I want to make note of the intense debate going on here in the comments. It’s clear that the video has served as a jumping off point to discuss a range of topics as far-reaching as aesthetics, authenticity, ownership, and many fears about how AI will effect our lives. My new album isn’t an AI-album and there aren’t any AI-focused themes, but as a big fan of science and technology, I’m very excited about the creative potential of these new tools. As I’ve said before, it feels like a natural extension of of some of the other experimental music videos I’ve done in the past. I also want to acknowledge the serious concerns that people have shared with me through comments and DM’s - I feel more educated about both sides of the debate after reading them, and I realize there is an important distinction that needs to be made between responsible and irresponsible use of the tools. It’s clear that we are in the earliest stages of figuring that distinction out, and if anything, I hope that the video can play a role in amplifying that discussion. Whether you’re scared, excited, or undecided about these new tools, they are here to stay. We just need to collectively figure out the most responsible ways to harness them.

@joshua_sykes

27 күн бұрын

@realwashedout , thanks for sharing this comment and including your thoughts. - If I may ask, what was the script that was input into Sora in order to create the video? If it’s a long one, is there a URL one can visit in order to read it?

@rileygoopy8992

27 күн бұрын

Nah, you’re actively damaging art with this. You’re part of the problem, you’re not “sparking debates” or “amplifying discussions”

@rproaudio1

27 күн бұрын

@@rileygoopy8992 you are literally engaging in debate.

@rproaudio1

27 күн бұрын

Seeing as I discovered this as "The first music video generated with a.i." I think its safe to say this will be interesting to look back on in 1 year... won't be nearly as scary/interesting/dramatic at the current rate of accelleration.

@rileygoopy8992

27 күн бұрын

@@rproaudio1 no, you don’t know what debate means. Do you see him and I having a back and forth? I’m quite literally not engaged in a debate, goon.

Sora was definitely trained on a dataset of nightmares

@rebeccaspookyduran7864

5 күн бұрын

Yeah it wasn't like one of those nightmares for something that to you but one of those unsettling dreams where you're looking for a loved one and you can't find them. Where you've been with them throughout the dream but something happens in your separated and now you're just searching and searching. And nothing makes sense but everything sense.. where you're at places you've been in real life but everything is different yet familiar. It's unsettling. And this video makes me feel sad for characters that don't even exist but I feel like they should. Like new people I've met in a dream.

The visual is like urban legend creepy pasta. At a glance it looks normal, at a second and third glance its looks like nightmare.

@MarquisDeSang

Ай бұрын

just like reality

@ECLECTRIC_EDITS

Ай бұрын

​@@MarquisDeSangExactly! Whats the difference?

@samueldraws

Ай бұрын

This is an interesting statement because, at least for me, the ways things keep warping and changing is very much like how my actual dreams are when I sleep. Enough to be realish, odd enough to be a dream. Just not moving quite so fast.

@joannot6706

Ай бұрын

it looks like a dream.

@Tebogajardo

Ай бұрын

Nightmare fuel 😂

Why does ai video feel like I'm watching my dreams?

@williamheckman4597

29 күн бұрын

Because AI Is a reflection of human conciousness

@Elbonmusk

28 күн бұрын

나도 그래

@themprsndev

28 күн бұрын

@@williamheckman4597no, it's not.

@user-ub5ok1dq9p

27 күн бұрын

what if you are sleeping and can’t wake up?!

@maximusasauluk7359

27 күн бұрын

The video doesn't adhere to our normal perception. For example, there's several scenes of them walking but their movement doesn't match with the motion of the ground, your brain picks up on this because it's not how the world your brain is used to works. These constraints (unintentionally) are more lax in AI video generation, there's also blending of elements and generally the synthesis of what is real is imprecise. All of these features are shared with dreams. The not following physics, the blending of scenes that our brain pictures, the feeling that whatever we saw was almost real but not quite.

Actually i came for the comments 😂

@HaydnRushworth-Filmmaker

26 күн бұрын

😂😆😂

@Heartwing37

26 күн бұрын

Same!

@WitOn4Wheelz

25 күн бұрын

Well that makes sense because usually it's come for the video, stay for the comments! LOL

@arkatverse

23 күн бұрын

Still coming back for more comments 😂

@peterpeter5409

22 күн бұрын

Ez egy szar

and while everyone can spot AI errors, i think the discrepancies were exactly what was required for a trippy music video for a well chilled piece.

