Social media platform TikTok recently added an “AI greenscreen” feature that passes text cues into images. This tool will now allow creators to use abstract images as backgrounds in their videos.
This feature isn’t yet as sophisticated as other text-to-image apps like Imagen and Midjourney, which are capable of presenting strikingly detailed creations in comparison. Given TikTok’s growing popularity as a social media platform, the use of blurry images generated by artificial intelligence is likely to benefit a large user base. It is widely believed that the choice to make ‘AI Greenscreen’ simple and surreal is a matter of corporate security, since TikTok has over a billion users. TikTok’s adoption of ‘AI Greenscreen’ is a significant step forward for text imaging in mainstream media. The latest development for text-based AI probably began in 2021 with the original DALL-E release of OpenAI. In less than two years, millions of people have accessed the technology through apps like TikTok.Experts believe that the limitations of TikTok may require advanced models with more processing power – which can be both expensive and resource intensive for a company to implement. What’s more, with more than a billion users, a tool for creating photorealistic images of anything is almost certain to produce troubling results.
