Michael Chernoff

Video Artist | Researcher | Educator


The Great Wall (AI Video) 2025





How to view the Great Wall of Chine with AI?



                


Prompt: POV from a moving car window of the Great Wall of China.

Beginning a side car view of the Great Wall of China from a moving car, the imagery looks 3D generated as if from Google Earth. The freeway has the same masonry as the Great wall that runs parallel. A car alongside the wall is improbable from an elevated road. Driving on the wall itself is more likely.


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1st Prompt: POV Through A Car Windshield: A fast car drives along the Great Wall of China. Pedestrians are scared, shocked, and surprised as they stay out of the way of the moving car.

2nd Prompt: Remove car. Add more pedestrians. Add air baloons and dragons in the sky.


As a POV video, the AI generated content reflects imagery formed from scraped video data, most likely from tourists recording scenes on a vacation.  When the car windshield is removed, the camera switches to a male body walking POV. Is it a mirrorless camera, a body cam, or action cam mounted to a body?



Prompt: Show a furry Rat Mascot wearing USA color outfit. Head-on POV of the Mascot riding a skateboard, along the Great Wall of China while doing skateboarding tricks. As the Mascot Chinese tourists take photos and videos with smartphones, photo cameras, and handy camcorders. Display as a single continous shot.

At the end of the video we see scraped skateboarding footage of a mascot skateboarding.

Despite so much image data for georgraphy from vehincles, satelites, and handheld cameras we cannot experience the Great Wall of China. We can only experience a Great Wall. A place that is constructed from bits of documentation of a famous landscape.