AI video generators for book promo trailers - anyone using them?

[FosterMartyn735]

I've been seeing more indie authors and small publishers experiment with AI video tools to create promo trailers for their books. As someone who reads a lot on my e-reader, I'm curious whether this is actually useful for the reading community or mostly noise.

I've been testing Kling 3.0 (https://kling3ai.co/) recently - it's an AI video generator that creates short clips from text prompts. The idea would be to take a book's blurb or key scenes and turn them into a 10-15 second visual teaser for social media. The quality is surprisingly decent for a web tool, and you don't need video editing skills.

Has anyone here tried something like this? Do you find AI-generated trailers helpful for discovering books, or would you rather see traditional covers and excerpts? I'm also curious if publishers have guidelines around AI-generated promo material yet.

[Sirtel]

That's the first I've heard about them. I'd have to see a few to decide whether or not I'd find them useful. I suspect not, but you never know...

[rantanplan]

I've seen the preview that it shows on their website. I don't really know how to feel about it. It has this AI slop quality about it.

The website doesn't allow to generate a test-video without credits so it's hard to say what would happen if you gave the tool a blurb or whatever.

The closest thing that I'd compare this tool to is this:


And it didn't really impact my decision on buying the book, I had already pre-ordered it, because Rebecca is one of my favorite authors. But it made me curious, because it's a well made teaser.

To be honest, the AI generated video would probably turn me off, thinking why they bothered to have such a low quality video at all if they didn't have the ressources for a proper marketing campaign. Like it's detrimental to how I perceive the book and it's quality.

I'd suggest just giving out review copies to Books are Sick or Becca and the Books and whomever the kids watch now.

[Dr. Drib]

I agree: AI slop. And I would add: Good for feeding pigs, but not for me.

[Quoth]

An insult to the environment, authors, readers / viewers and artists.

Tools built on Intellection Property violation that are helping destroy the world, make a select few rich (Nvidia maybe), increase corporate control and often produces o/p that's irrelevant or junk!