Taylor Swift sent fans this weekend to an online scavenger hunt to publish his twelfth album, “The Life of a Shosl”, which started searching on Google “Taylor Swift”. However, as the fans unveiled the secret videos as part of the campaign, some were disappointed to see that the clips looked like they were AI-exposed-and they were not satisfied.
A Google search for the singer’s name gives a cryptic message: “12 cities, 12 doors, 1 to unlock 1 video.”
The fans had to find the location of the doors, then physically look for them and scan a QR code, which released 12 unique videos so that the clue needed to solve the puzzle. When the fans Google the correct phrase, another orange door came, which fans had to “knock” by clicking 12 million times. Finally, the door is “open”, reveals a lyric video for it “Ophilia’s fate“Who has its own orange door progress bar on YouTube.
Scored YouTube Video Exclusive for TrackLyric videos from the rest of the new album songs as well.
Google initially declared a scavenger haunt on one Video on InstagramThe The video begins with an aerial scene on the earth, then quickly zooms over a hill, Bezweed Landscape, until we look at an orange door, overload with Google Search Bar.
During the swifty A puzzle choice, Some were rubbed in the wrong way by 12 closed videos, which seemed to be AI-imposed.
Instead of searching the clues to unveil Swift’s new lyric video, as the purpose of Swift, some fans began to wound video clips like detectives, looking for signs of synthetic. However, there are clips that look computer-manufactured, it is not clear whether they were made using AI and what if so.
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These videos will be understood if these videos are generated using AI products of Google. As Opena shows the new Sora 2 video generator, this Taylor Swift cooperation will be a final opportunity to show what its VO3 model can do to show millions of Swifty for Google.
TechCranch’s request does not respond to how these videos were produced or how Swift and Google worked together on this activation using their own AI technology. However, Swift team and Google have tied up for similar promotional activities in the past, we should notice.
The use of AI in Creative Work is a sensitive subject. Some artists think that these tools can help them, while others have protested in training in their work without consent, and effectively use artists to create technology that can earn their livelihood.
Even after President Donald Trump shared an AI-exposed image of his campaign last year, Swift himself talked about the danger of AI; The event encouraged him to post him Authorization Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who ran against Trump in 2021.
“I was recently aware that Donald Trump’s President Run was falsely supported ‘I’ AI on his site. It really caused my fears around AI and the dangers of spreading the wrong information brought me to this conclusion that I need to be very transparent about this election as a voter.” He wrote At this time on Instagram.
In its own status in the music industry, the controversy surrounding Swift has expanded.
Although AI can apply as a way to reduce expenses to some artists, the billionaire musician has every possible resource to dispose of its pretty scenes from his promotional videos.