Another AI video model? Yes, but this one claims to be different. Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup, just dropped Marey, named after some dead French dude who fiddled with early cinema. Apparently, he’s their muse. More importantly, Moonvalley insists Marey is ‘clean,’ trained exclusively on licensed data. Translation: they paid people for their content instead of hoovering up the internet’s questionable underbelly.
In a world drowning in AI-generated content of dubious origin, this is, shall we say, novel. Moonvalley’s pitch isn’t just about ethics (though they hammer that point home). It’s about legality. They’re betting studios and filmmakers will flock to a model that doesn’t carry the baggage of potential copyright infringement. Smart.
But Marey isn’t aiming to be just another text-to-video generator churning out bizarre, dreamlike sequences of cats playing the saxophone. Moonvalley claims Marey is designed to integrate into existing filmmaking workflows. They’re talking about tools for motion control, camera type adjustments, and element-specific manipulation. Basically, giving filmmakers knobs to twiddle beyond ‘make it more epic.’
Think of it as AI-assisted filmmaking, not AI-replacement filmmaking. An iterative process, they say. Because apparently, nobody gets it right on the first try. Even AI, shockingly.
Here’s the breakdown:
- Licensed Data: They paid for the data. Repeat: they paid for it. This is apparently a selling point in 2024. Sad.
- Filmmaker Focus: Not just spitting out random videos, but offering tools for precise control.
- Multimodal Input: Text, storyboards, sketches, photos, video clips – Marey allegedly handles it all.
- HD Resolution: Up to 30-second clips. Because nobody has the attention span for more these days, anyway.
The catch? Access is currently limited to a select few. The rest of us plebs can sign up for the waitlist. Prepare to be patient. The future of filmmaking, or at least Moonvalley’s version of it, apparently trickles down slowly.
Will Marey revolutionize filmmaking? Unlikely. Will it offer a more legally sound and filmmaker-friendly alternative to existing AI video models? Possibly. But until the rest of us get our hands on it, it remains just another intriguing promise in the ever-expanding AI hype cycle. We’ll remain skeptical, but cautiously optimistic. After all, even the most jaded cynic secretly hopes for a world where AI can actually help create something worthwhile, instead of just generating endless garbage. And if that world requires a clean, ethically sourced AI model, then maybe, just maybe, Moonvalley is onto something.
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