Timothy Nice

So I got early access to @Digen_AI, a platform for creating lipsynced AI avatar videos. Here's my first test, a rant about evil ducks. My take: -The audio (presumably ElevenLabs) is quality but flat and sterile. This takes you out of the video, because there's no ambient noise and you immediately know it's fake. -The lipsync itself is good, with no visible artifacts or weirdness. That said, lipsync is close to being a commodity that is available everywhere now. -Platform is very good, well built and easy to use. The speed of video generation is also fast, not sure if this will stay as quick with more users. -A big question: Will consumers actually respond well to these kinds of videos? They're about to explode everywhere, on all social media... yet to me, feel "flat" and artificial. This isn't the fault of the platform like Digen, but the format itself. Your brain knows this isn't real... (These use human actors with dubbed lips, but the way the "pretending to talk" videos look doesn't feel right....) ...and once you've seen a few -- possibly with the exact same avatar actor! -- they're not very compelling. TLDR: Digen has a good platform here, but I'm skeptical of this "dubbed AI avatar" trend overall.