Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

blog.google

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

211–220 of 252 posts

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#211

Post by anonzzzies »

petcat wrote: post #2

I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software developers, but I hardly ever see any commentary on how it is affecting screen and voice actors.

Related; here in my city, every event, restaurant, cinema, delivery service etc have all images / posters generated, very obviously, by OpenAI. ‘Authentic Italian’ and then an AI generated menu. This must hurt companies that used to make these before; a friend was a good photographer and he says he does wedding since end last year as the work was plummeting. Not sure about stats but it’s just ‘normal’ here at least.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#212

Post by petegleeson »

> What stands out about Gemini Omni Flash is its accuracy: the details hold up under scrutiny.

Quote under the video of a short Argentinian footballer wearing no 10 with "RESSC" on his back. Can't make it up.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#213

Post by brazukadev »

mattlondon wrote: post #87
simonw wrote: post #24

Interesting that OpenAI abandoned Sora entirely but Google are continuing to invest heavily in their own video generation. Maybe because they see video generation as key to developing "world models"?

YouTube. And video ads. Previously when making video ads you'd need to actually create the video. Actors, cameramen, editors - you name it. Now a new video ads is just a prompt away, directly inside the ad-spend web UI too no doubt. People say Google have lost and that they're having their lunch eaten by anthropic, but I am not so sure...

> People say Google have lost and that they're having their lunch eaten by anthropic

That's old news. People are saying the chinese models/labs are eating anthropic lunch.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#214

Post by api »

space_fountain wrote: post #52
petcat wrote: post #2

I heard a radio spot recently and I wondered if the voice was a real person or AI. It makes we wonder how such industries are dealing with this gen-AI revolution. We spend a lot of time here thinking about how it affects software developers, but I hardly ever see any commentary on how it is affecting screen and voice actors.

I'm really sad about how little creative control these tools have. They seem great for creating slop, but pretty useless for creating content that someone would love. I love the potential but text isn't really a great medium for describing artistic vision. All these demos are focused on how easy it makes everything. Easy is great, but if everyone is able to make instant cute cat videos or whatever it just devalues it…

That'll change. They'll get as many knobs as e.g. photoshop for image editing. You'll also be able, if not already, to use your own voice to communicate the emotion and tone you want but then have it re-render it in the voice of your choice.

The "slop" phase is early AI, like chunky ugly very early 3D graphics where you can see the triangles.

I'm already seeing images generated by first-generation diffusion models like Stable Diffusion 1.5 (which is small enough to run on a phone) used ironically as meme generators due to the now-retro silliness of what they generate.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#215

Post by apwheele »

Is there a good example someone can show of naturally generating real videos using extending and interpolation from the last frames? (For any of the video generators).

I mean I have not tinkered that much, but trying to even get a video to 30 seconds (I just want a cartoon AI avatar to narrate tutorials) has been incredibly difficult. They drift so easily.

Many AI videos you can tell just stitch short clips together. I just want a continuous scene for like 30 seconds to 2 minutes.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#216

Post by [deleted] »

arjie wrote: post #23
lambda wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many screen and voice actors are unionized, and the unions have been striking and bargaining specifcially over these points. For example: https://sites.suffolk.edu/jhtl/2025/10/30/game-over-for-unau... Software developers, unfortunately, have been convinced that they don't need to unionize, so have no collective bargaining power for dealing with situations like this.

Personally, I just can’t find it in me to be that self-interested. It’s how other people oppose buildings near them because it blocks their view. I really don’t want to stop other people from writing software. If they want to use AI to do it so be it. That’ll be somewhat detrimental to me perhaps (which isn’t certain), but that’s okay. I’d rather attempt to adapt to a changing world.

[deleted]

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#218

Post by akoboldfrying »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #108
arjie wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I just can’t find it in me to be that self-interested. It’s how other people oppose buildings near them because it blocks their view. I really don’t want to stop other people from writing software. If they want to use AI to do it so be it. That’ll be somewhat detrimental to me perhaps (which isn’t certain), but that’s okay. I’d rather attempt to adapt to a changing world.

This is the first time I've heard someone argue that unionizing is a self-interested pursuit. It's called "collective bargaining" for a reason; workers who cooperate in negotiations with their employers have more leverage than those who negotiate individually. The entire point is to work together for the betterment of the group!

You have described self-interest.

That's not to say unions, or self-interest itself, are bad.

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#219

Post by DataDive »

Before AI, cool and interesting shots carried the promise that it was reality - even if it was perhaps exaggerated.

The amazing videos and photos carried the promise that I could experience that for real. They were aspirational.

Today I suspect every cool shot is made of pixels arranged on a 2D screen by an algorithm. It doesn't do it for me.

That makes me sad...

Re: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

#220

Post by akoboldfrying »

Melatonic wrote: post #174
brendoelfrendo wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the first time I've heard someone argue that unionizing is a self-interested pursuit. It's called "collective bargaining" for a reason; workers who cooperate in negotiations with their employers have more leverage than those who negotiate individually. The entire point is to work together for the betterment of the group!

People also forget the role they play in protecting and helping corporations. Without unions as a legal and negotiating intermediary you get things like factory workers burning down the factories when they are overly exploited.

Sorry, but I don't think that makes sense. Any mutiny-preventing deal that a union negotiates could instead have been offered voluntarily by the employer to all employees from the outset, no union required.
Post reply on HN