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Post by LetsGetTechnicl »

impulser_ wrote: post #32
kenjackson wrote: post #26

I'm an AI optimist. But AI video is probably the one thing that does depress me. Seeing that we can make anything visually, there's nothing that impresses me visually. I watch a video that two years ago I would've thought was really cool, and now my first thought is, "Yawn, is this AI?". Video, more than anything else, is the place where I really care if something is AI or not. If I could get a TikTok that had no AI…

I think the opposite. It allows more people to be creative. Similar to how the DAW allowed more people to become musicians. You can produce a hit song with just a laptop now. Now you can have people producing videos without needing a crew of people.

You never needed a crew of people to make videos. This is just outsourcing people's creativity.

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Post by nine_k »

manas96 wrote: post #36

In my day job I program rigid body behaviour in real time amongst other simulations. I think rigid body contact is hard to learn as it is inherently discontinuous.. something you discover when trying to code a solver. As such I always use this prompt as a test: "A video of a jenga brick tower falling over as a brick is removed. The physics of each brick must be realistic." It gave me a video of where bricks suddenly…

Such videos are essentially dreams: how it feels that the planks should move, not what equations of rigid body physics would compute. And the feeling is realistic (even if overly dramatic in the end). If "stylistic transfer" works for static pictures spread out in space, why won't it work for the character of motion spread out in time?

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Post by r_lee »

criddell wrote: post #33
kenjackson wrote: post #26

I'm an AI optimist. But AI video is probably the one thing that does depress me. Seeing that we can make anything visually, there's nothing that impresses me visually. I watch a video that two years ago I would've thought was really cool, and now my first thought is, "Yawn, is this AI?". Video, more than anything else, is the place where I really care if something is AI or not. If I could get a TikTok that had no AI…

For a few weeks, YouTube thought I wanted to see videos of package thieves being surprised by a booby-trapped box that was actually a glitter bomb. Video after video were these AI created shorts of supposed doorbell camera footage showing a thief running away with a box that explodes into a giant pink cloud. I eventually picked one and opened the comments and the top comment was something like "This is obviously an A…

> and the reply was along the lines of "me because I like seeing thieves get what's coming to them".

I really wish a subject matter expert would pitch in to tell us what this is about?

like a totally made up thing that is fake, somehow gives a sense of justice and satisfaction?

is it something about imagining it happening in reality, or what?

for me, if I see that something is AI, it's like I just feel nothing. because there's nothing in it, it has nothing of real value? like it doesn't evoke anything in me, it doesn't make me think "this was a great find!" or make me want to send a link over to my friends, etc.

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Post by criddell »

impulser_ wrote: post #32
kenjackson wrote: post #26

I'm an AI optimist. But AI video is probably the one thing that does depress me. Seeing that we can make anything visually, there's nothing that impresses me visually. I watch a video that two years ago I would've thought was really cool, and now my first thought is, "Yawn, is this AI?". Video, more than anything else, is the place where I really care if something is AI or not. If I could get a TikTok that had no AI…

I think the opposite. It allows more people to be creative. Similar to how the DAW allowed more people to become musicians. You can produce a hit song with just a laptop now. Now you can have people producing videos without needing a crew of people.

The potential for harm is so much greater with video than creating an mp3. You can stoke hate and fear so easily.

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Post by Insanity »

nomel wrote: post #29
mrandish wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, during most blockbuster movies lately all I can think is: "All pixels, no plot."

Project Hail Mary was largely real sets and a puppet .

They used a puppet to play Rocky? Was not sure how they did it, don’t think I would really care, but that’s cool.

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Post by tristanb »

franze wrote: post #5

> I can create more videos as soon as your limit resets. Check your usage in Settings I did not create any videos yet. Google, building great AI that nobody can try out. But thx for the press release.

Me too - awesome job.

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Post by tencentshill »

nomel wrote: post #29
mrandish wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, during most blockbuster movies lately all I can think is: "All pixels, no plot."

Project Hail Mary was largely real sets and a puppet .

Was it? Hollywood has been caught lying about that to seem more authentic before. https://www.redsharknews.com/why-do-movies-still-insist-ther...

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Post by svieira »

dsign wrote: post #8

So it's really good, and we have reason to believe, never again, anything that happens in a video. Unless there's a super-product somewhere to authenticate footage?

Now that they've broken the ability to trust video, they're looking to build it back, as long as you're allowed to use the tools:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/identifying-a...

(and the previous SynthID: https://deepmind.google/blog/identifying-ai-generated-images...)

But it very much is "close the barn door after the horse has bolted and the barn has otherwise burned down".

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Post by gowld »

adenta wrote: post #38
layer8 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The legal risk probably lies solely with those who are selling the properties. They are responsible if the video misrepresents anything.

yeah, it's all about keeping everything grounded in reality.

But it looks so fake that I wouldn't waste time visiting a property advertised like that.
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