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Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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I actually think we do live in very socially stable societies. Not to say it’s always a good thing. But we do have clear systems of who gets power, through what means, and what they can do with it. The various classes of society have a relatively peaceful system of competing with one another. I’m writing from a British perspective but it largely applies to most developed countries.

Europe had two world wars in the last century, and there's a major war right now. The (private) economy has collapsed at least twice. The post-war stability was largely due to reigning in private propery rights. From a Finnish perspective, where ownership rights are somewhat lesser, the British system's trajectory didn't seem particularly stable when I lived there 2019-2020, and looks even less so now.

I think too much stability is self defeating. It creates fragility like a monocultured ecosystem. Self correction mechanisms are important, even if they're painful. Bad governments and bad enterprises need to be wiped out now and again by war and recession, as a last resort when other forms of reform fail.

Britain never seems stable at first glance. Read a newspaper from 5, 50, 150 or 250 years ago and they'll all be lamenting economic uncertainty, geopolitical dilemmas and social injustice. Yet in that time no revolutions have killed more than 1% of the population, long term economic growth has averaged couple percentage points annually and nobody has successfully invaded the Islands.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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That would give big companies a big advantage. It maybe wrong how it is now, but it exists for a reason. Same with patents.

Disney must be close to divine managing to get such a marketshare despite IP regulations holding them back.

Without IP it wouldn't be Disney but the first company with enough power and money would crush any competition.

Even now they can fight in court until smaller opponents go bankrupt but without any IP they wouldn't even have to fight.

Remember when Amazon copied successful products on their marketplace? That would be the norm and you could even blame or sue them.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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These look like shit. Yeah I guess it's kinda cool you can make them with nothing but text but I dunno man, I could think of a dozen ways to make all of these shots that wouldn't have the sides of every object threatening to melt in the next frame. More difficult and cost more, I mean yeah, but again, then it won't look like a computer is hallucinating your scenes while also tripping on mushrooms. If this is indeed t…

> If this is indeed the "future of making movies," I dunno, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I have no interest in watching anything made this way. I'm still burned out on "regular" CG in movies. I'd be much more excited about a (hypothetical) return to practical effects than a push even further into computer imagery.

I recently watched John Wick 1 and I was mostly stricken by how little CGI was used in the movie.

I kept watching, noticing small bits here and there, subtle things, but there was not much CGI compared to almost any other action movie I've seen in the last several years, especially not much of any obvious full green screen sets and fly-by-wire wuxia heroism BS.

Re: Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs

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I think intellectual property is necessary given the current way the economy works. But we should strive for evolving how the economy works.

I agree but in the mean time, stealing from millions of artists and writers to build systems with the goal of replacing them is incredibly shitty. If we lived in an economic system where people don't starve or lose their house when they don't have a job then I wouldn't care. Until then, OpenAI and its ilk are looters.

> an economic system where people don't starve or lose their house when they don't have a job

I think the AI industry is motivating this for themselves with the idea that this does (at least partially) lead us to that world.

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