWatsonwhat'd he do lmao feed the AI some prompts?
Actually i came for the comments 😂
😂😆😂
Same!
Well that makes sense because usually it's come for the video, stay for the comments! LOL
Still coming back for more comments 😂
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As a film director, I was excited to see what the capabilities are, however the video itself didn’t creat a feeling, an emotion. Not because Ai created it, rather the Design feel, and execution of the video simply didn’t impact me other than tiring of the constant visual input, which seemed to have no singular thread to it. I remain, however, excited about the possibilities of what any new technology can offer.
Honestly it's a little tedious, there are many creative ways to use this tool without it looking like a psychedelic salad. But here we are.
@@cesar4729 What are other creative ways to use it that aren't essentially busywork (i.e making a backdrop or extending a scene a bit)? I thought AI imagery seemed cool at first but it's very severely limited in actually synthesising anything new, which is kind of inherent given how it works.
As a film director too, I’ll tell you that it’s worth looking at it more broadly, since these combinations create logic and combinations beyond human perception. But this deconstruction hits the heart if you look broadly enough. It feels like something Lynchian I think.. Maybe you're not yet ready as an individual to connect this with feelings and logic. Take a broader look at this issue maybe we are touching the shapes of the future.
Wasn’t the basic premise of the video that we were following the life cycle of this couple? From youth until death (of the dude)?
Regardless, it was a mess.
Are you guys kidding me? I felt more emotion with this video than all past modern music videos
The future is digital diarrhea.
The future is awesome!
@@ECLECTRIC_EDITS You like diarrhea?
That's what they said about the internet in the first place, and what they said about phones when people stopped sending letters, and what they said when...etc....
The future is now old man.
@@StormyInferno People were excited about the internet or confused about the internet.
the more you look at it the worse it gets
This is the worst k hole ive ever been in.
It's a sad also nostalgic video. I don't know how people can't "feel" what it's about. I mean, people thinks this is just a bunch of random scene's but it is a clear timeline
@@Javiera_Random exactly my thought. I felt quite a bit watchign the video...
Agreed. I watched twice and it was still hinky and jarring to watch. 😂😂
@@Javiera_RandomThat might be what my teenager sees, growing up in front of limited digital screen time (except as a toddler, we did not subscribe to the convenience of babysitting with a phone; instead we provided analog toys and human interactions).
I grew up as computer technology was developing into the mainstream. I see jarring scene cuts that take me out of the story and remind me that, on the whole, the video lacks the creativity of human subtlety. 😉
“The hardest part is that you can’t go back”
Why should we assume that our perception of time is moving forward? What if the second law of thermodynamics is actually misdirected, and we are merely a consequence of it?
@@Mijonju The second law of thermodynamics means nothing when you spit in the face of God
AI killed the video star
AI killed the video start
In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind, we've gone too far
AI killed human beings
Every 10-20 seconds it is easy to understand that there is a problems with physics
next:"AI Kills all stars" - official video
Live music is experiencing a resurgence, and people are increasingly valuing the experience of hearing music performed in person.
Video killed the radio star. Buggles. 1980
now let ai judge and comment it so we don't have to
ChatGPT? 😂
'Let the algorithm decide'.
I don't care how the video was created as soon as the final result is aesthetically pleasing for me
Gracias señor por haber echo que descubriese a este grupo de música..
I miss the chillwave days 😭
They are still here if we support the music! 🙌🏼😁
He is evolving
Me too. This is just awful. Purple noon was a Masterpiece, but this sounds like Boring pop radio.
@@YoolSea It sounds like late 80's pop, formulaic, and very produced.
I miss Chillwave too
this is absolutely fire. I just started experimenting with AI commercials and marketing videos. Looks like the only jobs left will be AI prompters. better learn know before its too late 😂
Can you share what's fire about this?
I found it boring. Moments of slick imagery for sure, but mostly like staring out a train window when I'm tired. It didn't hold my attention, & I felt almost no sense of connection to it.
I'd like to hear from someone who loved this, maybe I can see it differently.
Amazing
this is the beginning of the end gg
cant wait for the AI created Washed Out album . they are coming for music next, way to go guys
This music isn't AI?
lol no
we all scared to the guts here. relax, take a deep breath
This video is embarrassing. He can pay an artist to make a good one. As an artist he should do better.
The important thing is that you've found a way to make yourself miserable, with nothing more than your own sour prognostications.
Dweeb.
So so good. On loop for the last hour. Reminds me of someone I miss so much.
damn spot on...
Watch at 0.5x speed.
And bang your head in wall.
I don't get it
Hearing this song live was life changing. God bless Ernest Green ✌️
Mother putting baby into a bodybag at 2:48
The body bag also has hands??
@@PotatoHero-d1z Sauvage - fragrance by anon
Or taking it out.