AI killed the video star AI killed the video start In my mind and in my car We can't rewind, we've gone too far

@david3895

Күн бұрын

AI killed human beings

The future is digital diarrhea.

@ECLECTRIC_EDITS

Ай бұрын

The future is awesome!

@jesuslabarca6897

Ай бұрын

@@ECLECTRIC_EDITS You like diarrhea?

@StormyInferno

Ай бұрын

That's what they said about the internet in the first place, and what they said about phones when people stopped sending letters, and what they said when...etc....

@olzwolz5353

Ай бұрын

The future is now old man.

@David-ln8qh

Ай бұрын

@@StormyInferno People were excited about the internet or confused about the internet.

Exactly how I feel when I read an AI article written by AI.

no humans were hurt making this video

@xyo2434

11 күн бұрын

Employed*

If I ever need to explain what dreaming is like to someone who doesn't dream, I'm just going to show them this video.

@jackstraw9635

Ай бұрын

It's heartless AI

@ThanosDestroyeryearsago

Ай бұрын

@@jackstraw9635 It feels like a dream

@noufsaid

Ай бұрын

imagine when the AI will wake up

@scottmoffat452

29 күн бұрын

Exactly. Been saying this for a long time. AI produces images just like dreams do. Add to the fact humanity still do not know why we dream. Stick 50 years future evolution of VR into the mix, you get The Matrix. Dreaming is just old ChatGPT-8. Reality is currently ChatGPT-15

@JustBenRough

29 күн бұрын

perfect & spot on. thank you.

We are entering the necromodern era. The desire to find something new through the volume of a database on the old, but without deep human intervention

@NarrativeDrivenArt

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution.

@themanwithtwoeyes

Ай бұрын

Holy shit, that's a really good way of putting it. Necromodern. Everyone reviving the dead. My Spotify discovery is no longer new songs.. Just old songs and remixes...

@murray1067

Ай бұрын

Sure. Like there ever was.

@themanwithtwoeyes

Ай бұрын

@@murray1067 ever was new?

@SamFriedlander

29 күн бұрын

This is deep. I shall be quoting it

next:"AI Kills all stars" - official video

@Mijonju

24 күн бұрын

Live music is experiencing a resurgence, and people are increasingly valuing the experience of hearing music performed in person.

@Surfzap63

22 күн бұрын

Video killed the radio star. Buggles. 1980

“The hardest part is that you can’t go back”

@Mijonju

24 күн бұрын

Why should we assume that our perception of time is moving forward? What if the second law of thermodynamics is actually misdirected, and we are merely a consequence of it?

@hotel_arcadia

24 күн бұрын

​@@Mijonju The second law of thermodynamics means nothing when you spit in the face of God

But...there are PEOPLE in the dryers!

@jtrappe1

25 күн бұрын

1:33

@HelamanGile

23 күн бұрын

Looks like human fetuses

@KantKaplan

23 күн бұрын

Omg I didn't notice that

@MootPotato

20 күн бұрын

holy shit

@user-mv9tt4st9k

19 күн бұрын

Wait... What? 😂😂

People used to think the capacity to dream would distinguish machine from man.

Incredible song and will be the soundtrack to this summer for me. Thank you Ernest for putting out perfect albums exactly when I need them.

AI videos are simply my fever dreams and acid trips. It’s another creative avenue one can use. Doesn’t mean EVERYTHING will or has to be AI created.

I loved that video actually. Yes the graphics were a little bit rough when you looked at details like peoples faces, but the story that it told along with the song was well done, and the visuals of life and ultimately death leading to the tunnel of light was spectacular in my mind. Very well done. I get the debate but for a first try this finished product looked very well done.

@billyjolly4855

6 күн бұрын

I was kinda pulled back by it. Instead of pain and heartach of loniness. I felt this could of been something that I needed all along. I just wonder where they are actually.

As a film director, I was excited to see what the capabilities are, however the video itself didn’t creat a feeling, an emotion. Not because Ai created it, rather the Design feel, and execution of the video simply didn’t impact me other than tiring of the constant visual input, which seemed to have no singular thread to it. I remain, however, excited about the possibilities of what any new technology can offer.

@cesar4729

Ай бұрын

Honestly it's a little tedious, there are many creative ways to use this tool without it looking like a psychedelic salad. But here we are.

