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Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by carlosjobim »

terhechte wrote: post #59
gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

Back when computers took up a whole room, you'd also have asked: "but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll some simple calculations that anybody can do with a piece of paper and a pen."? Think 5-10 years into the future, this is a stepping stone

They were calculating missile trajectories, everybody understood what they were useful for.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by code_for_monkey »

krunck wrote: post #70
gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

Streaming services where there is no end to new content that matches your viewing patterns.

this sounds awful haha

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by aenvoker »

picafrost wrote: post #62
gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

I have observed some musicians creating their own music videos with tools like this.

This silly music video was put together by one person in about 10 hours.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1hbnyi2/comment/m1...

Another more serious music video also made entirely by one person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdqcnRGzH5c Don't know how long it took though.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by realce »

skeledrew wrote: post #73
vouaobrasil wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> PS: anything you write on HN can already have been written by AI, pretty soon you may as well quit producing any content at all. No one will care whether you wrote it. People theoretically would care, but the internet has already set up producing things to be pseudo-anonymous, so we have forgotten the value of actually having a human being behind content. That's why AI is so successful, and it's a damn shame.

What exactly is the value of having a human behind content if it gets to the point that content generated by AI is indistinguishable from content generated by humans?

What does indistinguishable even mean here?

If a fish could write a novel, would you find what it wrote interesting, or would it seem like a fish wrote it? Humans absorb information relative to the human experience, and without living a human existence the information will feel fuzzy or uncanny. AI can approximate that but can't live it for real. Since it is a derivative of an information set, it can never truly express the full resolution of it's primary source.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by dyauspitr »

griomnib wrote: post #88
dyauspitr wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stable Diffusion and Flux did not win though. Midjourney and chatGPT won.

“Won” what exactly? I have no issues running stable diffusion locally. Since Llama3.3 came out it is my first stop for coding questions, and I’m only using closed models when llama3.3 has trouble. I think it’s fairly clear that between open weights and LLMs plateauing, the game will be who can build what on top of largely equivalent base models.

The quality for SD is no where near the clear leaders.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by mindwok »

code_for_monkey wrote: post #100
terhechte wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back when computers took up a whole room, you'd also have asked: "but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll some simple calculations that anybody can do with a piece of paper and a pen."? Think 5-10 years into the future, this is a stepping stone

this is kind of an unfair comparison. Whats the endpoint of generating AI videos? What can this do that is useful, contributes something to society, has artistic value, etc etc. We can make educational videos with a script but its also pretty easy for motivated parties to do that already, and its getting easier as cameras get better and smaller. I think asking "whats the point of this" is at least fair.

They’re a way firo

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by tucnak »

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

You really think making videos with computers is not useful? Is this a joke?

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by carlosjobim »

hnuser123456 wrote: post #61
gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

Because it's pretty cool to be able to imagine any kind of scene in your head, put it into words, then see it be made into a video file that you can actually see and share and refine.

Use your imagination.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by visnup »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #45

I appreciate they posted the skateboarding video. Wildly unrealistic whenever he performs a trick - just morphing body parts. Some of the videos look incredibly believable though.

our only hope for verifying truth in the future is that state officials give their speeches while doing kick flips and frontside 360s.

Re: Veo 2: Our video generation model

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Post by wnolens »

gamesbrainiac wrote: post #56

This might be a dumb question to ask, but what exactly is this useful for? B-Roll for YouTube videos? I'm not sure why so much effort is being put into something like this when the applications are so limited.

TV commercials / youtube ads. You don't need a video team anymore to make an ad.
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