This A.I.-generated trailer for Heidi is delightfully weird nightmare fuel
Johanna Spyri‘s classic children’s novel, Heidi, tells the story of a little Swiss girl who goes to live with her grumpy grandfather in his Alpine chalet. Despite being written more than 140 years ago, the book is still read and loved all over the world.
The Swiss satirist and filmmaker, Karpi must be very well acquainted with the story, so he was able to give plenty of detailed instructions to an AI to make this trailer –
I've asked an AI to generate a trailer for a HEIDI movie and now I can never sleep again pic.twitter.com/8M9t726hrI
— Karpi (@karpi) July 10, 2023
We’ll sleep – but we’re pretty sure that this will haunt our dreams –
We’re probably not the only ones.
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I would watch the full theatrical release of this. Twice. Get it made x https://t.co/oFPMnWNrsM
— Buckers (@deathofbuckley) July 10, 2023
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What in the Midsommar nightmare fuel is this? 👀 https://t.co/NPouA016CP
— Mappers (@CarolMaps) July 10, 2023
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Are we sure this isn't just an unreleased @aphextwin b-side? https://t.co/r4NWWsANLs
— HENRY MORRIS 🇬🇧 (@secrettory12) July 10, 2023
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This – honestly – might be the greatest thing I've ever seen. https://t.co/WptRBJA3YX
— Stephen McGann (@StephenMcGann) July 10, 2023
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That’s just taken fever-dreaming to the next level 🙀 https://t.co/8vrN5Fs2Af
— Bec Lambert: Astrolithic Megapunk (She/Her) ♎️ (@LadyLiminal1) July 10, 2023
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AI can never make art, they said. It lacks the true genius of creativity, they said
— Godspeed You Black Tamperer (ft Maya) (@twlldun) July 10, 2023
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This is just … the inflating cows … the goblins …. https://t.co/wRsype7P6W
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 10, 2023
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This is the absolute The. https://t.co/yJ8wUP8S43
— Frank Cottrell-Boyce (@frankcottrell_b) July 10, 2023
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This is still better than that fucking awful Heidi TV show the BBC used to stink up our summer holidays with. https://t.co/ULCowQoVsr
— Scott (@merseytart) July 10, 2023
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AI might replace many jobs soon. But psychiatrists will boom. https://t.co/7jgEyNhmJr
— Falk Steiner (@flueke) July 10, 2023
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oh my god this is cursed https://t.co/kAkfuDB8Iv
— Kate Bevan (@katebevan) July 10, 2023
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Starts innocently enough, gets funny then BURN IT WITH FIRE https://t.co/IObMDUiqZj
— Mike Collins (@MIKECOLLINS99) July 10, 2023
We should make the most of results like this while they’re still happening.
We are in this sweet spot, probably all too fleeting, where AI can’t quite do it, and it is producing these weird, anomalous artefacts for us to scoff at. But soon that will pass. https://t.co/bQhit0ATUz
— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) July 10, 2023
We’ll leave the last word to Karpi.
Coincidentally, this is how it FEELS to grow up in Switzerland
— Karpi (@karpi) July 10, 2023
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