The thing that bugs me the most about AI is that it's never someone making something wholly original. Often, what I find is that the things that go viral or the things people want to show you at parties are just rip-offs or direct imitations of other people. These were all just my speculations, but now a new study that analyzed 5 million Midjourney prompts revealed who AI users are copying, and what it says about our visual echo chamber.Let's dive in. Which Directors Are We Stealing From With AI? If you've spent any time on social media, you've seen the "What if [insert IP here] was a Wes Anderson film?" video or the Ghibli-fied version of your favorite franchise or friends. People are using AI to just regurgitate the same things over and over again, and then are surprised when the rest of us call it slop. Well, this trend actually pushed the team at Kapwing to find out which directors people were trying to imitate them ost online. They researched the number of times 897 popular keywords—from Frank Lloyd Wright to Star Wars—have been used in Midjourney prompts. In total, they analyzed 4,929,594 prompts to see who and what we're replicating the most.For us filmmakers, the results are both fascinating and deeply unsurprising.The AI Most-Prompted DirectorsThe most-prompted movie director is, of course, Wes Anderson, clocking in at a whopping 92,378 prompts.I think this came from that trend, but people also love just completely stealing his meticulous and calculated...
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