We all love a good story One of the most common ways to write a speech is to include a story to engage the audience In such cases, it is important to explain the "storyline" of the speech, depending on the content of the speech

The electronic literature (e lit) community has been mixing literary and digital techniques to create immersive and sometimes interactive narratives long before MidJourney, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, etc

Apple began using "there's an app for that" in 2009, and it is safe to assume that by 2024 there will be an AI for almost any task, organization, or creative endeavor you can think of That includes electronic literature

Some of the work created by the AI video generator PixVerse is beginning to gain popularity as users make short films The result is more of a narration combined with animated images than a blockbuster, but the clips are quite stunning

At this time, PixVerse does not support the generation of videos longer than 4 seconds, so the videos posted online by users are sequences of these 4-second clips stitched together

This is also the case with Runway, Pika Labs, and Stable Video, but next-generation models such as Sora will likely solve this problem by generating longer formats

PixVerse allows users to create videos in one of three styles: realistic, animated, or 3D animated, using text prompts or starting with an image This allows for a greater degree of control over the output before generation begins

While far from Sora-level, on the other hand, PixVerse is already available and currently free; access to PixVerse is either via the Discord community or via a web application

However, some users find PixVerse's more "rudimentary" approach appealing

"What we are doing is not film Movies are too complicated, too big, too expensive," wrote X user Shang Chi, and this is "a new form of 'literary text It can be interpreted aesthetically It can offer enormous emotional value It has tremendous potential

PixVerse's ability to generate AI videos starting with both text and image prompts makes it the perfect AI tool to combine with other tools

You can easily use ChatGPT to create text prompts, or if you are a more visual worker, you can use an AI image generator like Midjourney to create a visual base for your clip

PixVerse featured several pieces created by others These include an AI remake of the trailer for Awaken Akira (1988), an animated clip that explores what makes a good video, and an AI short movie titled Love Rhapsody

Tools like PixVerse democratize the creation of visual content because they do not require extensive technical skills or expensive resources They lower the barriers to entry into visual storytelling, allowing more people to try it

For advanced users, it is not too difficult to see how AI video might be used to create immersive experiences as new AI storytelling formats take hold

For now, adding emotional depth to AI videos still requires a human touch Especially when the story must be spun using blocks of 4-second videos