Half stroller-half body bag monstrosity
@@kristin7121we are born to die??
You use AI for the song too??
I know right, pretty cool. I hope we will be seeing more of that stuff in the future
Idk if this is a diss or an actual question 😭
@@karenmgr I’m dying 😂💀
Are you all film and video producers? What a joke.
@@richardpastore1326 Yes. Thanks for asking.
no humans were hurt making this video
Employed*
Except the ones who spend hours of unpaid time coming up with a treatment for the video, only for Ernest to so "nah, we're gonna go with AI."
So disappointed in him right now.
only literally! but figuratively, yes, humans were financially hurt and artists were robbed.
Feels like you can read the prompt for each scene. Really nice way telling viewers what you wrote just through images
it's like a bad dream
To hell with the haters this is in incredible track I can’t stop listening to it
I love it! is hypnotic.
has chords reminiscent of Coldplay - Hardest Part I hear 🎼 nice song this
The visuals were painful; like watching a train wreck that kept wrecking forever
just like every real music video so nothing new here
if you didnt know this was AI created, you'd be wow'd. Stop it
@@Cargo_Bay What are you talking about? It looks like shit.
@@shrakaI think it’s less about how good it looks but how good it will look in the future. Tools like this will level the playing field in the music industry. It will give independent artists the ability to realise their creative vision, without a record label level budget
@@patrickromeoau It's also going to take millions of jobs and livelihood away from actors, camera crew, etc. by outsourcing them to AI, just like this video did. The biggest benefactor is not going to be independent artists, it's large corporations that will no longer need to pay money to hire actual human beings to do work and create for them, while working-class artists continue to struggle to make ends meet even more so than they already do now.
Ну странное чувство от этого клипа. Ты понимаешь, что места, которые показаны в клипе не существуют в реальности, людей, которых показывают тоже не существовало никогда, но при этом выглядит достаточно реалистично, от этого ощущение, что у клипа "тело" есть и хорошо сделанное, но души, хотя бы частично, нет.
Incredible song and will be the soundtrack to this summer for me. Thank you Ernest for putting out perfect albums exactly when I need them.
This looked like something made from the 80’s. I like it.
Wow!! Imagine 10 years from now. I bet the first pop robot will hit the top 10.
10? Try 2.
2 years max
or already did :)
AI videos are simply my fever dreams and acid trips. It’s another creative avenue one can use. Doesn’t mean EVERYTHING will or has to be AI created.
Agreed.
People will be lazy and this will become the most used tool for "creativity". Most people use AI to get rid of a background because they have no Photoshop skills.
@@w花b Idk if that's considered lazy. Sure, doesn't take long to learn background removal or even do it if good at it. But, I'd imagine AI is quick. Onto the MV, I don't see this at all as creative. Creative would be to actually produce this video not with AI. I think AI could be used for inspiration, like camera work and scences, but at the same time, this video was literally text based, so it sounds like it was creative in writing, but AI did all the work, so lazy...
Well, it's cheaper, faster, and easier to mass produce so... yeah it will. Whether we like it or nor.
Other worldly, yet oddly recognizable. This collaboration is merely the beginning of the end.
It's spring, and there's new Washed Out. It don't even matter that the worlds on fire now.
Saw washed out in 2017, easily one of the top three shows I’ve ever been to
He's back, everybody! He's back! Ernest is back!!!
I think people in the comments are very much criticizing this video purely because they knew it was AI from the beginning. If you didn’t know that, you’d see this for what it is: a masterful piece of work created by a very talented and capable filmmaker (Paul Trillo) who spent years honing his craft. A person with lesser skills and experience absolutely could not have created this, no matter how many AI tools they had available.
This feels like the compressed AI version of "Everything Everywhere All At Once"
It feels kinda like the music, lyrics and vocals were also generated by AI
Have you ever listened to Washed Out before? Lol
Washed Out has always been ahead of its time
The future is underwhelming.
@subpop should hire artists and creators that don't endorse wholesale theft.
I thought the future would be cooler
This is literally the earliest version, why we hating? Besides the fact that this could also just be poorly made with the prompts.
Ya’ll really thought that this could generate two hour films in a single button. Even if that is ever possible, it’d be awhile.
@@ThanosDestroyeryearsago people are scared.
I thought people were shocked and stunned. If you really all are underwhelmed, then that's good. It means this tech is really not that good or revolutionary to you.
I love your work and your choices are fine by me Ernest. Ignore the haters.
AI is the safe harbor for the creatively bankrupt
And art is the harbor for the bankrupt lol
"Photography is the refuge of all failed painters " - Charles Baudelaire
Luddites always lose. True artists embrace new ways of creating.
True@@someone1861
Art has been bankrupt long before AI
Yeah, for sure. The harbour and competition in it will be aggressive
Glad they’re back
Wonderful song
What is there even to compliment here? “Really love the way you entered those prompts, bro!”, LOL!
