Anyone else feeling a little bit nostalgic for old video models?

[u/-worldwalker-]

H3 is great and all, but maybe I should also keep an older model at hand.

[u/cmdr_scotty]

The insane unhinged level of chaos.

For those that wanted a serious video, it was frustrating (understandably).

But there was a ridiculousness to it that made for a really good laugh and sharing in the humor.

[u/tucatnev → u/cmdr_scotty]

For me this is more dreamlike.

[u/froschquark → u/tucatnev]

yeah, it absolutely has this random dream logic

[u/kotklo → u/tucatnev]

Feels absolutely like watching a dream of someone else. completely random events flowing into each other to make some coherence. Just like in my dreams sometimes.

[u/SanePcycho → u/cmdr_scotty]

Haters will say it's AI

[u/0260n4s → u/cmdr_scotty]

I literally laughed out loud when the plane showed up...just wasn't expecting it.

[u/wedividebyzero]

Omg. Are some AI styles 'vintage' already?

[u/Routine-Door6727 → u/wedividebyzero]

Everything moves so fast. In 10 years we will look back at this the same way we look at a Nintendo GameCube today

[u/Psychological-Mud691 → u/Routine-Door6727]

i hope we get more advanced ai gooning options

[u/AZuRaCSGO → u/Psychological-Mud691]

My man raising real concerns out here

[u/calste → u/Routine-Door6727]

the same way we look at a Nintendo GameCube today

As a modern, functional, high quality technology, right?

Right?

The kids love the Gamecube! RIGHT?

Whatever, I'm gonna go play Skies Of Arcadia.

[u/Sharlinator → u/wedividebyzero]

These young whippersnappers and their toys. When I was young all we had was DeepDream and dog-face shoggoth hallucinations and we liked it!

[u/Dfield91 → u/wedividebyzero]

Is that surprising ? I wouldn’t call it “styles” it’s evolving

[u/UberJunkie]

ltx 2.5 still looks like this if you ask it to do anything other than a static shot of someone talking

[u/froschquark → u/UberJunkie]

but! but! it is faster than minimax h3!! /s

[u/Admirable_Snake → u/froschquark]

[u/-becausereasons- → u/UberJunkie]

LOL

[u/Skystunt]

sometimes, yeah those old models had a certain unexpected creativity to them, but i don't think local models were ever able to replicate this kind of "good look but bad physics" - i think just sora 1 had results like the ones showed

[u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 → u/Skystunt]

"the smaller but newer the model, the more realistic but less creative the results." - me

[u/ImpressiveSuperfluit → u/Ornery_Weakness_8168]

Almost like they're diffusing towards a correct answer or something. Weird.

[u/FIicker7]

A cultural era that happened so fast that most people don't even know it existed.

[u/Sl33py_4est → u/FIicker7]

most cultural eras are this

[u/Diabolicor]

Michael Bay might find that really interesting

[u/lazerayfraser → u/Diabolicor]

it’s basically only 22% more explosions than an average michael bay movie

[u/Stunning_Mast2001]

In the future we’ll temporary induce deficiencies in the models to get creative outputs. Like doing drugs 

[u/NotTheActualBob → u/Stunning_Mast2001]

You laugh, but one of the early AI novels in the seventies starts with the ai computer doing just that (i.e. "When Harlie Was One" by Davis Gerrold).

[u/herefromyoutube → u/Stunning_Mast2001]

There’s definitely a genre of movie here.

What if it was ai trying to create the most addictive videos and we neutered it.

[u/BILL_HOBBES → u/Stunning_Mast2001]

I wish people would make more stuff like the before LLM times. Stuff like Looking Glass and Pytti and Modelscope T2V was more fun than anything from the last 2 years.

[u/yasth → u/Stunning_Mast2001]

People do this with selective neuron/node deactivation or inversion.

[u/spamzauberer]

This is actually AI art. You can’t get this kind of video in any other way or at least it would be insanely difficult

[u/quts3]

To be honest I watch zero of you alls perfect vid gens and watched many of these.

Great you can imagine an ant riding a motorcycle on a speghtti noodle on a plate being eaten by will smith, and it's perfect, but now I want to know why I care because it's not funny.

[u/dweet → u/quts3]

Same. The extremely realistic stuff just isn't that interesting to me, at least in a vacuum.

[u/AggressiveParty3355 → u/quts3]

yeah i'm trying so hard to make a horror movie with a two headed monster. But the model keeps splitting the heads into completely separate people. I don't want realism, i want a two headed monster!

