Moving History is an interesting channel that recently has been using the latest AI to bring old pictures to life. All of the videos are great with minor nitpicks from the commentary on how smiles, teeth, and other details are a bit too perfect and similar due to limitations of that AI. But this one was probably my favorite, not just from the animation of the oldest photographs we have, but from the existential thoughts given:
Almost all of us are in the same boat of living our brief lives and then after a while being forgotten. We’re not famous enough to be preserved in some history book. These people only had a couple of minutes of their time preserved in a single picture, but only seen by few, until now. Now they’re remembered by thousands or more, anyone who sees the video.
Also been seeing a lot more of vintage footage circa 1900 on Youtube of video of various things, almost lost but recovered, enhanced, and colorized by AI tools. This is a good purpose for that technology.
Moving History is an interesting channel that recently has been using the latest AI to bring old pictures to life. All of the videos are great with minor nitpicks from the commentary on how smiles, teeth, and other details are a bit too perfect and similar due to limitations of that AI. But this one was probably my favorite, not just from the animation of the oldest photographs we have, but from the existential thoughts given:
Almost all of us are in the same boat of living our brief lives and then after a while being forgotten. We’re not famous enough to be preserved in some history book. These people only had a couple of minutes of their time preserved in a single picture, but only seen by few, until now. Now they’re remembered by thousands or more, anyone who sees the video.
Also been seeing a lot more of vintage footage circa 1900 on Youtube of video of various things, almost lost but recovered, enhanced, and colorized by AI tools. This is a good purpose for that technology.