On creative-tools
- Taste without a verifier
Coding agents somehow learned to build good-looking websites, although nothing checks whether a design is beautiful. What video editing can borrow from that: preference models, critics and loops.
2 min reads likes comments - What a video editing agent needs to get right
I built an agent that edits my social videos end to end using knowledge of my personal taste. What that asks of the timeline, the feedback loop and the product.
4 min reads likes comments - Style is free now. Taste isn't
GPT-4o's image generation turned the internet into Studio Ghibli for a week. When every style is one prompt away, the scarce thing is judgment.
2 min reads likes comments - Four-second clips can't make a movie
Pika 1.0, Stable Video Diffusion and Runway's latest make beautiful short clips. What's missing is the grammar of film: continuity, screen direction and eyelines.
2 min reads likes comments - The model rewrites your prompt
DALL·E 3 in ChatGPT doesn't use what you typed. It has a language model write a long, detailed prompt for you. Creative tools are turning into agents that interpret intent.
2 min reads likes comments - Control beats prompts
ControlNet lets you steer Stable Diffusion with a pose skeleton, a depth map or an edge sketch. Creators want to set the structure directly, and this gives them a way to.
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