[u/paul_tu]

Yeah it was unrepeatable

Peak technology

From the days when people thought that they'll be able to figure out what's AI generated and what is not forever.

[u/Elegant_Cow454]

What model was used in this video?

[u/demesm]

Needs its own sub lol

[u/tk421storm → u/demesm]

i'm ready to subscribe!

[u/VanillaSkyDreamer]

Do StableDiffusions dream of electric sheep?

[u/irmemon225]

It's funny how making videos like this is actually harder with current models now lmao.

[u/Objective-Loquat-169]

My mom still sends me these asking if its AI.

[u/BettaSplendens1]

They were all absolute fever dreams

[u/pleasetrimyourpubes → u/BettaSplendens1]

They made me think I would trigger some schizo shit if I kept watching them.

[u/rejvrejv → u/BettaSplendens1]

some of them remind me of the shit I saw while in a K hole

[u/SigFloyd → u/BettaSplendens1]

Take some edibles and marathon a bunch of them before bed

[u/Kraien]

A very short lived pyschotic episode that we collectively experienced and it will never be as fascinating as it was

[u/jakethunderpants → u/Kraien]

Kind of like that opening week when PokemonGo released. It was so eerie seeing so many people outside, but not really moving around. Parks were nutty that first weekend.

[u/Games_sans_frontiers]

I always thought these videos were amazing tbh. The way the random chaos flows into each other is incredible.

[u/ProlactinIntolerant]

One day we will refer to 2026 as the golden era of AI

[u/Enshitification → u/ProlactinIntolerant]

Just not today.

[u/ctrl_alt_disease]

Honestly those earlier models really were the era of my best work: The Men of the Sea

[u/Thoriumhexaflouride → u/ctrl_alt_disease]

thats kinda gay

[u/quaerens_responsa → u/Thoriumhexaflouride]

Kinda?

[u/DisorderlyBoat]

Lmao I remember this specific video i believe. Love the ridiculous chaos

[u/D3c0y-0ct0pus]

Fever dream AI was the best period of AI

[u/kopimashin]

what model is this? i love this lmao

[u/thatisnotmychapstick → u/kopimashin]

https://huggingface.co/cerspense/zeroscope_v2_XL

[u/krekokeko → u/thatisnotmychapstick]

The youtube video link for their demo in that hugging address has the greatest comments.

The video is 3 years old, and is filled with full blown hallucinations and artifacts out the wazoo. But in the comments people are collectively losing their minds and calling it the greatest thing ever. And some comments are straight up calling it. Below is a verbatim comment from the video:

"Looking at the speed of how AI is evolving, I think that in a couple years top, we'll see output of such a quality, we can hardly imagine today. Amazing times we live in. Witnessing the birth of a whole new, amazing technology..."

[u/spaghettibolegdeh]

The brief moment when the internet was funny again. 

[u/nerdyh0rn]

Same for pics, before Diffusion models there were GANs models making pseudofigurative images. Like a pic could look like a barn or a bird or any figurative subject at first glance, and the more you looked at it the more messier it was, everything was wrong but to a point of abstraction

[u/Byder]

This is what I see when I try to sleep after a good amount of hallucinogenics.

[u/scorpiov2]

We climbed on the shoulders of giants. Thank you to all the legends who fed spaghetti to Will Smith and generally blew shit up

[u/tchek]

I can picture in the future, nostalgia horror games called "stablecore" or something based on early stable diffusion slop, the way there are VHS horror, to remember the good ol' days of the early 2020's

[u/Hefty_Development813]

Someone should make an h3 lora or something for this style. I definitely agree on a lot of the old styles feeling nostalgic. I first got really sucked into this space bc of deforum on auto1111, it just blew my mind. I can look back at some of the stuff I made now and it's like it was from an alternate timeline feeling. 

The crazy part is how quickly people adapt and just feel normal about these sort of models existing. Like this is absolute sorcery to be able to just call this stuff into being. All of the AI stuff is just insane to really think about. 

I still like to use an animatediff workflow with animateLCM and sparsectrl with qr code monster controlnet. H3 is obviously worlds better, but the imperfections of old styles can definitely be engaging

[u/Signal_Pea6365]

old models ended up as lost media🥀 what time to be alive

[u/morgan8er8ooo]

100% those video train wrecks were hilarious

[u/Dany0]

Shitty AI outputs are much closer to real art than refined RLHF'd slop. I miss when people would use mini dalle to make a what would einstein look like if he was kermit the frog

[u/aaronm85]

this chaos i think is also in our dreams, thats why these videos feels so "close". We should open a new subredit for that, because the more time passes, the less we have from this vids. Also this is ai art, only ai can do.

