Are These the Dying Days of Human Art?

Are These the Dying Days of Human Art?

2022 · 1 min · Animation

Artificial Intelligence imagery is coming of age. In this short video director Alex Proyas "tricks" the AI mid journey into producing crude animation effects from still images. But what is the cost to human creativity?

Directed by Alex Proyas

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