Plot

Matt introduces Kling AI, showcasing its features with prompts like Bigfoot dancing and realistic videos of himself eating a burger, while community content like Thanos dancing at a Dairy Queen highlights its capabilities.

Matt introduces the Kling AI video generator, now globally accessible without a Chinese phone number, demonstrating its features through various prompts such as Bigfoot dancing at a disco and realistic videos of himself eating a burger. Community-generated content includes George Washington eating a burger, a cat smoking a joint, and Thanos dancing at a Dairy Queen, showcasing the AI's impressive capabilities. Matt's friend Jack joins to review these videos, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of Kling AI. The discussion concludes with humorous takes on the potential for paid plans and reactions to the generated videos.—J. Spurlin

Matt introduces the Kling AI video generator, now accessible globally without requiring a Chinese phone number. The generator allows for creating videos up to 3 minutes long, starting with 5 to 10-second clips. The user interface is intuitive and showcases community-created videos from around the world. Users receive 66 credits every 24 hours, which can be used for approximately six video generations. Kling AI offers both high-performance and high-quality modes, with the latter still in development. The videos are generated in 720p resolution with various aspect ratios available, including widescreen, portrait, and square. Features include camera movement options such as horizontal, vertical, zoom, pan, tilt, and roll, and a creativity and relevance slider that balances prompt accuracy with natural movement in the generated videos. Subscription plans for additional generations are in the works, with a planned monthly cost for extra credits.

Matt tests various prompts to demonstrate Kling AI's capabilities. The first prompt, "1970s video footage of Bigfoot dancing at a disco," results in an animated image with minimal movement. A drone shot over a candy-themed world is temporally consistent but not convincingly candy-themed. A video of Matt eating a burger is impressively realistic, showcasing the AI's strong training data on human actions. However, a video of his dog wagging its tail is less impressive but still realistic. Another prompt, "high quality footage of an octopus playing the banjo in a park," results in a video of a lizard playing a guitar, possibly due to translation issues. A video of a vibrant ethereal blue alien is visually impressive, though the visible camera detracts from the effect.

Matt shares community-generated videos from his Discord server. Examples include George Washington eating a burger, a cat smoking a joint with a fisheye lens effect, and a Viking chieftain drinking from a horn. These videos demonstrate Kling AI's ability to maintain consistency and detail over time. Matt and his friend Jack review more videos, including a cat playing the piano, an animated image of "Mando with a lightsaber," and a female gladiator in a Roman stadium. Jack joins Matt in reacting to videos, such as a GPU or electronics burning and a panda bear dancing at a club. The videos vary in quality, with some appearing more like animated photos and others achieving realistic effects.

The discussion concludes with Matt and Jack humorously reviewing AI-generated videos, including one of Matt eating a lemon. The AI captures detailed visuals, making the video surprisingly realistic. They also review a video of someone pouring coffee into a pumpkin, which demonstrates good physics for the coffee's motion. Another video shows a first-person view of riding a scooter through a mall, notable for the difficulty of generating such angles with AI. Videos of Thanos dancing and Dairy Queen workers joining in highlight the AI's ability to create entertaining scenarios. Animated images from MidJourney converted into videos show the potential for storytelling with AI. The session ends with a humorous take on the potential for paid plans for Kling AI and reactions to the generated videos.