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Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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These models are literally one French court decision away from being banned and investment in them being completely halted. So I wouldn't worry too much about them specifically.

Yes because banning alcohol, drugs, porn, prostitution and profanity in music sure got rid of them!

It would have gotten rid of every single one of those if the only method for their production required a tech company to invest a 8-digit sum in R&D and said tech company was threatened with litigation.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

#192

I'm rooting for this tech. Hopefully this will get modern movies out of their low risk reboot loop since it will be cheaper to make a movie that have new story lines that are commercially untested. I'd be happy to watch a movie that doesn't look AAA, but has compelling writing and makes me think. Or maybe I'll just stick to books.

Not sure we're quite there yet. A real movie needs a lot of dialogue, speech, sound effects, music, etc. Even the best LLM's don't do really coherent storytelling yet and a script for a movie is just the absolute barebones.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Why French court? If other countries don't ban them, France will just be hurting itself.

A french court banning it will probably be a (short) precursor to an EU-wide ban which is effectively a worldwide ban. EU courts will be fining companies heavily if they don't comply which effectively means big tech no longer invests a penny in models. I use 'French court' here mostly because I believe it most likely to be firstly litigated there.

I imagine plenty of companies in the rest of the world will happily make use of it.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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So how long before we can “Hey music-stable-diffusion-service,” play me “relaxing baroque violin and flute music in the style of game of thrones” ?

A long time. Much like self-driving cars, AI can take you 90% of the way there, but the last 10% is the difference between music that sort-of-seems-competent, and music that people will actually listen to and enjoy.

Is it really the same though? A driving system which can only create a good outcome 90% of the time is not really useful as irl human safety is a factor.

However, a creative system curated by a human could end up creating useful outputs, could it not?

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A french court banning it will probably be a (short) precursor to an EU-wide ban which is effectively a worldwide ban. EU courts will be fining companies heavily if they don't comply which effectively means big tech no longer invests a penny in models. I use 'French court' here mostly because I believe it most likely to be firstly litigated there.

I imagine plenty of companies in the rest of the world will happily make use of it.

Spoiler alert: EU can fine and (if needed) seize assets of companies based outside of the EU.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Once I heard or realized (don't remember which) that simulation theory is just deism for techies, I stopped entertaining these ideas.

Exactly. The simulation theory proponents almost always seem to presume the existence of some sort of being that deliberately created the simulation. What if the simulation is a complete accident that has arisen from the complex interaction of brainless bacteria competing for scarce resources on the surface of a big rock? An accidental simulation emerging from randomly initialized 'cellular automata' on one rock in a…

Because even if our reality came from that rock bacteria, we're on the cusp of creating simulations within and statistically beings may still expect to be in a deliberate simulation, if we think we'd eventually simulate more beings than exist.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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Whenever there is an explosion of content, curation and search become important. Meta has many of the products people use to show off their taste, so having more content to curate and share is good for their ecosystem (until people stop consuming as much because they know they can produce even better with their own imagination). This may be good for Google - the more content there is, the more you need search to find it.

The downsides: there will be less money out there for creators, because that becomes a commodity. You will be able to make money if you are known for quality content polishing, editing and generally bringing that last 5-10% of generated content to look perfect (all the way until automated tools are trained to do that as well). AI will automate and improve most white-collar jobs. Instead of generators, everyone will become curators, as taste will be more important (until that's trained into the system as well).

For deeper levels of consequence we have to look at history: how did the world change when people finally got paper after most writing was done on animal skins (more got to write, the richest or most powerful didn't have the only say), or water piped to your house after you had to carry buckets and dig wells (It freed up time for everyone for more interesting tasks). Now GPUs are going to be the new paper and the new PVC. Yes, software has been eating the world for a while, but you won't be able to brainstorm without AI generating the first pass.

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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post #179

As an owner of a Video Production studio, this kind of tech is blowing my mind and makes me equally excited and scared. I can see how we could incorporate such tools in our workflows, and at the same time I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos, making it even harder to look through the noise. A fun related experiment, I thought it was fun to see what ki…

I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating. https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

I got this on my 4th try or so: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/alice-in-wonderland

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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post #179

As an owner of a Video Production studio, this kind of tech is blowing my mind and makes me equally excited and scared. I can see how we could incorporate such tools in our workflows, and at the same time I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos, making it even harder to look through the noise. A fun related experiment, I thought it was fun to see what ki…

I love this! But after trying it a few times I got this result :). So fascinating. https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/the-terminator Brings up the age-old question of how much the learning in these models is just memorization. Though in cases like these it’s hard to tell.

Here’s another Terminator one: https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/terminator-war-of-th...

Re: Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text

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post #177

My daughter just had her first child, a baby boy that was born in the first week of July. The rate of progress in AI/ML technology is nearly unbelievable and my mind boggles at how it's going to influence his childhood (both good and bad). My daughter was born in 1998. The Internet made a bit of a phase change during her early childhood and there were many instances where there was no precedent to guide a decision on…

No worries, mate, just another shiny toy. As far as us getting milked for every bit of money, this has been going on for some time now, nothing really new, right? Douglas Adams put it best - "I've been to the future. It's the same as anywhere else. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air."
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