We’re on the cusp of a new era of “movie magic.” The impact will be global. After a little editing by the human, here are the results: Cheng) typed the sentence, “wide-angle shot from below of a female astronaut with an athletic feminine body walking with swagger toward camera on Mars in an infinite universe, synthwave digital art,” into OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. The cover of this month’s Cosmopolitan magazine was created by a human/machine partnership, based on an image created by AI.

Just open your TikTok app, click the “green screen” filter, then click AI.

The filter is very primitive and it is nowhere near as powerful as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 or Google’s Imagen, but it is an amazing next step in the evolution of social video production tools.

Want to know how fast virtual worlds are going to appear? TikTok recently added a new effect called “AI greenscreen.” Users type a description, then the AI does its best to interpret the prose and output an image that can be used as a background for a TikTok video.

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