Arts·Q with Tom Power

How shy kids found the humanity in AI art

Patrick Cederberg, Matthew Hornick and Walter Woodman sit down with Q guest host Talia Schlanger to tell us why working with AI actually made them less afraid of the technology, despite receiving more than 40 death threats.

In a Q interview, the Toronto film and music collective discuss their work with OpenAI’s Sora

Composite image featuring headshots of three men, each wearing over-ear headphones with a studio microphone in front of them.
Composite image of Patrick Cederberg, Matthew Hornick and Walter Woodman of the Toronto indie pop band and filmmaking collective shy kids. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC)

The Canadian indie pop band and filmmaking collective shy kids consists of three multi-hyphenate friends: Matthew Hornick, Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg. They're musicians, but they're also filmmakers, animators, writers, directors and technology advocates. Hornick, Woodman and Cederberg sit down with guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about their new album, a gathering of batteries, and why diving into OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora actually made them less afraid of the technology, despite receiving more than 40 death threats for their work. If you like this and you're looking for more from shy kids, check out Tom Power's conversation with Hornick from last year

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Interview with shy kids produced by Mitch Pollock.