Taste is the new talent
Yes they still came up with this idea and each shot themselves...
Imagine getting upset about a music video ?
Nice sound good vibes congrats 😊
But...there are PEOPLE in the dryers!
1:33
Looks like human fetuses
Omg I didn't notice that
holy shit
Wait... What? 😂😂
Artists didnt stop creating when the camera was made. Actors didnt stop when film and cinema came. We still have Radio. We still have lots of advancements and methods to express ourselves that are being kept alive dispite the progress that everyone feared would destroy things. AI wont suddenly kill everything creative we are in a transition stage and figuring out stuff. I found the music video worked very well with the song asthetics of a fever dream like state. I think it was wonderful to experiment like this for their music visuals.
FYI, the video of Coldplay's "The hardest Part" is not AI-generated, even though it looks like.
I think I can understand why AI videos looks like a dream..and it´s a little scary. What our braind do while we´re dreaming is the same that the AI is doing: creating artificial images and mental videos based on the reality but artificially re-created inside. So, there are glitches, strange transitions and situations, just like on the AI. So, AI already works like our brains.
Imagine these videos after a decade,
with fine tuning, high level of context awareness, director who can extract full use out of it.
Brace up guys, if this is the state in the first video imagine the peak it can achieve
put the controversy A.I mv aside, the music really hit the spot, thank to wanker technology i found an another amazing band
You are so lucky to get to discover him right before the summer. You're in for a ride.
I absolutely love the video. It's a dreamlike love story full of old memories all blended together. Sad. I can't watch it and not cry.
Creative as it’s supposed to make it the best.never boring but also unexpected journey 👍
Absolutely love this, it very weird and dreamy. i love weird melancholic art like this.
it felt like going to sleep and immediately starting to lucid dream lost in the middle of a never ending psilocybin trip
People used to think the capacity to dream would distinguish machine from man.
When we dream, our neurons are generating images, based on things we have seen/learnt during daytime.
Videos are produced by generative adversarial networks. Images are not stored; it's their characteristics that are encoded.
It's very similar, so it makes sense that the output resembles our dreams.
man none of the dreams i ever had in my life was like these ai generated soups, actually most of the time my dreams had their own cohorent universes and sets of rules, most of them still made sense to me even after waking up.
Give it 5-6 years and watch most influencers lose value.
not 5 years , less
weex
how come?
True that! Film making is going to become a JOKE.
Most" influencers" are already worthless. The fact you called them "influences" alone....
I saw you out late last night again
Walking past, arm in arm, with him
It's so hard
Feel so lost
Don't you cry
It's all right now
The hardest part
Is that you can't go back
I hope that you've noticed I've tried to move on
Still can't admit that our time is done
It's so hard
Feel so lost
Don't you cry
It's all right now
The hardest part
Is that you can't go back
Sometimes I don't mind you're gone
Sometimes I can't try anymore
Thanks 🙏🏾 for the lyrics.
heard this song on Alt Nation Advanced Placement today, and have been listening to it repeatedly ever since. many things to love about it. the delivery of the lyrics is very unique, and pretty fantastic. i've never heard the word 'lost' said with 5 syllables before! great stuff
The fact that people care this much hints at the possibilities that lie ahead, well done.
This is impressive 🌡️
I dig the video it's like you're going through a quick Sprint of past memories past experiences I think it's fitting the chaotic aspect of it
I've never even had a dream this surreal.
This is eerily beautiful. It's like what I imagine someone's life flashing before their eyes must be like. We have come a long way from Will Smith eating spaghetti in such a short short time.
Hey, man. I think a remake of this video might be a good idea. The AI video generation is really not going to stand the test of time. That said, I'd like you to know that I am one of your biggest fans. I love hearing you evolve with every album you put out there. I just bought tickets for myself and my wife to go see you at the Metro in Chicago on 8/9. This will be my 4th time seeing you live. You have rocked it every time and we can't wait to see you perform again. Best wishes
Going to be very hard to tell what music videos are real and what music videos are AI if the latter are all going to look like they were directed by Michel Gondry.
Never going to look like Gondry but already look like poor man tech bro’s attempt.
@@kristin7121 honestly, Gondry is a master of its craft. But what this video unintentionally does well is its visual shortcomings are consistent to a degree that it genuinely appears like a stylistic choice rather than a technical inability and subsequently that style can easily come across in a way that makes it look good 🤷♂️
Awesome song. Awesome video. Nice work you hypercomputers.
Yes!!! New Washed Out! 😍 The world keeps spinning for another lovely day. 🙌🏼😁☀️
Do not try these things at home but this is an awesome song. Listening on repeat 😅😊
The interesting thing for this video and future AI videos will be when people are not told those are AI generated. How many will know the difference? I'm willing to be 90% people won't know the difference. And that number will improve as the tech gets better and better.
