Swatting the sun with a frying pan: the one rule behind a surreal AI short
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lxfater reposted a 35-second vertical AI short, remarking that in creative work humans still can't match AI for abstraction. It drew 71 replies, more than its likes. A watermark credits another creator, "Restless Bill" (our translation); no tools are named. All seven shots follow one rule: everyday housework, done on the sky. Below we take that rule apart and ask where the "abstract" really comes from.
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Tags:#Image-to-video#Storyboarding#Colour grading#Vertical video#Prompting
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