AFTER WE GO
A video generated with MidJourney, Kaiber, and Runway
The premise of this AI-generated video is a hypothetical future where humanity, after rendering Earth near-inhospitable, decides to leave it behind. The aftershock effect of humanity's departure is that Earth is mutated, along with the animals left behind. The animals inevitably become the new dominant species.
To make this video, I generated images with MidJourney, and then animated those images using Kaiber and Runway.
MidJourney has a function to describe existing images in an "AI-friendly" format, and I could feed elements of its description back to the AI to get exactly the kind of image I'd want.
The idea developed from a song called 'Tomorrow's Dust', whose main theme is regretting a future that has yet to come. One particular lyric refers to climate change and our effect on the animals of Earth:
Sympathy for the fauna
Fragile life in the sauna
Fragile life in the sauna
The instrumental version of this song ended up being used as the backdrop for the visuals.
What I learned the most in this process is that AI is training us as much as we are training it.