Cars \u2014 how many and what kind? POV shots \u2013 how many and from which angles? Colours \u2014 which ones and which one dominates? The machine must decide how to arrange, compare and sort images\u2026 and the images of those images. The author becomes a pilot, steering the film \u2013 his mode of transport into another world where an eternal movie is continuously being created. A world built on an infinite number of images, coming alive in the author\u2019s room. Perhaps the apartment itself exists within this eternal film world? And who is truly in control of this narration?<\/p>\n
\u010ciupas\u2019 experimental essay is an elegant enigma of an image universe, where natural and artificial intelligence, ethics and technology, memory and narrative collide. What can and should be created by AI-generated animation based on diffusion models, when so many tools are on offer that choosing them all is impossible? Perhaps infinity itself should be recalculated. 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