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#11
Some of the shots are impressive but… Even among these hand-picked examples there’s a plenty of unnatural movement. And it seems like it was trained on the most hyperactive subset of tiktok as it apparently can’t hold a scene for more than 5 seconds.

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#12
post #2

Very nice being able to read an actual paper on a powerful text-to-video model.

Yeah. It is great. So apparently separating spatial / temporal attention works if you are careful and train with large enough dataset too!

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#13
Only light skinned people on the video examples. Ethnic diversity and accuracy used to be a problem with the models of the past. I wonder how the model would excel at prompts grokking at that.

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#14
Decent 1080p quality. Not bluray level, but getting close. Definitely ahead of every other video generator.

Video production just got a lot cheaper and requires very few skills. This is basically destroying the creative video production industry (ads, product videography, youtube content of all kinds) and probably VFX industry as well.

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#15
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Later on a "live mode" which is realtime generated content, guided by your voice. Netflix could also have this as a feature.

The thing is that people don’t know or won’t say what they like. The TikTok algorithm is good at figuring out what you do. Not what you say. So the content will be a lot more engaging.

"If I had asked people what they want, they would have said 'faster horses'"

- Henry Ford

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#16

The future is something like the TikTok algorithm, but generated on the fly. As you scroll, it learns what you like and generates more videos.

That's the near future. Look farther down the line and it's netflix. Keep scrolling and it generates entire movies and shows based on what you like.

Probably before that though we'll see AI movies pre-generated before we see them generated on the fly during scrolling.

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#17
We're so fucked, as a species.

People are already way too easy to get to believe conspiracy theories. Shit like Pizzagate or whatever is only going to get more common when bad people start making, "and look, here's the video proof!"

And we've already got Tiktok and Youtube Shorts just pumping the dopamine centers in the brain for short form content. Generating shit you like dynamically is going to be an addictive nightmare. The moment it gets monetized we're going to see the equivalent of slot machines pumped at us from every channel -- flashing lights and emotional tugs to get us to part with our valuable money or attention.

And that's to say nothing of the impact these tools have on artists and creative people or the costs to train and deploy these tools.

We're already seeing it today. The amount of 'footage' about LA right now that's showing some sort of war zone that is clearly AI generated, but being consumed as if it was real is staggering.

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#18
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Later on a "live mode" which is realtime generated content, guided by your voice. Netflix could also have this as a feature.

The thing is that people don’t know or won’t say what they like. The TikTok algorithm is good at figuring out what you do. Not what you say. So the content will be a lot more engaging.

Agreed, the TikTok one will be vastly more popular, as it requires no creative input. Also much more near-term. Some version could be shipped within months.

It's already partially that, just with humans still supplying the prompts and doing some cherrypicking before posting their AI-generated videos. I wonder if there will be some "for you (AI)" and "for you (non-AI)", and which one will end up being the default?

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#19

We're so fucked, as a species. People are already way too easy to get to believe conspiracy theories. Shit like Pizzagate or whatever is only going to get more common when bad people start making, "and look, here's the video proof!" And we've already got Tiktok and Youtube Shorts just pumping the dopamine centers in the brain for short form content. Generating shit you like dynamically is going to be an addictive nig…

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#20

We're so fucked, as a species. People are already way too easy to get to believe conspiracy theories. Shit like Pizzagate or whatever is only going to get more common when bad people start making, "and look, here's the video proof!" And we've already got Tiktok and Youtube Shorts just pumping the dopamine centers in the brain for short form content. Generating shit you like dynamically is going to be an addictive nig…

We can only hope that people become aware that the Internet is a bullshit-machine and will only pull their news information from journalists, but I know this is wishful thinking.
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