I Tried TikTok's New AI Video Generator. It's All Kinds of Glitchy

AI is encroaching on a new area of social media. TikTok on Tuesday announced the new feature AI Alive, which lets creators animate photos for TikTok stories into short video clips using generative AI. The feature is rolling out in the US this week. My experience using AI Alive has been a mixed bag. The first time I tried it, it took nearly 5 minutes to generate a video, and for 2 of those minutes, it kept saying there were only 10 seconds left. The results ranged from acceptable, at best, to downright horrifying. TikTok also seemed to struggle with object permanence. These are a couple of the videos I made with the new TikTok feature. In the first, I wanted to add a dog to my picture of sunny Tybee Island in Georgia, but TikTok took the wheel and decided to make the dog fly in from nowhere, instead of using my directive in the prompt to have the dog run in on the ground. Created by Katelyn Chedraoui using TikTok AI In another video, AI replaced existing elements, unprompted. My ori ... Read full article.