- Artlist TV is an AI-only streaming channel launching on June 1st
- All shows have been generated by AI
- The reaction from viewers and filmmakers is mostly negative
If you’ve gotten pretty taken with the AI video slop filling up your social media feeds, there will soon be a way to catch up with this kind of content: the Artlist TV streaming channel, launching Monday, June 1, is made up entirely of AI-generated shows.
As spotted by filmmaker Jakob Owens (via PetaPixel ), the channel has been releasing trailers and promotional ads in the run up to its full launch. You can watch the trailer for one of the programs, Terrible peoplehere — it’s apparently “a dark comedy about the fine art of cleaning up after the worst people in the world”.
Other shows you can watch on the channel’s website include The sequence (“an ordinary man begins to experience memories that do not belong to him”) and Deception (“a woman disappears on stage during an illusionist’s act”).
Artlist didn’t come out of nowhere as a business and apparently has more than 50 million users. It offers a range of digital assets to users, including stock footage, templates, music, special effects and – more recently – AI-generated content.
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Take a look at one of the shows’ trailers and you’ll see that they’re reasonably well-crafted – albeit with the generic look, polished sheen, quick cuts and scene-to-scene inconsistencies typical of all AI-generated video clips.
Owens is quite unequivocal in his assessment.”I say this with all due respect,” says the filmmaker on his Instagram. “I hope this fails miserably.” The YouTube comments below the trailers are much the same, suggesting that the content is “gross” and declaring that “no one wants this AI garbage”.
AI video creation tools like the recently unveiled Gemini Omni from Google have certainly come a long way in recent years. They are capable of producing realistic looking clips that are more or less coherent and can be mildly entertaining.
But it’s currently a real challenge for these AI tools to stitch these clips together across the length of an entire TV show or movie in a convincing way. Will you tune in to Artlist TV when it goes live or give it a wide berth? Let us know in the comments below.
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