invideo AI: not for me

I just had my first toe-dip into video creation with invideo AI, an online generative-AI video-creation platform. You type prose commands into the AI, and it cranks out a video according to the parameters you've set. I typed in a prompt to create a video about walking the Four Rivers bike path, describing the route from Incheon to Busan as well as food to eat, places to stay, and sights to see. You can select what length of video to produce, so I chose a 4-minute video. The site took a while to think and churn out the end product; I stepped away from the computer for a while to give the site time to do its thing.

The result was a mix of impressive and laughable. It was a stitched-together pastiche of video clips with a voiceover narration. No maps of the route were included despite my having requested one map of the whole route plus maps of each segment (assuming an average of 26K per day). The video clips of the trail were all of places outside of Korea. The clips of street food were all from cities, and the AI's pronunciation of Korean city names, sight names, and food names was overly literal (e.g., Incheon was "inn-chee-AWN"). The actual narration's content, though, wasn't half bad. Done in the pleasant tones of a British narrator, the narration described the four rivers of the Four Rivers trail, but without noting that two of those rivers aren't encountered along the Incheon-to-Busan route. Otherwise, the AI narrator gave an accurate general description of the trail, a more or less accurate description of Korean food, and some encouraging words for travelers. Most egregiously of all, the narration failed to talk about walking the bike trail and instead described the trail as it was meant for bikers.

I'd like to download the video, upload it to YouTube, and embed it here, but doing so would require me to "upgrade" to invideo AI's "premium" service. Frankly, I'm not convinced there's anything "premium" about the crap the site churned out. AI still needs a lot of work.