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Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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Well, if Tyler Perry, the greatest technology prognosticator of our time, thinks Sora will supplant human filmmaking, it must be so.

He's a very, very successful film producer who rose through the industry against significant odds. Your sarcasm is misplaced.

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does piracy have to do with generative AI? I don’t understand your analogy.

Generative AI is computational plagiarism of diffuse - but still copyrighted, sources.

> computational plagiarism

Plagiarism is copying without attribution. Transformative works do not qualify as plagiarism.

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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I fear we are going to slog though decades of low quality content that looks amazing, but the meat of the story is just empty. Truth is that most production try to tell a human story at their core and being able to have AI generate it off a small description is going to leave it feeling empty.

> I fear we are going to slog though decades of low quality content that looks amazing, but the meat of the story is just empty

Already happening without AI, see superhero movies.

What we are actually going to get is millions of stories, the vast majority of which will be terrible but a small percent that will be revolutionary.

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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First, labor laws isn’t the answer to technology. It would be like regulating the camera because it put portrait artists out of work, or steam drills because it puts tunnel diggers. Art improved dramatically in a short period of time with the advent of the camera, became reflective of what the camera couldn’t do - reflect the nature of humanity back to us. Second, if you’ve done much with generative imagery you know…

What's the market for a talented saxophone player in a major metropolitan area? It's not zero, but thanks to Spotify, it's not as big as before the advent of recorded music. Recorded music didn't just up the game, it completely changed it. Now you have ultra mega stars that make economic impacts to an area when she tours, but the market for a talented saxophone player in a major metropolitan area just isn't what it once was. I'm not arguing for labor laws, but we'll just have to see where this goes.

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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Over the past four years, Tyler Perry had been planning an $800 million expansion of his studio in Atlanta, which would have added 12 soundstages to the 330-acre property. Now, however, those ambitions are on hold — thanks to the rapid developments he’s seeing in the realm of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, which debuted Feb. 15 and stunned observers with its cinematic video outp…

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Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

#37

Teenagers with Limewire: pirates. OpenAI with terabytes: pioneers. Guess file size matters more than file type in the court of public opinion.

This is a shallow take. Teenagers are copying bits for their own gratification. OpenAI built a fascinating tool that enables other people to create things by transforming bits.

Put another way, one group enables people to make things. The other does not.

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

#38

First, labor laws isn’t the answer to technology. It would be like regulating the camera because it put portrait artists out of work, or steam drills because it puts tunnel diggers. Art improved dramatically in a short period of time with the advent of the camera, became reflective of what the camera couldn’t do - reflect the nature of humanity back to us. Second, if you’ve done much with generative imagery you know…

I’m not sure I agree it’s hard to create specific things. The tooling, imo, feels infant, but promising. And it can layer upon itself.

Right now control net can do pretty good character pose control, but you have to make the pose. Well… next step is to generate the pose with a request. Same for faces.

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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Over the past four years, Tyler Perry had been planning an $800 million expansion of his studio in Atlanta, which would have added 12 soundstages to the 330-acre property. Now, however, those ambitions are on hold — thanks to the rapid developments he’s seeing in the realm of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, which debuted Feb. 15 and stunned observers with its cinematic video outp…

He has a large body of work, producing others' films as well as his own, plus a large TV series output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Perry#Filmography

Re: Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Generative AI is computational plagiarism of diffuse - but still copyrighted, sources.

> computational plagiarism Plagiarism is copying without attribution. Transformative works do not qualify as plagiarism.

when does it credit/attribute who/what/when/where the data it copied from?
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