Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Observational realist photograph of an abandoned Chinese cinema projection booth viewed through its small window, dusty 35mm projector aimed at torn screen, fire horse standing in rubble-filled auditorium below lit by shaft of overcast daylight through collapsed wall, muted gray-blue palette, desaturated colors, flat natural lighting, decelerated stillness, word VIDEO in bold white Chinese poster typography across lower third, Jia Zhangke documentary aesthetic, postindustrial decay, weathered concrete and rust
Interfaces are slowly leaving the screen. Instead of pressing buttons, you interact with things that behave like real objects in space. In this case, music stops being a timeline and becomes something you can walk around, touch, and reshape from any angle. And for my dear”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2021948191784960024
A short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year (Subtitled) – YouTube
As promised, here’s the short film Jia Zhangke produced using Seedance 2.0 for Chinese New Year and his take on AI filmmaking”” https://x.com/FrankYan2/status/2023257752017981446
ByteDance Seed https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seed2
Jia Zhangke is considered one of the greatest living directors… not an AI hack. He’s worth Googling. I’m overwhelmed by the critical acclaim he has, and his brazen “look at me make an AI video” flex. The X video has subtitles, and the YouTube one has commentary in the description from Vanity Fair.
Primer: Where to start with Jia Zhangke
https://www.avclub.com/primer-jia-zhangke
Ranking the Jia Zhangke Films – The Reel World
the first official AI movie is here and.. its wild China’s top director Jia Zhangke was so impressed by Seedance 2.0 that he made a film himself.. in just 3 days when asked if AI will replace filmmakers, he said cinema has always moved with tech. Digital cameras didn’t kill”” https://x.com/EHuanglu/status/2023449238114320514
Where to begin with Jia Zhangke | BFI
https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-jia-zhangke
WORLD APART: THE FILMS OF JIA ZHANGKE
https://www.artforum.com/features/world-apart-the-films-of-jia-zhangke-171661/
Anthropic’s Philosopher Amanda Askell Is Teaching Claude AI to Have Morals – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amanda-askell-philosopher-ai-3c031883?mod=e2tw
Phoenix-4: Real-Time Human Rendering with Emotional Intelligence https://www.tavus.io/post/phoenix-4-real-time-human-rendering-with-emotional-intelligence
The scariest part of AI slop is its growing believability. People are less likely to question or investigate a fake that fits their worldview. It’s flooding every video platform. It will be weaponized for cognitive warfare at an unthinkable scale and precision. It’s a total”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2024194678871220415
I continue to be struck by how much less annoying GenAI video is than image gen. I think it’s because this actually looks like a sample from the training distribution rather than some weird overproduced output from aesthetic guidance. Not everything needs to be “”beautiful””.”” https://x.com/jd_pressman/status/2023256826431852852
Chinese are now making AI edits of MacArthur as vengeful horror movie antagonist, taking out his wrath on Emperor Hirohito”” https://x.com/escapefrommelos/status/2023085808157175917
AnchorWeave World-Consistent Video Generation with Retrieved Local Spatial Memories paper: https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2024130625360252956
EditCtrl Disentangled Local and Global Control for Real-Time Generative Video Editing”” https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2024131749085630575
SpargeAttention2 Reaches 95% attention sparsity and 16.2× speedup in video diffusion models while maintaining generation quality through hybrid Top-k+Top-p masking and distillation fine-tuning.”” https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/2024760112293040531
4RC: 4D Reconstruction via Conditional Querying Anytime and Anywhere TL;DR: unified feed-forward 4D scene model that encodes video once and queries dense geometry + motion for any frame at any time.”” https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2022326664747954422
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