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#102

This seems pretty broken at the moment, I haven't actually managed to create a video, every prompt results in "There was an unexpected error running this prompt".

At least you get to even see the page! I'm seeing "Sign ups are temporarily unavailable We’re currently experiencing heavy traffic and have temporarily disabled sign ups. We’re working to get them back up shortly so check back soon."

Re: Sora is here

#103
post #9

I've found using these and similar tools that the amount of prompts and iteration required to create my vision (image or video in my mind) is very large and often is not able to create what I had originally wanted. A way to test this is to take a piece of footage or an image which is the ground truth, and test how much prompting and editing it takes to get the same or similar ground truth starting from scratch. It is…

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Re: Sora is here

#104
post #79

Pricing: Plus Tier (20$/month) - Up to 50 priority videos (1,000 credits) - Up to 720p resolution and 5s duration Pro Tier (200$/month) - Up to 500 priority videos (10,000 credits) - Unlimited relaxed videos - Up to 1080p resolution, 20s duration and 5 concurrent generations - Download without watermark more info: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10245774-sora-billing-cr...

Wow they're watermarking videos and limiting them to 720 at the 20 dollar price point? That's a bold move, considering their competition's pricing... https://www.klingai.com/membership/membership-plan Quality seems relatively similar based on the samples I've seen. With the same issues - object permanence, temporal stability, physics comprehension etc, being present in both. Kling has no qualms about copyright violat…

At OpenAI's $20/mo price point, you can also only generate 16 720p 5s videos per month.

Kling doesn't seem to have more granular information publically but I suspect it allows for more than 16 videos per month.

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#105

I wonder what it is about EU and UK law, in particular, that restricts its availability there. Their FAQs don't mention this. If it's about training models on potentially personal information, the GDPR (EU and UK variants) kicks in, but then that hasn't restricted OpenAI's ability to deploy (Chat)GPT there. The same applies to broader copyright regulations around platforms needing to proactively prevent copyright vio…

Part of it might also be capacity problems.

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#106

Wow this is bad. And by bad i mean worse than leading open source and existing alternatives. Is it me or does it seem like OpenAI revolutionized with both chatGPT and Sora, but they've completely hit the ceiling? Honestly a bit surprised it happened so fast!

Sora was not really that big of a revolution, it was just catching up with competitors. I would even say in gen video they are behind right now.

What is the best model in your opinion right now?

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#107
post #91

Account creation currently unavailable

yea just that that too. Did anyone get in or did they get overwhelemed?

Doesn't look like you will.

"We’re currently experiencing heavy traffic and have temporarily disabled sign ups. We’re working to get them back up shortly so check back soon."

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#108

Ah, yes. We definitely needed another bad dreams generator.

Interesting creative people will produce interesting creative output.

People with no taste will produce tasteless content.

The mountain of slop will grow.

And some of us have no intention of publishing any output whatsoever but just find the existence of these tools fascinating and inspiring.

Re: Sora is here

#109

Wow this is bad. And by bad i mean worse than leading open source and existing alternatives. Is it me or does it seem like OpenAI revolutionized with both chatGPT and Sora, but they've completely hit the ceiling? Honestly a bit surprised it happened so fast!

What are the leading alternatives? (Open source or otherwise)

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#110

Ah, yes. We definitely needed another bad dreams generator.

Interesting creative people will produce interesting creative output. People with no taste will produce tasteless content. The mountain of slop will grow. And some of us have no intention of publishing any output whatsoever but just find the existence of these tools fascinating and inspiring.

While it's indeed fascinating, part of me finds the sheer energy expenditure to be problematic, not to mention the "Hollywood is dead" innuendos.
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