The music video for The Hardest Part by Washed Out, directed by Paul Trillo, is the first fully AI-generated music video created using OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora.
Released in early May 2024, this project showcases the capabilities of AI in creating surreal and completely AI generated visual content.
The video follows the life of a couple from high school through various life stages, such as marriage and parenthood, capturing the essence of nostalgia and love lost. Trillo had envisioned this infinite zoom flow for a decade but found it too ambitious until the advent of Sora, which enabled the realisation of this vision.
This video has generated a mix of excitement and controversy. While some hail it as a new genre of visual art, blending hyperrealism with dreamlike sequences, others criticize the use of AI, fearing it may overshadow human creativity.
Despite the debate, The Hardest Part showcases a new dimension in video creation, powered by AI, changing artistic expression in new and quite unknwown ways.