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. - 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?
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.
@@robert_reichert 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.
The producer of this video didn't just press one button to make this video. He spent 6 weeks making the prompt for this video. I believe it wasn't effortless by any means. Out of curiosity I tried to create a prompt with AI to see how easy it was, and it wasn't what so ever. I have my own qualms with AI, however, I believe that Paul utilized this in a way that fits the aesthetic so well. It's a fever dream, and he utilized the current state of Sora to create this. At the end of the day, so much modern art is "stolen" from other sources. Do you remember the 90's when hip hop producers blatantly sampled prior works in their productions? This is basically the same thing in the modern age. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in copy / paste but I believe this is something else, due to the nuances of aesthetic / vibes. This is a tool to create something accessible and unique within a budget. These are my thoughts as a small artist, and encourage others to respond with their thoughts. Maybe I'm just biased cause I love WO so much.
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.
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.
this album is in line with the last one from 2020. i'm digging this more mature sound! nothing like driving down sunset blvd with the windows down and a washed out song blasting. its just a good feeling. ernest you always help folks produce good feelings and good vibes. i've loved your music for over a decade. peace and love
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...
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
Song of the Summer -- easy. Jaunty melody punches you in the gut with melancholy, too -- listen to that outro, the fading melodic delights of the carnival as it shuts down and leaves town (see: "Araby"). See you in DC in August, Ernest. Thanks.
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?
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
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....
Also, reading the lyrics it looks like a break up song, which is probably what it is but . . . I cant help but feel that Ernest is singing of someone who passed away whether in life or a fictional story he invented. His words evoke the feeling of needing someones presence after they have left this earth for good. Ever since I thought of the song this way, I can't hear any otherway. Thus, the last set of lyrics always get me like a punch in the gut. Is anyone else hearing it this way?
Sometimes I don't mind you're gone Chills, tears... every once in a while it seems you hit your ups and downs, ins and outs, in sync with an artist putting out albums, that's the case with these last two
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.
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
@@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.
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...
The song itself, It's actually got me from the first time. But for the MV I kinda like this. But it's not about only AI or not. Because we can't escape AI anyway. Just embrace it maybe?
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.
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.
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.
@@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 🤷♂️
This is just as good, if not better, than the striking majority of everything 99% of people have put on the internet in the last 20 years. Far better than anything any "influencer" has ever produced.
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.
@@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.
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.
This is amazing. Just wow! I know (or have been told) this is all made with AI and just seeing evidence of how powerful a tool it is, is incredible. It will only get even better. Good job putting this together.
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
i find nothing wrong with the perspective on the visual art of AI he is using ! we are evolving digitally, why not use and explore new ways! i love the music video, always a fan and will be 🖤♾️
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I am so glad that this comment exists. Yes, if this was made traditionally with a crew and actors it would be a major feat and a rather expensive one at that, contributing to the livelihoods of the many artists that would be required to realize it. I wonder if learning that it was just made by one person prompting an ai model and editing the results changes your initial feeling about it? I would say at most this probably took a day or two to make at the creator's home office.
@@Acecool444 Well if you're talking about all of the videos the AI model was trained on, yeah, those were shot at various locations and took a great deal of time to make. If by splicing you mean cutting/editing, that's actually the only part aside from prompting that was done by a human. All of the video material used was entirely AI generated with a process called diffusion, made by a model trained on a vast corpus of human-created videos.
The shape of things to come. I like it, mostly cause it reminds me of the musicvideos from the 90's but it also got some Backroom vibes. Well prompted :P (also props to the people in post)
Ernest you’re the man your music means a lot to me and a lot of people, I met you backstage in Asheville in 2018 for mister mellow. Don’t let the haters get to you, most don’t understand experimental art, they only take it at face value especially those peeping in the first time. Please don’t let the haters get to you, keep re inventing the wheel
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.
