Marvel's Secret Invasion premiered last night on Disney+ (NO SPOILERS)

[thewayne]

The opening credits are AI-generated and causing a lot of controversy.

Disney had always been about the artists, and now they bypass the artists and had a computer generate the credits. Now, granted it took a lot of coaxing and back and forthing to get that output, and lots of people were involved and paid for it, but amongst the controversies are that the AIs used are the ones that scraped the web and stole images from people without permission!

Now, the credits - linked in the article - are very evocative and atmospheric. I think they're pretty good, but honestly, a team of hoomans could have done better.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/marvel-angers-artists-and-fans-with-ai-generated-secret-invasion-tv-intro/

Comments

[mtbc]

Seems oddly brave to derive important IP like that.

[thewayne]

It is a curious thing. Maybe they decided to do it as an experiment, but I think it's way too early in the debut of AI/ML and the acceptance thereof to be doing things like this. Jobs are already being lost, there is decidedly social disruption already happening, though not at a large scale. It's a bit early to do something like this. IMO.

[disneydream06]

I sill haven't checked out this show.
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

It's certainly got a specific style and look to it, but I don't really like it, and I wonder if using the computers to generate it is what's making me not like it as much as a team of humans animating a similar concept. I think it's landed somewhere in an uncanny valley space.

[thewayne]

I found the opening credits interesting, but I think they could have been better.  I prefer animated credits for animated shows, not animated credits for live shows.  As far as uncanny valley is concerned, that didn't trip for me. I mean, you can do animated credits for live shows.  For some reason The Waltons came to mind.  But for me, these just didn't work.  Curious that I can find something interesting yet think it doesn't work.

[silveradept]

It's interesting to see and to examine from a technical perspective and talk about whether it achieved the intended goals. It is interesting to want to know how the credits were achieved while it's also a credits sequence that just doesn't go aesthetically.