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Holly Willis, Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

Blurry, morphing and surreal – a new AI aesthetic is emerging in film

A still from Theo Lindquist's short film 'Electronic Dance Experiment #3.' Theo Lindquist

Type text into AI image and video generators, and you’ll often see outputs of unusual, sometimes creepy, pictures.

In a way, this is a feature, not a bug, of generative AI. And artists are wielding this aesthetic to create a new storytelling art form.

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