@nath565656

Ай бұрын

@@cesar4729 What are other creative ways to use it that aren't essentially busywork (i.e making a backdrop or extending a scene a bit)? I thought AI imagery seemed cool at first but it's very severely limited in actually synthesising anything new, which is kind of inherent given how it works.

@Magcow

Ай бұрын

As a film director too, I’ll tell you that it’s worth looking at it more broadly, since these combinations create logic and combinations beyond human perception. But this deconstruction hits the heart if you look broadly enough. It feels like something Lynchian I think.. Maybe you're not yet ready as an individual to connect this with feelings and logic. Take a broader look at this issue maybe we are touching the shapes of the future.

@djmon1987

Ай бұрын

Wasn’t the basic premise of the video that we were following the life cycle of this couple? From youth until death (of the dude)? Regardless, it was a mess.

@ECLECTRIC_EDITS

Ай бұрын

Are you guys kidding me? I felt more emotion with this video than all past modern music videos

Ernest you did it again, thanks!

it's like a bad dream

Mother putting baby into a bodybag at 2:48

@dominicmacrini8537

Ай бұрын

The body bag also has hands??

@NoctumIndistries

Ай бұрын

​@@user-uc9nu1yn1n Sauvage - fragrance by anon

@joannot6706

Ай бұрын

Or taking it out.

@kristin7121

22 күн бұрын

Half stroller-half body bag monstrosity

@rebeccaspookyduran7864

5 күн бұрын

​@@kristin7121we are born to die??

what a GREAT video, I love it!

Great tune!

Watch at 0.5x speed. And bang your head in wall.

@user-vi4xy1jw7e

3 күн бұрын

I don't get it

I absolutely love the video. It's a dreamlike love story full of old memories all blended together. Sad. I can't watch it and not cry.

Amazing!!! 🙌😭😍

Every 10-20 seconds it is easy to understand that there is a problems with physics

You use AI for the song too??

@YokoYokoOneTwo

Ай бұрын

I know right, pretty cool. I hope we will be seeing more of that stuff in the future

@karenmgr

Ай бұрын

Idk if this is a diss or an actual question 😭

@RyanSilvi

Ай бұрын

@@karenmgr I’m dying 😂💀

@richardpastore1326

Ай бұрын

Are you all film and video producers? What a joke.

@RyanSilvi

Ай бұрын

@@richardpastore1326 Yes. Thanks for asking.

Ну странное чувство от этого клипа. Ты понимаешь, что места, которые показаны в клипе не существуют в реальности, людей, которых показывают тоже не существовало никогда, но при этом выглядит достаточно реалистично, от этого ощущение, что у клипа "тело" есть и хорошо сделанное, но души, хотя бы частично, нет.

It’s definitely cool ! Videography isn’t dead, I bet people will just be craving for authenticity

❤🙌👏

I miss the chillwave days 😭

@TheAcademicOracle

Ай бұрын

They are still here if we support the music! 🙌🏼😁

@eliasdrywa3067

Ай бұрын

He is evolving

@YoolSea

Ай бұрын

Me too. This is just awful. Purple noon was a Masterpiece, but this sounds like Boring pop radio.

@fakenorwegian4743

Ай бұрын

​@@YoolSea It sounds like late 80's pop, formulaic, and very produced.

@Yumadbruv

Ай бұрын

I miss Chillwave too

This is cool. There's are a lot of things "wrong" about this video...visual things that just don't make sense and show that the technology still has a ways to go before it produces something that looks like it was made by a human...but at the same time there are a lot of really neat elements in this video that you just wouldn't tend to see in something made through traditional means. I completely understand that this isn't everyone's cup of tea and that many people are worried about what this means for the future of video making, but I don't see this as a replacement for human creation. I see it was a new art style that will be interesting to explore in the future.

That's awesome

This is eerily beautiful. It's like what I imagine someone's life flashing before their eyes must be like. We have come a long way from Will Smith eating spaghetti in such a short short time.

It feels kinda like the music, lyrics and vocals were also generated by AI

@user-vi4xy1jw7e

3 күн бұрын

Have you ever listened to Washed Out before? Lol

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I dig the video it's like you're going through a quick Sprint of past memories past experiences I think it's fitting the chaotic aspect of it

Give it 5-6 years and watch most influencers lose value.

@MetalGearIV

27 күн бұрын

not 5 years , less

@leoneventicinque6731

26 күн бұрын

weex

@LunarLaidback

26 күн бұрын

how come?

