TikTok may quickly have its personal, in-stream text-to-video creation instrument, with dad or mum firm ByteDance launching a brand new app referred to as “Jimeng AI” in China, which permits customers to create quick movies through AI, based mostly on written prompts.

As you possibly can see on this instance, taken from the Jimeng AI web site, the platform permits customers to create very quick video clips (most are lower than 5 seconds lengthy) based mostly on no matter textual content prompts you select. You too can create pictures in the identical app.

And lots of them are, as you’ll count on, bizarre as heck, however on the similar time, lots of them additionally look fairly spectacular, offering easy animation to AI-generated characters and scenes, which add an additional sense of life to your prompts.

I imply, they do look AI-generated, with that unnatural, hyper-real high quality. However they’re additionally higher than fundamental pictures of the identical, and because the expertise advances, it’s solely going to get higher, together with capability for longer video creation and storytelling.

Which is a part of the fabled promise of AI, that ultimately, we’ll all be capable of create our personal animated motion pictures, based mostly on our personal ideas and concepts, placing Hollywood, ultimately, out of enterprise. Which gained’t occur, as a result of most individuals can’t truly put collectively a cohesive, participating narrative to animate, which is why so many fail at creating such within the first place.

Besides, the advancing capability of AI instruments to facilitate concept creation is superb, and ByteDance’s text-to-video instrument undoubtedly seems to be set to be one other participant on this evolving race.

Which then results in TikTok.

TikTok is already working to include a spread of generative AI options, together with chatbots, search instruments, music technology choices, and profile image simulators.

Textual content-to-video might be one other participating iteration on the identical, and it appears possible that ByteDance would look to include such performance into TikTok, versus launching Jimeng outdoors of China as properly.

That might result in all new inventive developments, with responses to music, and creators incorporating new sorts of AI animations within the app.

It’s nonetheless a way off, as ByteDance has solely launched Jimeng AI in China to date, and it’s nonetheless growing its MagicVideo AI creation instruments to assist gas expanded efforts.

Nevertheless it might be coming, because the gen AI struggle continues to ramp up.