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Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by dragonwriter »

kweingar wrote: post #206

Obviously incredibly cool, but it seems that people are incredibly overstating the applications of this. Realistically, how do you fit this into a movie, a TV show, or a game? You write a text prompt, get a scene, and then everything is gone—the characters, props, rooms, buildings, environments, etc. won’t carry over to the next prompt.

> You write a text prompt, get a scene, and then everything is gone—the characters, props, rooms, buildings, environments, etc. won’t carry over to the next prompt.

Sure, you can't use the text-to-video frontend for that purpose. But if you've got a t2v model as good as Sora clearly is, you've got the infrastructure for a lot more, as the ecosystem around the open-source models in the space has shown. The same techniques that allow character, object, etc., consistency in text-to-image models can be applied to text-to-video models.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by tomp »

minimaxir wrote: post #186
thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…

> OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? For posterity since the term has been misused lately, having a very good product isn't a moat in the business sense. There's nothing stopping a competitor from creating a similar product (even if it's difficult), and there's nothing currently stopping OpenAI's users from switching from using…

There is nothing stopping Wolkswagen from creating a product similar to Tesla.

There is nothing stoping Microsoft from creating a search engine as good as Google’s.

There is nothing stopping Facebook from creating an iPhone alternative, after all it’s just engineering!

There is nothing stopping Google from beating GPT-4.

Shall I go on?

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by usaar333 »

kredd wrote: post #139
jonplackett wrote: post #60

No mention of how much they had to cherry pick right? Interested to know what the success rate of such amazingmess Pika have really impressive videos on their homepage that are borderline impossible to make for myself.

There’s an ongoing thread on Twitter where Sam takes suggestions from replies and shares the output. E.g. https://x.com/sama/status/1758200420344955288?s=46&t=VQo1eLU...

Just from a quick scan, those are a lot worse than the ones on the marketing page.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by wewtyflakes »

chasing wrote: post #24

Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more powerful these services become the more obvious that will be. What OpenAI does is amazing, but they obviously cannot be allowed to capture the value of every piece of media ever created — it'll…

Does it not just shift where we (as people) perceive value? If the cost of content drops to effectively zero, it seems reasonable that we would not value it so highly. If so, it does not mean that people do not value anything, but it may mean we start associating value with new or different things. While this may disrupt industries, I do not think we have an ethical or legal duty to those industries to remain profitable.

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Post by jijijijij »

thepasswordis wrote: post #100

OpenAI demonstrating the size of their moat. How many multi-million-dollar funded startups did this just absolutely obsolete? This is so, so, so much better than every other generative video AI we've seen. Most of those were basically a still image with a very slowly moving background. This is not that. Sam is probably going to get his $7T if he keeps this up, and when he does everybody else will be locked out foreve…

I predict, this "AI" content generation will eat itself at last. It will outcompete the low-effort "content" industry as is. Then inevitably completely devalue this sort of "product". Because it will never get to 100% of the real thing, the "AI" content craze will ultimately implode.

I bet we won't get AGI as a progression of this very technology. The impression of "usefulness" will end when "AI" is starting to drink its own Koolaid on a large scale (copilot lol), and when everyone starts using it as super inefficient business interface. Overfitted mediocre mediocrity, on steroids.

Hopefully, this sobriety happens before the economy collapses, as a consequence of all dem bullshit jobs cleansed.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by torginus »

I'm not sure about others, but I'm extremely unnerved about how OpenAI just throws these innovations out with zero foreshadowing - it's crazy how the world's potentially most life-changing company operates with the secrecy of a black military program.

I really wonder what's going to come out of the company and on what timeline.

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