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Re: Sora 2

#151

Post by MangoToupe » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

Interesting that they're going with a "copyright opt-out": https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-new-sora-video-ge...

I guess copyright is pretty much dead now that the economy relies on violating it. Too bad those of us not invested into AI still won't be able to freely trade data as we please....

Re: Sora 2

#152

Post by alkonaut » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

How far out are we from doing this in real time? What’s the processing/rendering time per frame?

Re: Sora 2

#153

Post by beders » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

Can I finally redo the Star Wars sequels with this? :)

Re: Sora 2

#154

Post by kachapopopow » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #152

How far out are we from doing this in real time? What’s the processing/rendering time per frame?

could already do it in real time by dimming the lightbulbs of a city or two.

Re: Sora 2

#155

Post by kimbler » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

loudmax wrote: post #149

qoez wrote: post #27

I know the comments here are gonna be negative but I just find this so sick and awesome. Feels like it's finally close to the potential we knew was possible a few years ago. Feels like a pixar moment when CG tech showed a new realm of what was possible with toy story

These videos are a very impressive engineering feat. There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society, and in the coming years people will come up with more good uses nobody today has thought of yet. But clearly we also see some major downsides. We already have an epidemic of social media rotting people's minds, and everything about this capability is set to supercharge these trends. Ope…

I actually wonder if this will kill off the social apps and the bragging that happens. It will be flooded by people faking themselves doing the unimaginable.

Re: Sora 2

#156

Post by gdulli » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC

mempko wrote: post #33

It's obvious there is no way OpenAI can keep videos generated by this within their ecosystem. Everything will be fake, nothing real. We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. While it's obviously possible to fake videos today, it takes work by the creator and takes skill. Now it will take no skill so the obvious consequence of this is we can't believe anything we see. The worst part is we are alr…

It's also possible we remain stuck in the uncanny valley forever, or at least for the rest of our lives.

It's possible to produce some video or image that looks real, cherry-picked for a demo, but not possible to produce any arbitrary one you want that will end up passable.

Re: Sora 2

#157

Post by artursapek » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:45 PM UTC

kimbler wrote: post #155

loudmax wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These videos are a very impressive engineering feat. There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society, and in the coming years people will come up with more good uses nobody today has thought of yet. But clearly we also see some major downsides. We already have an epidemic of social media rotting people's minds, and everything about this capability is set to supercharge these trends. Ope…

I actually wonder if this will kill off the social apps and the bragging that happens. It will be flooded by people faking themselves doing the unimaginable.

This is also my thesis. The internet is going to be saturated with AI slop indiscernible from real content. Once it reaches a tipping point, there will no longer be much of a reason to consume the content at all. I think social networks that can authenticate video/photo/text content as human-created will be a major trend in a few years.

Re: Sora 2

#158

Post by d--b » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:45 PM UTC

Ok that's technically really impressive, and probably totally unusable in a real creativity context beyond stupid ads and politically-motivated deepfakes.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by deng » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:46 PM UTC

As usual: impressive until you look close. Just freeze the frame and you see all the typical slop errors: pretty much any kind of writing is a garbled mess (look at the camera in the beginning). The horn of the unicorn sits on the bridle. The buttons on Sam's circus uniform hover in the air. There are candleholders with somehow candles inside as well as on top. The miniature instruments often make no sense. The conductor has 4 fingers on one hand and 5 on the other. The cheers of the audience is basically brown noise. Nedless to say, if you freeze the audience, hands are literally all over the place. Of course, everything conveniently has a ton of motion blur so you cannot see any detail.

I know, I know. Most people don't care. How exciting.

Re: Sora 2

#160

Post by jpalomaki » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

superfrank wrote: post #120

dweekly wrote: post #31

So a social network that's 100% your friends doing silly AI things? I feel like this is the ultimate extension of "it feels like my feed is just the artificial version of what's happening my friends and doesn't really tell me anything about how they're actually faring."

I just watched the announcement video and something about it just gives me the ick. The whole time I just had the uncanny valley feeling. The technology itself is super impressive, but a social media app of AI slop doesn't feel like the best use of it. I'm old enough to not really be interested in social media in general anymore, so maybe I'm just out of touch, but I just can't see this catching on. It feels like the…

Sounds like a way to make everybody aware of Sora and its capabilities.

I bet the real goal is to make money from long tail of corporate market ( ads, info videos etc).