Move over Sora, Kling is the new AI video generator to watch out for
Jun 11, 2024
Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
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If you’ve been losing sleep over losing all your work to AI generators, then I’m afraid this latest AI video generator isn’t going to help you sleep more easily. Chinese created Kling is a front-runner in rivals to OpenAI’s Sora, and it looks very convincing so far.
Kling was developed by Kuaishou, a Chinese tech company with an app similar to TikTok. And it’s already here, and already available (if you speak Mandarin and have a Chinese phone number at least).
Kling can generate videos up to two minutes long in 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second. That already blows other gen video creators like Pika and Runway out of the water. And it’s double what Sora can apparently cope with.
In order to create the extreme naturalistic body movements, Kling uses advanced 3D face and body reconstruction technology. There appear to be few issues with extra limbs and fingers, and missing body parts.
It also seems to excel at following prompts closely, and creating a series of shots that have clear continuity, something that other AI video generators have lacked so far. Even the early creators that tested Sora found themselves resorting to traditional film and editing techniques to achieve the desired level of continuity.
Early users have released demos of Kling, and the results are worryingly impressive. It’s currently only available within China on beta release via a waiting list. However, the company is planning to roll out Kling for worldwide use eventually.
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Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
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One response to “Move over Sora, Kling is the new AI video generator to watch out for”
The definition of “convincing” is probably proportional to your attention span and how close a look you take at it.
Chinese man: Still having problems with fingers, don’t we? What’s up with the nail of the thumb suddently rolling over and then fusing with the T-shirt? Pretty beefy masticatory muscle we’re having there, ain’t we?
Border collie: Watch how it’s tongue rolls over the fangs. The hair strand on the right ear suddently disappearing with the ear then folding over in a weird manner. Creepy eye movement. The blurry, inconsistant mess that should be the backround zipping by. Reflection in the right rear mirror moving in the wrong direction. And now the elefant in the room: Who’s driving? Fully autonomous car probably.
So, for some fast-food-mentality interpretation of cinematography, it sure fits. It gets even more interesting if we take continuity into consideration (“Accompanying a chinese noodle lover”, “The marvellous adventures of a border collie”). No biggie for people forgetting what they saw 30s ago.
Eventually having to endure the visual torture of these products will soon be as normal as people talking hours on end with their phones and headsets on in public transport at a deafening loudness level. Or couples sitting next to each other in a restaurant, silently, both continuously staring at their respective smartphone.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOqWYytypg to understand what we’re up to.