Imagen Video: high definition video generation with diffusion models

Post by londons_explore » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:28 PM UTC

jonas21 wrote: post #143

throwaway23597 wrote: post #113

Google continues to blow my mind with these models, but I think their ethics strategy is totally misguided and will result in them failing to capture this market. The original Google Search gave similarly never-before-seen capabilities to people, and you could use it for good or bad - Google did not seem to have any ethical concerns around, for example, letting children use their product and come across NSFW content…

It makes sense though. The biggest threat to Google right now isn't some scrappy startup eating their lunch. It's the looming regulatory action over antitrust and privacy that could weaken or destroy their core business. As this is a political problem (not a technical one), they don't want to do anything that could upset politicians or turn public opinion against them. Personally, I doubt they have serious ethical co…

Post by y04nn » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

dagmx wrote: post #115

I’ll be honest, as someone who worked in the film industry for a decade, this thread is depressing. It’s not the technology, it’s all the people in these comments who have never worked in the industry clamouring for its demise. One could brush it off as tech heads being over exuberant, but it’s the lack of understanding of how much fine control goes into each and every shot of a film that is depressing. If I, as a cr…

Post by ekam » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:41 PM UTC

hammock wrote: post #210

Off topic: What is the "Hello World" of these AI image/video generators? Is there a standard prompt to feed it for demo purposes?

Post by bulbosaur123 » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:44 PM UTC

impalallama wrote: post #166

All this stuff makes me incredibly anxious about the future of art and artists. It can already very difficult to make a living and tons of artists are horrifically exploited by content mills and vfx shops and stuff like this is just going to devalue their work even more

Post by ipaddr » Wed, Oct 05, 2022, 9:46 PM UTC

evouga wrote: post #201

faeriechangling wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve heard a lot of “data is the new oil” talk and the inevitability of google’s dominance yet I’m inclined to agree with you. Stable diffusion was a big wakeup call where it was clear how much value freedom and creativity really had. The ethics problem is an artifact of googles model of trying to keep their AI under lock and key and carefully controlled and opaque to outsiders in how the sausage gets made and what i…

> History will remember them as villains. Interesting analogy. Google, like the priests, is acting out of mix of good intentions (protecting the public from perceived dangers) and self-interest (maintaining secular power, vs. a competitive advantage in the AI space). In the case of the priests, time has shown that their good intentions were misguided. I have a pretty hard time believing that history will be as unkind…