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Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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This will age like a dead fish out in the Sun. He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode. Also, >implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique *facepalm*

> He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode.

He said it would be "janky and weird" and likened it to a remix.

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

#12
My favorite quote on this topic is "Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?"

Especially when you're talking about fiction and reading/watching for enjoyment, what does it matter if you can shit out 1000 hours of AI content? Maybe it's good to keep babies entertained? Studios have gotten so into the habit of treating "content" as a fungible commodity, but the fact is that even blockbuster movies still live and die by actually being entertaining.

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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post #9

This will age like a dead fish out in the Sun. He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode. Also, >implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique *facepalm*

How soon though? 2 years? 10? 50? He starts by saying this won't happen soon, _maybe_ ever.

I'd bet that in two years you could do something equivalent to that "make me a new episode" use case.

I already see really convincing deep fakes on Facebook, etc., it's not an impossible problem anymore, it's just a matter of increasing their quality.

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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Was it? He concludes that LLMs will never write Shakespeare, or create original work of that caliber, or animate an actor the way Ben Guinness could have done it. I'm paraphrasing but isn't this confirmaation bias from a guy now heavily vested in making movies? Move 37 was so astonishing the world champiion Go player, hardly known for theatrics, got up and left the table. It was considered an insanely "original" move…

AlphaGo wasn't an LLM.

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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post #11

This will age like a dead fish out in the Sun. He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode. Also, >implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique *facepalm*

> He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode. He said it would be "janky and weird" and likened it to a remix.

People who think generating language is very much different from generating audio/video are in for a ride, which I think is the flaw with his reasoning.

(Also, yeah, there's a very strong interest for him in saying actors will not be replaced, but let's assume he's being frank here).

All the "AI personalities" that are already popping up here and there are already decent enough, again, it will only take a couple years until their quality is on par with meatspace video.

Then it's gg for actors (and many other professions).

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

#18

This will age like a dead fish out in the Sun. He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode. Also, >implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique *facepalm*

You're mis-reading what he says. People create new stuff, AI (so far) remixes old stuff. Down the line you will be able to order a remix of succession and AI should be able to do that for you but it won't be able to add any interesting additional spin - it's just gonna make it to order (obviously a big deal! which he says).

>implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique

You just inserted this, he doesn't say or imply this - he asserted that all of the new ideas (so far) have been generated by humans. Sure lots of it is slop - but all of AI content is slop. That's his point: the new, creative stuff is still coming from humans - even if they are using "AI" tools to do it.

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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He is wrong. Movies will be automated and when they will be, all these actors will be first one to go. I say this despite him and Matt Damon my favorite actors.

When it pours it rains. They don't know what is in store and what we are working on.

Hint: codename: Project Hailey (named after Ho--y)

Re: Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video

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Was it? He concludes that LLMs will never write Shakespeare, or create original work of that caliber, or animate an actor the way Ben Guinness could have done it. I'm paraphrasing but isn't this confirmaation bias from a guy now heavily vested in making movies? Move 37 was so astonishing the world champiion Go player, hardly known for theatrics, got up and left the table. It was considered an insanely "original" move…

AlphaGo wasn't an LLM.

They're obviously talking about the broader topic of "AI in the movie business" not the technically accurate meaning of LLMs.
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