@jadenkarim5367

26 күн бұрын

True that! Film making is going to become a JOKE.

@user-vc1vt5ot1e

26 күн бұрын

@@jadenkarim5367 - has been for decades. It'll just get worse. Except. . .there'll be a few generations that eventually won't care or want to see a difference.

this is the beginning of the end gg

Amazing 😍

Very nice music and video, well done!

the more you look at it the worse it gets

@unclefreelunch

Ай бұрын

This is the worst k hole ive ever been in.

@Javiera_Random

Ай бұрын

It's a sad also nostalgic video. I don't know how people can't "feel" what it's about. I mean, people thinks this is just a bunch of random scene's but it is a clear timeline

@Diddancing

28 күн бұрын

@@Javiera_Random exactly my thought. I felt quite a bit watchign the video...

@user-mv9tt4st9k

19 күн бұрын

Agreed. I watched twice and it was still hinky and jarring to watch. 😂😂

@user-mv9tt4st9k

19 күн бұрын

​@@Javiera_RandomThat might be what my teenager sees, growing up in front of limited digital screen time (except as a toddler, we did not subscribe to the convenience of babysitting with a phone; instead we provided analog toys and human interactions). I grew up as computer technology was developing into the mainstream. I see jarring scene cuts that take me out of the story and remind me that, on the whole, the video lacks the creativity of human subtlety. 😉

The interesting thing for this video and future AI videos will be when people are not told those are AI generated. How many will know the difference? I'm willing to be 90% people won't know the difference. And that number will improve as the tech gets better and better.

@maximusasauluk7359

27 күн бұрын

It's possible this will be regulated by that time, like a mandatory digital signature that can't be meddled with or with a key stored in a chain and then make it illegal to generate AI video without such a signature. People talk about this like it's the end of the world, humans are so gullible it's hilarious

@pussy_destroyer2294

26 күн бұрын

​@@maximusasauluk7359 true but remember, currently if some government lies and invades someone based on those lies, it's possible to disprove their evidence and prosecute them. Now, with generative technology? With them holding power over these signatures? Not so much.

I love it 😍

FYI, the video of Coldplay's "The hardest Part" is not AI-generated, even though it looks like.

now let ai judge and comment it so we don't have to

@user-mv9tt4st9k

19 күн бұрын

ChatGPT? 😂

what a trip

That is so wonderful, so beautiful, so moving! It's like dreams come true! 😍❤️

CoooooooooooooooooooooooL!

I like it

I started to think, "This looks like AI." It doesn't feel human. It felt kind of erratic, and off. And perhaps that was intentional. At 2:17 it looks like Taylor Swift in a Little Orphan Annie wig.

@Uuuuyyyyuuu

Ай бұрын

It was made with AI, your sense was right. It feels dizzy and frantic and ADD to the max. All the things that washed outs music does NOT make me feel. Doesn’t match the music at all. The music and the visuals are opposing frequencies, maybe that was intentional?

@jayswrkd

Ай бұрын

@@Uuuuyyyyuuu feel you, but the intention probably isn't deep, they just wanted to save money/time/effort lol

@Javiera_Random

Ай бұрын

@@jayswrkd its the first one ever made with Sora, its on the news everywere! this is an important event

@LostWaxProcess

Ай бұрын

I agree. It didn’t hold my attention, and I think that’s because I know that a human didn’t create it. I’m interested in other people’s take on the world, that’s what make us and art interesting. I think ai development is incredibly exciting, and scary, but ai art just doesn’t work for me.

@Javiera_Random

Ай бұрын

@@Uuuuyyyyuuu the video itself triggers nostalgic feeling and sadness mixed with some kind of uhm "hope?" for a lost one. That "eternal love after death" concept. Why it's being so hard to understand this video for so many people, I mean, it's almost a linear straight timeline, it's very simple in that way

Piece of art ❤

Amazing music and video as always

So glad you’re back man! Been waiting for a drop.

Wow!! Imagine 10 years from now. I bet the first pop robot will hit the top 10.

@larrydelacruz1574

26 күн бұрын

10? Try 2.

@robotron07

25 күн бұрын

2 years max

@piczasso

25 күн бұрын

or already did :)

Awesome song and video!

Feels like you can read the prompt for each scene. Really nice way telling viewers what you wrote just through images

This sounds really great man!! I'm glad there is new music from you! 🎉

Going to be very hard to tell what music videos are real and what music videos are AI if the latter are all going to look like they were directed by Michel Gondry.

