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Text-to-video AI generating tools have come a long way. Just three years ago, we were all unsettled by grisly clips of actor Will Smith’s face morphing while “eating” a moving pile of spaghetti.
Thanks to major leaps in the tech, these tools can now generate photorealistic fake footage at the drop of a hat — which could have devastating implications for efforts to keep disinformation at bay.
However, those who are heavily invested in AI are welcoming the rapid unraveling of truth as AI slop continues to flood the internet. Case in point: Andreessen Horowitz partner Justine Moore, who recently boasted that the venture capital firm-backed Black Forest Labs’ Flux 3 AI tool — which launched in late July — was “exceptional at generating historical footage.”
Moore shared a 20-second clip of “elementary school students in the ’90s predicting how we’ll use computers.” On the surface, it seems like a feel-good narrative of young kids accurately forecasting major advances in tech.
“They’ll probably do our homework,” one of the AI-generated children said in the clip.
“Maybe they’ll make movies for us,” another fictional child added, perfectly echoing Holloywood executives’ desires to turn the entertainment industry into a slop factory.
Turns out that Flux 3 is exceptional at generating historical footage…
like elementary school students in the '90s predicting how we'll use computers.
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