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The ethical implications of this are huge. Paper does a good detailing of this. Very happy to see that the researchers are being cautious. edit: Just because it is cool to hate on AI ethics doesn't diminish the importance of using AI responsibly.
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I like your optimism but OP's job is to take text instructions and turn them into video, for advertisements. If Google (who already control so much of the advertising space) can take text instructions and turn them into advertisements, what's left for OP to do here? Even if there's some additional editing required this seems like it will greatly reduce the hours an editor is needed. And it can probably iterate option…
Maybe OP's future involves being able to do their work 10x faster, while producing much higher quality results than people who have been given access to a generative AI model without first spending a decade+ learning what makes a good film clip. The optimistic view of all of this is that these tools will give people with skill and experience a massive productivity boost, allowing them to do the best work of their car…
I’m going to post an Ask HN about what am I supposed to do when I’m “disrupted”. I work in film / video / CG where the bread and butter is short form advertising for Youtube, Instagram and TV. It’s painfully obvious that in 1 year the job might be exceedingly more difficult than it is now.
What everyone is missing is that these AI image/video generators lack _taste_. These tools just regurgitate a mishmash of images from it's training set, without any "feeling". What you're going to tell me that you can train them to have feeling? It's never going to happen.
I don't think that's a particularly useful mental model for how these work.
The models end up being a tiny fraction of the size of the training set - Stable Diffusion is just 4.3GB, it fits on a DVD!
So it's not a case of models pasting in bits of images they've seen - they genuinely do have a highly compressed concept of what a cactus looks like, which they can use to then render a cactus - but the thing they render is more of an average of every cactus they've seen rather than representing any single image that they were trained on.
But I agree with you on taste! This is why I'm most excited about what happens when a human with great taste gets to take control of these generative models and use them to create art that wouldn't be possible to create without them (or at least not possible to create within a short time-frame).
What will this do to art? I'm hoping we bring more unique experiences to life.
The ethical implications of this are huge. Paper does a good detailing of this. Very happy to see that the researchers are being cautious. edit: Just because it is cool to hate on AI ethics doesn't diminish the importance of using AI responsibly.
I feel stupid what are those ethical implications? It seems like just a cool technology to me.
The technology is super cool. Cat is out of the bag. Just like we couldn't really make cryptography illegal, this stuff shouldn't be either. But I dislike how everyone is pretending that AI ethicists and others are completely unfounded just because it is popular to hate on them nowadays. Way too many people supported Y. Kilcher's antics.
The paper itself has more details.
What everyone is missing is that these AI image/video generators lack _taste_. These tools just regurgitate a mishmash of images from it's training set, without any "feeling". What you're going to tell me that you can train them to have feeling? It's never going to happen.
Probably only 6 months until we get this in stable diffusion format. Things are about to get nuts and awesome.
Emad (founder of Stability AI) has said they already have video model training underway, as well as text and audio. Exciting times.
I’m going to post an Ask HN about what am I supposed to do when I’m “disrupted”. I work in film / video / CG where the bread and butter is short form advertising for Youtube, Instagram and TV. It’s painfully obvious that in 1 year the job might be exceedingly more difficult than it is now.
What happened to volume of web and graphic designers when templates+wordpress hit them?
This appears to understand and generate text much better. Hopefully just a few years to a prompt of "4k, widescreen render of this Star Trek: TNG episode".