@kristin7121

22 күн бұрын

Never going to look like Gondry but already look like poor man tech bro’s attempt.

@AdrianwithaW

20 күн бұрын

@@kristin7121 honestly, Gondry is a master of its craft. But what this video unintentionally does well is its visual shortcomings are consistent to a degree that it genuinely appears like a stylistic choice rather than a technical inability and subsequently that style can easily come across in a way that makes it look good 🤷‍♂️

Love the song, great sound and mood.

KOOL!

Mais um som maravilhoso! Washed Out ❤❤❤

This feels like the compressed AI version of "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

INCREDIBLE

What a trip.

Very good, but i miss the old sound. Stuck in the past i guess.

@joeyenniss9099

Ай бұрын

This song could literally be off paracosm...

@sleepyfribble

Ай бұрын

@@joeyenniss9099 your crazy

@sleepyfribble

Ай бұрын

@@joeyenniss9099 he used completely different instruments, older gear on paracosm for a particular sound which this track does not have at the slightest. This sounds more new wave, not chillwave. Vocally the same of course.

it felt like going to sleep and immediately starting to lucid dream lost in the middle of a never ending psilocybin trip

amazing.

It's spring, and there's new Washed Out. It don't even matter that the worlds on fire now.

What a great day to be alive - thank you Washed Out.

Can someone put in the comments what the prompt was to get this video? Was it just the words to the song?

@AlistairLewars

23 күн бұрын

This video was likely constructed with multiple prompts, producing multiple clips that were then edited together by an editor. Whoever edited this hid the edits very well, as any good editor would.

YESSSSS NEW WASHED OUT!!

I woke up from a dream thinking about who was in them? Were they all me if it’s my dream?

@Javiera_Random

Ай бұрын

Omg

@olzwolz5353

28 күн бұрын

Sometimes I think that the people in my dreams are in some sense alive and separate to me, especially the "recurring characters". Not exactly "real", but not just me either.

Artists didnt stop creating when the camera was made. Actors didnt stop when film and cinema came. We still have Radio. We still have lots of advancements and methods to express ourselves that are being kept alive dispite the progress that everyone feared would destroy things. AI wont suddenly kill everything creative we are in a transition stage and figuring out stuff. I found the music video worked very well with the song asthetics of a fever dream like state. I think it was wonderful to experiment like this for their music visuals.

trippy af

Why not just make a screensaver video?

@creeperlamoureux

29 күн бұрын

That's kinda what this feels like lol

Glad they’re back Wonderful song

Other worldly, yet oddly recognizable. This collaboration is merely the beginning of the end.

This is definitely the most wicked, but fun video I have ever seen.

Oh gosh, I'm loving all of this.

yep i'm sick and tired of this ai shit. you can't escape it. it's everywhere

🎧👽🔥

Well done and good job ! Change happens whether we like it or not, embrace it.

He's back, everybody! He's back! Ernest is back!!!

Great stuff from Washed Out

I love it! is hypnotic.

@gypsycalibycat

16 күн бұрын

has chords reminiscent of Coldplay - Hardest Part I hear 🎼 nice song this

YEEEEEESS

That was a wild ride.

this is so cool

it’s funny how obsessed this AI is with going through the windshields of cars. it probably does it about 5-6 times in the whole video and has a fucking car jump scare towards the end

I saw you out late last night again Walking past, arm in arm, with him It's so hard Feel so lost Don't you cry It's all right now The hardest part Is that you can't go back I hope that you've noticed I've tried to move on Still can't admit that our time is done It's so hard Feel so lost Don't you cry It's all right now The hardest part Is that you can't go back Sometimes I don't mind you're gone Sometimes I can't try anymore

Yes!!! New Washed Out! 😍 The world keeps spinning for another lovely day. 🙌🏼😁☀️

put the controversy A.I mv aside, the music really hit the spot, thank to wanker technology i found an another amazing band

@gmihalatos

3 күн бұрын

You are so lucky to get to discover him right before the summer. You're in for a ride.

What the hell... Technology will be fcking so hard.

@41-Haiku

24 күн бұрын

Us, from behind.

@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher

24 күн бұрын

​@@41-Haiku😂😂😂😂 you know I might like it

Excited for the album!!!

Its pretty good. Loved it.