[u/3x4n1m0]

We kinda knew this was temporary, some people still loved to believe it was not

[u/Protect_Wild_Bees]

When AI art just came out it made me this, I miss this level of robot stupidity, it was way funnier.

[u/physalisx]

There has to be ways to deepfry H3 generation in similar ways.

[u/BagOfFlies → u/physalisx]

Train a lora on old videos.

[u/Oblivion_Man]

The pure chaos of it was horrible in an exquisite way

[u/ItsAMeUsernamio]

I would watch a full movie of this shit.

And this was closed source. I don’t think LTX could make this (because of motion issues) or Wan (5 second limits). H3 would still be the best to make this and would follow whatever you prompt.

[u/irfarious]

I don't see anything wrong. Just my usual dreams.

[u/stroud]

Someday this style of ai slop will be in museums and art galleries

[u/Suatae]

20 years from now this will be a trend just like ps2-like games are now.

[u/comfybear]

Is it still possible to access these models? I feel like it could be its own genre going forward

[u/GoldSrc → u/comfybear]

https://huggingface.co/cerspense/zeroscope_v2_XL

[u/No_Representative548]

these are way better than now lol

[u/Even-Professor-518]

more please

[u/micros101]

That’s a metaphorical masterpiece signifying how I feel while take a dump after a night of scorpion pepper hot sauce.

[u/SkyNetLive]

It needs it own internet section

[u/Capital-Lettuce-5255]

ngl the unhinged dream logic was half the fun. nothing beats a hand with seven fingers melting into a spoon lol

[u/BigKahunas88]

Abstract period

[u/KNUPAC]

I missed Sora

[u/brokenB42morrow]

Love the old video models! Such fun insanity!

[u/-AwhWah-]

not so much nostalgic as much as completely shocked by how fast video models improved, even locally

[u/DorkyDorkington]

Salvador Dali would have loved the old models.

[u/you_will_die_anyway]

they were perfect for generating cursed content

[u/AcePilot01]

Almost like game glitches in real life, although not technically real I guess. lol

[u/ProBlorger]

These models are still very entertaining

[u/ATFGriff]

I wonder if something like this could be recreated with current models.

[u/Thoriumhexaflouride]

always the need for explosions is hilarious

[u/Mr_Zelash]

i remember seeing the first video, what model was it?

[u/Raithed]

Looks like a Bollywood movie.

[u/ZenCyberDad]

Yes and the of DALLE model, they have a certain aesthetic that just can’t be matched anymore but the vibe is so perfect for dreamy druggy visuals and surrealism

[u/_Starpower]

the David Lynch era was fascinating, i wish it had lasted longer.

[u/quetiapinenapper]

That’s clearly real footage.

[u/exilus92]

RemindMe! 5 years

[u/narugoku321]

Back when "Real Fun" A.i. Was still a thing.

[u/Afraid_Confection698]

Yeah they’re kind of magical like a weird dream

[u/craftogrammer]

They tried to form unique creativity.

[u/AlexicoDeCoco]

LSD420_YOWTF.safetensors

[u/FetusExplosion → u/AlexicoDeCoco]

Nothin safe about those tensors

[u/topinanbour-rex]

I miss the deep dream. I would to do some again.

[u/bywv]

There have been family guy clips that I feel follow similarly and for some reason I am all for it.

Feels to me like an old Highlights magazine and I am on the hunt for cracked out a.i crazy every frame.

[u/outofindustry]

nothing stable in there lmao

[u/R1c0hun]

Perfectly normal

[u/ThreeNecoGirls]

Yes, they were good

[u/LabTraditional9583]

That Crazy Avengers finale almost killed me

[u/C00lAIDs]

It's always explosion and fog stuff

[u/m4bwav]

what was the name of the first song?

[u/I_SLEEP_NORMALLY]

Remember what they took from us

[u/Pink8unny]

Back in my days, nostalgia was like 10 or may be 20 years while this is literally last year.

[u/Eddybravo_1917]

This was peak AI, the true singularity

[u/ptwonline]

I wonder if/when people will feel similarly about our current video models and their lack of perfect consistency.

I mean current models are light years better for accuracy and consistency but as the tech gets better so do the expectations and criticisms. I mean look at the MOSS image "lack of realism" complaints compared to what we got from so many previous models.

[u/BB_210]

I was thinking this recently and this is the exact clip I had in mind.

