- Artlist TV is an AI-only streaming channel launching June 1
- All programs have been generated by AI.
- The reaction from viewers and filmmakers is mostly negative.
If you’ve been captivated by the amount of AI videos filling your social media feeds, there will soon be a way to level up this type of content: the Artlist TV streaming channel, launching Monday, June 1, is made up entirely of AI-generated shows.
As discovered by filmmaker Jakob Owens (via PetaPixel), the channel has been releasing trailers and promotional spots in the lead-up to its full launch. You can see the trailer of one of the programs, Terrible peoplehere, it’s apparently “a dark comedy about the fine art of cleaning up the remains of the world’s worst people.”
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 hasn’t emerged out of nowhere as a company and apparently has over 50 million users. It offers a variety of digital assets to users, including footage, templates, music, special effects, and most recently, AI-generated content.
“No one wants this”
Look
Take a look at any of the shows’ trailers and you’ll see that they’re reasonably well made, albeit with the generic look, polished gloss, quick cuts, and inconsistencies between scenes typical of any AI-generated video clip.
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 under the trailers are more or less along the same lines, suggesting that the content is “disgusting” and declaring that “no one wants this AI garbage.”
AI video creation tools, like Google’s recently introduced Gemini Omni, have certainly come a long way in recent years. They are capable of producing realistic looking clips that more or less come together and can be mildly entertaining.
However, stitching these clips together across an entire TV show or movie in a convincing way is currently a real challenge for these AI tools. Will you tune into Artlist TV once it’s available or will you give it a wide berth? Let us know in the comments below.
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