Apple's Latest AI Tool Can Animate an Image Based on Your Description

[Thomas Davie]

Hey Siri, take photo 23456.jpg and make a 2 minute video of this individual ***** to photo 789.jpg in front of 23456 anystreet at 4:57pm on August 23rd, including time appropriate shading and historical weather data and then synchronuze it to an appropriately generated audio file, mux them together and email it to defnews.com with a title of ‘this is what candidate bob was caught doing’.

Nah, absolutely no possibility of malfeasance. I’m looking forward to the future as it seems that tech is finally going to catch up to my paranoia.

Member that Taylor Swift fake that blew through Twitter - you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Tom

I can keep making new Bowery Boys, Abbott & Costello and Three Stooges movies forever; that’s entertainment!

 

[oldwatery]

Just watch, AI is going to make better music than your “human art“, because all you do is making the same crap, which is easily replaceable by AI.

Only real artists will survive that are actually unique and not some derivative of other people their work, which will be a very very small minority.

People who worry about AI are people who are not real artists in the first place.

Most art is derivative and has been since time immemorial. There are many out there that do not qualify as artists but to say they are not real artists because they are influenced by or build on others is ludicrous. How about Picasso, Miro, Beethoven, Mozart etc etc. They all used others to learn and grow. You clearly are not an artists nor do you understand the artistic process. A pox on AI. The name says it all. ARTIFICIAL!!!!!! I might not worry about it but I hate it never the less....and I am a REAL artist!

 

[bowens]

Now I can create an endless number of Beavis & Butthead episodes; just what expensive consumer computers were always meant to.

At some point we'll be able to ask AI to write and create new episodes of shows or movies. With AI video "deepfake" tech, it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Thomas Davie]

At some point we'll be able to ask AI to write and create new episodes of shows or movies. With AI video "deepfake" tech, it's definitely not out of the realm of possibility.

Agree 100%. I’ve always thought I amuse myself, and now within my lifetime I’ll be able to put that to the test. Yeah it will take a lot more computational power but I want to be able to say ‘Redo Beneath the Planet of the Apes with Charlton Heston replacing James Franciscus’.

Tom

 

[d-klumpp]

Incorrect and badly ignorant. Don’t listen to stupid Wall Street AI bros.

Was that necessary? Perhaps you could display as good a command of your language as you have with your facts. Civility is appreciated, at least by most of us.

 

[Bampf]

Incorrect and badly ignorant. Don’t listen to stupid Wall Street AI bros. [..]

The tools like this are very imperfect and unpredictable

Sure, you and I know this. The problem is that some people DO believe the hype. And even if they aren't sure, bosses and venture capitalists are happy to replace humans to cut costs, without caring whether there will be a decline in quality and service.

To quote Cory Doctorow: "We’re nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we’re well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job".

 

[norwaypianoman]

Speaking of AI, why did Apple throw away years of improvement with Siri for the new model.
As of today Feb 14th, I have turned off Siri on my iPhone. I just cannot deal with the misunderstanding of simple commands like: Countdown, What is the weather, call this person and What time is it ? They do not work any more.

Bye bye Siri, see you again in 2026.

 

[Sevendaymelee]

And thus, the drive to render human art and creativity continues unabated.

 

[SpaceJello]

Incorrect and badly ignorant. Don’t listen to stupid Wall Street AI bros.

Companies employ people to use the tools. They can’t just have some executive sitting there asking AI. The executives and managers have other things to do.

Companies require their creative departments to use the tools.

The tools like this are very imperfect and unpredictable. They always will be. You cannot replace all traditional workflows with ‘talk to AI’. That can only happen if you want everything to be really sht.

The output of AI tools is combined with other materials that are all made normally. The creative professionals do this.

I agree and disagree.

It’s true these AI tools are currently limited and can only be utilize to their fullest potential with creatives with an “eye”.

However, this doesn’t mean AI development is just going to stop there. It will be refined to a point where, literally, “what you want can be created.”

These tools, while productive and great for assisting creatives, are highly uncertain in the long run. Again and again, the C suite has proven themselves to be willing to do everything in their powers to cut expenditures like “human capital”.

 

[subjonas]

Are we going to get the ability to give Siri sequential prompts??

 

[RobertoDLV]

People criticising and explaining to genuinely worried professional artists that they are just plain stupid and not artist enough to understand what all that means or survive in the industry will always surprise me.

 

[eifelbube]

Apple has made another addition to its growing AI repertoire with the creation of a tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to animate static images based on a user's text prompts.

MacRumors image made with DALL·E​

Apple describes the innovation in a new research paper titled "Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design Using Large Language Models."
To create an animation, the user uploads an SVG image – of a space rocket, say – then types in a prompt like "generate three designs where the sky fades into different colors and the stars twinkle." Keyframer then generates CSS code for the animation, and the user can then refine it by editing the code directly or by entering additional text prompts.

"Keyframer enabled users to iteratively refine their designs through sequential prompting, rather than having to consider their entire design upfront," explain the authors. "Through this work, we hope to inspire future animation design tools that combine the powerful generative capabilities of LLMs to expedite design prototyping with dynamic editors that enable creators to maintain creative control."

According to the paper, the research was informed by interviews with professional animation designers and engineers. "I think this was much faster than a lot of things I've done," said one of the study participants quoted in the paper. "I think doing something like this before would have just taken hours to do."

The innovation is just the latest in a series of AI breakthroughs by Apple. Last week, Apple researchers released an AI model that harnesses the power of multimodal LLMs to perform pixel-level edits on images.