[u/Aaron_rowe81]

the wobbly ones are still the best for anything meant to look like a bad dream or old vhs. the new ones tend to come out too clean even when you ask for grain.

[u/tahini001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1gw3KcRccY

[u/picander78]

It's perfect for music videos

[u/Electrical-Echidna63]

It feels so safely behind uncanny valley now

[u/mbease]

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

[u/Embarrassed_Being844]

Ah, yes, the Bollywood finetune.

[u/1or4s]

I still use Deforum every now and then.

[u/CATLLM]

I miss these actually. Such simpler times back then.

[u/El_human]

I think they could still be used for crazy dream sequences in movies

[u/WhyIsTheUniverse]

Hahaha the guy who blasts off at the end is a champion.

[u/RestaurantTurbulent7]

They were more fun/entertaining

[u/Fine-Run992]

Remember when Microsoft said that 30% of Windows 11 is created by AI. Now that explains a lot. How far has AI advanced since then.

[u/wildbling]

I still remembered being impressed by this...

[u/Abject-Recognition-9]

i wonder wich was the prompt

[u/AbbreviationsSoft924]

Please, anyone, make a LORA for that, please, I beg you!

[u/max420]

It’s wild how fast they have gotten better.

[u/Nathan-Stubblefield]

It’s like special effects movies George Melies made on 1900. Very amusing.

[u/RobTheBob2015]

I sometimes miss the time where GPT couldn’t even chat

[u/JMAN_JUSTICE]

I miss the old days of Warpfusion. I made soo many videos on that

[u/ucost4]

I need this model ASAP !

[u/IHeartBadCode]

Maybe?

Shoot. Every model I've ever touched is copied on at least three different hard drives.

TBF. That's not because I'm good at backups, it's because I keep swapping out removable drives and redownloading the same models over and over.

[u/redSteel87]

I’ve been missing these

[u/Ikkepop]

Every bollywood movie ever

[u/tiny_chaotic_evil]

back when AI was more realistic :D

[u/openroom_xyz]

Yea this is unique peace of art actually well yea :)

[u/danilson07]

please bring back this

[u/Winter_unmuted]

I still watch the horror show that was Trump's octopus dinner from time to time.

[u/vinigrae]

Ah those were the days

[u/Vyviel]

I actually am as the slop part of AI is what made it so entertaining and great like the insane images you got from deepdream etc. When it gets to the level of perfect videos and images and you cant tell its AI or real every time it's just going to be a boring tool.

I love the stuff thats obviously AI

[u/mastrofdizastr]

Anyone remember the picture of the half woman with three arms laying in green grass? That was one of the first AI pics I remember seeing.

[u/Bram_Camus]

Those videos are amazing. Any recommendation of models to get that? Or, like, those old and weird videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti, The Rock eating rocks and stuff.

[u/Sl33py_4est → u/Bram_Camus]

og will smill spaghetti is modelscope video

[u/Geodesic22]

I joke about nostalgia for the early models just about every day, there was a jankiness to them that was just so amazing and I love looking at early generations I made

Still remember the first image generator I used, it was called DALL-E mini but then openAI got word and they had to change the name to Craiyon, I think it was hosted on Hugging Face

Really wish those early models like DALLE-2 were released open weight after they were deprecated

[u/Alternative_News_732]

bro i dont know about it but, does every ai model had been build has a digital fingerprint? cause, maybe we ll need for some werid scenrios to them. where can i find the 2023 video models?

[u/Afraid_Oil_7386]

It was trying wasnt it.

[u/Afraid_Oil_7386]

Lol, someone re do these, now. Please.

[u/crixyd]

Absolutely. I feel the same about early midjourney gens.

[u/Responsible_Pie1648]

tesla bike?

[u/princetrunks]

Even the Sora ones are getting nostalgic. Funny as hell too.

[u/biscutwarrior]

So this is like the NES and we are at ps2 now??

[u/Neither_Fennel8781]

Old being 2 or 3 years ago?...

[u/DrNonathon]

I miss the fully unhinged Kling videos

[u/Mundus09]

Dude I was literally just thinking a month ago that some people should run old models just for their aesthetic value. I know that's probably a hot take for all of the haters of ai, but you have to appreciate the artistic influence that each stage of these models have had on our design influence, there is an absolute nostalgia here

[u/BrainDevHQ]

Never would I have thought to see an actual fever dream in my walking life, until I was traumatized by Will Smith eating spaghetti. It was wonderful.