Why is everyone shitting on this? It’s an amazing feat of technology that this is even possible! I have a feeling people are just putting it down because they’re jealous of what it can do and afraid of being replaced. Sure, it’s not perfect (hence why they probably used all rolling shots) but it’s cool, it’s trippy, and it’s aesthetically pleasing as hell! You guys are thinking about jobs being replaced - sure, it’s definitely an issue - but think about how much easier this will make content creation! Suddenly anyone with time and creative capacity can essentially make their own high-quality videos for cheap! With the level of aesthetic quality (I’m not talking about visual quality but ability to capture an aesthetic) we could see independent content creators beat out traditional media, leveling the playing field for creatives! I for one am very excited.
The only thing AI will level the playing field for creatives in, is how everyone will make zero money or be able to afford a living from anything they create, because film studios won't want to pay musicians to make music for their films, and music labels won't want to pay filmmakers to make videos for their music, and so on, because they have AI now. "Leveling the playing field" by eliminating millions of jobs and sustainable living for creatives, good stuff.
@@thesoundofsilence77 These type of arguments are flawed when looking at the bigger picture. It's like we invented the time machine and you're worrying archaeologists are going to be out of a job.
even though its AI, you have to admit that it looks nearly identical to a real dream... which raises the question, why does it look the same as a dream from a real brain. very interesting to me. Side note, I really hope we can use AI to decode brainwaves and 'film' dreams because I've been having some super cool ones and it sucks I cant show anyone
You've told yourself that's what a dream "looks" like. In no way so all our most people "dream" with visuals like that across the board. Does it look like a Kubrick interpretation of a dream, sure.
Actually, this is what I've said to some people about AI images and the like. Pur brains have actually been doing exactly what the AI has been doing when we dream. It takes a collection of info4mation and produces things that we can perceive as accurate pon general observation and experience until closer examination like trying 5o read the text of a book in your dream or something only to reallize its gebberish.
Yess exactly! I was thinking about it sometimes and about the way ai works. We have our own data library and based on that we can imagine things that are sometimes warped (for example, while imagining a person doing something, you don't see their face clearly, focusing on motion). Glad to see others thinking this way @abetwabe
its crazy what AI created in a few years. it's a nightmare in half part, and in the other half it's a new land of experience: the human fantasy mixed with the visione of the machines. it's like we are teaching the ai how we see the world.
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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.
@@robert_reichert 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.
The producer of this video didn't just press one button to make this video. He spent 6 weeks making the prompt for this video. I believe it wasn't effortless by any means. Out of curiosity I tried to create a prompt with AI to see how easy it was, and it wasn't what so ever. I have my own qualms with AI, however, I believe that Paul utilized this in a way that fits the aesthetic so well. It's a fever dream, and he utilized the current state of Sora to create this. At the end of the day, so much modern art is "stolen" from other sources. Do you remember the 90's when hip hop producers blatantly sampled prior works in their productions? This is basically the same thing in the modern age. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in copy / paste but I believe this is something else, due to the nuances of aesthetic / vibes. This is a tool to create something accessible and unique within a budget. These are my thoughts as a small artist, and encourage others to respond with their thoughts. Maybe I'm just biased cause I love WO so much.
I honestly feel like this is what dreams would look like if filmed.
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 😂
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
this album is in line with the last one from 2020. i'm digging this more mature sound! nothing like driving down sunset blvd with the windows down and a washed out song blasting. its just a good feeling. ernest you always help folks produce good feelings and good vibes. i've loved your music for over a decade. peace and love
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
Exactly how I feel when I read an AI article written by AI.
Why does ai video feel like I'm watching my dreams?
Because AI Is a reflection of human conciousness
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@@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.
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
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.
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
@@david3895 That is the only way this ends.
To hell with the haters this is in incredible track I can’t stop listening to it
I absolutely agree. JFC...get over the video; the song is great!! and this is from a 62 year old guy.
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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Every 10-20 seconds it is easy to understand that there is a problems with physics
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.
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
Song of the Summer -- easy. Jaunty melody punches you in the gut with melancholy, too -- listen to that outro, the fading melodic delights of the carnival as it shuts down and leaves town (see: "Araby"). See you in DC in August, Ernest. Thanks.
Complements to the creative designer/director. Visually inspiring for me.
