TCL made five short films to help normalize AI-generated movies and TV shows [Video]

The big picture: TCL, one of the world’s largest television manufacturers, has produce five AI-generated short films to air on its free, ad-supported streaming service. The movies, made over a 12-week period, are part of a pilot program meant to normalize AI-created TV shows and movies.

While technically impressive at times, the flicks are plagued by the same shortcomings we’ve seen in other modern AI-generated content. For example, most human characters in the movies exhibit vacant expressions, struggle to vocalize emotion, and move unnaturally. Speech often isn’t synched properly with mouth movements. Written words and text are also problematic, usually resulting in in a jumbled mess of undecipherable characters and symbols. And that’s just scratching the surface.

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