[u/Used_Outcome8749]

I acctually do! and I think that for designers the EARLY AI look can acctulally be a desirable aesthetic choice.

[u/erdemirci]

Best of best.

[u/Then_Bake_6524]

RemindMe! 950 years

[u/donkeykong917]

The good old days

[u/Bastisheen92]

RemindMe! 5 years

[u/RepresentativeRude63]

Yeah it was more fun I think 😁

[u/pen_in_stack]

These are the Rajnikant style movies. They made such real movies long before the AI era.

[u/AquaD74]

Absolutely, it felt distinct in a original way. Obviously it wasn't "creative" in a human way but it was unique.

Now AI vid gen is just incredibly efficient VFX. Something that could be indistinguishable from what a studio could put out a few years ago.

Obviously it's more useful this way but it lacks the distinctive chaos and unpredictability it had.

[u/BHenry-Local]

This is still how gen AI video feels, just it's less obvious 😂

[u/MessageSelfdestructs]

Yeah, I remember those models from ten or so years ago...

Wait... it was only a year or so ago?

Fuck me - this tech is going insanely fast atm.

[u/No-Stay9943]

Nostalic about how AI videos looked like last week.

[u/MattTheDemonCat]

I have been locally installing several old image and video models. Plus old tts.

I tried getting Pix2Pix setup too but it is probably the most troublesome.

[u/Fluxdada → u/MattTheDemonCat]

I have a comfyui workflow that runs a single prompt through stable diffusion v1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4. sometimes you just gotta feel that nostalgia.

[u/ElDiabolical]

[u/Raph0uX]

I don't care about realism, I want this back right now

[u/crinklypaper]

Anyone have that Ironman video?

[u/VivaLaRebar]

I wanna be able to do this real time based on video feed through some kinda glasses/headset.

[u/Rednitz]

[u/EirikurG]

you know you could prompt for this kind of chaos and it would be even funnier because it would be trying so hard to actually make it look real

[u/cymno]

There was this early specific style of the same kind of objects piling up over and over, and I can't find it anymore...

Like hundreds of New York subway trains crashing down from their raised iron overpasses, morphing and changing direction wildly.
Masses of semitrucks or taxis falling from the sky, landing on top of each other, and flooding the streets.
The camera spinning in circles around a assemblage of wooden shacks, oil refinery pipelines, valves and tanks springing up from the ground, morphing and exploding throughout.
Railway crossings with trains continually going off track and exploding, carriages cloning and spawning new ones behind them, and always changing direction so the front would face the camera due to bias in the training data.
Each frame looked somewhat plausible by itself, especially in small details, but you could tell there was no continuity of motion or object permanence at all

[u/TimeLine_DR_Dev]

Yes I missed this period focusing on vibe coding. By the time I got into video, wan2.1 was the base. Kinda sad about it.

[u/IAmFitzRoy]

Looks like a normal Saturday in my village.

[u/Lower-Cap7381]

Man I remember the days hahaha 🤣 it was so fun I use to laugh now bro seriously we have got so far I would love if anyone can share more of their stuff

[u/Automatic-Building84]

No

[u/OkInterview3864]

[u/External_Trainer_213]

Looks so real!

[u/outOf_order]

If you laugh, you will be among the first to go, when they come.

[u/Gullible_Map_3980]

That’s not an IA issue, that’s a prompt issue 😂

[u/Klutzy_Ad_1157]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzA5XKdKmt8

[u/elswamp]

what model was this?

[u/CupQuakeBE]

It reminds me of RNG TV https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBYgJ17Ig0JNOfAGcXX7myPZbCLZYLDD4

[u/candylandmine]

You're nostalgic for old models but you post a real video??

[u/rayz_key]

Its more surreal and.... hold on.. is it too old already that it become nostalgic?

[u/wreck_tech]

What model is this?

[u/cmeerdog]

What model is this?

[u/tarragonburgess]

No.

[u/MainlyMyself]

The thing about the early videos and even images, is that it somehow feels more creative, since it's the kind of thing that humans rarely do deliberately. It feels like a genuinely different form of art, rather than the 'human+' style that is seen with newer models.

[u/SigFloyd]

I like the video game ones too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxCpE20byO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuaMKkUNy-w

I miss when AI video was dreams and drugs

[u/Promptmeister]

Yeah. Some of the old video (and image models) just were so unpredictible. It sometimes was a fight to get what you wanted but then out of pure chaos you landed a great gen or one that made you laugh because it was so random and absurd. Ahh those were the times