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Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

exodust wrote: post #864
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #525

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You haven’t been over to r/grok_porn… Grok has gotten a lot stricter about video from uploaded images. But it is still able to make realistic x rated porn from AI generated images it creates. There are various jailbreaks that have been working for the longest and still work, just a brief look, half of them just involve “anime borders” and “transparent anime watermarks” over videos.

> jailbreaks Your comment made it sound like "out of the box" Grok can generate AI porn. It can't. That reddit sub you mention is tame compared to something like unstable_diffusion where the AI-porn hobbyists use locally installed models. Some of the comments in the grok_porn sub are complaining about censorship, and literally complaining about how the anime hack isn't working. So you've only confirmed my point and c…

I am not going to post links I saw to grok on r/grok_porn where they within the past two weeks posted Grok generating oral sex, vaginal sex and anal sex using the anime hack. I am trying to keep this somewhat appropriate up to 30 seconds using the “extend video” feature.

That’s not even counting all of the prompts that are never shared to Reddit but they talk about sending it privately via DM so xAI won’t patch it

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by platevoltage »

cpt_sobel wrote: post #547
platevoltage wrote: post #417

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The iPhone X's new feature where it approximated you facial expressions on a 3D character using the facial recognition sensors blew my mind as well. It was a party trick. I can't remember the last time I touched it. That's what SORA is, or was.

Are these the Memojis or whatever Apple calls them these days? Pretty much eveyry iOS update mentions them near the top of the list and I still have no idea where to find / create / care about them...

Haha I made like 5 of them when they first came out. I'm over it.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by platevoltage »

aDivineDragones wrote: post #512
platevoltage wrote: post #417

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The iPhone X's new feature where it approximated you facial expressions on a 3D character using the facial recognition sensors blew my mind as well. It was a party trick. I can't remember the last time I touched it. That's what SORA is, or was.

While Apple use of the tracking was not more than a party trick, the foundational technology they created for this is currently the best low budget tracking solution and heavily used in VTubing (online streamers that use an Avatar with live facial tracking instead of showing their face via webcam)

You are very correct. The tech is super cool, and this is a practical use for it. This is still very niche.

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Post by wolvoleo »

Marazan wrote: post #565
wolvoleo wrote: post #347

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I liken it to VR. That was a big hype before AI and while I really love the tech (I have 5 headsets) I could have told anyone that the expectations were insane. The investors truly believed that in 2-3 years time everyone would be doing everything with a big headset on. It was dragged into lots of situations where it didn't belong. Then of course the hype collapsed and now even the usecases where VR shines are deemed…

> It's also not very great at meeting summaries especially those where many speakers are in a room on the same microphone. It is astonishingly poor at this. My intuition was that it should be good at this (it is basically a translation problem right? And LLMs are fundamentally translation systems) but the practical results are so poor. Not just mis-identifying speakers (frequently saying PersonX responded to PersonX)…

I mean it is a tough problem, you'd really have to voiceprint each speaker. But I'm sure this is technically possible considering voice cloning is pretty commonplace now.

And yeah the transcription quality also drops a lot. Where humans are still quite capable at reading it. Sometimes when I read the transcript I'm quite surprised it manages to make any intelligble minutes out of it at all.

I just don't understand how Microsoft place this feature as a minute-taking replacement when it's not ready for really super common usecases.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by ricksunny »

asim wrote: post #545

Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments. But I think you finally see a little bit of a flaw in the strategy or just a little bit of insight into what was desperation for relevance and to try to very quickly attain what other companies have attained but essentially what they're seeing is this gradual reduction in ambition and…

>Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments.

Use flameview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713858

Life-changing for HN users.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by rustystump »

NateEag wrote: post #859
rustystump wrote: post #777

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U are arguing against a person who isnt there. I also have done similar and my mind was not thinking specifically prompt the whole output. I think people have this kneejerk to anything that isnt total negativity of ai in the creative space. It is only a tool.

The nuclear bomb is only a tool. Ditto nerve gas, and the rack. Tools absolutely _can_ have moral valence. Beyond that, they can also be more or less effective for a variety of purposes. I spent decades to achieve solid competence at a few different skills, and my experience of genAI thus far is that it can easily give the user the delusion of mastery, ensuring the user does not develop true skills, trapped in the fa…

The escalation is weird. A comparison to violence and the atomic bomb is silly.

Like i said before, you are talking past me as if i were some other person. I agree there are many legitimate reasons. I never said there werent.

This is that knee jerk reaction. Violence and atom bombs. There is so much ai llm or otherwise that is already deeply embedded in our lives some bad but some of it is actually good. Which is my point. Not even the atomic bomb wasnt without some positive use of the technology.

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Post by sahildeepreel »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #886
sahildeepreel wrote: post #884

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Highly recommend reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. in the 80's, he wrote about how shift from print media to TV has caused us to trade critical thinking for a 'numbing' addiction to constant amusement. Little did he know about social media.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

The hardest part of a 2026 reading of Amusing Ourselves is that nothing within the pages is extraordinary anymore — the book is plainly boring once you know about the internets ... definitely groundbreaking, for its time.

Fair point. However, books like these show where society is heading and what values we are promoting as a society.

As an aside, what was really interesting to me was learning that in 1850s white Americans had a 95% literacy rate (highest globally) and were able to easily follow debates between presidential candidates that lasted 3+ hours, and ask relevant questions.

I doubt even the most educated people would be able to do that today. Certainly, I would find it extremely difficult to do so.

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Post by delian66 »

muzani wrote: post #719
delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #538

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> the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music I wonder what OP categorises as 'mainstream'. As a classical musician this breaks my heart.

Many of the things on a top #100 list for the last few decades. That includes plenty of "indies" as well as pop. There are exceptions though. FUKOUNA GIRL by STOMACH BOOK, for example. AI can't come close to replicating something like this. Not the cover art, not the off-key voices, not the relatable part of the lyrics. I don't believe this is a top #100 song, though it certainly is popular.

It is chaotic crap.
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