In late December, Apple also revealed that it had made strides in deploying LLMs on iPhones and other Apple devices with limited memory by inventing an innovative flash memory utilization technique.

Both The Information and analyst Jeff Pu have said that Apple will have some kind of generative AI feature available on the ‌iPhone‌ and iPad later in the year, when iOS 18 is released. The next version of Apple's mobile software is said to include an enhanced version of Siri with ChatGPT-like generative AI functionality, and has the potential to be the "biggest" update in the iPhone's history, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman.

(Via VentureBeat.)

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Apparently, the tech industry’s OCD with AI is contagious and will hit Apple as of iOS 18 … I will miss Siri and it’s charming propensity for error

 

[ThunderSkunk]

I think it's cool but the implications of these tools on the creative industry will be devastating once brands and corporations find the feasibility of an AI far cheaper than creative professionals. Especially in the next 5-10 years.

Engineers finally having their way against those damn hippie artists, solving the hard problem of how to put all those art students out of work and back on welfare where they belong.

Every week I see economists wondering why our generation isn't having kids, as if it never dawned on them that our kids are 1000x better off in non-existence than in the future engineers are engineering.

 

[Zest28]

Most art is derivative and has been since time immemorial. There are many out there that do not qualify as artists but to say they are not real artists because they are influenced by or build on others is ludicrous. How about Picasso, Miro, Beethoven, Mozart etc etc. They all used others to learn and grow. You clearly are not an artists nor do you understand the artistic process. A pox on AI. The name says it all. ARTIFICIAL!!!!!! I might not worry about it but I hate it never the less....and I am a REAL artist!

Please, don't compare yourself and other modern "artists" to Beethoven. Nobody will remember you guys in 250 years, unlike Beethoven.

Have you heard about ghost producers, which are people who you pay money to produce music for you based on prompts that you give them and user feedback?

This is exactly what AI can do in the future.

But you guys will see it yourself what will happen in the future when AI becomes good enough.

 

[Wanted797]

It will take some jobs. Just think of how many people can do certain tasks/jobs, and then think of when AI can do those tasks/jobs, those people are going to lose their jobs, the ones that use AI won't (I think it's easy to guess that it won't be everyone, so jobs "taken" will be a fact).

I'm not against AI, people need to understand that we have to adapt and use it!

It will also create many jobs.

 

[BellSystem]

Incorrect and badly ignorant. Don’t listen to stupid Wall Street AI bros.

Companies employ people to use the tools. They can’t just have some executive sitting there asking AI. The executives and managers have other things to do.

Companies require their creative departments to use the tools.

The tools like this are very imperfect and unpredictable. They always will be. You cannot replace all traditional workflows with ‘talk to AI’. That can only happen if you want everything to be really sht.

The output of AI tools is combined with other materials that are all made normally. The creative professionals do this.

Nah. Corporations don’t care about quality. Ignorant management always makes poor uneducated decisions. The janitor will be tasked with graphic design. I think you will see jobs that took 4 now take 1. It will be a reduction in man power no matter how you look at it. It’s been happening since the industrial age.

 

[JippaLippa]

Now, as an animator myself, I'll definitely make use of that!
Not to replace my craft, rather to do things that are harder/impossible to do with traditional means.
Let's see!

 

[JippaLippa]

How many iterations before the AppleAI in Vision Pro can give us Spatial Computing versions of hallucinations while we’re still sober and lucid?

That's something that'll never be achieved, as AR/VR can only interact with the senses.
Anyone who has gotten through a psychedelic experience knows the sensory part is just half the experience.
What goes inside your head (and the fun associated with it) is half the value.

 

[Stiksi]

Incorrect and badly ignorant. Don’t listen to stupid Wall Street AI bros.

Companies employ people to use the tools. They can’t just have some executive sitting there asking AI. The executives and managers have other things to do.

Companies require their creative departments to use the tools.

The tools like this are very imperfect and unpredictable. They always will be. You cannot replace all traditional workflows with ‘talk to AI’. That can only happen if you want everything to be really sht.

The output of AI tools is combined with other materials that are all made normally. The creative professionals do this.

That’s a really utopian view of it. They are ”creative” professionals, sure, but AI has already devastated entire industries.

For example Dall-e and Midjourney have replaced most of low to mid level illustration and they’ve done it using unlicensed training material. Meta is soon to follow with their bait and switch tactic of promising not to use people’s posted images for commercial gain and then just doing it anyway.

The people operating AI are mostly new entry-level hires – you must have seen the job listings – or just the designer who now does everyone else’s job as well.

The trained professionals don’t get the work. It goes to people who are barely trained or trained for something else.

Not to mention, the creative job loses its appeal when you take the actual creation out of it.

 

[Thomas Davie]

I welcome my new AI overlords & masters. Dom’t worry about being replaced since I’m on medical retirement. The advent of easily deployable AI into the health field(s) is only going to optimize my dialysis to an increasingly great degree.

As it is, I only have to balance fat, protein, carbohydrates, fibre, Calcium, Sodium and Phosphorus in my diet. When I was working, I was involved with helping to prepare 20 component diets. A smart scale for weighing myself and determining body water content and a smart kitchen scale w/component database makes diet regulation easy. But if I could just say to my iPhone (or watch or MBA, etc). “Based on my blood work results from January 17th, 2024 and my dietary preferences, please prepare me a 1 week diet for lunch and dinner”.

It will happen, and this is what I look forward to. Yeah, I still have to buy ingredients and do the cooking; but given enough time I will live to see all of my groceries drone delivered and a Jane-the-robot (The Jetsons) make the food.

I regret that some jobs will be lost. Progress has so far, been quite blind.

Tom