An AI work that just blew my mind yesterday...

I know, there is a "Music Links" thread there, but I wanted to start a separate thread, maybe some other people even would like to share links to their own amazing AI-generated discoveries here later.

I also know that talking about "politics" and "devastating topics" is sort of discouraged here and I don't want to discuss "politics" here, please talk about the aspects of the piece itself, I warn you that the video is very dark and could appear appalling to some (but there is no graphic violence there at all).

It is a Russian anti-war and anti-fascist-dictatorship piece of art, the lyrics were written by an imprisoned political art activist (I don't know anyhing about him yet) in a Russian jail. The video, music and even the voice are AI-generated by someone I can now call an "AI Artist" without laughing inside at the term. There are English subtitles, the translation is as literal as possible (though I'd translate a couple of "metric lines" a bit differently) without destroying the "flow" of listening with subs and while staying true to the original artistic style.

I did now re-listen with headphones and would say that "mixing and mastering" (I'm not sure if anything was adjusted, probably pure AI-generation) are not really close to industry standard, but on my speakers I couldn't find (m)any faults in this aspect. And I know, it must be much more difficult for non-Russian-speakers to recognize that, but the voice is what blew my mind the most, I first thought that at a couple of points of time the "singing", especially in choruses, where it's feeling a tiny bit "time-warped" and auto-tuned, well, I first thought that the singer/rapper is really good, great feeling of necessary intonation and rhythm-dictated timing, but not a "true, almost divine" performer; that he's like already 99-99.5% "there". When I read that "he" was also AI-generated, my jaw almost literally fell to the ground... I don't yet feel completely obsolete before even "getting there myself all the way", but I'm rather amazed and very glad that people with great artistic vision already can create such strong pieces of art (not feeling "out of place" in a professional music video playlist on YouTube) without learning for decades how to do everything themselves or paying "megabucks" to engineers, videographers and performers.

Final warning: it really posesses some kind of strong "dark enchantment"; since I fist saw it yesterday in the evening, I had to return to it multiple times to again re-watch it multiple times in a row...

What do you think and do you know of purely AI-generated music videos of similar quality (level)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RErEsQGi8

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