“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
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.
my favorite song
this is the beginning of the end gg
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
now let ai judge and comment it so we don't have to
ChatGPT? 😂
'Let the algorithm decide'.
I think this might have the saddest beat I've ever heard. I'm speechless.
Hearing this song live was life changing. God bless Ernest Green ✌️
Watch a bunch of nature videos then watch this. Real is imperfection; how do you program that in its randomness? This is an amazing video and song
So so good. On loop for the last hour. Reminds me of someone I miss so much.
damn spot on...
Feels like you can read the prompt for each scene. Really nice way telling viewers what you wrote just through images
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.
Saw washed out in 2017, easily one of the top three shows I’ve ever been to
I don't care how the video was created as soon as the final result is aesthetically pleasing for me
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.
Also, reading the lyrics it looks like a break up song, which is probably what it is but . . . I cant help but feel that Ernest is singing of someone who passed away whether in life or a fictional story he invented. His words evoke the feeling of needing someones presence after they have left this earth for good. Ever since I thought of the song this way, I can't hear any otherway. Thus, the last set of lyrics always get me like a punch in the gut.
Is anyone else hearing it this way?
Imagine how much better this coulda been since it's literally taking place in highschools, streets and cards instead of nightmare fuel ai slop
Sometimes I don't mind you're gone
Chills, tears... every once in a while it seems you hit your ups and downs, ins and outs, in sync with an artist putting out albums, that's the case with these last two
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.
He doesn't want me anymore
This is freaking amazing! I can't stop thinking how most of these takes would be impossible to make with traditional means. Truly groundbreaking tech!
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 looked like something made from the 80’s. I like it.
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.
Beautiful
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
So dope man don't let the haters get to you
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.
My life is flashing before my eyes, my heart is breaking and time won't wait.
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.
The song itself, It's actually got me from the first time.
But for the MV I kinda like this. But it's not about only AI or not. Because we can't escape AI anyway. Just embrace it maybe?
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.
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 :)
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??
Gracias señor por haber echo que descubriese a este grupo de música..
it's like a bad dream
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.
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 🤷♂️
Incredible track !!!!
Glad they’re back
Wonderful song
This is just as good, if not better, than the striking majority of everything 99% of people have put on the internet in the last 20 years. Far better than anything any "influencer" has ever produced.
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.
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.
It’s definitely cool ! Videography isn’t dead, I bet people will just be craving for authenticity
This is amazing. Just wow! I know (or have been told) this is all made with AI and just seeing evidence of how powerful a tool it is, is incredible. It will only get even better. Good job putting this together.
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.
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
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 find nothing wrong with the perspective on the visual art of AI he is using ! we are evolving digitally, why not use and explore new ways! i love the music video, always a fan and will be 🖤♾️
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.
Incredible song, deliciously visual video, bravo!
Absolutely love this, it very weird and dreamy. i love weird melancholic art like this.
The fact that people care this much hints at the possibilities that lie ahead, well done.
This gave me chills. It evokes the feeling a dream state more vividly than any other piece of art I can think of
No
@@edgarcism
Ya
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.
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.
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.
Other worldly, yet oddly recognizable. This collaboration is merely the beginning of the end.
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
Highly meticulous amount of staging and editing. Pretty awesome experience, especially with the cool audio background. Nice job!
Yes and prompt-crafting. 🙂
I am so glad that this comment exists. Yes, if this was made traditionally with a crew and actors it would be a major feat and a rather expensive one at that, contributing to the livelihoods of the many artists that would be required to realize it. I wonder if learning that it was just made by one person prompting an ai model and editing the results changes your initial feeling about it? I would say at most this probably took a day or two to make at the creator's home office.
Nothing meticulous about it! Just type in a few prompts, and Bingo! An easy music video!
@@cliffordramsey2500 Splicing was definitely AI generated, but still, Shooting all the video at various locations had to have taken some time.
@@Acecool444 Well if you're talking about all of the videos the AI model was trained on, yeah, those were shot at various locations and took a great deal of time to make. If by splicing you mean cutting/editing, that's actually the only part aside from prompting that was done by a human. All of the video material used was entirely AI generated with a process called diffusion, made by a model trained on a vast corpus of human-created videos.
