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AIAF — EPISODE 03 RUN: 10 min 36 sec

The State of Creative AI: From Prompts to Performers

"A Bulgarian avatar gave a speech to the European Parliament. That happened."

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What do you get when Midjourney starts making videos, TikTok builds a virtual camera into your AI clips, and a Bulgarian avatar gives a speech to the European Parliament? A breakdown of six months of innovation in creative AI: text-to-video, avatar influencers, and the widening tension between genuinely good content and deepfake chaos.

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What it covers
  • Midjourney's leap from still images to animated loops
  • OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo competing for text-to-video dominance
  • Runway Gen-4 and the breakthroughs that arrived alongside it
  • A Bulgarian avatar delivering a speech to the European Parliament
  • Virtual influencers giving TED talks and selling out fashion lines
  • HeyGen and Synthesia avatar motion technology
  • Brands cloning their own spokespeople, and the deepfake tension underneath the marketing

Text-to-video · Midjourney · AI avatars · Deepfakes · Synthetic media policy

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