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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428122
Edit: looks like this post was actually first, so maybe we'll reverse the merge
If they got the generation "live" enough, imagine walking past a mirror in a department store and seeing yourself in different clothes.
Wild times.
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…
I'm optimistic here.
Look at 1900s tech like social security number/card, and paper birth certificates. Our world is changing and new systems of verification will be needed.
I see this as either terribly dystopian - or - a possibility for the mass expansion of cryptography and encrypted/signed communication. Ideally in privacy preserving ways because nothing else will make as much sense when it comes to the verification that countries will need to give each other even if they want backdoor registry BS for the common man.
Breaking changes get fixes.
I wonder about the implications of this tech. State of the things with doom scrolling was already bad, add to it layoffs and replacing people with AI (just admit it, interns are struggling competing with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex) What's coming next? Bunch of people, with lots of free time watching non-sense AI generated content? I am genuinely curious, because I was and still excited about AI, until I saw how do…
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But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.
So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?
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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.
But then you’re creating an incentive for the AI slop to become so realistic it is indistinguishable from actual video. Unless there some fundamental, technical way to distinguish the two, I wonder who would win?