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 ?
The shape of things to come. I like it, mostly cause it reminds me of the musicvideos from the 90's but it also got some Backroom vibes. Well prompted :P (also props to the people in post)
yep i'm sick and tired of this ai shit. you can't escape it. it's everywhere
Well done and good job ! Change happens whether we like it or not, embrace it.
It's a masterpiece.
I feel like my senses are overloaded
It's spring, and there's new Washed Out. It don't even matter that the worlds on fire now.
Ernest you’re the man your music means a lot to me and a lot of people, I met you backstage in Asheville in 2018 for mister mellow. Don’t let the haters get to you, most don’t understand experimental art, they only take it at face value especially those peeping in the first time. Please don’t let the haters get to you, keep re inventing the wheel
Ernest let the haters get to you
it felt like going to sleep and immediately starting to lucid dream lost in the middle of a never ending psilocybin trip
This feels like the compressed AI version of "Everything Everywhere All At Once"
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.
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.
I love it! is hypnotic.
has chords reminiscent of Coldplay - Hardest Part I hear 🎼 nice song this
Why is everyone shitting on this? It’s an amazing feat of technology that this is even possible! I have a feeling people are just putting it down because they’re jealous of what it can do and afraid of being replaced. Sure, it’s not perfect (hence why they probably used all rolling shots) but it’s cool, it’s trippy, and it’s aesthetically pleasing as hell! You guys are thinking about jobs being replaced - sure, it’s definitely an issue - but think about how much easier this will make content creation! Suddenly anyone with time and creative capacity can essentially make their own high-quality videos for cheap! With the level of aesthetic quality (I’m not talking about visual quality but ability to capture an aesthetic) we could see independent content creators beat out traditional media, leveling the playing field for creatives!
I for one am very excited.
I agree with you
I guarantee you, the feeling is not 'jealousy.' Loathing and resentment is more like it.
The only thing AI will level the playing field for creatives in, is how everyone will make zero money or be able to afford a living from anything they create, because film studios won't want to pay musicians to make music for their films, and music labels won't want to pay filmmakers to make videos for their music, and so on, because they have AI now. "Leveling the playing field" by eliminating millions of jobs and sustainable living for creatives, good stuff.
@@thesoundofsilence77 These type of arguments are flawed when looking at the bigger picture. It's like we invented the time machine and you're worrying archaeologists are going to be out of a job.
This is definitely the most wicked, but fun video I have ever seen.
This sounds really great man!! I'm glad there is new music from you! 🎉
The most uncreative yet creative music video in the universe. Well done! To infinity and beyond 🚀
even though its AI, you have to admit that it looks nearly identical to a real dream... which raises the question, why does it look the same as a dream from a real brain. very interesting to me. Side note, I really hope we can use AI to decode brainwaves and 'film' dreams because I've been having some super cool ones and it sucks I cant show anyone
We're already starting to do this!
You've told yourself that's what a dream "looks" like. In no way so all our most people "dream" with visuals like that across the board. Does it look like a Kubrick interpretation of a dream, sure.
Actually, this is what I've said to some people about AI images and the like. Pur brains have actually been doing exactly what the AI has been doing when we dream. It takes a collection of info4mation and produces things that we can perceive as accurate pon general observation and experience until closer examination like trying 5o read the text of a book in your dream or something only to reallize its gebberish.
Yess exactly! I was thinking about it sometimes and about the way ai works. We have our own data library and based on that we can imagine things that are sometimes warped (for example, while imagining a person doing something, you don't see their face clearly, focusing on motion). Glad to see others thinking this way @abetwabe
@@abetwabegibberish to then eventually make meaning. I understood it.
man this tune is catchy - so good
FYI, the video of Coldplay's "The hardest Part" is not AI-generated, even though it looks like.
its crazy what AI created in a few years. it's a nightmare in half part, and in the other half it's a new land of experience: the human fantasy mixed with the visione of the machines. it's like we are teaching the ai how we see the world.