Can't even log in. I get "Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON"
Sora is here
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#602Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not in the EU, but when I see something that is US only, I tend to assume its doing something with privacy/user data/otherwise that is restricted in the EU. Which means I generally avoid things that are not EU available even if they are available to me. Its not 100% but its a fairly decent measure of how much companies care about users to ensure they meet EU privacy laws from the start, vs if they provide some li…
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Maybe if a lot of you in big tech hadn't misused our personal data and sold it to the highest bidders, or hadn't stiffled small tech innovations through monopoly, the EU wouldn't need to regulate you so hard.
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#603> We’re introducing our video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances. That's an interesting way of saying "we're probably gonna miss some stuff in our safety tools, so hopefully society picks up the slack for us". :)
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#604MKBHD's review of the new Sora release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY2x0TyKzIQ
Love the callout of them definitely training on his own videos
...which they shouldn't have been able to get? I had thought that it was against the YouTube ToS? (my personal understanding, unrelated to my employer)
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#605Was this the one trained on YouTube?
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#606Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should have kept this amazing tech under the wraps because you have a bad feeling about it? Hate to break it to you, but there have been fake videos on the internet ever since it has existed. There are more ways to fake videos than GenAI. If you haven't been consuming everything on the internet with a high alert bs sensor, then that's an issue of its own. You shouldn't trust things on the internet anyway unless…
> If you haven't been consuming everything on the internet with a high alert bs sensor, then that's an issue of its own "just be privileged as I was to get all the necessary education to be able to not be fooled by this tech". Yeah, very realistic and compassionate.
What education do you specifically think is necessary for people with average IQs all over the world to not be fooled by this, given that they are aware that videos can easily be faked in 2024? A high school degree? A bachelors?
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#608Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://sora.com/ above.
The bear video is quite funny - two bear cubs merge into one and another cub appears out of the adult bear’s leg.
Yeah, I had to stare at that one for a while. I thought there were four bears (I guess there technically were).
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VFX heavy feature for a Disney subsidiary. Each frame is rendered independently of each other - it’s not like video encoding where each frame depends on the previous one, they all have their own scene assembly that can be sent to a server to parallelize rendering. With enough compute, the entire film can be rendered in a few days. (It’s a little more complicated than that but works to a first order approximation) I d…
Are they still using CPUs and not GPUs for rendering? Weren't the rendering algos ported to CUDA yet?
I'm not sure how well suited GPUs are to the workload. They're also rather memory constrained. The Moana dataset is from 2016 so it's not exactly cutting edge but good luck loading it into vram.
https://www.disneyanimation.com/data-sets/?drawer=/resources...
https://datasets.disneyanimation.com/moanaislandscene/island...
> When everything is fully instantiated the scene contains more than 15 billion primitives.
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#610Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you haven't been consuming everything on the internet with a high alert bs sensor, then that's an issue of its own "just be privileged as I was to get all the necessary education to be able to not be fooled by this tech". Yeah, very realistic and compassionate.
With a heavy dose of "if masses of people are fooled by this, it can't affect me as long as I can see through it. No possible repercussions of mass people believing completely made up stuff that could affect laws, etc."
This entire thread reeks of "I'm smart enough to know that videos can be faked, but Jethro in the trailer park isn't because he's just a plumber, and therefore this tech needs to be censored or else Jethro might believe stuff that makes him vote in a way I don't like" going on here.
While the average person overestimates their own intelligence, the average techy dramatically underestimates the intelligence of the average member of the public. The weirdos that latch onto every fake video and silly conspiracy theory are dramatically overrepresented in every online comments thread, but supposed geniuses in the tech/NGO/academic community forget this and assume a broad swath of the public believes in stuff like "Pizza gate" because nuanced thinking is a skill only the enlightened few possess.