Introduction
Gen-3 Alpha develops fidelity, motion and temporal consistency, with image and video controls added over time. The node marks the development of a more elaborate control layer for generative video, comparable to the specialized editing and conditioning tools already emerging around image generation.
View full image ↗Cloud imagery from the official Gen-3 Alpha launch page’s video poster. It documents model output, not a photograph of real clouds.
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Source · Runway Gen-3 Alpha | AI Video Generation with Temporal Control ↗RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Moving from striking clips towards motion and temporal control.
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Release and use
Runway’s 17 June 2024 Gen-3 Alpha page presents clips and describes improved fidelity, consistency and motion over Gen-2. It states that the displayed videos are unmodified. That statement applies to those demonstrations, not to selection, retries or post-production in other users’ works.
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Change in creative practice
Evaluation increasingly concerns stability through time rather than attractive individual frames. Artistic documentation should attend to duration, movement, unsuccessful outputs and editing rather than preserving only the most successful promotional samples.
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Date displayed for this node: 2024-06 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2024-06
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #243 · Historical node
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AI Art Genealogy Research Master · p. 33 · 114
Date as recorded: 2024-06
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GenAI Visual Release Chronology Research Master · p. 22 · R114
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GenAI Visual Release Chronology Research Master · p. 23 · R118
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Gen-3 Alpha. Art-history node #243. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/114
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