It's possible this will be regulated by that time, like a mandatory digital signature that can't be meddled with or with a key stored in a chain and then make it illegal to generate AI video without such a signature. People talk about this like it's the end of the world, humans are so gullible it's hilarious
@@maximusasauluk7359 true but remember, currently if some government lies and invades someone based on those lies, it's possible to disprove their evidence and prosecute them. Now, with generative technology? With them holding power over these signatures? Not so much.
Incredible track !!!!
I absolutely love this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ can't wait to see more generated music videos 😊
trippy af
Art will be redefined in the wake of this. Just like how the invention of camera turned the world of painting upside down, we now have to rethink the very definition of art and why we care for it.
This is definitely the most wicked, but fun video I have ever seen.
It’s definitely cool ! Videography isn’t dead, I bet people will just be craving for authenticity
The internet is dead. Long live AI. Long live our new gods
I'm a visual and digital media artist and AI worries the heck out of me. At several moments in this video I thought "I don't even understand how anyone would make this scene". I don't really understand why you're all saying it looks painful, I genuinely thought it looked like and was one of the best music videos I've ever seen. I absolutely loved the imagery of the first few sheets that have ghostly hands that reach out and wrap the two people moving down the hall. Even though I admit this was one of the best music videos I've ever seen it still leaves me sad that the creatives are affected the most by AI first. How can we compete with something that can do something this impressive for a fraction of the budget? Depression.
That being said I love the song.
It looks impressive because it's largely ripping off data from many many thousands of already existing well-produced videos.
@@nath565656 I'm aware of how AI works. I'm just saying, visually speaking I think it looks pretty incredible. This looks beyond the ability of a single person, let alone a team of people. Some of the shots would be nearly impossible to do and look as realistic as it does, without AI. My comment was aimed at people who are saying that it looks like shit just because there are a few uncanny details. Regardless of some blemishes, the final results look spectacular.
Trust me I hate AI as a creative. I get it. But as much as it pains me to say, this music video is one of the best I've ever seen. It's scary and hurts to say, but the honest truth.
I'd prefer they not made an AI music video and instead made something original, but regardless it's still visually incredible looking.
@@fettyblap4436 It will be interesting to see how attitudes around AI videos will shift as they become more commonplace, and 'impressive visuals' become something you can spit out with no effort at all.
I do get what you're saying, it just doesn't seem that remarkable of a statement to say that it 'looks impressive', because, well, yeah. The reference data took A LOT of man hours to build up. When you copy paste an image the image you just copied also 'looks impressive'. I thought Dalle images were incredible when they first showed up but the novelty wore off very quick and now they just come across like digital landfill to me.
Ernest the video is awesome and goes perfectly with the track. These people need to go outside for fresh air and quit criticizing something that doesn’t even belong to them.
This is cool. There's are a lot of things "wrong" about this video...visual things that just don't make sense and show that the technology still has a ways to go before it produces something that looks like it was made by a human...but at the same time there are a lot of really neat elements in this video that you just wouldn't tend to see in something made through traditional means. I completely understand that this isn't everyone's cup of tea and that many people are worried about what this means for the future of video making, but I don't see this as a replacement for human creation. I see it was a new art style that will be interesting to explore in the future.
The most uncreative yet creative music video in the universe. Well done! To infinity and beyond 🚀
The AI is impressive, both the video and the song are great, there is nothing to fear from AI, it is a technological advance to which we must adapt, as they say adapt or die, there is nothing more, the future is here
Wake up honey youve been fever dreamin again
Miyazaki said it best "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Masterpiece
I loved that video actually. Yes the graphics were a little bit rough when you looked at details like peoples faces, but the story that it told along with the song was well done, and the visuals of life and ultimately death leading to the tunnel of light was spectacular in my mind. Very well done. I get the debate but for a first try this finished product looked very well done.
I was kinda pulled back by it. Instead of pain and heartach of loniness. I felt this could of been something that I needed all along. I just wonder where they are actually.
Tripped out
Love it or hate it, this is historical
There had to be a first and here it is
Right!!
Yep!
Yes.
Historical.
Either this is a milestone in embracing a fad, or it contributes to the death of human culture.
It feels like the start of Digital Video cut in rhe early 90s
the song is BRILLIANT.
This AI generated video is a liquid nightmare. An uncanny valley generated, acid fever dream that elucidates the sensation of being on a dizzying carnival ride where you pass through morphing melting bodies- but never make a real connection to a soul. It’s animated jpeg vomit attempting to recreate the ineffable and fleeting human experience from the vantage point of a lonely pixel demon generator whose only source of life is the power outlet.
But what do I know, I’m just a human.
This sounds like something AI would say 🤔
Calm down karen
Come back in few years in will get way way better
I feel like I was watching a fever dream… I give the group 10/10 though for originality!