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Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?
- Scamming people at scale
- Nonconsensual pornography
- Juicing engagement metrics for fading social media sites
- The ongoing destruction of truth as a concept in our increasingly atomized and divided world
The most interesting thing by far is the ability to include video clips of people and products as a part of the prompt and then create a realistic video with that metadata. On the technical side, I'm guessing they've just trained the model to conditionally generate videos based on predetermined characters -- it's likely more of a data innovation than anything architectural. However, as a user, the feature is very coo…
edit: as per usual it's not yet...
It's not that I disagree with the criticism; it's rather that when you live on the moving edge it's easy to lose track of the fact that things like this are miraculous and I know not a single person who thought we would get results "even" like this, this quickly.
This is a forum frequented by people making a living on the edge—get it. But still, remember to enjoy a little that you are living in a time of miracles. I hope we have leave to enjoy that.
If this is anything near the demo they have been released, this seems incredibly good at physics. Wow. Can't wait to try the new app.
Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?
Obviously this will get used for a lot of evil or bad as well
Like, it should be preferable to keep all the slop in the same trough. But it's like they can't come up with even one legitimate use case, and so the best product they can build around the technology is to try to create an addictive loop of consuming nothing but auto-generated "empty-calories" content.
Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?
Whether said fun is "worth" the social and economic costs is a separate issue.