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AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Just because calculators allow anyone to do complex arithmetic, that doesn't lessen the accomplishment of someone who can do it unassisted.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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post #19

I could see this being used in the same way that auto-tune type effects are added to singers voices. The editing of music videos could include a tool like this to make sure all of the dancers behind the main one are moving just right. And just like auto-tuned voices, it will come off as janky and fake.

Practically all singers use "pitch correction", which is essentially "autotune that's not done for artistic effect". If done properly, it's not really janky or fake sounding at all.

Yeah, I suspect the closer you are to the optimal voice/movement the better the effect is.

Re: AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer

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I could see this being used in the same way that auto-tune type effects are added to singers voices. The editing of music videos could include a tool like this to make sure all of the dancers behind the main one are moving just right. And just like auto-tuned voices, it will come off as janky and fake.

The autotune you refer to as "janky and fake" is when autotune is used with intention to create that sound as an artistic syle. Autotune is used across most pop (and other) music, but in such a way that that you never realise it is there.

It is similar to special effects. People complain about how bad and fake they look, but this is only for the effects that are bad enough that they are noticible. People don't realise the sheer amount of special effects being used in scenes they never realise they are being used for.

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