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TCL’s new AI short films range from bad comedy to existential horror

Watch at your own risk.

The trailer had all the hallmarks of AI: characters that don’t move their mouths when they talk, lifeless expressions, and weird animation that makes it look like scenes are constantly vibrating. Project Nexus is more like a five-minute trailer than a short film, and unlike TCL’s other AI movies, this one is meant to depict animated characters, rather than attempting to make them look as human as possible. The story starts to lose me after it shows an AI-generated image of a severed leg, followed by a trippy sequence of Brown’s “life flashing before his eyes,” which, for some reason, includes a zebra morphing into a lion.

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