{"id":22375,"date":"2024-11-18T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:00:02","slug":"ai-fixes-the-polar-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/18\/ai-fixes-the-polar-express\/","title":{"rendered":"AI fixes (?) The Polar Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hmm\u2014&#8221;fix&#8221; is a strong word for reinterpreting the creative choices &amp; outcomes of an earlier generation of artists, but it&#8217;s certainly interesting to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Polar_Express_(film)#Reception\">divisive<\/a> Christmas movie re-rendered via emerging AI tech (Midjourney Retexturing + Hailuo Minimax). Do you think the results escape the original&#8217;s deep uncanny valley? See more discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/midjourney\/comments\/1gpcytf\/i_fixed_polar_express_midjourney_retexturing\/?rdt=61914\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Someone fixed Polar Express (Midjourney Retexturing + Hailuo Minimax) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6RjrABbAxO\">pic.twitter.com\/6RjrABbAxO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angry Tom (@AngryTomtweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngryTomtweets\/status\/1856455915714818464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2014&#8221;fix&#8221; is a strong word for reinterpreting the creative choices &amp; outcomes of an earlier generation of artists, but it&#8217;s certainly interesting to see the divisive Christmas movie re-rendered via emerging AI tech (Midjourney Retexturing + Hailuo Minimax). Do you think the results escape the original&#8217;s deep uncanny valley? See more discussion here. Someone fixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22376,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions\/22376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}