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How did they generate the videos with Sam Altman. Did they just provide a picture of his face and then use him in their prompts?

You can use the "cameo" feature only with users who have gone through the cameo creation flow. Sama has an account and created a cameo likeness of himself. When you create your cameo you can choose who is allowed to make videos using it: "only me", "people I approve", "mutuals", or "everyone".

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post #181

This is super cool and fun and will almost certainly be really bad for society in loads of different ways. From the descriptions of all the guardrails they're needing to put in it seems like they know it too.

Glad to see someone is looking out for a forest, here. A diverse host of excuses have cropped up to explain away the anxiety AGI brings, and I totally understand why. Yet again, today we stare into the abyss. Sora 2 represents significant progress towards [AGI]. In keeping with OpenAI’s mission, it is important that humanity benefits from these models as they are developed. This seems like a good time to remind ourse…

I am not for or against AGI, but why is there anxiety around it? Do people simply hear sales rhetoric and assume that it can exist and will be used in order to dominate their lives?

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OpenAI is cooked.

Absolutely cooked.

After the disaster that was chatGPT4.001, study mode and now this: an impossibly expensive to maintain AI video slop copyright violater, their releases are uninspired and bland, and smelling of desperation.

Making me giddy for their imminent collapse.

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I don't know if it's just me or other people are feeling it as well. I don't enjoy videos anymore (unless live sports). I don't enjoy reading on my monitor anymore, I have been going back to physical books more often. I am in my early thirties.

The point is that sora2 demo videos seemed impressive but I just didn't feel any real excitement. I am not sure who this is really helping.

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post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.

So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?

Is there a reason that's superior to subtitles, which are already fairly easy to generate?

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post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.

So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?

LOL. Yeah, that's way better than closed captions, even auto-generated ones.

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Every AI video demonstration is always about funny stuff and fancy situations. We never see videos on art, history, literature, poetry, religion (imagine building a video about the moment Jesus was born) ... ducks in a race !? Come on ...

So much visual power, yet so little soul power. We are dying.

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As usual: impressive until you look close. Just freeze the frame and you see all the typical slop errors: pretty much any kind of writing is a garbled mess (look at the camera in the beginning). The horn of the unicorn sits on the bridle. The buttons on Sam's circus uniform hover in the air. There are candleholders with somehow candles inside as well as on top. The miniature instruments often make no sense. The condu…

Is your complaint that it has errors? I mean look at what it can do. This is a freaking computer generating things from scratch based on a prompt. Two years ago, technology like this was so much worse and could only generate basic images and videos. Now it can generate visuals all from the text someone puts in. Anyone, literally anyone, can use it (eventually) to generate incredible scenes. Imagine the person who com…

There is that magic word again, “eventually”. When is that? The same time we get warp drives?

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post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One would think, but people are spending less on live events due to costs

likely because we haven't yet reached peak slop/exhaustion by slop. Soon enough...soon enough

Most of human crafted shorts / reels are already slop.

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That could totally power next generation of green-screen techs. Generative actors may not find favorable response in the audiences; but SFX, decor, extras, environments that react to actors' actions - amazing potential.

I can see that future generations are going to think that I'm boomer for preferring the performances of real actors instead of AI slop. The music industry already went through this with AutoTune and we know how that turned out.

>The music industry already went through this with AutoTune and we know how that turned out.

they use it, everyone uses it, it got better to the point where most people dont know its used, ever heard of melodyne? well AI made it even better.

And then there has been about 20 years of people using it even as their style of music, notably in hip hop, reggaeton, urbano, country, etc.

Boomers like to think it was just an annoying fad in 2008-2011 or something, but it never went away, now everyone uses it, whether obvious or not

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