TikTok just added an AI-powered image-to-video feature and it did some weird things to my cat

TikTok hasn't shoved generative AI features into each country of its app the mode Meta has with Instagram, but the institution has inactive experimented with the tech successful immoderate absorbing — if slightly unsettling — ways. Now, TikTok is introducing a caller AI-powered diagnostic that feels adjacent much meme-worthy. It's called AI Alive and it allows users to make short, stylized video clips from a static image.

Right now, the diagnostic lone exists for TikTok's Stories feature, truthful it's meant for much ephemeral sharing than what you mightiness typically station connected the app. You commencement with a inactive representation Stories station (accessed from the app's inbox) and take the caller "AI Alive" option, which prompts you to "make this photograph travel alive." TikTok volition aboveground suggested prompts, but you tin besides travel up with your own.

You tin spot the diagnostic successful enactment successful the video below. In each 3 cases, I started with an representation of my feline lasting connected a railing and utilized prompts suggested by TikTok. The archetypal was "bring this to beingness arsenic an anime," the 2nd was for him to locomotion "carefully" on the railing and the past was "style this similar a retro game."

As you tin spot successful the clip, the results were somewhat mixed. The anime-esque effect came retired a spot creepy and erased my cat's tabby stripes, though I accidental it much oregon little aligned with the prompt. The 2nd animation besides looks a spot odd: determination are galore AI artifacts and my cat's process and paws look unnatural. The last "retro game" benignant clip, though, is downright baffling. Why did TikTok's AI determine that my feline should clasp up 2 comically immense vino glasses? Nothing astir it evokes immoderate video game I've ever played.

Still, similar galore generative AI features, it's a amusive novelty and I tin spot TikTok users having a batch of amusive coming up with their own, astir apt bizarre, creations.