Elvis Is Back in the Building, Thanks to Generative AI - and U2 - Slashdot

The video collage is the creation of the artist Marco Brambilla , the director of Demolition Man and Kanye West's "Power" music video, among many other art projects.

Brambillas fed hours of Presley 's movies and performances into the AI model Stable Diffusion to create an easily searchable library to pull from, and then created surreal new images by prompting the model Midjourney with questions like: "What would Elvis look like if he were sculpted by the artist who made the Statue of Liberty...?" Brambill was only given three -and-a-half months to execute his vision, less than half the time that he normally spends on video collages.

MidJourney -created images will soon stretch hundreds of feet above the audience at each of U2's concerts.

The result is a kaleidoscopic and overwhelming video collage filled with video clips both historical and AI -generated.

"AI can exaggerate with no end; there's no limit to the density or production value," Brambilla says.