AI video is moving beyond clip slop
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Hollywood is cooked - or so a growing number of people on social media would like you to believe. Their purported proof: AI-generated clips of Daniel Craig riding a Vespa through an Italian city, Godzilla fighting King Kong, or The Avengers zooming through Manhattan.
In reality, cheap slop like this won't replace Hollywood blockbusters any time soon. However, a new generation of AI video solutions could upend how studios work. That's because, until recently, AI companies basica …