Linkin Park - Lost, the fan's music video

 

A.I. is a controversial topic currently in the world of artistry. Most of the artists are adamant to recognize the said technique as a valid art. The most argument from them is that A.I. is using other's art to generate art. The said usage may infringe copyrighted art.

Linkin Park uses A.I. in their official MV. They used kaiber.ai to generate the video animation. Based on the product description, kaiber.ai is using the A.I. to generate animation-style. 

The A.I. seems using stable diffusion to generate the sequence of images. That's why the animation is not consistent. Corridor Digital discussed this as the A.I. is designed to create image not a series of images. The noises randomly created by A.I. made each picture differ from each other.

That's why the animation may jumpy and flickered. 

In other video, that may be not ideal, but this MV is talking about memories. Memories are fuzzy. They sometimes play the incoherent series of imaginations. Sometimes, it would present images that is not there in the reality.

The usage of A.I. generated fuzzy series of images really makes sense. It makes the video really a series of memories played inside the head.

However,

I really love the fan's version more from the official version.

The original Linkin Park depicted the memories from a girl from her last moment. The fan's version is more anonymous and can be personalized to me, the viewer. The video also really match with Linkin Park.

The fuzzy images of them Linkin Park embarking the journey to outer space is a testament for this band over the years. The band didn't stick at their original style, Nu Metal. They try to explore on other territory, not afraid to startle their fans. 

For me, their finest album, A Thousand Suns, is the mark of their growth. They talked about war, about the victim's feeling, about the anxiety to release forgiveness and moving forward. I have kept the CD well and from time to time I always come back to play the album.

Also, I remember Han directed Meteora and all of their MVs. He seemed try to push the animation forward. I can see the Animatrix style video in there, the experimental imaginary. And now, they don't afraid to push the boundary and put A.I. generated MV.

All in all, these reasons I think that made me feel the fan's version is the it.